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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts) Sun Sep 21, 2014, 03:55 PM Sep 2014

In the 70's this was ISIS...

Now it is this...

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In the 70's this was ISIS... (Original Post) SummerSnow Sep 2014 OP

She even had her own TV show Politicalboi Sep 2014 #1

I remember that show on Saturday mornings too! :) SummerSnow Sep 2014 #3

Thus spake Isis! Anansi1171 Sep 2014 #5

I remember watching that every week on our chunky Zenith console. LuvNewcastle Sep 2014 #15

And, in the 70's these were (some of) the scary bogeymen. Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2014 #2

the last guy really was evil--killed millions in forced-labor camps, etc. lastlib Sep 2014 #4

The USSR was no threat to the United States then? treestar Sep 2014 #6

Not as much as we were to them. Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2014 #9

I thought it was mutual assured destruction treestar Sep 2014 #13

Which is hardly the case with ISIS and the other bogeymen we're supposed to fear. Tierra_y_Libertad Sep 2014 #14

Straw man treestar Sep 2014 #16

Actually, Ho Chi Minh died in 1969 Art_from_Ark Sep 2014 #17

I personally prefer this Isis: Initech Sep 2014 #7

In our home, this is ISIS Autumn Colors Sep 2014 #8

She looks like someone I wouldn't want as an enemy. surrealAmerican Sep 2014 #11

I love Italian ISIS leeroysphitz Sep 2014 #10

ISIS... Baby -- Scariest of All KurtNYC Sep 2014 #12

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)

1. She even had her own TV show

Reply to SummerSnow (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2014, 03:57 PM

Sep 2014

Oh Mighty ISIS!

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)

3. I remember that show on Saturday mornings too! :)

Reply to Politicalboi (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 21, 2014, 04:08 PM

Sep 2014

Anansi1171

(793 posts)

5. Thus spake Isis!

Reply to SummerSnow (Reply #3)

Sun Sep 21, 2014, 04:43 PM

Sep 2014

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LuvNewcastle

(16,847 posts)

15. I remember watching that every week on our chunky Zenith console.

Reply to Anansi1171 (Reply #5)

Sun Sep 21, 2014, 09:20 PM

Sep 2014

The cabinet on the tv was large, but I think the tv itself had only a 19 or 20 inch screen. We were just happy that we had color! My fundy dad actually didn't like for me to watch Isis. He thought I was worshiping an Egyptian goddess.

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

2. And, in the 70's these were (some of) the scary bogeymen.

Reply to SummerSnow (Original post)

Sun Sep 21, 2014, 04:05 PM

Sep 2014

lastlib

(23,265 posts)

4. the last guy really was evil--killed millions in forced-labor camps, etc.

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Reply #2)

Sun Sep 21, 2014, 04:22 PM

Sep 2014

Maybe not psychotic-crazy like Hitler or Stalin or Hussein, or a religious nut like ISIS, but evil nonetheless. The world really is better off without Mao.

treestar

(82,383 posts)

6. The USSR was no threat to the United States then?

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Reply #2)

Sun Sep 21, 2014, 05:01 PM

Sep 2014

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

9. Not as much as we were to them.

Reply to treestar (Reply #6)

Sun Sep 21, 2014, 06:54 PM

Sep 2014

treestar

(82,383 posts)

13. I thought it was mutual assured destruction

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Reply #9)

Sun Sep 21, 2014, 08:44 PM

Sep 2014

Both countries could blow up the planet several times over - there was no use attacking the other as they would launch as soon as they knew missiles were coming. Thus the threat was equal.

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)

14. Which is hardly the case with ISIS and the other bogeymen we're supposed to fear.

Reply to treestar (Reply #13)

Sun Sep 21, 2014, 08:50 PM

Sep 2014

treestar

(82,383 posts)

16. Straw man

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Reply #14)

Sun Sep 21, 2014, 09:36 PM

Sep 2014

no one said that. But you did make fun of the USSR as if it were a mere "bogeyman."

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)

17. Actually, Ho Chi Minh died in 1969

Reply to Tierra_y_Libertad (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 22, 2014, 03:45 AM

Sep 2014

Khruschev was ousted in 1964-- Leonid Brezhnev was the bad guy in the '70s.

Mao Tse-tung was the bad guy in the '60s, but Nixon's trip to China in 1972, and our withdrawal from Vietnam early the following year, started to cast him in a more "favorable" light. And then he died in 1976.