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Honestly the draft dodging is the only thing I give him credit for and that's just because it was an imperialist war.
It's the one thing I won't criticize about him, even if he did it for purely selfish self-serving reasons. I won't give him credit for it either but I'll never criticize someone for not joining the US military
I agree, but he didn't get out of it because of any moral objection to the war itself, he used his privilege to to get himself out of something he didn't want to do while other people who equally didn't want to go were shipped off to the meat grinder against their will. Not saying he should have gone, but we're not talking about a conscientious objector here.
That would have required a conscience, and we all know this fat orange fuck is one hundred percent Jiminny Cricket free.
Nah, that's privileged bone spurs. Fuck that.
At least when my father did it he pulled an Alice's Restaurant, which was likely very true for him, claiming everyone would be the enemy if he was forced to go. This was before AR was a folk legend btw, it just so happened that he was one of many who made that approach, it may have been common knowledge at the time.
Anyway that fascist clown deserves no credit for anything. Fuck everything he's done, fuck him entirely.
Yeah, that part didn't sit well with me either. How does refusing to throw away your life for a nation state's interest and to being instrumentalized to harm and kill others constitute cowardice?
Starting a war when you yourself dodged the draft is definitely evidence of hypocrisy, moral bankruptcy and just pathetic.
But people refusing to be pawns in some belligerent leaders wargame is far from cowardice.
Well, he didn’t do it for any lofty ideals like that I’m sure
Sure, he just wanted to save his skin (Which is not cowardly either, in my opinion).
However, the OP said "the cowardice of a draft dodger" which reads like a generalized statement. Also all other listed groups are reprehensible, putting draft dodgers in there is just weird.
Edit: I'm cool with bar stool drunks as long as they don't spew evil bullshit, to be clear
Yeah but imagine how funny it would be for him to die in vietnam
It could still happen
What if part of why his ego is permanently crippled is that he was forced to fake bone spurs to avoid getting pulled in with McNamara's 100,000?
Well, he's an imperialist and is one of a handful of people that SHOULD have gone to fight in that war, if the world was fair at least.