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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 08:37 PM Feb 2017

Am I a bad guy?

I live in Woodland Hills. There are a lot of Israeli and Russian ex pats that go to the same gym as I do. A lot of them are pro-Drumpf. Of course I find this highly disconcerting. I do have one friend, a Russian Jewish ex pat from Byelorussia. We have something in common. We both have roots in Byelorussia. However my maternal grandparents were fortunate enough to get the hell out of there in 1908. My friend and his family left in 1988. I told him how Americans and American Jews agitated on behalf of their right to emigrate. I told him about reading about Soviet anti-semitism which included registering Jews as a separate nationality, barring them as much as possible from elite universities, and demonizing Israel to the point of comparing them to NAZIS. My friend is higly skeptical of Drumpf as Drumpf reminds him of the authoritarianism from which he fled.

However most of the Russian ex pats have affection for Mother Russia and Drumpf which brings me to my question: Am I a bad guy. One said only Russia can help us fight ISIS. I had to bite my tongue. I almost told him if you like and miss the f--king place so much maybe you should go back.


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Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. No I would love to tell them to fuck off also.
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 08:41 PM
Feb 2017

I want to welcome immigrants, but if they love the dictator Putin so much why are they here?

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
3. It saddens me that so many Israeli ex pats embrace Drumpf...
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 08:46 PM
Feb 2017

Almost to a one my American Jewish friends loathe him. I support Israel , but I no more support right wing hacks like Netanyahu than I do Drumpf. I also think Drumpf encouraging right wing fanatics there will end no better for them than Drumpf encouraging right wing fanatics here will end for them.

 

TrekLuver

(2,573 posts)
2. I would of said...except they are not and their military tactics involve purposefully killing
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 08:42 PM
Feb 2017

civilians. And actually you are good guy because you held your tongue. But you can rebut him...FUCK THAT.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
4. Putin just wants to pull is into the Middle East morass with him, as if we weren't in deep already.
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 08:51 PM
Feb 2017

And as good as they are allegedly doing they didn't prevent ISIS from blowing one of their civilian airliners out of the sky.

And the U S doesn't intentionally bomb hospitals and schools. That will only create more terrorists..

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