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A good rule of history: if you find yourself opposing a student movement while siding with the ruling class, you're wrong. Every time, in every era, whatever the issue.
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Student movements have not always been on the right side of history. Mao's student Red Guards persecuted hundreds of thousands. Students helped Castro and Khomeini rise to power, and Nazi student groups opposed the Weimar Republic.
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Some American Muslims so passionately hate the GCC that they cheer on civilian deaths, my brother in Allah, you pay taxes to Uncle Sam.
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What the Pakistan Armed Forces could have been, but failed to become due to the quasi-feudal character of the Army.
The Pakistan Navy and Airforce still remain one of the few concentrations of frontier technical and operational excellence in the Muslim world.
In an alternate timeline, Karachi would have a thriving ecosystem of technical startups founded by retiring radar engineers and cyber warfare specialists, funded by GCC capital. Instead every Pakistani serviceman longs for his promised plot of land upon retirement, from which he can extract rent and marry off his children.
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CNN threatens to do real journalism till they are let back into the white house press pool
A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel's military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4y0xe5x
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in 1987, west german ice hockey team ecd iserlohn was going through financial problems ($3.5 million in debt). desperate for sponsorships, they struck a $900,000 deal with libyan dictator colonel gaddafi to advertise his ideological manifesto “the green book” on their jerseys.
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"$42B loss at a $2T valuation. That is fucking crazy."
"It's not, it's awesome."
🚨 Anthropic IPO S-1 prospectus LEAKED:
Valuation target: $2 TRILLION
>$4.6 billion in revenue in 2025
>$8.06 billion in operating loss
>$42 billion in net loss
The prospectus warns that nearly 25% of revenue came from just TWO customers, and that many top enterprise clients aren't locked into long-term contracts and could cut spending or walk away anytime
Anthropic plans to spend $518 BILLION on compute commitments ‘in the coming year’
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Now that mainland Pakistan's decade-long romance with the Taliban (wherein they were perceived in popular imagination as Allah's holy warrior fighting the ultimate jihadi showdown against the infidel) has finally come to an end...we are running into another risk:
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I’m very confused. Why is this guy in school in Michigan and not in Iran fighting the Iranian government? Why do these people demand that I embrace and adopt their own ethnic grievances as my own — and that American soldiers die on their behalf? Pick up a gun and overthrow the Ayatollah if you want. But it’s NMFP.
