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DHinMI, doing his part to make the phrase “reality-based community” a joke, a punchline, and a laughing stock.
Those of us in the reality-based community know that it’s a myth created by the rightwing that liberals and anti-war protesters ran around attacking soldiers returning from Vietnam
Ahem:
I don’t want to let them off the hook here. It happened to me, and I asked my father if it had ever happened to him. If anyone were to be on the receiving end, it would have been him after being involved in the Ohio State riots and Ohio University riots for years. (He did say the worst he ever personally received was marshmallow-covered rocks thrown at him during the OSU riots). He did say that they received LOTS of taunts, from spitting to flowers to verbal abuse during those heady days of yore.
And you sorry sods, one of your own has already admitted and repented:
Yeah, and although this post doesn’t mention people like me, I was a red-hot leftist (marxist) revolutionary back then, and I did spit on a couple of returning vets. From the safety of a crowd, behind a barricade and a police line.
I was an America-hating asshole and a coward. I’ve learned better, and I’ve learned to feel regret for my shameful actions then.
Good luck with the rest of your point. Maybe you didn’t make that part up.
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