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Hasan's Old Tweets

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Does anyone remember when Jon Stewart said he was a vegan because he grew to love the rescued animals on his farm and Hasan's response was that taking care of animals is a form of slavery and worse than eating them?

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Lee Kuan Yimby

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3 days ago

Almost like he's a deranged narcissist imitating Obama in hopes to gain power...

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Lee Kuan Yimby

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Qatar: The most unprincipled and amoral country in the world, and how it gaslights the West. Qatar is a tiny Middle Eastern country and one of the wealthiest nations per capita in the world. It has a population of about 350,000 Qatari citizens out of a total population of roughly 3.18 million people. The latter are not only excluded from citizenship, but in many cases are treated, by Western standards, as though they are not even human beings. Qatar’s noncitizen majority are not merely foreign workers earning less than the country’s wealthiest residents, as this “class war” situation is often portrayed in the West. The citizen class in Qatar lives in more opulence than the American top 10% does, while their 90% live in conditions we have made illegal they are so inhumane and abusive. The migrant class of Qatar is an entire population living in what amounts to an undeveloped 3rd world country contained within the legal borders of one of the richest nations on Earth. Many of these workers are confined to chicken coop like quarters that function as labor camps, while spending their days constructing and servicing the unbelievably luxurious homes, businesses, hotels, stadiums, and infrastructure enjoyed only by Qatar’s legal citizen minority. For years, Qatar’s kafala system tied migrant workers to their employers. Workers reported confiscated passports, withheld wages, illegal recruitment fees, dangerous working conditions, and being unable to freely change jobs or leave the country. Qatar has since announced reforms, including a minimum wage and greater freedom to change employers. But announcing a reform and actually enforcing it are two different things. Human Rights Watch continued to document wage theft, recruitment debt, unexplained deaths, and weak enforcement after the World Cup ended. Then there is the World Cup. You might call for people saying America should not be allowed to hold the world cup this year due to the administration. That is rich when you consider the same people had nothing to say about Qatar hosting 4 years ago. More than 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka died in Qatar during the decade after it was awarded the tournament. To be accurate, this does not mean that 6,500 workers died while physically building World Cup stadiums. The official number connected directly to the stadium projects was much lower. But that defense leaves out the real scandal. Qatar routinely classified migrant deaths as “natural causes” or “cardiac arrest” without properly investigating what caused them. Amnesty International found that a massive share of migrant worker deaths remained unexplained, sometimes involving young and previously healthy men who had passed medical examinations before arriving in the country. Without an investigation, there could be no finding that extreme heat or dangerous labor contributed to a death. Without that finding, families could also be denied compensation. Qatar built the World Cup with a labor force it often could not even be bothered to properly account for when its members died. If any Western country displayed a modicum of this brazen inequality, the NGOs and human rights organizations of the Western world would have their sights laser focused on it. Qatar understood this and used copious amounts of capital to influence the very institutions that should have been scrutinizing it. Qatar is now the largest reported foreign source of gifts and contracts to American higher education. The disclosed total is roughly $6.6 billion, with much of it connected to American universities operating campuses in Qatar’s Education City. In 2025 alone, American universities reported more than $1.1 billion from Qatari sources. This does not mean every professor or university taking Qatari money is directly controlled by Qatar. It does mean that the financial relationship is enormous, and pretending it has no effect on incentives, access, research priorities, or institutional behavior is absurd. Qatar is also not a party to the United Nations Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol. It did pass a political asylum law in 2018 and has recently taken steps with the United Nations to put that system into operation. But it still does not maintain anything resembling the asylum systems demanded of Western countries. Although nearly 90 percent of Qatar’s population consists of noncitizens, many live in the conditions shown on the right while serving those living on the left. One of Qatar’s most powerful tools, other than its immense wealth, is its media. Al Jazeera is known for championing liberation, criticizing capitalism, and highlighting human rights abuses. It describes itself as independent while acknowledging that it receives funding from the Qatari government. If that coverage were applied consistently at home, Qatar itself might be Al Jazeera’s biggest ongoing story. The fact that it is not appears entirely intentional. While Qatar has migrant workers living in squalor and being transported daily to serve a citizen minority living in levels of opulence considered gaudy even by American standards, its money and media support voices that lecture Israel, America, and Europe about inequality, colonialism, immigration, capitalism, and human rights. Qatar has also managed to play nearly every side of international politics. It hosts Al Udeid, the regional headquarters of United States Central Command, and is classified as a major non NATO ally. At the same time, it has hosted Hamas’s political office, maintained relations with the Taliban, and positioned itself as an intermediary between the West and some of its enemies. The answer for why Qatar is so interested in all of this is not simply Islam, it's Qatar’s use of political Islam, money, media, education, sports, and Western institutional weakness to increase its influence while protecting its ruling elite from scrutiny. Qatar promotes one moral standard for the West and none for itself. It spreads protest of "liberation" abroad while maintaining a modern day slave like monarchy at home. It condemns inequality in other countries while preserving one of the most extreme legal divisions between citizens and workers anywhere in the world. Qatar is not conquering the West through military strength. It is buying influence from Western institutions that have decided their values are available for the right price. And many many American and European celebrities, politicians and journalist have gladly accepted their money and continue to, while lecturing others on morality. The most recent example is the election of Abdul El Sayed in Michigan. A candidate that repeatedly brings up he has no corporate pack money, while he does have a far more unethical source being Qatari funds and media support, laundered into his campaign bank account and influence operation. Qatar must be recognized as modern day slave state, engaged in an information war against western civilization, human prosperity and rights. If they are not, they could win.

LeeKuanYimby's tweet photo. Qatar: The most unprincipled and amoral country in the world, and how it gaslights the West.

Qatar is a tiny Middle Eastern country and one of the wealthiest nations per capita in the world. It has a population of about 350,000 Qatari citizens out of a total population of roughly 3.18 million people. The latter are not only excluded from citizenship, but in many cases are treated, by Western standards, as though they are not even human beings.

Qatar’s noncitizen majority are not merely foreign workers earning less than the country’s wealthiest residents, as this “class war” situation is often portrayed in the West. The citizen class in Qatar lives in more opulence than the American top 10% does, while their 90% live in conditions we have made illegal they are so inhumane and abusive.

The migrant class of Qatar is an entire population living in what amounts to an undeveloped 3rd world country contained within the legal borders of one of the richest nations on Earth.

Many of these workers are confined to chicken coop like quarters that function as labor camps, while spending their days constructing and servicing the unbelievably luxurious homes, businesses, hotels, stadiums, and infrastructure enjoyed only by Qatar’s legal citizen minority.

For years, Qatar’s kafala system tied migrant workers to their employers. Workers reported confiscated passports, withheld wages, illegal recruitment fees, dangerous working conditions, and being unable to freely change jobs or leave the country.

Qatar has since announced reforms, including a minimum wage and greater freedom to change employers. But announcing a reform and actually enforcing it are two different things. Human Rights Watch continued to document wage theft, recruitment debt, unexplained deaths, and weak enforcement after the World Cup ended.

Then there is the World Cup. You might call for people saying America should not be allowed to hold the world cup this year due to the administration. That is rich when you consider the same people had nothing to say about Qatar hosting 4 years ago.

More than 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka died in Qatar during the decade after it was awarded the tournament.

To be accurate, this does not mean that 6,500 workers died while physically building World Cup stadiums. The official number connected directly to the stadium projects was much lower.

But that defense leaves out the real scandal. Qatar routinely classified migrant deaths as “natural causes” or “cardiac arrest” without properly investigating what caused them. Amnesty International found that a massive share of migrant worker deaths remained unexplained, sometimes involving young and previously healthy men who had passed medical examinations before arriving in the country.

Without an investigation, there could be no finding that extreme heat or dangerous labor contributed to a death. Without that finding, families could also be denied compensation.

Qatar built the World Cup with a labor force it often could not even be bothered to properly account for when its members died.

If any Western country displayed a modicum of this brazen inequality, the NGOs and human rights organizations of the Western world would have their sights laser focused on it.

Qatar understood this and used copious amounts of capital to influence the very institutions that should have been scrutinizing it.

Qatar is now the largest reported foreign source of gifts and contracts to American higher education. The disclosed total is roughly $6.6 billion, with much of it connected to American universities operating campuses in Qatar’s Education City.

In 2025 alone, American universities reported more than $1.1 billion from Qatari sources.

This does not mean every professor or university taking Qatari money is directly controlled by Qatar. It does mean that the financial relationship is enormous, and pretending it has no effect on incentives, access, research priorities, or institutional behavior is absurd.

Qatar is also not a party to the United Nations Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol.

It did pass a political asylum law in 2018 and has recently taken steps with the United Nations to put that system into operation. But it still does not maintain anything resembling the asylum systems demanded of Western countries.

Although nearly 90 percent of Qatar’s population consists of noncitizens, many live in the conditions shown on the right while serving those living on the left.

One of Qatar’s most powerful tools, other than its immense wealth, is its media.

Al Jazeera is known for championing liberation, criticizing capitalism, and highlighting human rights abuses. It describes itself as independent while acknowledging that it receives funding from the Qatari government.

If that coverage were applied consistently at home, Qatar itself might be Al Jazeera’s biggest ongoing story. The fact that it is not appears entirely intentional.

While Qatar has migrant workers living in squalor and being transported daily to serve a citizen minority living in levels of opulence considered gaudy even by American standards, its money and media support voices that lecture Israel, America, and Europe about inequality, colonialism, immigration, capitalism, and human rights.

Qatar has also managed to play nearly every side of international politics.

It hosts Al Udeid, the regional headquarters of United States Central Command, and is classified as a major non NATO ally. At the same time, it has hosted Hamas’s political office, maintained relations with the Taliban, and positioned itself as an intermediary between the West and some of its enemies.

The answer for why Qatar is so interested in all of this is not simply Islam, it's Qatar’s use of political Islam, money, media, education, sports, and Western institutional weakness to increase its influence while protecting its ruling elite from scrutiny.

Qatar promotes one moral standard for the West and none for itself. It spreads protest of "liberation" abroad while maintaining a modern day slave like monarchy at home. It condemns inequality in other countries while preserving one of the most extreme legal divisions between citizens and workers anywhere in the world.

Qatar is not conquering the West through military strength. It is buying influence from Western institutions that have decided their values are available for the right price.

And many many American and European celebrities, politicians and journalist have gladly accepted their money and continue to, while lecturing others on morality. The most recent example is the election of Abdul El Sayed in Michigan. A candidate that repeatedly brings up he has no corporate pack money, while he does have a far more unethical source being Qatari funds and media support, laundered into his campaign bank account and influence operation.

Qatar must be recognized as modern day slave state, engaged in an information war against western civilization, human prosperity and rights.

If they are not, they could win.

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