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15 Oct, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Rahul should then have included India in his list. INC claimed to be the only representative leader of India when they divided it allowing Partition jihad - transcoding it all as the birth pangs of a feminized nation with none being responsible. But his world history is bonkers.
For Pakistan, the "dominant powers" are not using its own internal divisions - they are using its jihadi foundations of society and state against neighbouring states. The blood& tears of Pak's ppl are internally created by its mullah rule that infests it like a persistent plague.
The history of every country in that list is far more complicated than the existence of a "single leadership" who "divided" the country. Most of their modern versions are results of repeated colonial, invasive surgeries with fractured cultures. Only Vietnam succeeded to an extent
In fact its a bit unfair for Rahul to have included Vietnam in that disparaging list of his and place it in the same abomination list as Iraq, Pakistan or Afghanistan or even Syria. Vietnam had defeated a Mongol invasion, French and US occupation, and repulsed Chinese.
Much of Vietnams' tears and blood were shed in repulsing invaders who didnt respect its culture and people and who didnt integrate to become Vietnamese. Thats a sorrowful but still proud shedding of blood. Rahul insults by comparing that with jihadi sadism in Iraq/Syria/Pak/AFG.

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17 Oct
At the moment, politics and governance has been reduced to the fine art of gaming the exact point when individual fear of death just about getting overwhelmed by collective anger at the blanket constraints. I sense the fear is beginning to get thin.
following up on private debates with friends, colleagues, I see no reason to deviate frm my summer position that 1) this is not a flu, neither shd it be deemed a bubonic plague - so no need to go extremes like headless chickens 2) vaccines will take time and not 3 month miracles
3) 2nd wave in autumn was likely (my mid-summer projection) 4) economic needs will trump most of health-expert demands 5) best is to follow a cooler head middle-of-the-road policy on all fronts - lets be careful but not set-fire-to-forest to kill scattered bug-stricken trees.
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I like the idea. 2/3 of my 12th std mates went into med not because they wr passionate abt medicine per se but because they (1) its lucrative (2) half said they wd love to be obsgyn specialists so they cd feel up **** & *****, other half thought they wd hv a "shot" at the nurses.
ppl shdnt go into a discipline if they dont have a passion for the subject on its own, regardless of its perceived side benefits, and not just for making fabulous amounts of money. One who doesnt care for human beings deeply shdnt become a doctor, or a teacher, or a preacher.
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Ignorance of law is not accepted as excuse for crime. Ignorance of history is no excuse either to falsify. None in court dared cite historical evidence justifying epithet for Moinaldin& a "sufi" declared by default to-be-honoured in spite of historically recorded despicable acts.
Frm Goel's Hindu Temples: vol2 citing Sufi author voiceofdharma.org/books/htemples… what is honourable non-looting behaviour in one occupying a temple by force, slaughtering a cow to show power over target Hindus, getting a jihadi army to loot a Hindu chief's daughter for Sufi's 2nd wife? ImageImage
Medieval Sufi chroniclers themselves make no attempt to hide their violent intentions on Hindus, extol such actions by Sufis reconstructed now as "saints". Sirhindi claimed to be a Sufi: shall we cite his letters? Or the many other "sufis" and their violence/hatred on Hindus?
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2) modern judicial practice has one insidious aspect: it is unique in resulting in training through profession to hide latent agenda or motivations by skillful (not necessarily) and obscurantist or obsolete use of language.
3) thus when politicians who gained leadership wr also trained as legal professionals, as in India's freedom movement, the results were typically disastrous in the long term - as the two skill sets converged to heighten the deception of the people while initially lulling them.
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Total bull. A speech cannot be prejudged to be hate by a small group of individuals and blocked from public dissemination so that it can never be actually seen and analysed by all communities. There is always a route to respond after exposure.
When a small group whose workings and decision making process r not exposed and answerable to the people secretly decide to block something claiming it’s a hate speech we have no way of knowing whether they have any reasonable basis to do so or they are pushing their own biases.
Once something is in the public domain it can always be challenged by those affronted. The legal as well as media routes are open. The power to decide what is “hate” cannot be given over to opaque groups depriving people of chance to judge for themselves. That’s dictatorship.
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