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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 03:37:57 JST Aral Balkan

   Biden once recalled walking with law school classmates to the Varsity Pizza Shop when they spotted antiwar student protesters hanging out of windows after taking over an administrative building. “We looked up and said, ‘Look at those assholes,’” Biden later wrote. “That’s how far apart from the antiwar movement I was.”

   https://archive.is/NKkr5

   Original (paywall): https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/05/biden-vietnam-protest-serve-visit/

   He’s always been on the wrong side of history, why change now?

   #Biden #Vietnam #war #Gaza #genocide

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 04:16:46 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Sashin

     @sashin He says in the article that he was a jock and middle class. So privileged white guy, basically.

   • Sashin (sashin@veganism.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 04:16:47 JST Sashin

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     @aral Does he say why he hated the anti war movement?