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Apr 18, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
#MyTwitterAnniversary Twitter reminded me I joined this day 6 years ago. My online life started with blogging in '07 Wordpress, soon after on a dear forum thats changed so much, and then '14 twitter initially on urging by others. Each phase has been an experience to learn from. Image
Humanity never ceases to surprise and intrigue me, and each of my phases of exploring the online world gave me new insights and an opportunity to sharpen and clarify my own thoughts arguing with or explaining to others. I have made friends and perhaps enemies.
But the great fallacy of online life is also its great safety net: its detachment and ability to edit interactions - something we are not so easily able to do in real life. For ppl like me, who use online world more as whetstone to keep the sharper edges of our minds -its a gift.
In my constant detached self-observation, I can see that twitter brought back my younger penchant for debating, but also a greater maturity in drawing lines and restraint - not just because of age and life experience, which cdnt hv come in only 6 yrs.
our online interactions don't really create new things in us, doesnt alter our personalities - they just release or suppress features that are already there. I am grateful to both my friends and my enemies online - for the opportunity to learn from my interactions with them.

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Sep 30
1) The E.Pak army could easily paralyse jihadis. Two reasons it won’t: such a move can provoke jihadis inside the army to revolt, 2nd, the longer jihadis rampage, better army’s case for not handing over power to elected parties. Current arrangement works for three key players.
2) the intention of international backers of E.Pakistan is to create a weak political regime (Ghazi Yunus is excellent for this with no real networks of power in a jihadist social base) dependent entirely on the army. As long as he can be the facade, army rule can’t be blamed.
3) with Yunus in facade, the army can protect jihadis so jihadis can be reassured to do what they do best: rape, arson, massacre, generally terrorise the population and impose mullah rule at all levels of society. Both Yunus and army have plausible deniability.
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Aug 19
1) Nice try. But USA, China, Pakistan form a threesome where India is concerned. Given all three’s record in attempting or managing to destabilise other countries, and all three’s links into Bangladesh, it’s a reasonable projection that they were involved.
2) Interim gov won’t go and can’t go against mullah networks in control of society. The interim gov wont displease an essentially Islamist society that has been consistently and increasingly Islamised under every Bangladeshi regime, via foreign agents, aid, and organisations.
3) anti-Hindu violence has always existed in Bangladesh/E.Pak and is just not a regime induced thing. it has support from underlying Islamist networks who see it as their traditional tool to clear an area of pre-Islamic natives, subjugated into serving jihadis lust and greed.
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Aug 11
1) Seemingly rational. But one has to be careful in giving rationale publicly to policies that help exactly what the enemy want. Here’s a long list of things here that range from wishful thinking to the dangerous. First is the line of appealing to reason in Islamic countries.
2) the two primary arguments of appeal to reason to jihadis here is that (a) absence of Hindus among them will lead to intra-Muslim conflict destroying Muslims as a whole. (b) modern technological progress doesn’t come from Quran, and Hindus among them can provide that.
3) this is a futile delusion that refuses the reality that all jihadis think of Hindus as Untermenschen, as prey, and internal conflict among Muslims can go alongside preying on Hindus, and is desirable to refine Muslim society to one pure imagined 7th c desert jiahdotopia.
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Jun 14
1) Such clarity does emerge in India too, but can only be expressed from outside India. There is an internal problem in Indian society and state because of its colonial derivative nature that deliberately sides with the jihadi simply out of fear and hatred of the majority.
2) the colonial intervention created a fundamental disruption between the majority common Hindu and the political, military, admin Hindu elite who inherited and adopted the world view of colonial masters that saw the common Hindu as the primary threat to their hold on state.
3) the societal memory of colonial abuse of power, reinforced by the post independence Hindu elite in power means the common Hindu still see their current state as effectively the same as the colonial one with no recourse left for them even through the judicial route.
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Nov 14, 2023
1) Was reading up on the British Tasmania civilising mission after a long time. The quintessential British character of hyper-hypocrisy on values, as shown in the scum governor Arthur or his scum solicitor general, was acting out in the same time as lead up to Indian war of 1857.
2) the British civilisers went out hunting native adults, capturing women for rape or sex-slaves, children as slave labour. natives fought back. So great Brit civiliser Arthur sent his men in chains of deniability to civilise natives by doing what they wr doing before on natives.
3) the way British officials carefully edited, omitted references to the infamous axing of a native woman on the beach after shooting her in the back, all the way up frm bottom to Arthur and his SG, shows the scum all the way to the top wr aware of what their sweet boys wr up to.
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1) Israeli intel likely lost out because of their interfaces with those they deem or r forced deem as friends. The Hamastinian raid was planned for long, and too many western and US intel are embedded in Hamastine to not know. They made sure that Israelis were kept in the dark.
2) US, Euro, Egyptian or US linked Arab Intel wd hv collaborated pretending this wd help topple Bibi, and place an Israeli gov more aligned to US pseudo-left. Their handlers wd work with Hamas, and I am pretty sure that western media was embedded within Hamastine raiders.
3) whoever masterminded the plan however either didn’t estimate or deliberately didn’t share with all collaborators how far Hamastine raiders wd go in rape, torture, murder and how much of that will be made public. Also calculation was that Israelis wdnt put it in public domain.
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