• Archangel
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      -13 days ago

      As a 3rd generation socialist, I take offense to that.

        • Archangel
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          03 days ago

          So, you think it’s acceptable for wealthy people to be allowed to avoid the obligations placed on poorer folks, simply because they were born rich?

          That is a very interesting take…for an “actual socialist”.

          • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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            243 days ago

            I think it’s unacceptable to serve in an imperialist military against an actually, existing socialist country. You either desert, dodge, or frag. If you don’t do any of those things, you are contributing towards reaction.

            We hanged people at Nuremberg who were “just following orders.” Vietnam should have been no different, given what the US did to those people.

            • Archangel
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              03 days ago

              Cool.

              But have you considered that the draft is something that the wealthy inflict upon the working class…knowing that they can simply buy their way out of it?

              And right now, you’re the one defending a literal fascist, for exercising that privilege like he’s some kind of “conscientious objector”?

              How does that make sense to you?

              • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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                243 days ago

                the draft is something the wealthy inflict upon the working class

                you’re the one defending a literal fascist

                What the fuck are you even talking about? There are people right now in Isreal sitting in jail cells because they refuse to participate in Gaza. I guess if they’re rich, they should be required to go kill some kids instead of buying their way out of it? Who gives a shit? The choice is to not carry out imperialism. It is materially better for Vietnam to not have more Americans invading their country.

                Fuck out of here with this liberal bullshit.

                • Archangel
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                  03 days ago

                  And you think that Trump “chose not to carry out imperialism” when his Dad got that doctor to sign off on his bone spurs?

                  Are you seriously that deluded?

                  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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                    133 days ago

                    Nobody here thinks that, they consider not going abroad to kill people a good thing regardless of the reason he did it. Do you think John McCain was a better person than Trump? He literally volunteered to go bomb Hanoi.

                  • T34_69 [none/use name]
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                    42 days ago

                    you think that Trump “chose not to carry out imperialism” when his Dad got that doctor to sign off on his bone spurs?

                    That’s… objectively what it meant to dodge the draft, whatever was going on in his head is irrelevant to the material fact

              • Abracadaniel [he/him]
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                153 days ago

                excercising the privilege to not commit murder

                yeah I gotta say that’s the right choice in almost any circumstance.

                its OK to make a choice to do a good thing even if it’s unfairly easy for you to do that good thing compared to others. you still did a good thing!

                the problem with privilege is that it’s unfairly distributed to a select few. instead of taking it away, it should be extended to everyone.

      • Blakey [he/him]
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        Jesus fucking christ your parents and grandparents must be so ashamed of you right now.

        • Archangel
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          03 days ago

          Why? Do you think they would approve of a wealthy man bribing a doctor in order to avoid service that a poor man could not?

          • Blakey [he/him]
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            203 days ago

            do you think they would approve of the same wealthy man murdering poor rice farmers because it would be naughty to get out of it? Because that’s the position you’re defending. Trump’s hypocrisy is apparently worse than murdering poor people on the other side of the world. But hey I guess they aren’t American so it doesn’t count, huh?

            Also, around 0.6% of draft dodgers went to prison. The conscripts who went didn’t go because they couldn’t get out of it. They went because they were propagandised to think that America is good. Even if it actually were common for poor people to be imprisoned for resisting service that would still be no excuse for flying to the other side of the world to murder poor rice farmers.

            But again, they’re not American, so they don’t really count. All of your pathetic whining about hypocrisy only adds up to - the hypocrisy of one rich dickhead is more important than the lives of Vietnamese people. And that’s disgusting.

      • T34_69 [none/use name]
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        32 days ago

        As a 3rd generation socialist, I

        Socialism is not inherited

        That would make a hilarious quote for the hexbear header btw

        • Archangel
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          12 days ago

          Socialism had been a major part of my family going back to WW2, when my grandfather fought Nazis in Norway. He raised my father on Socialist principles, and my father raised me on them.

          What else would you call that?