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Jingthing

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  1. No, not legal, but they legitimately exist there now making the chances of two state solution quite remote.
  2. The real horny ones are at Mt. Holyoke. Smith is for lesbians.
  3. Refer to the movie from the 1970's Carnal Knowledge, the quintessential Amherst College movie.
  4. Lord Jeffrey would not be pleased with your insults.
  5. I know Amherst well. Great place. No, back in the day nothing like that.
  6. Straw man garbage. My characterization of people who still support Trump stands.
  7. On call as in booty call right?
  8. In my experience it's MOSTLY about the miracle of the light. Thus the menorah and eight candles for eight days. Which begs the question, so their oil lasted a lot longer than they had expected. A miracle? That's nice but not exactly earth shaking stuff, is it? Yom Kippur on the other hand to the faithful is about as hard core as it gets. I won't elaborate. If you know, you know, otherwise look it up. There there is the FOOD part. Never ignore that. Channukah is associated with fried potato latkes and jelly filled donuts (mostly an Israeli thing). If you're in Pattaya, you can get such holiday jelly donuts at Shambalooloo restaurant, Facebook
  9. The headline got my attention but it turns out it was a masterful bait and switch.
  10. There are many but probably the very most important are Rosh Hashanah, Yom.Kippur, and Passover.
  11. Chanukkah is celebrated so that American Jewish children don't feel bad during Christmas season. Otherwise, it's not really a MAJOR Jewish holiday.
  12. Why would anyone in their right mind be PRO Trump?!?
  13. Just socializing with Epstein does not mean guilt of crimes. He socialized a lot with rich and famous people. But the thing with Trump is that he was BEST FRIENDS with Epstein for MANY YEARS. Which to be fair does NOT prove Trump was guilty of sex crimes. But it DOES mean that there is zero doubt that he knew full well what Epstein was up to.
  14. Name calling. Tsk tsk. Very low approval ratings. Thus strong majority opposing him. Duh. My tribe? Got a live one here, Mary. The pattern of using ILLEGAL tariffs as a bullying weapon for foreign policy. Duh. The negative reactions thing from Thais about nationality is something that I've noticed since Trump started bullying Thailand with tariffs and tariff threats. Not something I ever noticed BEFORE. So if you're capable of using logic (obviously not) that isn't about me personally. I'd like to see some polling on the movement of Thai public opinion on the USA to confirm (or refute) my anecdotal observation.
  15. Modern Russia is NOT what most people think, especially maga fascists that idealize it as a non-woke, ultra-religious paradise. My own view of Russia as I would assume most people's is colored by personal experience. Grandparents spoke Russian but didn't speak it in front of me. They fled the pogroms of Russian Empire Ukraine. The enemy was the Cossacks and they were very literally murderers and rapists. Mother was a red diaper baby. They sung The Internationale in school. She grew out of that. Family built a bomb shelter in our house during the cold war / Cuban missile crisis. We did DUCK AND COVER drills in school. I don't recall that inspiring hatred of Russian people, but it was very scary and contributed to nihilism and pessimism about the future. Didn't really expect a future. Later in childhood was involved in a program that paired me up with a Russian boy for play dates. His father was a Russian embassy staffer and I could smell that he didn't use deodorant. Probably a spy. One of my good friends growing up had Russian Christian immigrant parents. We never discussed politics and I never connect him or his family to the cold war. Looking back there obviously was a political story to his family. Studied Russian novels and plays in high school and college. There is so much to admire there. I don't feel I was ever a Russophile per se, but definitely open to the treasures of Russia and other cultures as well. Didn't really taste any great Russian food until in my 30s and actually finding some of that in Pattaya today. Had a lovely Uzbek/Russian meal last night. Georgian food is incredible, Not Russian but Stalin was Georgian. I hate Putin with a passion. To me, he's today's Hitler and Trump is supporting today's Hitler and that's disgusting. That doesn't translate into hating Russian culture or all Russian people. Obviously, I hate Russian Z fascist Putin supporters. But that's more about politics than culture. I follow anti-Putin youtubers such as NFKRZ (Roman) now exiled in Portugal. kgb detected channel, and the Inside Russia channel exiled in Tashkent. I also follow some western maga fascist types who moved to Russia tracing their weird dream. It's hilarious to watch their videos about western migrants now being subject to the Putin's military conscription. So anyway, you can see why now that I couldn't vote in this poll.
  16. I don't find a choice close enough to how I feel to vote.
  17. That's interesting. Sometimes I do express my anti-Trump feelings to Europeans depending on social clues, but I avoid talking anything at all political with Thais. It's my understanding that in Thai culture it's not cool and diminishes your face to express opposition to your own government to foreigners even if the Thai person might oppose your government. Russians are expected to support Putin at least when talking to non-Russians. Americans are expected to support Trump at least when talking to non-Americans, etc. Of course it almost goes without saying that Thais do not want to hear what you think about their government. Generalizations for sure and I may be wrong, but that's my understanding.
  18. Not as in attacking Jews. As in invading Ukraine comparable to how Hitler started in Poland, stealing land, and massive war crimes against civilians, To add, painting Ukraine as Nazi is a Putin propaganda talking point. <removed>
  19. The Nazi faction in their last election didn't actually win representation in the Ukrainian government. There are Nazis all over the world. The current U.S. president has dined with Nazis. His VP openly courts their support. Not suggesting forgetting anything. In the current war, the side acting like Nazis is RUSSIA.
  20. I'm well aware of Ukrainian history. But in these times they overwhelmingly elected a Jewish president. This current war isn't about world war 2.
  21. There was collaboration against Jews everywhere that the Nazi's controlled. Irrelevant to this current war.

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