• smeg@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Surprised the Grauniad is going for the American-style “this man is a MILITARY VETERAN” heartstring-pulling, would this story not be just as sad and unfair regardless of what he was up to 80 years ago?

    • wildeaboutoskar@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I find it distasteful myself but it is this kind of thing that may change people’s minds (which is what we need to get rid of the Tories).

      • smeg@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        What bit do you disagree with? Hoping you don’t think that it’s fine for an old man to be evicted if he couldn’t even be bothered to fight Hitler!

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          1 year ago

          I agree it’s worse to have put your life on the line for a government that doesn’t support you later in your life than to be a citizen who didn’t fight on behalf of the nation that failed them.

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            1 year ago

            Of course i dont. But if there was one single demographic youd expect a government to look after it would have to be the people that gave it all for the country to continue existing. I think its more of a look how bad things have got story than it is a this is the only reason it matters story