Deflect criticism from whom from what? This sense of entitled self-importance is getting comical. That Biden's people are doing this for public perception is jise ridiculous. Literally nothing in his presidency or career depends on any way on India's approval. Nothing.
You think Republicans are going to come after him with "why aren't you exporting stuff to shithole countries?"
What exactly do these people think the countywide twitter tantrum has caused the white house other than a minor nuisance?
Other than indian Americans and a few policy junkies in the media, no one on the streets of USA is thinking about what indian twitter thinks of president biden. India holds not a single chip against him. He's trying to work like a normal president. That's it.
Approximate mention of India's second surge in the overall US media landscape.
Basically if this 2 day delirium of Indian twitter were a #WestWing episode, this would mostly be dealt with by Josh and Leo. The only potus scene would be,
Bartlett: This India thing...
Leo: We're on it.
Bartlett: Good night, Leo
To be fair, USA is a very easy country for the shallow ones to attack because we do a lot of shitty things but also never really care what the world thinks. So there's no consequence even if you say the absolute worst things about the US. No one will really take offence. 😬🤣
If anyone publicly says anything even remotely unflattering about India, the whole indian society acts like a hornet's nest that was sprayed with poop.

Most US people reacting to the world criticizing the US
One day if I get to meet Ron Klain, I'll try to explain to him the meaning of the marathi proverb gharcha zaala thoda, vyahyane dhaadla ghoda.
(We could barely feed ourselves and the daughter's in-laws sent us a horse to feed)
Again, India, there are still about 800-900 Americans dying of covid everyday. EVERYDAY. And about 60K new cases EVERYDAY.

Your tantrums seem to come from an assumption that we're back to normal like Australia. We're better than we were. But that's a lot of deaths a day.

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27 Apr
The most gratifying aspect of blocking a sanghi is thinking of the likelihood that they are using *my* block screenshot as a badge of honor. 😁😁😁🤣🤣🤣
People often mute trolls instead of blocking thinking "i dont want to give them the satisfaction". Why not? They live such petty lives. Let them gloat about it for a minute. Then they will have to create alts or open an incognito tab to check your twitter. They lazily quit.
Many times, I am sent screenshots of sanghis saying "sabnis has blocked me! I never even interacted with him!"
😂😂
Protip- Every few days, I go to the profiles of @Shehla_Rashid @saliltripathi @imsabbah @iamrana @BabaGlocal and prophylactically mass block anyone abusing them.
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27 Apr
This is such great work. Gonna send them a cash thank you through a friend who is collecting funds for this initiative. Government hospitals in India are overrun with people who are literally penniless because they are daily wage dependent.

This whole thread is just so life affirming. So many good people glowing everywhere even despite the darkness seeming to engulf us.

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27 Apr
A month ago when it seemed covid was no longer a threat to India but vaccines were scarce

Centrists: See Trump was so smart to monopolize all the supplies & do OWS. Smart businessman!
Me: He didn't want to do ANYTHING. This was others around him. Read newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
India gets a second surge. Bhakts try to deflect by blaming US for the very policies praised.

Same centrists: Biden-Harris are being so selfish and cruel! Open up export restrictions!
Me: Give em a couple of days. They're busy with US pandemic.
Same centrists: No, tweet needed😠
When about 48 hours later, as is a reasonable time for a president who works from the oval office not his TV room and twitter, US announces the help it can.

Centrists & Bhakts: Too little too late
Me: Wha...How...NOTHING in US policy impacted indian second surge! NOTHING!
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26 Apr
Took 12 years to get to 15K. Thanks to gobar and his fellow sanghis QTing and SSing and "he blocked me 😠😠"ing so much, about to hit 16K in just 7 more days. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Make it happen people 😏😇
As I said in my Spaces session today, just a little bit of smart thinking and you can make them work to spread and amplify you instead of the opposite, which is what happens these days with revolver rani, sanghihotri, etc throwing out bait. 🤓

On popular demand, here are main points I made today.

1. Types of Sanghi Troll attacks

Tho whataboutery, sealioning are broadly used by neo-fascists like Trump and traditional fascists like RSS, the latter has a more specific and structured attacks to harass or distract
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26 Apr
Serious answer. 95% of my streaming watching since quarantine is either Canadian sitcoms, black sitcoms, or David Attenborough narrated wildlife documentaries. They do wonders. I've actually measured my heart rate before and after.
Gone from a guy who rewatched The Wire and Sopranos 3 times to not having watched any drama episode in 14 months.
"Emperor penguin bodies are perfectly built for many things. Mating is not one of them."
Just that line and that penguin porn had wife and I cracking up for 10 minutes. Can't find the exact scene but how can this not make you relax?
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26 Apr
Our apartment lease was renewed for 2 years. With covid caused drop in the Manhattan rental market, we got a 13% decrease. Which is cool cos neither wife nor I missed a paycheck throughout. So this is like finding money. Monthly cut $$ x 24 sent to #CovidIndia in 3 days. 🤓🤓
If your income was unaffected by covid but spending notably reduced cos no eating out, movies, travel etc, you also have "found" money in your account. Consider donating it to orgs working for the neediest. Or if busy, just do this. Your own stimulus plan

Remember that India has hundreds of millions of people living on daily wages, often uncertain. And India had no stimulus. While many of us elites complain of zoom fatigue, many of them suffer from hunger fatigue. Even after this second surge plateaus, think of them.
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