Tariq K ✅ @tariqk@octodon.social

the language patterns of 🇵🇭 telenovelas are so fascinating — they don't shy from code-switching, up to the point, i think, it becomes a class marker?

in comparison to 🇮🇩's sinetron, where the language is more casual, but less inclusion from English or other colonial languages

vs say 🇲🇾 dramas, where the language can become practically stilted or overtly-formal, unless you're Westernised (and immoral).

but fuck tho, they're showing women sleeping in hijabs now. that's stupid.

shit man I want maggi goreng, but a maggi goreng that couldn't possibly exist. A Platonic Maggi Goreng.

I don't even want to eat it. I just want to feel it in my mouth.

LOOK AT THAT SEXY RAMEN AND THAT SEXY CHICKEN

SO SPRINGY HEY BABY I'D EAT YOU UP UNF UNF UNF

before I napped, I read this article, which is an interesting writeup on how a particular brand of instant ramen in Indonesia became ubiquitous in Nigeria:

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/how-indomie-became-insanely-popular-in-nigeria

IDK tho, but I look at the pic and I think to myself (nsfw'd for your protection)—

ohhhhh my goddddd I want noodlessssssss

https://octodon.social/media/Nmvhle5mTGz-mw81T5A

@OsirisSaline@awoo.space ayyyy thanks!

I'm going to take a nap and see if I can regain my equilibrium to toot mundane shit again.

At least lunch was decent.

I saw “we”, because I'm referring to not only 🇮🇩, 🇲🇾, 🇸🇬, 🇹🇭 and 🇵🇭.

We have regional security concerns that overlap with each other, and have more in common with each other than the Middle East.

But we're not isolated from that. For example, Abu Sayyaf, a terror / kidnap group that operates on 🇵🇭 and 🇲🇾 borders, has pledge allegiance to Da'esh.

Please note that these are SIMPLIFICATIONS, and even I get the details wrong, because I'm far from the conflict.

While Islam originated from the Middle East, the biggest Muslim population isn't there.

It's in Indonesia.

Our regional and security concerns are slightly different. But inter-related.

These people are different from, say, Hezbollah and groups financed by Iran. Iran is Shi'a. Sunnis want to kill Shi'a. As a result, there are Shi'as who respond with violence and warfare.

Assad is an ally to the Iranians, but mostly because he fights Sunni groups like Da'esh.

The biggest Sunni group that “finances” Sunni extremism is… the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Which is a creation of the British, and are staunch American and UK allies.

Uncomfortable, isn't it?

Protip: Takfiri Salafists, I call them that because they engage in excommunicating Muslims, i.e. calling Muslims “kuffar”.

They do this so that they can justify killing them, enslaving them, etc.

Also, they hate the Shi'a and Ahmadi Muslims, and god help you if you're Sufi in any way.

They'll even kill religious scholars who disagree with them.

You'll hear the term “Khawarij” used on them, because, yes, they're first group who did this sort of shit.

There are MEN who spent DECADES sleeping with women and FATHERING CHILDREN who then disappear and oh! It turns out they were cops infiltrating these spaces. You telling me that cops can't hide their privilege and power? Are you stupid?

@OsirisSaline@awoo.space

It's so funny, because it's not as if I don't have cops in my family. Like, literally, my grandfather was high up in the police force, had experience with COUNTER-INSURGENCY, and undercover shit that's probably still covered by the OSA.

His children never inherited his profession or his mindset. That's kind of the point.

I can't believe I just had a white person come to me talking about Boko Haram and Da'esh and using them as a point.

YOU COULD HAVE USED THE LORD'S CHRISTIAN ARMY OR HUTAREE AND I'D HAVE HAD A HARDER TIME REFUTING THEIR ARGUMENT, BUT YOU COME TO ME WITH RELIGIOUS IDEOLOGIES I AM FAMILIAR WITH????

DON'T YOU KNOW HOW TO ARGUE WITH PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Don't… come… to… me… talking… about… my… religion… and… experience… like… you… know… what… you're… talking… about.

You come to me talking about takfiri Salafis like you know shit? Fuck you. You don't.

@bea thank you. I'll be leaning on my offline circle for this, but I see your offer and I appreciate you reaching out. I hope things go okay for you, too.

@FlaviaRini you're really, really not getting this.

please don't contact me any more. I hope you gain enough life experience to figure out what the fuck is wrong with your worldview.

@FlaviaRini

oh my god. do you even know what you're talking about?

Both Da'esh and Boko Haram kill the men and the boys of their captured territories NOT because they are men, but because they belong to religious groups that both Boko Haram and Da'esh slaughter. As a matter of fact, both groups share the same strand of takfiri Salafism that say that, because Muslims that oppose them are “kuffar”, it is permissible to kill and enslave them.

@FlaviaRini by whom?

men get killed, but not because they are men. they are killed as peers.

women, too, are killed. but not as peers.

queer people, too, are killed. but not as peers. trans people, the same.

you'll notice that the numbers are there, and if you correct for total in populations? women, queer people and trans people suffer a disproportionate amount more.

@FlaviaRini there have been moments in my life where I have listened, in absolute horror, of the violence subjected to women and queer people that are not only difficult to accept, but difficult to comprehend.

I don't have a tenth of what they're experiencing. I cannot believe that this is something that needs to be disputed.