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   kfccanada said, 3 months ago

   Little four year old kids worrying about bombs???? Sounds grotesque. Perhaps adults are talking much too deeply around their very young children. And, the TV shouldn’t be tuned to such ultra serious topics when kiddies are present. Wow! They grow up fast enough as it is. This strip is a real eye opener.
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   Shyygirl27 said, 3 months ago

   @kfccanada

   I learned a long time ago that I could shield my children from everything at home but when they started going to school they’d hear things from their friends anyway. Then you have teaching moments.
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   kittenpah said, 3 months ago

   As I recall, at that age they were teaching us that the Soviets were going to bomb us at any moment and we could save ourselves by crawling under our desks.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

   There are 9 countries with nuclear weapons. Two possible scenarios are Pakistan and India, also Israel attacking Iran.
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   Odd Dog said, 3 months ago

   there is a hydro electric damn about 3/4 of a mile from my old high school we had bomb shelters and did fallout drills
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   NightShade09 said, 3 months ago

   Fantasy isn’t what it used to be.
   When I was a kid, comic book super-heroes were idealized, and the stories were escapist. Now a lot are filled with bloody violence.
   DC Comics has revamped Wonder Woman to take the Amazons – once immortals living in seclusion from “man’s world” – and turned them into rapists and murderers.
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   Paula R. Stiles said, 3 months ago

   @kfccanada

   The 80s was the last big gasp of the Cold War and a fairly scary time. There wasn’t any way you could keep your kids shielded from talk of nuclear annihilation. I remember when almost every kid I knew pretty much expected to end life in a mushroom cloud.

   What amazes me is how much of that people have forgotten over the past two and a half decades when it was so pervasive for nearly fifty years.
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   KenTheCoffinDweller said, 3 months ago

   @NightShade09 – I would like to think that you are just making a sick joke, but I know that DC has killed off Superman at least once as a main storyline and I have seen parts of what has been done to Batman in the movies, so it is not a hard stretch to believe that DC has dropped the Amazon’s original connection with Greek Mythology.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

   Some changes stink in the comics. Just all wrong.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

    @NightShade09

    During World War II, Korea and Viet Nam comic characters fought in those wars so you must have lead a sheltered life.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

    *Lynn’s Notes:

    I now have a grandchild. I see kids as young as two, happily using computers, eBooks, and iPads and I wonder how much more the babies of today are learning…too soon, too fast.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago

    For some reason I can’t put the rest of Lynn’s comment in.
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    Tog said, 3 months ago

    Luckily when I was a kid in the late 50’s and early 60’s we had none of the Soviets will be invading at any moment hysteria, no hiding under the beds, no lunatics like McCarthy. Oddly we did know of the concerns but we didnt worry about them as kids.
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    gmartin997 said, 3 months ago

    I think those kids have been watching too much television.
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    Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

    There are many nuclear-armed nations. Despite signing the non-proliferation treaty, most nations with advanced technology have them, they just doing noise it about. Several others could build them in short order. When you consider that anyone with a physics, chemistry, or engineering degree in the west could do it from local materials, the number of nations that have at least one must be sorely underrepresented in official numbers.
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    How many would believe that Israel has the most advanced nukes? Used to be that the idea was to take everyone with them if they fell. Then it became to win a war by small nukes. A neutron weapon the size of an artillery shell they had in the early 1990s would french fry anything above bacteria in a 1100m radius, but everything outside of 1500m would be safe. When it seems like half the world hates them because they exist, and even went so far as to create the current antisemitic mythos seen in western media, no one should blame them for having what they have.
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    McCarthy’s an interesting case. Much like Rasputin, what is commonly “known” about him is propaganda. The real events and man were quite different. Consider: if he was the loose cannon that is usually taught, then why did literally everyone he blacklisted turn out to be a card-carrying Socialist in later years? (Communist, National Socialist, etc.) Also consider who controls our media and thus most of the public’s viewpoint. Coincidence?
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