That's some beautifully written words. Gonna save that for later.
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One of the very best eviscerations I’ve ever seen. And just what we needed, since Taibbi went to pasture, fumbling the torch of the great Hunter Thompson.
Send this Oliver cat some love. Saw this a month ago and checked his Substack. Not a lot of action. He’s clearly got the goods to do some verbal wrecking of the 1% and the capitalist ghouls.
Same here
Everyone should dodge the draft. I'd rather go to prison than serve
Only serve the army of the working class.
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
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.
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?
'stupidity passed off as common sense' this has plagued me my whole life.
the cowardice of a draft dodger
Literally the only good thing this man has ever done with his life is to duck out of the Vietnam War.
What if he’d have gotten killed there, though? That would have been good
Unfortunately he is actually president.
And now also the Antichrist!
Why you gotta be mean to me?
Garbage in, garbage out.
Holy shit that was beautiful.
Chomo Caligula
oh my god trump is a tulpa and this is why he won't fucking die!
Maybe your America.
I actually do what I can to take care of my neighbors, and I don't vote Democrat or Republican.