toadworrier
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toadworrier
1yr ago
the Pakistanis will defend them against the Indians and Iranians.
That's a joke right? Irony can be hard to smell on the internet.
toadworrier
1yr ago
5% of the population are South Asian migrant workers. Perhaps 20% are Iranians. ... The Emiratis are not concerned. Why? Because they’re still in charge.
Sounds right, but it might be short sighted. History has all sort of twists and turns and regimes always eventually change. If that catches them napping, they'll find the largest civilisation on Earth champing at the bit to take revenge for the millennium of humiliation.
toadworrier
1yr ago
The government permitted private business to not accept electronic pament under a certain sum,
Is this a tactic for avoiding VAT?
toadworrier
1yr ago
Every time I try to figure out why we're supposed to care about the laptop, it's some amount of 'because look who suppressed the laptop story' and never 'because the following turned out to be on the laptop.'
It's supposed to matter because it's evidence that a former the the PUSA was, in his former role as Vice PUSA, accepting bribes from Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs. This was hardly a nothingburger then, and in 2022 it's more like a nukingburger.
But the open question is whether that minority is well-placed, disciplined or effective. They have some things going for them, but the jury is out.
The East India Company and the Bolsheviks both played the game of violence more effectively than their rivals within the context of empires that were already falling apart. Wokies are playing low-violence politics within the context of a liberal republic with venerable institutions. Wokies are trying to white-ant those institutions, but can they succeed in the face of opposition? Time will tell.
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