Umar Nasser
@UmarN91
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Ahmadi Muslim. Psychiatrist. Words/vids @RRanswers. Write on religion, science, politics. Links (elsewhere) in bio.
Off Twitter for a while
Joined July 2011
MY LATEST: "Why Corbyn Lost & What Labour Must Do Next" Labour can win again, but only if the next leader learns three critical lessons. https://t.co/sgaEGwJ8W5
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At 10pm on the 12th of December, the hopes and dreams of millions of Brits were crushed. Labour can win again, but the road will not be…
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This is why 'increased NHS spending' never means better care. What they do is spend more public sector money on private services. A black hole for their friends in the city... who will give them jobs when they're out of Parliament. #Kakistocracy
Adult social care privatised since the 1980s. Local councils spend 70% of budget on it. 83% of social care controlled by private equity, 20%-40% profit margin. Will Govt end profiteering, ensure only not-for-profit entities provide care. Watch Minister's reply.
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Scrapping jury trials isn’t about ‘efficiency’. It’s about removing the one place where working-class people can still say no to the state. Once that’s gone, the powerful can do whatever they like — and you’ll have no say.
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. @jasonhickel is one of capitalism's most insightful critics.
Western “democracies” are not addicted to war by accident. Capitalism requires empire: cheap labour, cheap land, cheap lives. When the Global South seeks sovereignty, it is bombed back into affordability. This is not foreign policy failure, it is the system functioning as
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Some days you find out things about people you’ve barely heard of before. Today I found out that @sarahsackman - Is the main driver behind banning the 800 year right to a Jury Trial. - Was trained at the Israel Supreme Court - Won’t say the Minab Massacre was a War Crime.
A British minister has refused to declare the school massacre in Iran, which killed 165 people, many of them children, a war crime, labelling it the "realities of war" https://t.co/6o3i2LjcYk
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"It appears as if, in their view, the lives of Muslims hold no importance." During his Friday Sermon last week, His Holiness addressed the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. He said that after an American missile bombed a school in Iran, killing scores of Iranian
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Do you think at some point the rest of the world will look at us like Nazi Germany and decide we need to be stopped?
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So powerful.
If not today then tomorrow if not tomorrow, then the day after u will see that this arrogance will be erased from the world. Storms will be turned upon them, such fearful storms will be unleashed by God’s decree that all their combined powers will fail & be torn apart before them
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Wonderful insight.
Malcolm X, 1964: "I go for Mao Zedong much more than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role. […] Though the West doesn't love China, the West respects China. Now, the West doesn’t respect India, but it loves India."
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You occasionally get a moment that symbolizes everything wrong with this country. In this case it's a U.S. Marine veteran screaming out that no one wants to fight for Israel and a U.S. Senator breaking his arm. A perfect encapsulation of US foreign policy.
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"By the way, there he was, martyred at 86... Man, are the virgins gonna be disappointed" Jon Stewart makes a sexual joke, invoking a common Islamophobic trope, about the murder of Ayatollah Khamenei, who he refers to as a "fucking murderous dictator". That's not comedy, that's
What a useless liberal tool. Not sure if he really is that big of an idiot or he's just faking it for the money.
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The child survivors of the Minab girls’ school massacre must condemn anti-Semitism
NYT's Ezra Klein on Iran war: "The centrality of Israel in the operation has raised some concerns for me about what this is going to mean for anti-Semitism."
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This man singlehandedly destroyed science as an institution His name was Robert Maxwell, and he was the father of Ghislaine Maxwell He turned scientific knowledge into a commodity, locked it behind a paywall, a created the system which breeds authoritarian, conformist
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It’s terrifying that at any moment any country in the global south can get bombed and the rest of the world won’t even blink. I can’t even imagine a city as beautiful as Tehran being bombed, yet to the West it’s just another West Asian city on fire
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6 or 7 times more children were killed in a single bombing in Iran than on October 7. The reaction to both events worldwide gives you a sense of the hierarchy between human beings we have created and sustain in our world
Every grave one little girl aged 8 or 10. Almost 200 graves, and now we hear it will be months of this
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The most painful Iranian mass farewell. Does it occur to the United States that every pain they cause, generations like this kid will grow hating the United States for reasons that could have been avoided. Permanently separating such a kid from his fallen sister for good
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They will give it the Gaza treatment. If they think they can't win militarily, then they will try to kill enough civilians to cause civil unrest and stop the politicians that way.
Israel is going genocidal on Tehran after failing to achieve regime change or any other stated objective This is unbridled state terror supported by every element of the trans-Atlantic elite
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OK but we have Keir Starmer so
This man has a degree in Computer Science & Mathematics and a PhD in Western Philosophy. His Thesis was on Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics. he has written three books on western philosophers. He has essentially been running Iran since January. He is a true philosopher king.
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People should understand why their expert class is always wrong: Experts are selected by their loyalty to government narratives and their war enthusiasm.
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