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Re:Is everything falling apart? by crocwrestler on Friday April 29, 2022 @12:38PM (#31207405)
Well, they did have domestic terrorist groups going around setting off bombs on the regular in the 60s and 70s. I was quite surprised to read about it.

https://www.amazon.com/Days-Rage-Underground-Forgotten-Revol...

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Re:Is everything falling apart? by UncleOxidant on Friday April 29, 2022 @01:18PM (#31208001)
And going back further there was even more of that going on during the labor wars of the late 19th century into the 1920s.
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Re:Is everything falling apart? by bombcar on Friday April 29, 2022 @03:44PM (#31209794)
Wodehose refers to bearded bounders with bombs as it was a pretty common occurrence in the early 1900s - enough so that jokes could be made from it.

We’ve had it comparatively calm and so bombs get noticed.

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Re:Is everything falling apart? by uoaei on Friday April 29, 2022 @02:32PM (#31209005)
The only interpretation of this vs the parent comment is that you are insinuating this is somehow extreme and unprecedented. Surely it is not.
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Re:Is everything falling apart? by rufus_foreman on Friday April 29, 2022 @06:12PM (#31211178)
"In a single eighteen-month period during 1971 and 1972 the FBI counted an amazing 2,500 bombings on American soil, almost five a day."

-- https://time.com/4501670/bombings-of-america-burrough/

That was extreme and unprecedented for America.

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