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Nasser
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Here to share my notes 📝 || Education is the answer || Nuance over ideology || US Foreign Policy || US-Middle East Relations
Katılım Kasım 2024
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You mean the same convention that you did not sign hence you argue that you can do whatever you want in the strait of Hormuz?
Irans regime doublespeak and double standards would make Orwell proud.
سخنگوی قوه قضائیه@IRJudiciarySpox
توقیف کشتی های متخلف آمریکایی با حکم دادگاه صالحه و مستند به قوانین داخلی و بین المللی است. براساس کنوانسیون حقوق دریاها ۱۹۸۲، کشورهای ساحلی میتوانند کشتیهای کشور دیگر را به سبب تخلف از قوانین و مقررات داخلی و بینالمللی در قلمروهای دریایی خود و یا دریای آزاد توقیف کنند.
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@BernieSanders Using the bulk of the savings in the city's coffers is not bringing it "down to zero". It's an unsustainable solution that works as a soundbite but fails as a policy. He is incentivizing a NYC exodus.
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Congratulations to Mayor Mamdani. He inherited a huge budget deficit, brought it down to zero, and still invested in childcare, housing and city infrastructure.
When municipal governments stand with working families, not billionaires, there is nothing they cannot accomplish.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit. Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero. We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing. Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run. That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.
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@phildstewart Making a deal and actually managing to ship outside of the blockaded strait are two very different things. Iran's propaganda machine is better and projecting authority than actually enforcing it.
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(Reuters) - Both Iraq and Pakistan have cut deals with Iran to ship oil and liquefied natural gas from the Gulf, according to five sources with knowledge of the matter, in a demonstration of Tehran's ability to control energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
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If this became the norm it would be such an improvement from the modern education system
Lancesico 🇱🇨@Bornakang
Professors are turning to oral exams to stop AI use
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under the leadership of MBS has started a cascading series of bad decisions that are finally appearing on the political balance sheet.
As the majority of the economic projects spearheaded by the government have fallen one after the other, it becomes clear that MBS will have no choice but to revert back to Saudi Arabia’s factory setting, conservative Islam.
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The problem with the Arab Gulf countries calling for dialogue and return to diplomacy over a possible escalation is that they are thinking in short term stability. Long term stability would be horrendous for the region if the Iranian regime is allowed to limp out of this war with the impression of victory. Add on top of that their demand for control over the strait of Hormuz which in itself will create a cascading series of crises across the world if it is allowed to move forward.
War is not something anyone desires. But this regime doesn’t exactly behave in a way that expresses peaceful coexistence in the region.
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Why are Marxists found more predominantly in academia rather than business or engineering or medicine? Because academic ideas don’t have to work in the real world.
Thomas Sowell Daily@DailySowell
“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.” — Thomas Sowell
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In 2017, MBS gave an interview with Al Arabiya wherein he stated the following "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a target of the Iranian Regime and we will not wait for the fight to be here in KSA, rather we will take the fight to Tehran"
Considering all the cancelled projects and now rolling back all the tough talk, it becomes difficult not to classify Saudi as an unreliable partner both economically and politically.
Hopefully they will course correct.
Hussain Abdul-Hussain@hahussain
By not responding to Iran attacks, Saudi Arabia foiled an ISRAELI scheme to start war between Riyadh and Tehran and destroy the region at the cost of thousands of Saudi lives, in a race in which the Saudis had no dog, according to the king's nephew and former intel chief and Amb to DC Turki al-Faisal. It was the stupid Arab voices in Western media that questioned the kingdom's brilliant policy of not responding to Iran, which Turki calls "this is how Muhammad Bin Salman [MBS} succeeded." Saudi losses are in the billions of dollars. Saudi oil facilities that Iran hit include: - SAMREF refinery in Yanbu - Khurais and Manifa oil-production facilities - Ju’aymah gas-processing - The East-West pipeline (Petroline) So Saudi Arabia sends its air force after a poor Yemenite called Aidarous al-Zubaidi for defying them, but cower in the corner when Iran beats the crap out of them, and blame "Arab voices in Western media" for being the evil people who are trying to make Saudi Arabia fall for the nefarious Israeli plan to destroy the region. This is not wise Saudi policy or leadership. This is cowardice and abandoning of responsibility, hoping that others will do Saudi Arabia's job for it.
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The irony behind this type of posturing is that while it seeks to portray an aura of strength and to show the world that the regime can still continue fighting. But facts don’t care about your posturing or your ideology, Irans regime is severely weakened and all this fake posturing does is create an incentive to permanently eliminate this regime once and for all.
ابراهیم عزیزی@Ebrahimazizi33
We warn governments, including microstates like Bahrain, that siding with the U.S.-backed resolution will bring severe consequences. The Strait of Hormuz is a vital lifeline; do not risk closing it on yourselves FOREVER.
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The revolution was triggered because of taxes. By changing the history, she is trying to create a historical precedent that doesn't exist to justify her policies. The reason she needs to do that is because in the grand scheme of human history Marxism/Socialism can never give us a single successful example of taxing a society to a better standard of living.
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"The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time" - AOC
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@ProfessorPape The ‘Ocean Koi’ is part of Irans shadow fleet.
Meaning, Iran just raided their own ship.
@grok please verify my claims
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Iranian navy seized the oil tanker "Ocean Koi" in the Gulf of Oman
This is Iran’s answer to Trump, effectively:
“We control Hormuz— take it if you can”
Iran’s power is growing by the day
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You literally cannot make this up
The photojournalist of this front page NYT piece Saher Alghorra just won a Pulitzer Prize
NYT had to issue a retraction because the entire story was fake
So you can win a pulitzer now after fabricating an entire hoax story 🤡
Unreal
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My favorite Greek word is "δοκησίσοφος" (dokisísofos). It means "someone who thinks he is wise" but basically is stupid. Nowadays, everyone has an opinion about everything. The uneducated are more persuasive to the crowd than the educated.
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Maybe everything got worse over the last decade because the worst people captured the bestseller lists, podcasts and Netflix specials?
From stoic philosophy to money management… what if ALL your favorite self-help gurus are just social manipulators who are 💯 full of sh!t?
Ramit Sethi@ramit
Ryan is one of the only white men in self development to publicly speak against Trump and his corrupt circle. I have a lot of respect for him speaking up repeatedly Many others in self development could learn a lesson from Ryan
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Imagine, if you will, the Middle East as a neighborhood.
On one side of the street, you’ve got the United Arab Emirates. The UAE is that guy who used to live in a tent but won the literal geological lottery and decided, instead of buying a fleet of gold-plated jet skis and retiring, he was going to build a cyberpunk forest in the middle of a literal furnace.
The UAE is what happens when a country looks at a desolate, 120-degree sand dune and says, “You know what this needs? A climate-controlled indoor ski resort and a branch of the Louvre.”
They’ve basically speed-run three hundred years of Western development in about forty. They’ve got high-speed rail, Mars probes, and a vibe that says, "We’ve decided that having a functioning economy is more fun than shouting at clouds."
Then, you’ve got Iran.
Iran is the neighbor who lives in a house where the plumbing hasn’t worked since 1979, but they refuse to call a plumber because they’re convinced the plumber is a CIA plant sent to steal their spiritual purity.
Iran is governed by a group of guys whose primary policy platform is "Being Extremely Grumpy About Everything." They’ve spent forty years trying to convince the world that the pinnacle of human achievement is a very specific type of frown and a centrifuge that occasionally makes scary noises.
Iran isn't hitting the UAE because they’re neighbors. They’re hitting them because the UAE is a walking, talking existential crisis for the Ayatollah.
See, the Islamic Republic’s entire brand is built on a single, desperate lie: “You can either be a good Muslim, or you can have nice things. You can’t have both because the nice things are poisoned by the Great Satan.”
Then the UAE shows up, sipping an iced latte, signing the Abraham Accords with Israel, and partnering with Washington. They’re proof that you can keep the faith, keep the culture, and still participate in the "Western Civilizational Package" without the universe exploding.
To Tehran, the UAE is a giant, neon-lit middle finger. Every time a new tech startup opens in Dubai, an Angel gets its wings and a Mullah loses his mind.
Iran looks at the UAE and sees a glitch in the Matrix. It’s an extension of the Western order, that place where "openness" isn't a dirty word, and "integration" isn't a conspiracy.
Because if an Arab Muslim state can be successful, modern, and friendly with the West, then the last forty years of Iranian "revolutionary" suffering have been a pointless, self-inflicted wound.
And nothing stings more than watching your neighbor throw a block party with the people you’ve spent your whole life telling everyone are "monsters."
Iran isn't just fighting a war over borders or oil. They’re fighting a war against the terrifying possibility that people actually like air conditioning and international trade more than they like miserable, state-mandated martyrdom.
The UAE is the living, breathing proof that Iran’s founding ideology is just a very expensive, very depressing hobby.
So yeah, Tehran strikes. Because when you’ve built your entire identity on being the "Alternative to the West," nothing is more dangerous than the guy next door who just figured out how to be the best version of it.
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Imagine building your entire philosophy of life and personal brand around Tolkien… without knowing English.
It wouldn’t make sense, would it? You’d call that person a fraud, a grifter.
Yet somehow, when it comes to Greco-Roman authors, people think they can get away with it.
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy
Ryan Holiday isn’t some Stoic guru btw. He’s been doing this for a dozen years and never even bothered to learn Latin or Greek. He made $10 million reading the Stoics in translation then repeating what they say at a 5th grade reading level to sell self-help books at the airport.
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Between 200,000 and 300,000 Palestinians live in the UAE. Fewer than a thousand live in Iran.
The Islamic Republic doesn't see Palestinians as humans — it sees us as a tool. Our cause invoked when convenient, our suffering used to justify its regional aggression.
Iran Embassy SA@IraninSA
It is regrettable that a Muslim country—one that should be a refuge for the Palestinian people—has become a strategic ally of Israel
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Ryan Holiday isn’t some Stoic guru btw. He’s been doing this for a dozen years and never even bothered to learn Latin or Greek. He made $10 million reading the Stoics in translation then repeating what they say at a 5th grade reading level to sell self-help books at the airport.
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