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And it's not like we haven't seen the same pattern before with the Weather Underground. (I do feel obligated to acknowledge that I was one of those people on th

And it's not like we haven't seen the same pattern before with the Weather Underground. (I do feel obligated to acknowledge that I was one of those people on the "just in the universities" train 5 years ago, so I'm not accusing anyone of a mistake I haven't made myself.)

brailsafe 6y ago
I feel like I'm out of the loop on this. Could you elaborate?
- SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
  The Weather Underground was founded by students from the University of Michigan, who spent their college years arguing that people should violently resist the government. When they graduated, they didn't moderate out of these ideas; they doubled down, started an organized bombing campaign, and successfully hit targets including Capitol Hill and the Pentagon.
  - bitwize 6y ago
    But those were the chic kind of terrorist, not like the Jan. 6 crowd.
    - aksss 6y ago
      Unlike the Jan 6 crowd, they actually killed people.
  - brailsafe 6y ago
    Insane. I didn't know about any of that, though I did think you were referring to the api and didn't know about the name's origin.