• Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    I think it’s fair to extend out of military tradition though when the leader to impress is a fat draft dodging commander-in-chief wearing a shitty quality partisan red hat in a suit while addressing the military.

    This is your strongman, and even if tradition to select the crowd, it outlines the absurdity of Americans behaviour and hypocrisy.

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      24 days ago

      This is your strongman, and even if tradition to select the crowd, it outlines the absurdity of Americans behaviour and hypocrisy.

      … I’ve marched with other services as well. It’s not just “Americans” that do this. Now granted, 95% of my experience would be the American side of this.

      You can have your opinion on how it’s stupid. I won’t disagree there. I never understood or cared myself. But to say that this is something special JUST for Trump is a delusion in of itself. This is a common occurrence, Trump be damned.

      • Empricorn@feddit.nl
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        24 days ago

        Hmmm, I must have missed the North Korea style parade of tanks and troops for Biden’s birthday. Or Obama. Or either Bush… Yeah, definitely not “something special only for Trump”.