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[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago

Do what I do and dunk on them by wearing this out in public

[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?

No, I am not going ten thousand miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would put my prestige in jeopardy and could cause me to lose millions of dollars which should accrue to me as the champion.

But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is right here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality…

If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. But I either have to obey the laws of the land or the laws of Allah. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail. We’ve been in jail for four hundred years.

—Muhammad Ali

[-] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

Vietnam ERA Vet. So you weren't there but you still want to steal credit for the Vietnam war? Why???

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

show your support for losing a war that Amerika literally tried to win by genociding their way to a better KDR and tell everybody you're a nepo baby who got to hang out at the National Guard while all the boys you graduated HS with got owned at Dien Bien Phu

[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

"I got booted TF out and all I got was this stupid hat"

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's a customer at my job who always wears a COLD WAR VETERAN hat. Like what. You changed tires in West Germany? Fuck off

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

He was probably a CIA asset working in Indonesia helping Suharto's men massacre peasants because communism bad.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

maybe its a bit and they are super based?

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

Fuckin' snowflakes and their participation trophies

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

The National Defense Medal is literally a participation trophy. If you show up to your office job post in the sticks of Arkansas and shit yourself in front of the the Colonel, and the US is at war, it's medal time lol. it's the only one we come out of boot camp with. Unless you suckered your buddy into joining too, then I think you get some dumb ribbon and promoted to E-2.

The idiot who wears NDM merch unironically will get dunked on by other vets regardless of their rank or era.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Is that what the ribbons on the hat mean? That's even funnier lol

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Yep it's a national defense ribbon

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

I tense up when I see one. Even if it is some ancient looking dude. I just know that anyone wearing that shit is bound to be fantasizing about some massacres

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

I fantasize about lightly bumping into them and shattering their hip

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Saw one of these on a white guy in an Asian grocery store. That was a tough one to keep calm around.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

see also: the bullshit POW MIA flag

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

you know the people who wear this aren't vets because the vets are all dead from agent orange

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

"vietnam era" is a really funny way of saying that they didn't actually go to vietnam

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Wait, is this a real thing?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I accidentally linked a "Vietnam era vet" hat instead of a "Vietnam war vet", which I'm not sure I've ever seen, but the war hats are super common. If you walk around an American downtown you'll see at least one decrepit dude repping his war crimes...

Imagine if this model was 30 years older https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/vietnam-war-senior-adult-man-military-veteran-holding-hat-picture-id487666570

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

There’s an old guy in my neighborhood who’s a Vietnam vet; he did one tour in the army and got out. The back of his car is covered in military-related stickers, and it’s front and center when you talk to him.

I’m sympathetic that he was tossed into something heavy at 18 years old, but I don’t understand basing one’s entire personality on, and ruining a nice paint job for, something you did for 18 months, 54 years ago.

Finally, he’s a big Trump fan.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

I think it's often a gender identity thing, they can't consume their way to masculinity because they're too poor so they embrace combat, the only other capitalism approved expression of maleness.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Well it's not these days, at least around here. I guess agent orange really is as potent as they say

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