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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The children of former soviets are some of the worst for this weird autocratic crap. I'm assuming just by his name that Ilya Shapiro falls into that category. It's a toxic soup of paranoia, distrust in government institutions, and the inability to function without having a boot on their neck. Ilya probably needs a big strong rich guy like Koch to tell him what to do.

And then they somehow tie it into them all being the saviors of western civilization...

It's seriously odd. Like some demented boy's fanfiction gone wrong [/quote]

I am the person who posted previously about knowing him when we were in our 20s. You guessed right. He and his family moved to Canada from the Soviet union. They wanted to go to the United States but weren’t able to get in. His mother died when he was a teen and it was just he and his dad. He wanted to get to the states so he went there as an undergrad. When I knew him we were in London together and I think he was somehow trying to get to the states. Or maybe he and his father had already moved there and he already had the ability to.But I think maybe that was one of the reasons he went to law school, because he could get a visa. This may be somewhat inaccurate. But he definitely is originally from the Soviet union. He just seemed like this kid who had grown up in several different countries in a kind of uncomfortable way as an only child and then his mom died and he was kind of socially awkward in an often brush and insulting way. But I feel kind of bad for him because he didn’t seem to of had an easy life. There are probably a lot of typos in this because I’m doing it on my phone. Sorry[/quote]

No, you're fine re: typos.

What you're saying makes me feel bad for him too. At least in the abstract. The vulture capitalism boy-heroic bullshit that Koch's acolytes are into makes my stomach turn, however.

(And I am, fwiw, not really a liberal. Except compared to these yahoos.)[/quote]
I didn’t realize this was a thing until now. But it’s definitely a thing. It’s like their brains are broken. Remember Orly Taitz and the Birthers? More prominent now we have Julia Ioffe, who had a weird fetish for Richard Spencer. Also this lady: https://www.foxnews.com/media/soviet-immigrant-democrat-critical-race-theory-resembles-marxist-curriculum[/quote]

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