Question: How many followers of Middle Nation are educated, trained, and / or working in STEM fields? Would it be beneficial to start an MN group specifically for those with these specializations?
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Minnesota to Mogadishu: the Colonial Map is Burning
The old world is not just shifting; it’s unfastening. This talk maps the Horn of Africa through the lens of the post-Western transition and the slow collapse of colonial border logic. What many label “state failure” is reframed here as the exposure of an…
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Change Your Orientation Before You Change Your Address | Shahid Bolsen
Shahid Bolsen addresses a recurring message from Americans: the urge to flee the country while framing it as moral disavowal. He examines what that impulse often reflects, how comfort and distance can dull accountability, and why panic tends to arrive only…
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The Hardening of Spheres of Influence: US Border as Data Pipeline
Trump’s new visitor rules don’t just ask for a vacation itinerary. They turn entry into the United States into a voluntary data handover: 5 years of social media history, 10 years of email addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, photo metadata, family details…
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Dignity vs Dependence: The Only Real Political Fight
Shahid Bolsen argues that political labels are a distraction designed to keep people from asking the only question that matters: what outcomes does your system actually deliver?
If “democracy” can’t pay your rent, feed your family, or keep you safe, then…
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Analysis, Bearing Witness & The View from Judgement Day | Shahid Bolsen
In this talk, Shahid Bolsen lays out how he approaches analysis with one goal: being useful. He explains how to strip events down to the clean chain of actions, identify the real interests of each actor, map capabilities and constraints, and then estimate…
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Recovering from Western Abuse | Shahid Bolsen
You’re watching official messaging get louder, more theatrical, more cartoonish—and you’re thinking: “Are they serious?”
They are serious. The point isn’t persuasion anymore. The point is filtration. When a power structure stops trying to win the respect…
They are serious. The point isn’t persuasion anymore. The point is filtration. When a power structure stops trying to win the respect…
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Venezuela: Reading the Fine Print of Power | Shahid Bolsen
In this talk, Shahid Bolsen explains why Venezuela is not a “headline country,” but a diagnostic tool: a place where you can watch real power move—through oil contracts, licensing, sanctions design, capital access, and timing—while the public is kept busy…
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America's Self-Colonizing Cannibalism
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American Panic
There are Americans online in panic—angry, anxious, calling for help, calling for direction—after just one year of Trump-era intensity, as if the nightmare began yesterday. This talk is a hard reset: not comfort, not partisan therapy—perspective.
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"The system is not broken. It is working as designed."
a) In your own words, explain what Shahid means by the claim that Americans are not living through a deviation from American democracy, but rather seeing American democracy operating perfectly normally.
b) Identify at least three concrete examples Shahid uses to support this, and explain how each example functions as evidence for the designed system rather than a temporary abnormality.
c) In the video, Shahid also argues the main change is that coercion/violence is becoming more visible domestically. Explain why this visibility shift matters for understanding the U.S. political system.
a) In your own words, explain what Shahid means by the claim that Americans are not living through a deviation from American democracy, but rather seeing American democracy operating perfectly normally.
b) Identify at least three concrete examples Shahid uses to support this, and explain how each example functions as evidence for the designed system rather than a temporary abnormality.
c) In the video, Shahid also argues the main change is that coercion/violence is becoming more visible domestically. Explain why this visibility shift matters for understanding the U.S. political system.
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Epistemological Sovereignty: Engaging with Non-Muslim Works
In this expansive conversation, Middle Nation’s Shaykh Turaabi and Shahid Bolsen discuss the book "No Logo" by Naomi Klein, and what epistemological sovereignty looks like when Muslims engage with works by Non-Muslims.
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Why "solutions" like voting, protest, and reform are framed as traps or mechanisms of containment?
Shahid argues that common civic actions (voting, peaceful protests, petitions) exist because they do not threaten power. Try to explain this argument carefully: what assumptions does he make about how the system responds to genuine threats, and why does he think these outlets rather dissipate resistance?
He also points to a major anti-Iraq War protest as an example. What does he draw from that example about the limits of mass protest?
Identify and interpret two metaphors he uses in this part of the video (for example electric chair vs life support, gambler and bookies, line-crossing cartoon). For each metaphor, explain what exact belief or behavior he is criticizing and how the metaphor strengthens his points.
Shahid argues that common civic actions (voting, peaceful protests, petitions) exist because they do not threaten power. Try to explain this argument carefully: what assumptions does he make about how the system responds to genuine threats, and why does he think these outlets rather dissipate resistance?
He also points to a major anti-Iraq War protest as an example. What does he draw from that example about the limits of mass protest?
Identify and interpret two metaphors he uses in this part of the video (for example electric chair vs life support, gambler and bookies, line-crossing cartoon). For each metaphor, explain what exact belief or behavior he is criticizing and how the metaphor strengthens his points.
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