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(03-08-2019, 01:17 PM)Bill the Piper Wrote:(03-08-2019, 12:27 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: Those trends you mention might be holdovers from the Xers, just as rap music is.
Tattoos and weed probably yes, but problems with social media and porn are typically millennial. Internet overdose. You used to say this as well.
Yes about internet overuse.
Quote:Quote:I don't think the reaction to the migration crisis (mostly the result of the Arab Spring, powered by climate change, and outbreaks of rebellions and escapes from various tyrants worldwide) is especially a millennial movement.
Most neoreactionaries I saw online seem to be millennials from the younger end of the cohort (1995-2002). They are oversocialized young men who discover this ideology (invented by Xers) and experience it as a liberation. Their problem is hatred of women. Most of them haven't got enough contact with real women, spend all their free time on video games, they don't get laid. Perhaps some sexy hippie gal could cure them?
I realize I didn't see what you have seen online about them. From what I've seen, that group also has an abundance of progressive activists. The Parkland kids seem more typical of them to me. They have the same planetary placement as JFK and Mandela and that group. They opposed Brexit and Trump.
Quote:Quote:Is this new "sceptic" movement spelled with a c?
In British English, yes.
Quote:I agree with you Bill. A demonstration might have convinced Japan to surrender. But it's true the Japanese needed a change in their government, and that worked for them. That would have had to be a part of the deal. Continuation of the militarist regime was not acceptable after what it had done.
I agree that this regime was not acceptable, but there were ways to make them reform without using nukes. Germany and Italy changed without anyone using this abomination.
They had to be conquered and forced into unconditional surrender. Their leaders died. That's what Truman was facing with the Japanese too. So the question remains, could a demonstration bomb have convinced the Japanese regime to surrender and give up its authority, and thus the USA avoid this nuclear abomination?