Why don't they go shoot up Beverly hills/Wall Street/police stations/court room/federal agencies etc.? Rich and powerful people rarely get hurt.

  • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Honestly I forgot about the weather underground. The only things I know about them is that one of them blew themselves up and another was supposedly friends with Obama (or that’s what conservative conspiracy theorists say anyway)

    • StewartCopelandsDad [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I read Burrough's Dayd of Rage and although the author's ideology is terrible it's a good historical chronology of Weather and some similar groups.

      • a couple of them accidentally blew themselves up because you couldn't look up how to do crimes on the internet yet
      • Bill Ayers is still alive and kicking. He and Bernadine Dohrn eventually came out of hiding to "retire" from being Maoist fugitives from the FBI. I think they became more liberal, and crossed paths with Obama when they were both living in the wealthy Hyde Park neighborhood near UChicago. They disavowed each other but it was advantageous for conservatives to pretend that Obama was a militant communist.
      • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        If they didn’t disavow each other, he could’ve taught Obama some theory to impress the long legged socialist girls in college

        I’m very curious how one becomes more liberal later on in life after bombing several buildings in the name of anti imperialism. Is it just the pessimism of getting older and seeing nothing change? Or did they just become rich

        • StewartCopelandsDad [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          yeah I don't want to slander Ayers, I don't know much about his modern politics. I'm just assuming (a) he and Dohrn are wealthy now (probably bought a Hyde Park house) (b) he and Obama wanted broadly the same things when they were on that nonprofit board.