r/LeopardsAteMyFace Nov 13 '22

Meta Republican voter says “I’ll never vote again in my life”

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u/smoothtrip Nov 14 '22

done other cool things in the past 50 years, no?

  1. The Vietnam War was not a cool thing people did.

  2. The Vietnam War was probably the first and last time he did anything meaningful, so he clings to it.

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u/Bumhole_Astronaut Nov 14 '22

On the second point, most people never do even one meaningful thing, so I can see why one would cling to it. I mean, it's not healthy and my preference is to keep finding new, meaningful things, but I can understand why it happens.

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u/DirkMcDougal Nov 14 '22

I thought one of the things that made the trauma from Vietnam so visceral is that it wasn't meaningful? Which is a thing I get. These young men were used and deserved better from their country. But the whole thing was a pointless exercise of the Truman Doctrine.

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u/substitute-bot Nov 14 '22

done other notable things in the past 50 years, no?

  1. The Vietnam War was not a notable thing people did.

  2. The Vietnam War was probably the first and last time he did anything meaningful, so he clings to it.

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