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basically the reasons the doctor keep the arm was "I kept this guy's arm as a relic to tell myself I'm a good person!" like idk what to say

  • Spartacist [he/him]
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    “Oh no a draft now I have to willingly massacre and brutalize POC. Oh well, draft said I had to! It’s not like I could just take the prison sentence and not go and support imperialistic genocidal war!”

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      it wasn't even a 'people of color' thing back then, they specifically targeted communism and basically threw everyone in the same boat as the nazis.

      i already acknowledged that you could take the cell, but some of those people had families and shit dude. like if you have children and have to support them and you going to jail means everyone in your household is ostracized and they'll actually lose their home, it blurs the lines a little bit. it's not always so simple as we make it out to be.

      like you, i will, and boldly at that, say i would take the cell, but to simplify this shit to 'them all being pieces of shit' ignores the class war.

      do you give the rich draft dodgers more points because they didn't go slaughter them? they didn't because they had a fucking choice and the draft didn't fuck with their livelihood. the government was basically like 'you do this or we will ruin your fucking life and your family.'

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        Also, a dishonorable discharge is (for most purposes) equivalent to a felony on your record.

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        I give rich draft dodgers more points for not facilitating genocide. Badempanda had a good video on this

        • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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          rich draft dodgers did facilitate genocide by participating in the class war in the first place. they always send the poor.

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            Yeah and the poor Americans supported the genocide by committing it