• Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
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    23 days ago

    Also on the Californian side you had the sugar shack where all classic rock superstars went to do the exact same thing.

    We often forget that the hippie scene was predominantly white, male, and came from privileged backgrounds. That’s the only demographic that was liberated by the freedom movement. Same with the NY arty scene.

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      22 days ago

      Totally never heard of that… I wonder how many of these awful “everyone in the region knows it’s happening” regional scenes like this existed (or still exist). If only there was some sort of well funded federal law enforcement agency that could act when regional authorities are complicit…

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          22 days ago

          Yeah, in a world where most things seem to be getting worse, you could intuit “well, everything is a balance and this is the one thing getting better” or “this is probably yet another thing that’s actually getting worse too, but we have other problems now.”