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As a Pakistani. Pls ignore everything we say. We're fucking idiots and massive sycophants. Partly bc we are fucked by IMF. And y'all are politically smart enough to understand the IMF and the world bank are a way for the us and allies to dominate the rest of the world
'Chaaploosi' is the Urdu word, sycophancy is the English translation. Sycophancy honestly doesn't get across just how specifically chaaploosi explains it. The perfect word for it if someone speaks the language here.
Ignore us American too. Half of us are apparently colossal Assholes, and a bunch of those are in charge right now.
I’m afraid I’m going to have to ignore what you just said. :(
If it makes you feel any better, as an American I don’t judge people based on decisions made by their country. We’re all stuck on this planet together and I’d like everyone to have some good times if possible.
Is that word related to not answeting negative to anything? Some of the IT consultants i have worked with from south asia would never say no to anything, even if they had no idea what I meant and I asked them if they understood. This made working with those consultants nearly impossible.
No nothing to do with that.
I looked into a bit (wow, Urdu is a really pretty-looking language) and google translate described as "the act of praising to convey meaning"
Is it like excessively praising the leaders not necessarily to impress the leaders themselves but to impress other sycophants? Like "I am more patriotic than you"?
No no. Thats not quite it. Its about being a kiss ass, a bootlicker or brown nosing. It does have a negative connotation. Also implies the person who's ass you kiss is a 'superior', a person with authority.
And yeah Urdu is a beautiful language, it was created to be so. Even visually calligraphy is one of the most important art forms here historically.
Your comment and the replies are so beautiful, man. Just humans being humans together. Imagine if the people ran the country instead of the leaders.
I thought the idea of anybody nominating Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize stretched beyond the confines of plausible reality, but then I discovered the Nobel Peace Prize recipient of 1973.
The thing is Trump only wants the peace prize because Obama got one. He literally has the mind of a toddler.
He wanted a Nobel Peace Prize after he saw that Obama got one. He wanted his silly little parade after he saw Macron get one. Maybe it’s time to show him what some other rulers got.
In all fairness his talks with China were incredibly influential. China stills expresses appeciation for Kissenger to this day (unfortunately imo). It feels really wrong knowing the rest of his life but I can see why this would happen
Prior to the murders OJ Simpson got some humanitarian award.
I remember someone posting a meme on Lemmy asking how Kissinger was still alive like a week before he died. We need a few repeats.
Nobel Prize committee made quite some blunders over the years but they really swapped war crimes and peace tables that year.
Multiple recipients of that prize have gone on to commit or support genocide and other war crimes.
Oh wait, they were serious?!
SLAMS! That'll teach him!
Life comes at you fast
Pakistani military will sell their mother if it meant spiting India. It's the shortcut to get public support instead of doing the hard work of improving the country.
I know this because Indian party in power (BJP) does this too, maybe to a lesser degree, but they do it nonetheless.
People need to understand that "India vs Pakistan" is really (Indian rightwing + religious fundamentalists) vs (Pakistani Army + religious fundamentalis)