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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA long time friend just posted this about the Houthi airstrikes on his Facebook page
I'm kind of shocked, frankly. We used to bitch about Trump together and both voted enthusiastically for Biden in 2020. He's Pakistani, and was terrified of a 2nd Trump term, to the point he was considering buying a gun for protection from MAGAt's. Now I feel like he's a totally different person than the one I thought I knew. He's a college educated, middle class engineer. He's brought his entire family to the US in the past 5 years, parents, brothers, sisters. He's smarter than this!
I almost posted a response that would have likely ended our friendship, but deleted it. I don't know what to think of him now, and it really sucks.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,721 posts)"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."
-Thomas Jefferson.
On the other hand...
msongs
(67,632 posts)Eko
(7,501 posts)If you cant explain why.
Silent Type
(3,214 posts)dalton99a
(81,919 posts)Precisely.
Quakerfriend
(5,464 posts)WH right now shouting the same thing.
I would start a dialogue with him next time you meet (not on FB).
NickB79
(19,326 posts)A Pakistani immigrant with a house full of Pakistani family who aren't yet citizens, and he's talking about voting for Trump. He's lost it 😞
JI7
(89,337 posts)they only started voting democratic becsuse repiblicans became very anti Muslim after 9-11.
But in the last few years even before Oct 7th attacks by Hamas many Muslims were becoming anti democratic becsuse of their opposition to lgbtq issues . If you look at the anti gay protests across the country many are full of muslims.
JI7
(89,337 posts)and the biggest hypocrites as Pakistan was created as a Muslim state in a place where Islam invaded others while they oppose the existence of a Jewish state where Judaism is indigenous.
BTW, Pakistan killed tens of thousands of Palestinians during black September .