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hmm actually i don't disagree with you either, i've been in many fights over this hyper normalization of AI and while i don't really consider memes to be relevant enough, it's something i'll think about
yeah i'm front row on the AI hate train and absolutely despise seeing it everywhere. but from the very start, i've let it slide for memes and brain rot. no one makes money out of this and the dogshit art makes it even more absurd.
the only acceptable use for AI 
nothing of note has happened yet. just clashes in Islamabad and Lahore and party workers are being arrested from everywhere. the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit is on the 15th and it seems the state is gonna clean up everything before then. i don't see the protestors gaining anything from this and it's pointless to expect some serious revolutionary strategy from Imran Khan's party since they are essentially just libs.
but then again, as daddy US crumbles so has the cognitive ability of the puppet state in PK. so you never know
this is so disappointing
thanks, that's reassuring :)
i'm crying who came up with King Bazinga 
this is a tough one because South Asia's history is mixed with tons of propaganda. in fact, it's a coming-of-age type thing here when one has read enough history to understand the real version. basically there are hundreds of incidents that took place in gaining independence from the british (early 1900s), to the partition (1947), and the separate histories of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (post 1947) which are even more messy due to events like the Cold War and atomic race. This means there are three versions of history: colonial british, Indian and Pakistani. there are resources by leftists and communists but i haven't seen anything in English or new because leftists were heavily persecuted in the 80s and have basically not produced literature since.
i'll try to find if there's something short and accurate enough, but if not you can use the wiki article on the partition to get an idea of the timeline.
Nothing pisses me off more than US government officials saying they are "disturbed" by the way elections are being conducted in Pakistan. Well, yes, we had a really hard fucking time and who's fault was it? Ilhan Omar tweeting "I call on the State Department to refrain from recognizing the results until credible" makes me want to rip my hair out. How dare you put on this patronizing act.
The election itself has been something else. Violence, shootings, bombs, jailed leaders, cell/internet blackout, 🍆 as an election symbol, parties divided within themselves, the winning party using a fucking AI generated version of their leader for speeches because the real person is jailed.
This is a good article if anyone wants a non-doomer overview of it all. But it's quite tragic that despite so much resistance, the US-backed military continues to tear apart this society.
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This can swing both ways as Pakistan has historically taken US money but also gone rogue when it came to instances of existential crisis (like their nuclear program). Right now, the fall of Iran's current regime will not be something Pakistan favors at all.
Another note: Pakistan officially follows the US sanctions on Iran, but smuggles a ton of Iranian oil everyday through the Balochistan border. They have closed the borders since the attack so that is paused currently and the military is not happy about it.