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21 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Reminds me of the outrage in US conservative circles about Guantanamo detainees getting "universal healthcare at taxpayer dime". When we incarcerate people, everything, by definition, is on taxpayer dime. Even vaccines. They're not getting anything at the cost of your parents.
If you really think that prisoners anywhere, especially in India, are getting preferential treatment, then absolutely, by all means, have your mummy and daddy start a life of crime and test that hypothesis.
No democracy is as harsh on prisoners as India is. Even the US, a champion of jailing and harassing people, doesn't come close.
This is actually a great judgment from the bombay high court and only privileged gits would find it problematic.

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Gaurav Sabnis 🇮🇳🇺🇸 Profile picture
23 Apr
Yup. This. Tell this loudly to bhakts in your whatsapp groups pushing lies. Bhakts count on being able to get away with spreading these lies because normal people don't like getting into fights. But if you don't get into whatsapp fights with fascists even now, when will you?
The more you keep silent when bhakts spread their IT cell planted lies, thinking "why take unnecessary panga", the more their poison spreads. Fascism can't be kept out by ignoring it. Eventually, they will come for everyone, even themselves. That is fascism. That is sanghism.
First they came for JNU student leaders
And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a JNU student leader

Then they came for Muslims eating red meat at home
And I didn't speak up because I didn't eat red meat at home
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Gaurav Sabnis 🇮🇳🇺🇸 Profile picture
23 Apr
Just a reminder that capitalism ki original dukaan USA has been giving the vaccine for free to everyone. Trump and Biden disagreed on almost everything but not this. Not even Donald Trump, chindhichor supreme, did not nickle and dime his own citizens for a vaccine in a crisis.
Your alumni/RWA whatsapp warriors might be pushing lies or at least half-truths about US vaccination being paid or only for the insured or only for citizens or some such nonsense. False. If you see those bhakt lies, respond with this. From the C D effing C! Image
Donald Trump legally made millions from taxpayers for his properties while president, made military make unnecessary stops so he could make an extra buck. Even that bhikari traitor didn't think, hey, vaccine everyone needs is the time to try "market" reforms and cut costs.
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23 Apr
David Attenborough has been key to maintaining sanity in these times.

Watch this scene which could be out of pixar movie. Male clownfish, in charge of cleaning the house, doing chores. Aww. 😘

That hermit crab at the end storms off like "damn clowns won't even let me nap" 🤣🤣
The dialog in my head

Clowny: Ooh imma get some from the big girl if I can move this shell...ooof... heavy! Is there a...

Crabby: (crabby) Who the hell is it?

Clowny: Sorry sorry sorry I had no idea. Please don't eat me.

Crabby: you're lucky I'm full. Leave me alone!
David and Silverback in the last few years have made animated animal kingdom movies obsolete. The actual drama is way more fascinating than some fish swimming to Sydney to find a baby. Animals, fish, birds live not Disney lives but HBO 11 PM lives. Much sex and violence!
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22 Apr
How much they must have run the economy into the ground if they're unable to even subsidize a ₹500 per person vaccine, something almost literally every other country is managing to do. Even US Republicans. Bhakts passing it off as some genius "market" idea. But reality is
₹500 is about $7. For a billion adults, that would be $7 billion. Not exactly a big burden for a 3 trillion economy. You could normally find that much in the couch cushions in North Block. So either they are very very broke. Or they are treating this as a natural purge.
Even the Trump admin, the most "small government" in US history, which gutted the pandemic plan set up by Obama and caused the US to lose this many lives... Even that Trump admin decided to make the vaccine free. Not even a debate. And they are the econ heroes of this lot.
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21 Apr
Because it's a government run by a bunch of iit/iim/ias bros who were beguiled by american conservative blogs early (I was once one of them) and think that the mythical "market" is the answer to everything. While the American holy cows themselves get free socialized mRNA vax.
If you still think that "less government" is the answer to healthcare problems... Not just "involve more private players with aligned incentives'... That is cool... But if you're still "less government" after all this, you really need to introspect.

Not only is the vaccine free in the US, it is free regardless of immigration or health insurance status. So even undocumented immigrants can get it (I know a few in NYC who have) free. And tourists! I know some ₹₹₹ Dallyvich folks who flew to the US just for the vaccine!
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20 Apr
I believe the best education is non-profit education. I'm not saying for-profit education shouldn't exist. I'm just saying it's not going to be the best education.
With that in mind, I'm very wary of the quality of education entities & brands who sponsor pro sports teams.
The moment I saw the name byju's on the indian team's jersey, I knew I was never ever going to work with that company in any way even for research or anything. If you are sponsoring the indian team, you're a business. Good for you. But not my game.
Similarly, every time I see the Unacademy logo during this IPL, I'm like, okay, not gonna touch this with a ten foot pole. And tell people who ask to stay away.
Online education is the new get-rich-quick scheme, eh?
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