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C Moon

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14. A couple days ago I read about the Kent State event. That was horrible.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sat Jun 14, 2025, 02:37 AM

Jun 14

The one girl who told a soldier (after he shook the lilac from his gun at an officer's order), "flowers are better than bullets," was killed when they opened fire on the students. They fired 67 rounds into a crowd of students.

Nixon was President. Ohio had an asshole governor—that man was terrible.

We don't need to rid our country of immigrants, we need to rid our country of conservatives. They are the worst of the worst.

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