Software Engineer. Interested in Economic History, Finance and Programming.

Mumbai, India
Joined November 2018
One of the funniest moments in autism is that Lord Mountbatten in the 1950s, a decade after he had left his jobs as Viceroy petitioned Nehru continuously to abandon his "coup proofing" measures that were weakening the Indian military.
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"RW billionaires are not giving our e-grifters enough money" is a perennial cope from influencers
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in 1990, some left wing Indian journalists talked to Kashmiri protesters asking them what rights they believed were denied to them justifying their belief in an Islamic country (1/x)
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Yeah my take is basically that both SocDems and DemSocs are defined by their opposition to revolutionary socialism/Bolshevism. That's the main thing.
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Guys, stop being cringe about this, but "Social Democracy" is what Germans called non-revolutionary socialism, while "Democratic Socialism" is what the French called it. There's no deep actual differences in ideology here.
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The creator of Star Trek was a polyamorist atheist in 1950s America
Star Trek is NOT SOCIALIST. If you think Star Trek was socialist, you didn’t understand Star Trek. Technologically has progressed to a post-scarcity society on some places like earth. But, there’s private property ownership (Sisko’s restaurant, Picard’s Vineyard.) There’s private enterprise. There’s no centrally planned economy by earth’s government. A huge part of Star Trek is the market economy. as they explore space, they are constantly trading resources and a lot of the relationships with other species even the Alpha quadrant are about resources. Many episode of DS9 are about the value of the outpost for intergalactic trade. Individual freedom and private enterprise is a huge part of Star Trek. People design ships, explore space, and pursue careers as they fit. They have to meet standards to enroll in Star Fleet, they are not given the assignment by a central government. The resources for survival don’t seem to be limited in some privileged societies in Star Trek, but that does not make it socialist.
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everyone is assuming that the low earning postgrads are voting for socialism due to bitterness, but there's also an alternative hypothesis: the group of people with postgrad degrees but low paying jobs have taken those jobs for ideological/status reasons.
Income and education are usually positively correlated. But sometimes the relationship breaks down. What's the most Democratic voting group in America? People with post-graduate degrees but lower-to-middle incomes.
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Iranian sources say that, in the coming attack, the US and Israel will seek to concentrate their strikes on as many targets as possible, including individuals targeted for assassination and facilities, during the initial hours of the operation, while seeking to achieve maximum surprise against Iran.
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Americans get accused a lot of overestimating their importance in world affairs but the truth is that the world also loves to overestimate American importance in their local affairs.
Trump’s ambassador to Turkey repeats the conspiracy theory that the US “took out the Shah” and installed Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. After saying this, he pauses awkwardly before continuing.
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Saudi Arabia pushed the UAE out of southern Yemen and won the prize, which turned out to be the payroll. Riyadh budgeted nearly $3 billion this year for Yemeni soldiers and civil servants, a bill it used to split with Abu Dhabi, and it now pays alone, while its own finance ministry expects the economy to shrink 3.6%. Remember Lebanon in the 1990s, when Riyadh paid for a state and Damascus kept the guns? The Houthis took the Red Sea coast in September and want billions in compensation. Picture a Saudi official signing Yemeni salary cheques in Riyadh, as missiles from Yemen keep closing the airport outside.
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Just heard the editor-in-chief of The Economist, Zanny Minton Beddoes, also misuse the phrase “this begs the question.” It has never been more over for language.
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The Hormuz Letter
@HormuzLetterOct 24
BREAKING: Trump says US is considering resuming the war with Iran as soon as tomorrow. "We're thinking about doing it, it may be tomorrow," Trump said minutes ago.
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I use AI somewhat regularly but I have never and will never use voice commands or interactions for anything. It is the most annoying thing on earth.
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@jackOct 23
We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence. block.xyz/dessa
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omar ali
@omarali50Sep 10
Unless saudi is willing to give relief to houthis, this will rinse and repeat..
Pakistan quietly told Iran: stop the Houthis from hitting Saudi Arabia. That’s its leverage. Pakistani troops stay inside Saudi to help defend it. Officially vague. Privately, Riyadh and Islamabad are aligned. Defend Saudi, don’t start a wider war.
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Crazy how much gender discourse on this app appears to be intentional rehashing of discourse from over a decade ago because it generates engagement on pure pavlov conditioned stimuli response
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omar ali
@omarali5019 Dec 2025
Narrator: if the Raj collapses it will be far far far worse than Iran.. In fact, there is absolutely no comparison. Bongoli revolution will be distributed anarchy and freelance massacres, not a harsh but functional Islamic state..
Something about history rhyming, if not repeating.
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omar ali
@omarali50Mar 17
Replying to @MsControversy11
War with Afghanistan is extremely serious and saudis want us to defend against Iran and Iran wants us to stay the hell away and amrika bahadur is both big boss and biggest threat, and China is not happy and India is "eternal enemy" .. It's a balancing act to beat all balancing acts (and all bcz we are not allowed to take the easier route and be happy little neighbors of rising India)
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@omarali50Sep 9
we may dodge this particular bullet after delivering "pakistan's last warning" to Iran.. Next houthi attack will create another difficult situation, but men of crisis live for crisis..
Islamabad has delivered a warning from Saudi Arabia to Tehran after Houthi attacks on the Kingdom. Whilst Iran denied that it controls the Houthis, two Iranian sources told Reuters that Tehran instructed Houthi rebels to attack Saudi Arabia, promising additional funding and weapons. They also said that IRGC commanders travelled to Yemen to help coordinate these attacks. reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…
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omar ali
@omarali50Mar 11
I think if Iran wins this one there will be real conversions in many cases..
Today, I accept that I will become Shia Muslim soon. Because Iranian people’s courage has impressed me a lots.👏🙏🏼❤️
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omar ali
@omarali505 Jul 2024
LOL. Simnani sahib, he was "as secular as Nehru"? because he went all over the country for 7 years saying Hindus and Muslims are different nations who cannot live together and must separate in order to thrive. How is that "as secular as nehru"? He even threatend and executed mob violence when he was not getting his way. And he told Sikander Mirza (then India's joint secretary defense) that because he had experience managing Pakhtoon tribes, he should arrange a jihad from that side if Pakistan was not conceded. All these actions are "as secular as Nehru"? Then his scheme AND his relentless propaganda in favor of that scheme (including attacking any Muslim who worked with Congress as a "showboy" and a traitor to Islam) certainly helped to make communal relations even worse than they had been. And his partition scheme and his countenancing of extremely efficient and ruthless "religious cleansing" all across Pakistan (unlike Nehru, he seems to have made no serious effort to stop the process of expulsion of non-muslims, nor interfered in any way with Liaqat Ali Khan and company actively scheming to push out Hindus from Karachi "to make space for Muslim migrants" when the local Sindhis proved less enthusiastic about religious "cleansing" than Punjabis, Pakhtoons or Bengalis. He also invited the Austrian Jewish convert Mohd Asad to Pakistan to create a modern Islam for us (ofc the scheme failed, but he tried) and was a supporter of Ummah causes (including palestine) on the basis of Ummah solidarity (and tried to drum up support for his crazy scheme in Arab countries and IRan by warning them against "hindu imperialism" and promising that upright punjabi mujsalman army will protect them once Pakistan is conceded. Considering the damage the man did to the Indian subcontinent and its people, I dont think my dislike is irrational. Of course, if one believes in the ummah and its mission in the classical Islamist manner (as many educated Muslims do) then he was a great man. Created the actuality of Muslim rule in at least a part of the subcontient where a non-religious Hindu dominated state was the most likely outcome without partition. Now, I can see the hindutvaist arguement that he was a sort of "inadvertent" hero to them because he reduced their muslim headache and made it manageable. But I think this argument relies on seeing those times thru the lens of current Hindu-Muslim politics.. but there were other potential paths in 1930 that were closed off or killed off BY the pakistan movement, especially after Congress "perfidy" in WW2 made british rulers look favorably on the Muslim league, thus allowing all the khan bahadur, nawabs and other imperial touts to join Jinnah... And so on. I can go on :)
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