Let’s hope that with enough international pressure, this truce will stay longer, and humanitarian aids can be properly given to Palestinians.

John Oliver talked about it, about how Netanyahu sent suitcases of money to Hamas, and there’s a reason why Hamas is in political power

Nope, I don’t interact with them outside reporting them.

It varies from region to region. The problem with TikTok is that, the western version seems to have very different content / moderation than other parts of the world.

I’m in south east asia, the amount of homophobic content that’s tied up with anti-semitism (accusing jewish people of pushing LBGTQ+ propaganda) is nauseating. I’ve reported so many of those posts, plus the typical ‘here are media companies, and Israeli flags on them’ or ‘the Austrian painter was right / didn’t finish their job’ posts, but they always come back as ‘No Violations’.

It’s frustrating, because the US / European versions are very progressive, but for the other parts of the world, it’s being pushed towards far right extremism.

There’s a special category for Goods Vehicles and Buses, which rose to SGD 85900, I’d assume those vehicles are registered under businesses they own, and probably are counted as business expenses that might be tax deductible

Whoosh

Americans (and others) who like to tout free speech, watch them turn 180 instantaneously if you ask them whether the first amendment is applicable to ISIS, or any other groups that they don’t like.

There’s a difference between being able to criticize government and people in power, to straight up inciting hate and racism.

This is just pure speculation from my part, but with

• Trump bending over for Russia
• his multiple visits to Moscow was made happen by KGB
• his relations with Jeremy Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell
• the rumor that Kremlin has an incriminating golden shower video tape on him that could be used to keep him obedient

And with

• Elon bending over for Russia
• his multiple visits to Moscow to buy rockets, in which there’s no way Russian govt aren’t involved
• the photograph of him with Ghislaine

I just can’t help to speculate that Kremlin has something really incriminating against these two. But again this is just pure speculation without any proofs.

I guess the reasoning varies based on regions.

I assume that in countries in Asia, Africa, or South America, people are wary of the term ‘democracy’ because:

• democracy can still be full of corruption,
• democracy when preached by the US, usually means ‘put politicians that allow our corporations to exploit your natural resources’
• democracy is synonymous with capitalism, politicians are bending over so that corporations can exploit citizens

I could see why disgruntled people, who see corrupt politicians or exploitative rich people go on scot free, wanted a government that could punish them. But of course anger leads to lack of clarity in making decision, thus they ended up preferring authoritarianism that will eventually backfire and target their own citizens.

I don’t know how European / North American youngsters feel, but somehow I have a nagging feeling that ISIS has casted a widespread fear that bolstered people’s support of right wing parties.

Yeah, I remember reading about the house of a NZ Professor was broken into, and some believes that it was done by Chinese spy , it’s shitty.

These kind of behavior harms everyone, including other Chinese diaspora who never been into China and grew up in NZ or other places.

I also wanna say that, it’s kinda unfortunate that everything New Zealand is shortened to NZ, I misread NZSIS as nazis at first.

Preface: before jumping on me, I’m from global south, not from pakistan, but an ethnic minority that endured the aftereffects of red scare, I’d ask you to calm down first. I’m not American either.

So, from what I read is:

• Ryan Grim’s reportings have been, questionable, he’s one of the first people to report about Tara Reade, who went on and defect to Russia. Some have accused him of pro Kremlin, normally i’d be skeptical, but Intercept did produce Glenn Greenwald.
• There are conflicting information about who leaked the thing, with journalist of The Intercept tweeting that journalist of NYT lying about the source.

I’d assume countries like Russia who wanted Pakistan to support or at least stay neutral when they are invading Ukraine, have done similar thing. I’d assume China who’s been using Pakistan as a buffer against India, also have been doing the same thing. Of course US does exert immense pressure, even when it’s unintentional, due to power dynamics.

Speaking about power dynamics, don’t jump directly to defend Imran Khan, just because the US is bad, it doesn’t mean that the other side is good. I’ve read disheartening comments that people straight up defending imperial Japan when the video about how US didn’t need to nuke Japan was uploaded.

So, hear me out, Khan said some shitty things

• on 24 Sept 2021, Khan remarked that many Pakistani Pashtuns “had strong sympathies with the Afghan Taliban, not because of their religious ideology, but because of Pashtun nationalism.”
• During his keynote address at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s Extraordinary Session of Foreign Ministers on 19 Dec 2021, Khan said not allowing girls to study was part of Afghan culture, and that the world should respect that.

Does that mean the opposition is good, of course not, nothing is black and white. There are a lot of corrupt politicians who’s gonna take advantage of the condition. Am I doing both sides are bad shtick? Imran Khan is a politician, he doesn’t represent all Pakistanis, and from his remarks I don’t think he represents the Pakistani Pashtuns either, or women for that matter. Focus on the people, they are not perfect, but they just wanna survive.

So what can we do as outsiders, besides making social media content, monetizing it, and forgetting about them later on?

Well, if the military situation worsen, there will be a lot of Pakistani expats / students who’d want to get their parents or family to a stabler country, if you know some immigration lawyers, people who have experienced with bringing their families over, and translators who know Urdu, maybe it’s not a bad idea to write down their emails.

Keeping predatory animals as pets in Iraq – especially in Baghdad – has become popular among wealthy residents.

there’s your problem, it’s not the faults of the airline workers. The problem is keeping bears as pets.