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We hit one third of boomers being dead in the last few days. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

They got more conservative as they got older. All those hippie kids who protested Vietnam and experimented with drugs and sex ended up voting for Reagan.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    People seem to have this view that everyone in the '60s was a hippie but that's just not true. Time Magazine put the number around 300,000. In a country of 200 million, that's only 0.15% of the population. They were a counterculture not mainstream culture. The vast majority of kids did not become hippies, and many actively hated the hippies.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    A hell of a lot more than 300,000 people experimented with drugs and protested Vietnam.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    A hell of a lot more than 300,000 people experimented with drugs and protested Vietnam.

    True, but not all of them were hippies.

    A lot of regular people, especially the younger generation, were doing drugs and protesting Vietnam.

    Those two things are not what makes a hippie a hippie. It's their life view that does.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are you saying they took what they wanted, then pulled the ladder up after them?

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