• Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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          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.

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              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.

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                  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.

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                  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

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              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.

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          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.