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24. Obviously you were not around when we had

Thu Jul 31, 2014, 06:18 PM

Jul 2014

Students killed at college by the national guard, a President, an Attorney General and a Civil Rights leader assassinated. A Governor deny civil rights to his citizens and later get shot. Cities being burned to the ground, police rioting outside Democratic Convention beating protesters almost to death, millions of poor people marching to DC, Students sitting in their campuses for the freedom to think, civil rights marchers being beaten, bit by dogs and having fire hoses turned on them, 50,000 kids die in a war half way around the world. Russia killing citizens in Hungry and Czechoslovakia, China purging half it's population. We survived the sixties we can survive this.

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Anyone Else Feel Like We're In The Early Stages Of World War III? [View all] Initech Jul 2014 OP

No. Itchinjim Jul 2014 #1

Yep. That's the way I see it.... We all will ballyhoo Jul 2014 #2

No, because we're not going to go to war over either Ukraine or TwilightGardener Jul 2014 #3

We should be OK as long as the idiots have no real power over these things. randys1 Jul 2014 #4

+1000 nomorenomore08 Aug 2014 #65

The 80's called, they want their foreign policy back mwrguy Jul 2014 #5

No (nt) bigwillq Jul 2014 #6

not to mention Chinese military overtures in the South China Sea, India electing Modi La Lioness Priyanka Jul 2014 #7

I criticize the President more than most, but thank god he is the president. AngryAmish Jul 2014 #8

Ditto.. sendero Aug 2014 #39

No. zappaman Jul 2014 #9

A miscalculation, an accident or some other spark could start a wider war. neverforget Jul 2014 #10

We've been in WWIII since Bush started invading other countries. The war on terror will be endless. Scuba Jul 2014 #11

How do you declare victory over an abstract noun? Electric Monk Aug 2014 #31

Bingo. An endless war, feeding the MIC, starving and killing the rest of us. Scuba Aug 2014 #34

We have always been at war with Eurasia....Eastasia.... woo me with science Aug 2014 #72

No. femmocrat Jul 2014 #12

My sixth sense has a very uncomfortable feeling, but that said I think not ... because RKP5637 Jul 2014 #13

You left out ebola. Warren DeMontague Jul 2014 #14

War deployments and events contributed to the spread of the 'Spanish flu.' suffragette Jul 2014 #18

Certainly, although that's a very different disease. Warren DeMontague Jul 2014 #20

Agree with both your points suffragette Aug 2014 #25

The Ebola is what actually scares me. Agschmid Aug 2014 #44

It scares me, too. Warren DeMontague Aug 2014 #54

No kids yet for me... But I understand completely. Agschmid Aug 2014 #55

Man... Heathrow freaks me out even under normal conditions. Warren DeMontague Aug 2014 #62

Nope. cheapdate Jul 2014 #15

No. LordGlenconner Jul 2014 #16

No: despite some bad news on the war mongering front cpwm17 Jul 2014 #17

Central America is also the work of the war on drugs. Initech Jul 2014 #21

Really? Wow. No we are not. nt Logical Jul 2014 #19

... but enough about GD lpbk2713 Jul 2014 #22

No. n/t BeeBee Jul 2014 #23

Obviously you were not around when we had upaloopa Jul 2014 #24

There was a thread about 1968 on Thursday in GD amandabeech Aug 2014 #45

No. nt truebluegreen Aug 2014 #26

No. I don't think so. But things are real bad. nt ladjf Aug 2014 #27

I'm getting to the point where Erich Bloodaxe BSN Aug 2014 #28

Jeez, you're more sour about our prognosis than I am Warpy Aug 2014 #30

Oh, yes Warpy Aug 2014 #29

In a word, NO. eom MohRokTah Aug 2014 #32

No thelordofhell Aug 2014 #33

Still....no. zappaman Aug 2014 #35

I don't think we're near as close as the Cuban Missile Crisis CanonRay Aug 2014 #36

No. But I think we maybe on the edge of WWIII. PFunk Aug 2014 #37

Yes, add brewing and growing Asian conflicts, and Syria/Iraq ISIS Yo_Mama Aug 2014 #38

No and I do not think I can even explain why I do not except to say that I do not interpret the jwirr Aug 2014 #40

No BainsBane Aug 2014 #41

Nope. Calista241 Aug 2014 #42

Russia has plenty of money to buy food from Ukraine. amandabeech Aug 2014 #46

Maybe cause Putin's a dick? Calista241 Aug 2014 #69

Well, there is that. n/t amandabeech Aug 2014 #71

No. Agschmid Aug 2014 #43

we'd ne in WWIII right now if the republicans had their way. obama has spared us that.... for now Takket Aug 2014 #47

No, but you're username rocks! WhaTHellsgoingonhere Aug 2014 #48

Pick any year at random, and I could list a similar bunch of circumstances bhikkhu Aug 2014 #49

Not really customerserviceguy Aug 2014 #50

Nope. Adsos Letter Aug 2014 #51

It is an impossible question to answer, so I don't know. tridim Aug 2014 #52

Nope nt steve2470 Aug 2014 #53

What do you think the FEMA camps are for? TransitJohn Aug 2014 #56

WWIII doesn't pay... defacto7 Aug 2014 #57

Not really. Hissyspit Aug 2014 #58

No. fujiyama Aug 2014 #59

No, but keyboard warriors would love to have an opinion if it did happen! snooper2 Aug 2014 #60

Do yourself a favor and disconnect the television set. BainsBane Aug 2014 #61

I stopped watching cable news, pretty much for good, during the 2004 election season. Warren DeMontague Aug 2014 #63

I haven't watched television in over two months BainsBane Aug 2014 #64

Same here, I NEVER watch cable news steve2470 Aug 2014 #68

What about the Internet? Renew Deal Aug 2014 #70

Intellectually, I know it's unlikely to happen any time soon. nomorenomore08 Aug 2014 #66

The world always falls apart in August, for some reason... CTyankee Aug 2014 #67