Kills me to say Tom Brady is unacceptably good. He's like the Bradman of the NFL.
Dude is headed to his 10th Super Bowl and possible 7th title. Until this season, I thought of course he's one of the greats but his record is inflated (😏) by being with the Pats & Belicheat.
This season he's become GOAT in my eyes. And I don't like the guy. But wow.
He is 43. Already the winningest American Football player of all time. First to need his second hand for the rings. He goes to a bottom ranked team here in the first season! Even if he doesn't go all the way, this is a GOAT confirmation season.
Took Brady to break the bizarre NFL "curse" of a team never playing a Super Bowl at their home stadium.
Mahomes is often talked of as the next GOAT so this is like a dream script Super Bowl for him, defending his team's championship at the current home stadium of the current GOAT. Clash of generations that I'm struggling to find a good parallel for cos Brady is in peak shape.
Usually even the greatest athletes are kinda on the wane in their 40s, so it's usually the young generation with an edge in such contests. Brady looks like he could play another 5 years. It's freakish to be this good at 43 in one of physically most demanding and violent sports.
Misbah is a parallel that kinda comes to mind, but cricket is kinder to ageing bodies. Brady is still playing and dominating a sport where over a thousand pounds of humanity comes rushing at top speed to knock him to the ground! Has to be the most Type A thing of all time.
Or this is the most elaborate way ever of avoiding spending time locked down with your kids. 😂😂😂

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I've done this before and I'll keep doing it every time a #MunawarFaruqui type case happens. Because other than just being blatantly bigoted and fascist, it also seems bizarrely self-destructive. So here's a paraphrasing of one of Shakespeare's best. /1
He is a Muslim. Hath not a Muslim eyes? Hath not a Muslim hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Hindu is?
If we prick them, do they not bleed? If we tickle them, do they not laugh? If we poison them, do they not die? And if we wrong them, shall they not revenge? If they are like us in the rest, they will resemble us in that.
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He gets headlines. That's how Trump & Cruz went 1-2 in the 2016 GOP primaries despite being non factors in 2012. Get attention through easily demonstrable hypocrisy and easily debunkable lies. Name recognition is the biggest hurdle for a a politician with national ambitions.
It's the global right wing playbook. Social media and 24 hr news have made it more effective than ever before. It was easier to bash Trump's outright fascist bigotry than Scott Walker's old school conservative policies that gutted Wisconsin. Who even remembers Walker?
Even now, CNN etc are regularly having on random insurrectionist members of congress and the anchors grill them looking very indignant and then people indignantly make clips of it viral. Like Trump and birtherism. Win win for them. Lose lose for us and the country.
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Most elite Indians (primarily savarna white collar urban english medium educated folks like me) land on Western shores convinced that we are just as advanced and developed as these countries as a people. It's just "corruption" in India holding us back. Then reality hits. /1
We see that the West works better on a daily level, but not because of some mythical genetic or societal immunity to this mythical "corruption" villain. Cos there is corruption in Western politics too. They seem to have institutions and systems built over ages to minimize it.
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The doctor, an actual FRCS doctor, not a homeopathy or alternative medicine type quack, ran a bunch of tests and said, it's just age. Can't fix this with surgery. You have to wear hearing aids. They are very small and inconspicuous now. Hardly anyone will notice, I promise.
My relative was like, cool. Hook me up. Said relative is awesomely rare in not really caring log kya kahenge. Ordered the best hearing aids for both ears. Him happy. Family happy.

This is when Whatsapp groups, neighbors, relatives etc kicked into high gear.
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The show is literally about just one chapter out of a story about this historic oddity named Atlantic City. From its late 1800s start as a wellness spa retreat (hilarious thought in 2021) to Trump coming and destroying the city as if practising for his presidential run, much more
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I spent half the weekend ranting about that case to friends. Basically it was "A man is in jail for weeks for a joke he neither told nor was intending to tell and has been denied bail repeatedly by the judge, just because of his name. Kafka couldn't dream this up." On loop.
With an "of course, no one should be arrested for jokes but we crossed that line in India years ago."
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