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Baksheesh and social tipping points

Egypt’s ‘baksheesh’ culture helps poor people get by and maintains relative social peace, but it encourages subservience.

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Tips for survival

For many Egyptians, tip-based and street jobs are their only means of survival.

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

For 20 years, people in Iraq have been paying a hefty price for the US-led war in their country. Meanwhile, not one of the architects of that catastrophe have been brought to justice. In fact, George W Bush, Tony Blair and the others have had peaceful and lucrative retirements.

19:52 · March 20, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

@GordonBrown How about your former boss, Tony Blair, whose illegal war you supported? He seems to be doing a good job hiding in plain sight for the crimes he inflicted on the people of Iraq.

09:42 · March 20, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

@GeorgeMonbiot While Vladimir Putin certainly deserves to stand in the dock for his crimes in Ukraine, so long as the ICC never indicts or prosecutes western leaders suspected of war crimes, it will be an ultimately unjust and partial legal institution. twitter.com/DiabolicalIdea…

09:37 · March 20, 2023

hossam bahgat حسام بهجت

@hossambahgat

Today marks 7 years since Egyptian authorities froze all my assets and suspended my only bank account “pending investigations” into my human rights work in 2016. Keep cozying up to Sisi don’t mind me

08:21 · March 18, 2023 ·

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Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

It's good that the International Criminal Court is standing up to the murderous excesses of Vladimir Putin. But if the ICC is to become truly just and truly credible it must also stand up to western war criminals, such as George W Bush and Tony Blair. bbc.com/news/world-eur…

20:09 · March 17, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

A narcissist's preferred pronouns are I/my.

20:04 · March 15, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

The mother of Renaissance polymath Leonardo Da Vinci's was a freed Circassian slave, according to an Italian scholar who says he has uncovered the document that liberated her. nbcnews.com/news/world/leo…

16:42 · March 15, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

Our latest report reveals how most carbon market standards are undermining the rights of local and indigenous communities by providing them with little to no recourse for voicing their grievances related to climate projects. twitter.com/CarbonMrktWatc…

10:23 · March 15, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

In addition to the culling at Twitter, Meta has announced 21,000 layoffs since November. And the full destructive potential of AI has not yet been unleashed. nytimes.com/2023/03/14/tec…

08:11 · March 15, 2023

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

Whenever someone expresses concern about how automation is irreplaceably annihilating jobs, optimists point to the job creation potential of the 'knowledge economy'. But even the tech sector is shedding jobs like they were an uncomfortable skin.

08:11 · March 15, 2023

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