No, you're missing the point. Pirate (and a few others it appears) see Hippie in a completely different light than you do. You don't like the way we view him so your solution is to resort to violence. Not much different than the brainwashing. Pirate was at least civil about what he said. If you're upset with the original post then direct your anger at that poster.
Hoppie ::bwahaha:: deserves every bit of what he gets. A lot of us have seen him come on here babbling in almost exactly the same fashion as the parody that started this thread. I couldn't believe how close it was to one of Hip's real posts. "Poor me, I had it so much worse and different than anyone else. You just don't understand, I was the good staff, Straight could have been such a good place"....yadda yadda yadda. :roll: He also continuously states his opinions as fact and then gets pissy with anyone who dares challenge him.
Everyone on here has been a target at one time or another. Hell, look at all Rich has done and the shit he still has to put up with. If Matt can't take what's being said here, too fucking bad.
I'm not the other poster you are talking to (this is my first post this thread - no time to register right now), but I think you and some of the other people are missing something. The first post on this thread, by "Stillastraightling123", can only be read as making a mockery of "Still A Hippie". That might seem like fine punishment to you, but in the real world that is called rude and mean, and there is nothing else to call it. Obviously, pirate and a few others think that is fine to do to Hippie. Obviously, they have their reasons.
I would bet that Pirate has given and gotten a few punches in his life, and I bet he would have to agree that fistfights are one of the least brainwashed forms of communication.
Now, if pirate wants to really "help Hippie to see the light", he could pay a visit to Hippie, buy him a beer, and apologize for publicly enjoying what is very essentially Straight-like: teach someone to see your shitty p.o.v. of them by singling them out in front of everybody, making a mockery and an embarassment of them, and piling the righteous hate on top.
Out of all the posters on this thread I think I would actually prefer to buy Hippie a beer. I would put money on the guy who puts on gigs to raise money for kids over the other posters who do, uh, what? Show people the light? Write vengeful and purposefully disgusting fantasies of having sex with executive staffers? There is certainly more to attractiveness and good company than whether a person is or is not recovered from being brainwashed and understands exactly what happened to their psyche and what they did to other people and so on. That takes time.
As for whether or not Matt "can take it", that is not my point. Nor is my point whether or not anyone is free to dish it out. Hate group survivors should think about whether or not they can take dishing it out anymore.