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ultimately pretentious, deliberately nihilistic
democratic dengism

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is there any pakistani fiction in english truly worth exploring? not including the diaspora (mohsin hamid, kamila shamsie)

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@dontharrisme need to know whether it's worth it once you finish it

[Brethren of Purity @brethrenfpurity]

A similar position is taken by the Indian scholar ʿUbayd Allāh Sindhī who argues that some of the earliest surahs that the Prophet disseminated focused primarily on making the life of the poor better, stopping oppression against female children, and supporting redistribution.

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@msubhanpriv honoured to have a tweet dedicated to me by the chief twt celeb of giki. bohat shukria🙏

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@Logo_Daedalus should one start his my struggle or the morning star series

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@EleventhVolume How'd u find the flann o brien

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Is China doing "colonialism" in Africa?

Here I argue that equating China’s activities in Africa to Western colonialism/imperialism is not only empirically incorrect, it trivialises the extraordinary violence of the latter. It is a form of denialism.

https://t.co/kgi6QykIi7

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@OedipasKvass whats a good one to start with vollmann

[Ziyad Faisal Ismaili ~ زیاد فیصل اسماعیلی @Ziyad_F_I]

Chinese defence assistance & support for your sovereignty are very reliable, as both the DPRK & Pakistan can readily testify with their history.
But China is not a globe-spanning monster with military bases in everyone's nostrils. It can only keep its immediate near-abroad safe.

[Louis Allday @Louis_Allday]

No nuance. No 'Maduro is bad but..'. Absolute solidarity with legitimate President Maduro & the popular revolutionary process he represents against the demonic, paedophilic imperialist monsters who are out to destroy it. To take any other position serves their sordid objectives.

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the failures of muslamic dabbling in post colonial euro-academia has compressed all creative potential for a muslim agency in the present, opting instead for what is tantamount to punching air (they call it modernity or materialism or any other vaguely defined big bad thing)

[Husnain Bin Sajjad @husnayn_]

Isn't a society with a (materialist) baconian-nietzschean mindset coupled with social darwinism bound to triumph materially and politically over a society that prioritises ethical-akhirah over the material-dunya, doesn't worldly success require some attachment to dunya?

https://t.co/tuoXvAmH5R

[n @ctrlarchive]

tokyo godfathers is my christmas classic

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@msubhanpriv appreciated twt celebrities for attending it 🙏

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Huztory (Huzaifa) at GIKI was one for the books.

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

I am living in Karachi for past few months. The population is diverse and open-hearted. But the infrastructure is terrible and feels like its falling apart. The anger against PPP is fully justified as the city is completely neglected by Sindh government. Karachi deserves better.

[Ammar Ali Jan @ammaralijan]

Elections are a farce in a country where any protest by the opposition invites full force of the state. Even if one discards election night rigging, the denial of people's constitutional right to assemble and muzzling of free speech makes the process a bad joke with the people.

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americans/westerners on the socialist left, regardless of their ideological allegiances, have no clue or idea about the hows and whys of doing politics. total straitjacket.

[Calla @CallaWalsh]

Pretty sure Zohran just officially joined the fascist governing coalition. It's what Dhoruba Bin Wahad termed a democratic fascism, where limited political “democracy” is permitted while the seemingly dueling wings of the coalition unite in executing repression & imperialism

[Ziyad Faisal Ismaili ~ زیاد فیصل اسماعیلی @Ziyad_F_I]

We must not misunderstand the appeal of multipolarity. It is a necessary condition for counter-hegemony, but not a sufficient condition.
You still have to be willing+able to struggle, otherwise multipolarity won't help you. It is a context that opens opportunities, not magic.