Juzar Mustan 🪐

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[Juzar Mustan 🪐 @Joecolat]

Third reading...this book never fails to rekindle my gray cells ⁦

[Juzar Mustan 🪐 @Joecolat]

@_Toslim @BSundar61 I don’t think so. But you are the best judge.

[Juzar Mustan 🪐 @Joecolat]

@MottandBow The best jeans for travel are Ezy Jeans by Uniqlo. Period.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

How marketing works. You select single events and make them salient, extracting them from their context.
Exactly as in Fooled by Randomness where the anecdote is used to fool us into generalizing into larger properties.
#TheLydianStone

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

I'm Jewish, British & 64

All my life, I wondered how the Holocaust could have happened. I understood that Hitler & others were EVIL, but how did millions of ordinary people go along with it?

NOW, seeing how so many in the West rationalise & defend the Gaza Genocide, I feel I have an answer and it is profoundly disturbing

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

🕊️ Before Zionism, this is how Jerusalem actually was.
A Christian grandmother born in the city explains how Muslims, Jews, and Christians lived together as equals no second-class citizens, no checkpoints, no occupation.
Then 1948 came.
Zionist forces attacked Arab residential areas.
Her family was forced out.
Like ~98% of the Christian residents of West Jerusalem.
She ends with the line that hits hardest:
“Our homeland is gone…”
This is the history they work overtime to erase.
Watch every second.
Then ask yourself why this testimony is buried while the opposite narrative is amplified everywhere.

[Juzar Mustan 🪐 @Joecolat]

@zaidibrahim Yes and no. You talk about quality, yet fail to see that poor quality of leaders is the lowest denominator across all parties. We do have a few good leaders but they almost never get to rise, crushed by money politics and …

[Azira 🇲🇾 🌺 @ladymissazira]

My opinion on Rohingya refugee issue in Malaysia.

1. Malaysia is one of the few countries that allows Rohingya refugees to land safely and stay temporarily on our soil pending resettlement by @Refugees. In contrast, Singapore and Thailand are known to push refugee boats back out to sea;

2. Malaysia historically does not allow refugees (with strict exemptions) to legally work until recently and even then restricted to labour intensive jobs (https://t.co/FGV2a4MhJz);

3. Malaysian government does not allow refugees or foreigners to enjoy the rights that full citizens have for eg public healthcare and education, they have to pay full pricing for it. That is the case for any country in SEA.

Foreigners including refugees who were treated due to compassion cost Malaysian taxpayers RM102 million of unpaid bills alone since 2023. (https://t.co/urOaeqNk8i);

4. Malaysians alongside @Refugees and other home-grown NGOs including those founded by refugee communities themselves are allowed to collect donations from Malaysians & other funders, operate food banks and schools for them.

In my youth activism days @LigaRakyatLRD is one of them. @PichaEats even provides employment opportunities for cooks.

5. Undocumented migrants exposes any sovereign nation to security risks because espionage, terrorist movement, etc, we are Tier 2 in human trafficking because of Item 1 Malaysia's kindness in accepting refugees.

It is perfectly understandable for Malaysia to demand @Refugees to allow Home Ministry access to their records to ensure they're filtering out criminals from genuine survivors properly.

Any sovereign country in the world has similar concerns.

The friction arises because of the lack of foresight in the previous BN-led government then in not preparing resources to teach refugees we accepted to assimilate with local culture.

With no proper onboarding procedure they don't have the knowledge or cultural sensitivity to comply with our culture or our laws coupled with the lack of legal employment opportunities.

They're just on permanent survival mode.

I've worked with refugees and have met lovely people. The ones I've the privilege to call allies graduated from NGO-sponsored schools and have been resettled by @Refugees to home countries like the USA.

Sadly, refugees who are uneducated are still in Malaysia waiting their turn, which makes me think. We should've kept the educated good ones for our own labour force.

If those countries only demand educated/verified individuals for resettlement in their countries, why should Malaysia be demonised for still hosting the refugees nobody wants? This is the source of public anger against Noor Azizah.

If they made it to a developed nation, give back to the community left here by sponsoring the schools so that the rest of the community here too, can qualify for resettlement in other developed nations.

[Juzar Mustan 🪐 @Joecolat]

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[Irlandarra @martinez_j7902]

Netanyahu: "I demand that Western governments do what is necessary to fight antisemitism“

No person on the planet has done more to fuel the rise in antisemitism than this psychopath.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Realistically, "one of the most evil, terrorist, blood bathed regime of the last 50 years*" is, simply, no other than Israe!
It's just that they have --I mean had-- good, very good, very very good marketing.

* Actually, since 1936.

[Juzar Mustan 🪐 @Joecolat]

@nntaleb Malaysia’s favorite breakfast ‘Nasi Lemak’ features a handful of anchovies with a special chilly sauce.

[Juzar Mustan 🪐 @Joecolat]

@zaidibrahim PAS has not demonstrated that it can convert religious-based legitimacy into broad-based governance. Instead, it has time and again, confused people with its dogmatic views on religion and readiness to alienate non-believers. Don’t trust me, do your research.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

We saw the same bad faith during the Oslo negotiations. You can't trust any agreement w/them; you can't trust people who murder emissaries and negociators & don't respect ceasefires.
Ehud Barak kept increasing Area C with such bad faith that even Clinton noticed; then blamed Palestinians for it.

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

Hi Nikki Haley,

If the Israelis are “targeting Hezbollah,” why do they keep murdering medics, over 133 since March 2?

Why have they displaced over 1 million people? Do you think a fifth of the population of Lebanon, including all the children that are included in that number, are Hezbollah?

Why did they kill a Christian family over the weekend? Were they Hezbollah?

Is desecrating Virgin Mary statues “targeting Hezbollah”? Because they’ve done that.

They’ve also bombed churches and mosques and blown up entire villages. Is that targeting Hezbollah”?

The Israelis have destroyed 50,000 homes. Is that “targeting Hezbollah”?

The Israelis say Lebanese Shias can never return to their homes south of the Litani. They are carpet bombing Tyre and Nabatieh and their leaders openly declare they want to settle Lebanese land with Israeli Jews.

I know you support all of these criminal acts, Just correcting the record that none of this constitutes “targeting Hezbollah.”

[Juzar Mustan 🪐 @Joecolat]

@khalidkarim It is never about the future of Bangsa Melayu or even for the good of all Malaysians. It is always about personal gain$.

[Juzar Mustan 🪐 @Joecolat]

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[Mark Lansvin @lansvin]

BREAKING material that arrived now to my hands! Corrupt former Malaysian PM Najib Razak’s wife funds a 13M$ mansion purchase for her son-in-law. A few weeks ago, the mansion is transferred to an associate of the royal family, while a pardon request is on their table for the jailed PM. Are the corrupt conducts of Najib continuing from jail?

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[Slayingwolf @bin_salle39329]

Since Independence, ordinary Malays were told:

“You are the special race.” “You are protected.” “This system was built for you.”

But look around👀
Public sector.
Retail.
Agriculture.
Basic services.
The sectors dominated by Malays are also among the lowest-paying sectors in the country.
Salary Cap:
Public sector → RM2.8k–RM4.5k
Retail → RM1.9k–RM3.0k
Agriculture → RM1.7k–RM2.8k
Basic services → RM1.7k–RM2.5k

Meanwhile, the political elites grow richer every election cycle while ordinary rakyat fight over subsidies, rentals, PTPTN, fuel, groceries, and survival.

For 60+ years, race and religion have been recycled like old campaign posters.
When corruption explodes: “Race under threat.” Sultan ditunggang UMNO and PAS.
When the economy weakens: “Religion under attack.” Sultan ditunggang UMNO and PAS.
When leaders fail: “Protect the institution.” Sultan ditunggang UMNO and PAS.

DAP, MCA, and MIC come into play by provoking issues to ensure non-Malays, especially Chinese voters, will always vote for them and maintain the status quo.

Fear becomes strategy.
Emotion becomes a weapon.
Loyalty becomes currency.

And the saddest part?
Many young Malays inherited anger before they inherited opportunity.
Angry at the wrong people.
Bitter toward fellow citizens struggling under the same system.
Distracted from the real issue: a political class that mastered survival while ordinary people remained economically trapped.
The question was never: “Who owns the country?”
The real question is: “Who actually benefited from independence?”
Because if the majority still struggles with:
low wages,
weak upward mobility,
dependency politics,
brain drain,
shrinking confidence,
and rising living costs,
then something in the model clearly failed.

Not Malay failure.
System failure.

A generation raised to feel powerful politically while remaining economically insecure.

That contradiction is the real crisis Malaysia refuses to confront.

Young Malays must decide:
Remain permanent emotional voters, or become a generation that demands competence, dignity, education, innovation, and accountability.

Because history already proved one thing:

Politicians who survive by dividing the rakyat will never build a nation strong enough to compete with the future.

To be honest Malays are not happy with non-Malays because of the majority Malay is low wages with "the special Race" tag.

That's why we must choose "Parti Bersama Malaysia"
We can break the barrier.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

If a lobby can buy an election, it's not a democracy, period.
And if an evil lobby can buy an election, it's far worse than any form of autocracy.
Let that sink in.