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If Laura Loomer had been around in 1940, she'd have been trying to prevent Jewish refugees from entering the US. You know she would. And if Trump had been president then, she'd have succeeded.

@paulg Your point ?

@Jonathangel5 She should not get her way.

@paulg Why do you care?

@Hooman323 Someone has to. Imagine if no one did.

@paulg That happened without Laura Loomer. Not sure if you know that.

@EV_Trapper Of course. There were a lot of people like her at the time. But it's even less excusable now.

@paulg You calling him racist 👀

@theunusualflow At the very least he's opportunistically xenophobic.

@paulg Nailed it. The last two years have made the answer to ‘How did we let that happen?’ painfully clear.

@bird107w Yeah. This had been something I wondered about a lot as a child. Now it is, as you say, painfully clear. We are nearly all failing.

@paulg Jewish refugees didn't elect a terrorist gang of savages. Gazans overwhelmingly support jihad of the Hamas kind. Recall thousands of them celebrating in the streets on 10/7. See them now in cities calling for the death of Jews. It's not the same.

@paulg For you to compare Jewish victims of the Holocaust to people of Gaza who overwhelmingly support—and continue to support—Hamas and its goal of wiping out Jews everywhere (and then turning their attention to Christians) is grossly outrageous and offensive. Have you no shame?

@paulg Fuck you. You really do hate Jews. Evil inversionist.

@paulg It's a stupid analogy not just because the Democrats did keep Jewish refugees out in 1940, but also because you act as though Arabs literally have no place else to go in the world, as was nearly the case for Jews in 1940.

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@paulg That whole line of thinking is off. You’re treating Trump’s brand of exclusion as if it floats from one disenfranchised group to another like a game of musical chairs, Hispanics today, Jews yesterday, somebody else tomorrow. But that’s booty logic. The through-line isn’t just

@paulg The solution to Jews fleeing Europe was for them to have their own state to flee to, not to flood into everyone else's nation. That is why Jewish advocacy focuses on what it does, Israel. It's also why all peoples should have something approximating a homeland. Burdening first

@paulg Your mind will be blown when you read about how rich and powerful Jewish American zionists pushed FDR not to accept Jewish refugees since they wanted all refugees going to Palestine. I know many won’t believe me but I assume @grok can confirm. Many great historians of Zionism

@paulg There’s a big difference between 40s immigration and today’s immigration - the ones from the 40s bought into the American dream while today a lot of the uncontrolled immigrants are looking to abolish it, including most of Palestinian immigrants by large.

@paulg Your ignorance is boundless, it seems

@paulg haha..you might want to grab a history book or two and see who actually did what you are talking about.

@paulg Who is Laura Loomer? What public office does she hold?

@paulg I don’t like Loomer, but this assessment would have been the correct assessment

@paulg The Democratic Party literally endorsed hitler. You know the vegan loving, gun hating, Jew hating, big government guy.

@paulg Wow you are either dumb as a stick or deliberately obtuse and antisemitic comparing the murdered Jews of the Holocaust which no country or Church would help- to Hamas supporting Gazans who voted for them and participated in torturing and hiding the hostages. You have 3 options:

@paulg It would be more appropriate to generalize things as: out-group vs in-group dynamics. Understandable that you're emotional about the issue at hand, but it's ultra divisive.

@paulg Well, except she is Jewish

@paulg FDR and Democrats, holding a supermajority in Congress, kept Jewish refugees out in 1940.

@paulg Indeed. The worst among us have a platform: unfortunately yourself included

@paulg Are you retarded

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