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   Chris Were ⁂🐧📰🌱☕ (chriswere@toot.wales)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 05:31:12 JST Chris Were ⁂🐧📰🌱☕

   • The Icarian

   @The_Icarian Nothing noble about the Vietnam War. Dodging the draft might have been one of the few right things he's ever done.

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     Chris Were ⁂🐧📰🌱☕ (chriswere@toot.wales)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 06:16:40 JST Chris Were ⁂🐧📰🌱☕

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     • The Icarian

     @zalasur @The_Icarian Doesn't make the war right though. That was my point.

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     Zalasur 🇺🇦 (zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 06:16:41 JST Zalasur 🇺🇦

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     • The Icarian

     @ChrisWere @The_Icarian No. It was not.

     Him dodging the draft meant that someone else, almost definitely lower income, had to go in his place.

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     Chris Were ⁂🐧📰🌱☕ (chriswere@toot.wales)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 08:13:17 JST Chris Were ⁂🐧📰🌱☕

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     • The Icarian

     @zalasur @The_Icarian I wasn't praising Trump. I just don't like glorifying war. end of.

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     Zalasur 🇺🇦 (zalasur@mastodon.surazal.net)'s status on Saturday, 05-Apr-2025 08:13:18 JST Zalasur 🇺🇦

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     • The Icarian

     @ChrisWere @The_Icarian Lots of drafted servicemen died in that war. They didn't have Trump's privilege of claiming a made-up medical condition to get out of the draft.

     Trying to claim that you were simply criticizing the Vietnam War is disingenuous at best and displays profound ignorance of the sacrifices many of an entire generation of American men and women had to make. You can claim that the War was unjust (it was), but praising Trump in the same breath is beyond tone-deaf.