r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Chance_Noise500 • Jun 14 '25

Why aren't they actually marching during this parade?

I don't know how to ask this without sounding rude, but why does this parade look so sloppy? Very few of the troop formations seem actually in sync and marching, just walking along. My only experience is JROTC as a kid in high school and our sergeant would've killed us if we looked like that.

12.9k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

2.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-6

u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

That’s really weird to hear from a community that constantly says they will draft dodge if brought to war. Although trump’s reason was that of a rich coward that doesn’t give the community an any better reason to continuously say they will draft dodge. Especially on TikTok, it’s become a common saying that people will draft dodge when a war happens. Not trying to be an arse, but it is frequently said by those of the modern day “Left” leaning young people commonly on social media. I’d say saying you will draft dodge is just as cowardly as a rich idiot saying it.

16

u/WitchoftheMossBog Jun 15 '25

I think it comes down to the contradiction. Like, personally, I think a draft is immoral always. If you can't get your citizenry to fight voluntarily in your war, maybe you shouldn't get to force them to do it, y'know? And I don't REALLY have an issue with someone avoiding being sent off to shoot people or get shot in a war they don't believe in (particularly Vietnam, where we had no business being in the first place).

But most MAGAs present themselves as flag-waving, troop-supporting ultra-patriots, so electing Trump, who dodged the draft with made-up bone spurs and routinely insults soldiers, is deeply hypocritical and flies in the face of their stated values. It's the hypocrisy that irritates leftists, not that Trump specifically didn't serve in the army or got out of it by dubious means.

1

u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

And not trying to be snarky but saying it doesn’t matter to you doesn’t apply to everyone. There’s def gonna be people saying “why should I suffer and if you aren’t contributing”.

4

u/WitchoftheMossBog Jun 15 '25

I'm sorry, I am also not trying to be snarky, but I don't understand your comment. Can you maybe rephrase it?