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NJCher

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1. Do you remember the Cultural Revolution?
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 03:08 AM
Apr 18

In 1966 or so, Mao trained kids called the Red Guard to attack public intellectuals. I barely remember it because I was just a kid myself, but I tried to imagine kids attacking teachers, professors, journalists, etc. It sounded so crazy. I couldn’t imagine it, but there it was on the news every day. Walter Cronkite said it was so.

The stuff Trump is doing also sounds insane. Imagine a dummy like trump trying to tell Harvard what they can teach.

Quite some time ago, one of our posters here (I’m pretty sure it was bucolic frolic) wrote a post on how societies can go crazy. When you look at how MAGATS behaved at the recent Marjorie Taylor Green gathering, you have to realize that this society has its crazy elements, too.

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