Fifty years of progress.LivDiv wrote:Yesterday was certainly a day historians studying America will write about for a long time. The first commercial launch of SpaceX while on the ground cities burned with race riots. The best and the worst of the U.S.A. It would be interesting to compare and contrast those things with similar events of the 1960s. How far has the country really moved in 50 odd years.
Dinostar77 wrote:Check out @ddanpereira’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/ddanpereira/status/1266771755869319168?s=09
b0r1s, the vid in tweet above shows a white guy dressed in head to tail in balck with a gas mask smashing up a shop's windows. Maybe your onto something...
If you are interested in that era The American West by Dee Brown is an excellent read.Brooks wrote:The preposterous vastness of the US is something I still can't get past when I'm over that way. I don't entirely understand how the fuck humans grasped it pre-industrially.
"The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness."
GooberTheHat wrote:That's the one Dino. I've seen another with a group of white guys turning up and smashing windows while a crowd of black locals try to stop them.
That's got THPS goal written all over itBrooks wrote:
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