People are falling for such obvious #QTbait. Dude couldn't cross 500 followers in 8 years. But knowing this will make people QT him with pushback re caste markers or the hijab hypocrisy, all those hate QTs got him thousands of likes.
How easily us desi liberals get played.
Keep an eye on his follower count in the coming weeks. Won't be surprised if he's elevated from random ranting uncle to an "influencer" thanks to everyone wanting to hate QT a post enthusiastically. He just has to keep posting QT bait every few days.
Y'all will do the rest.
After that tweet, he's posted a lot about supposed forced conversions of Hindus in Pakistan, called a newspaper anti India, spoken about KF, and randomly bashed US media over Ukraine and India. An obvious propaganda account that until now struggled to get even 10 likes.
This is exactly how Tar3k Fa7ah was made relevant and influential btw. For decades he was an attention hunting politician slash hack jumping from cause to cause, country to country. Then he realized how to get hate QTs from Desi liberals. Just parrot sanghi stuff. And then
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Those of you who use "woke" as an insult have great company
As #KetanjiBrownJackson hearings continue, please educate yourself on how using "woke" as an insult is you being complicit in the US right wing racist gaslighting.
I get especially pissed off at fellow Indians who throw it around as an insult, buying into that.
Read a bit!
Using "woke" as an insult is just one step removed from vilifying "Critical Race Theory".
Both are tactics from the Rump Confederacy trying to shut up black America as it talks about how their problems go beyond economic inequality, and are about racial inequality.
Sharing a happy tears inducing 2022 thing for me personally & professionally. I mostly teach undergrad courses. Only one grad course - Marketing Analytics. It's a 600 level elective that I encourage UG students interested in marketing careers to take if they have the flexibility.
I've taught it for 10 years. Usually out of a class of about 40 students, just 2-3 are undergrads. It doesn't involve any coding or complex stats but has a LOT of work in terms of interpreting data, scenario analyses, handling objections, etc. A LOT of work. Every week!
Undergrads can usually only take this course in their 8th & final semester, which is a very hectic time with graduation and also job hunt and moving out. An extremely demanding 600 level elective is understandably daunting. So even the 2-3 students I was happy to see take it.
But US military-industrial-media complex extorts money from its own people. 😳
It's like a Dada who makes his family give him a lot of money by convincing them that the 6 year old next door is a threat to the family. Then buys a gun from his friend and shoots the kid randomly.
The US has done a lot of brutal imperial shit worldwide, but it's generally not stolen money from other countries like the European powers did (France still extorts Africa!). Its internal economy is way too big to have to do that. They spend our money killing you.
The US economy is $20 trillion. Just 11 % of it comes from exports. And 14% is imports. There is no outside money flowing into the US.
That's why the "defense" is so bizarre. As is the random panic over the Chinese economy. Just to keep the military scam going.
After my last class today a Bombay guy came to ask about research. I summarized my projects, explicitly said I can't give funding or CC but can add as co-author. He asked a couple more qns & I went
5 ghante sikhaake thak gayela re main. Kal baat karte na 😞😞
Him: 😂😂 ok prof
My average step count on teaching days is 23K steps. Commute plus my "enthu cutlet" classroom teaching style. I walk a mile per hour when teaching. Cardio benefits of teaching lol.
Another Bombay guy overheard & walked with me asking for advice about a sports marketing assignment he has to do. He wanted to do something re European football. I said, sure, lots of scope there. But, says I, you should consider IPL based project. You could even monetize it!
Whether they actively occur in India & on a wide scale, I don't know.
But I don't get why we can't do EVM with a proper paper verification mechanism. Not this ad hoc "VVPAT" system. I mean the kinda stuff we do in NYC and other places.
This is how we do it in NYC. Like a paper standardized test. You fill out the bubbles. Then you scan the ballot into a machine that instantly counts it.
Best of both worlds. Results in a couple of hours. Plus paper trail.
Verrrrry few places in US do EVM-only voting.
After Trump's 2020 treason throwing shade at a system with practically zero election fraud, I don't think any US jurisdiction will ever add EVM-only in the future.
Even the ones that used to be EVM-only are talking about switching to an NYC type scantron system.