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I Was a Victim of the Fake "Knockout Game" Trend
Slate ^ | Nov. 25 2013 | Matthew Yglesias

Posted on 11/27/2013 7:00:02 AM PST by 70times7

True story. A couple of years back, I was walking home at night on North Capitol Street here in Washington, D.C., when two dudes randomly assaulted me before running away without stealing anything. At the time, I didn't think it was all that strange—I've lived in urban areas all my life, and plenty of people I know have been victims of anonymous street crime.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
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To: 70times7
At the time, I didn't think it was all that strange

Yeah, it's perfectly normal for a couple of 'dudes' to just walk up behind someone and smack them upside the head for no damn good reason. The stupid just burns with this guy.

41 posted on 11/27/2013 7:54:23 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: BlueStateRightist

A true logical discussion of philosophy can be simplified enough for even 4 year olds to understand...it was a young child who saw thru all of the foppery of the emperor and declared that for all of the scrapings and fawnings of the court, the emperor was after all, still naked!


42 posted on 11/27/2013 7:57:15 AM PST by mdmathis6
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To: dfwgator

He was a cruel man, but fair.


43 posted on 11/27/2013 8:03:27 AM PST by freedomlover
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To: 70times7

“Apologies to all for not including a “barf alert”. The self imposed stupidity by the author is really that bad.”

The byline Matthew Yglesias is an implied barf alert.


44 posted on 11/27/2013 8:30:01 AM PST by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: 70times7
Poor Matt, Journolist alumnus and lifetime member of the Mean Girls Club. Perhaps menopause will mellow him out.

Why does Slate's Matt Yglesias keep publishing the private information of Daily Caller reporters?

45 posted on 11/27/2013 8:41:45 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: 70times7

It must really be hell to walk through life and be this stupid. He must have a seeing eye dog. How does he avoid getting hit by a bus?


46 posted on 11/27/2013 8:43:38 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: 70times7

Since he’s a leftist, any brain dysfunction is a pre-existing condition.


47 posted on 11/27/2013 8:45:41 AM PST by Bob
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To: Junk Silver

This is just something you gotta get used to, I reckon. Part of life in the Brave New World Order. At least we get soma, right?


48 posted on 11/27/2013 8:48:13 AM PST by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: Lazamataz
Yet he still moves, talks, and writes.

Well, he writes for Slate. That's not saying much.

49 posted on 11/27/2013 9:22:40 AM PST by kevkrom (It's not "immigration reform", it's an "amnesty bill". Take back the language!)
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To: Madame Dufarge

Hmmm, is Po’ Matty a Friend of Dorothy?


50 posted on 11/27/2013 10:48:25 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: cunning_fish

post 2


51 posted on 11/27/2013 11:11:37 AM PST by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: pallis

Well said.


52 posted on 11/27/2013 11:11:59 AM PST by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Hmmm, is Po’ Matty a Friend of Dorothy?

Don't know, but it is probably safe to say he if a friend to her friends. If I had to guess I would say no. Otherwise there would have been a Matthew Sheppard reference.

53 posted on 11/27/2013 11:21:23 AM PST by 70times7 (Serving Free Republics' warped and obscure humor needs since 1999!)
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To: 70times7

Valid points.


54 posted on 11/27/2013 11:57:18 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Gaffer
Here’s hoping Holder’s teen/youth people knock him out a little harder next time.

We often say that a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.

Sounds like this liberal gets invited to some really bitchin' parties and would hate to get dropped.

Never underestimate a liberal's level of commitment to his favorite fatuities. Especially when something's riding on it.

55 posted on 11/27/2013 3:08:13 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: Slings and Arrows; 70times7
Other than his apparent emulation of fully-bloated, cramped-up, rip-your-head-off periodic female behavior, I have no proof.

I can picture him as a passenger on the Titanic, trampling over women and children to catch a seat on a lifeboat. In other words, a typical lefty "male."

56 posted on 11/28/2013 5:13:55 AM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: 70times7

Two reporters who were victims...

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/05/01/media-and-police-ignore-savage-beating-of-two-white-reporters/


57 posted on 11/28/2013 6:29:06 PM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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