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Ko Thein Sein
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Ko Thein Sein
@NCAMastermind
Formerly a statesman. Now a sad man. Single most consequential President (not 'State Counsellor') in my country's history. Retweets are endorsed by EBO.
Sumali Mayıs 2021
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Ah yes. Threatening to kill yourself unless your financially dependent partner promises to stay with you forever, as a test to see if they love you.
The art of the deal.
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@KirtMausert I say cooked all the time. I am not a kid. Stop stereotyping
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That said, Berkeley isn't doing much better on this front...perhaps all of bourgeois academia is simply cooked, as the kids say.
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Really glad I didn't end up at Columbia for my PhD. What a joke of an institution.
edition.cnn.com/2025/03/21/us/…
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@morgmichaels The Audacity of Caucacity. Didn't u claim opposition momentum was slowing post-1027 & junta had eager conscription recruits? In any other field, being this wrong disqualifies one as an 'expert,' yet here u r confidently speaking on a topic u clearly know v little abt. Shameless.
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No borderland opposition force can stop catestrophic airstrikes or stabilize its territory unless it either makes a deal with or defeats the Tatmadaw in central Myanmar. But opposition gains are so huge that the junta probably cannot accept them, making talks more unlikely.
John@JohnSevenTwo
Sentinel passed over the village today and shows the extent of the destruction by the fire. Could be worse by now
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@xanthu15 Yes! She came out and condemned in no absolute terms the military's atrocities on many seperate occasions. Mainstream media won't report this.
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@NCAMastermind Hi smarty, ASSK defended indeed the nation of Myanmar at the International Court of Justice in The Hague against CHARGES of genocide. However, it is a lie and hugely misleading that she "defended military genocide".
You get the difference?
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Indeed. The one who showed up at the Hague to defend the charges was a DASSK-lookalike KaPaSa-made robot assembled with Russian help. Mainstream media won't tell you this but I will. So will Sun Thu.
Sun Thu@xanthu15
As expected, wannabe #Myanmar expert Ronan Lee is still lying and can't get the facts straight. No, Ronan, Aung San Suu Kyi has NOT "defended military genocide against Rohingya Muslims." #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
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@MThibu oh hey i thought it was the PVs and the JFMs that were at fault
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No more basic medicine is available in Myanmar when warehouses are full. This is the stupidity of the SAC in action. Destroying people’s lives.
Frontier Myanmar@FrontierMM
Wholesalers, retailers and consumers in Myanmar are feeling the pain from a junta campaign to confiscate illegal imports that has raised commodity prices and brought new opportunities for corruption. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/black-marke…
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@MThibu @Kingofquee74614 How is it disconnected? It implies it is a loop with the same value circulating ? How does it then confer an advantage? Surely that must be a disadvantage.
I know u r just a cat but when u wade into public issues, u cannot just wantonly spew bs
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@Kingofquee74614 They have an economic advantage because the military system is isolated and disconnected from the “real” economy. Adding more sanctions just reinforces their leverage over time.
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While diplomats in the Yangon bubble tell Myanmar people that the sanctions they are calling for will hurt ordinary people and they know best, this is the economic, humanitarian and human rights catastrophe in the rest of the country: data.unhcr.org/en/country/mmr
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How do i know this cat is a Westerner? Simple. It speaks of what Burmese people want with such certitude that is pervasive in westerners in Myanmar. Most burmese i speak to don't know what to make of sanctions. They do know for sure they don't want $$$ going to the SAC
Ma Thibu@MThibu
@MarkFarmaner Myanmar people living in the country are not in the activists’ bubble in, let’s say, London. They know sanctions do not work and are not calling for them. Instead, they want to work precisely because the situation is terrible.
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@EmilyFishbein11 But @cvdom2021 said it is an okay word. I am so confused
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@cvdom2021 You clearly do not know what you are talking about. Kalar is always used to put people down and remind them of their lowly status. You claim to represent CDM but u r so backward on the most basic issues that you are more aligned with MaBaTha.
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(5/5) Countering the state's construction of 'others' with neoliberal, superficial measures by digital platforms won’t improve the material conditions of the Rohingya. Not disagreeing to the other points made in the post by prof. @_e_pf_ , this post is specifically about 'Kalar'.
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(1/5) Providing a dissenting opinion here: 'Kalar' is not inherently an insult and does not carry the same socio-historical weight as the N-word in the West. Up until 2014, the term referred to everyone of South Asian origin and has been used to describe anyone from the -
Elliott Prasse-Freeman@_e_pf_
speaking of the MIMU maps, and about crazy: - MIMU inscribes on their maps a word that Rohingya see as a slur, just b/c the state does. - The state also includes information on NaTaLa villages, which tells us exactly the location of its 1990s dispossession / colonization project
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@chitmyohtet @MThibu @YanGoonReborn FATF happened in 2021 and everything went south since
according to our resident expawt @MThibu
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@MThibu @YanGoonReborn @NCAMastermind For everyone except the biggest guys, there was a time, between 2018 to 2020, when it was possible to use bank transfers instead of Hawala/hundi, because transaction costs were cheaper and there wasn't rate differential between market vs official. But that was the only time.
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A side effect of the FAFT's decision: migrant workers are struggling to remit funds to their families in #Myanmar.
fatf-gafi.org/en/publication…
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@YanGoonReborn @MThibu The cat has an Italian passport so won't be needing my brokerage services I presume.
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@YanGoonReborn @MThibu It is already happening. Do u need ur passport renewed by any chance? Will cost u 20000 baht DM me i know a guy.
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@MThibu @YanGoonReborn Conclusion: SAC is responsible for making life harder for migrant workers. Not FATF.
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@YanGoonReborn @NCAMastermind Not that we are aware of.
At least for data publicly available.
But the recent move around passports is also a way to enforce things indirectly - "show me you paid your tax and that you remitted X% of your income, else I won't renew your passport."
And this is happening.
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@NCAMastermind Please back up your claims with data. Then, we will speak.
But if it is too complicated, perhaps you should return to your monastery and meditate calmly.
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This hit piece places all onus of responsibility on #AA @TwanMrat, including the emerging alliance between SAC & Rohingya militants.
It shows, how Western pundits favour a particular narrative while being clueless about the political dynamics in #Rakhine #whatshappeninginMyanmar
Zachary Abuza@ZachAbuza
The AA is arguably the strongest ERO fighting the junta, and now controls most of northern Rakhine. Their targeting of the Rohingya population may play well politically in the short run, but the AA needs to think about the long game. My take. rfa.org/english/commen…
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