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May 17 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Could even be cheaper, like ₹1500! I know a guy who paid $20 for a happy anniversary message to flash for like 10 minutes.

Google "how to advertise in times Square". You can do it in a few clicks sitting in India. It's easier than creating a Craigslist post.

Also this.
It's mostly Indian cable news channels (esp Aak Tak & NDTV, even pre Modi) who created this "Featured on Times Square Screens!!!" hype, sans context.

To sustain that hype, they leave out the part that anyone can go online and buy a Times Square ad spot very cheap. Even you.
Nice! I volunteer to go take photos, videos, whenever the ad flashes. They'll give you an exact time too.

That's the thing about Times Square ad hype. Ad itself costs peanuts. Sending someone there with a camera, maybe livestreaming is the real key.

Related funny story. Someone in MAGAworld posted details on how $20 can get you an hour of #LetsGoBrandon on a billboard in Times Square right in the heart of a heathen woke liberal dystopia. Many idiots did it.

Turned out to be someone on commission at an ad agency. 😂😂
So a lot of MAGA people ended up giving money to a bunch of new yorkers for flashing an ad that
a. Almost no one will see or pay attention to
b. Most won't get the joke as Biden bashing
c. Biden himself makes Brandon jokes

I love it when fascists are conned out of their money.

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May 18
The state with #GatariAmavasya is not in the top 5 😭😭😭
I describe the delightful Marathi festival of #GatariAmavasya to westerners as a combination of Ash Wednesday, St Patty's Day & Thanksgiving.

It's the last day before a lot of people give up meat and booze for a month or so.

So the night before, indulgence is the only God. 🤗
It's a constitutional requirement for an indulgence loving Marathi uncle to say this. I myself have said it. 🤭🤭

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May 18
I'm not some unbiased political analyst or pollster. I'm a common citizen, a registered Democratic voter. Why should I even contemplate a hard loss in November and whine about my party's president? How does that win elections? I want us to campaign hard and win.
A sad effect of 24 hour cable news is that it often creates in us this tendency to think like political pundits and predict what will happen correctly. Like predicting a sports contest.

Forgetting that we are endogenous variables. We are voters. We are part of the process.
So every non sanghi in India will have a loooong critique of liberals and RaGa and whoever, as if they are cable news panelists. When they are part of the system themselves. Facing a foe whose team talks him up even for random things like 5G networks.

So self defeating!
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May 18
The #PASenate primary was a good one for Democrats. Fetterman has a unified party and electorate behind him, plus statewide appeal. Trump's random Oz hug showed the limits of Trumpism. Even with Trump's endorsement he got less than a third of the vote. Image
Also Trump's favorite Madison Cawthorn not just lost the race, but also conceded!! Who knew MAGA folks could actually concede elections? 🤭🤭

Remember I'd said a couple of months ago how primaries are going to show the limits to Trumpmania, even if media inflates it constantly.
If you look past the media narratives & compulsive right wing gazing of the beltway folks, it's been evident since 2020 the America is just not that into Trump anymore. Nor is the GOP electorate, beyond a point. Not that he ever won 50% of the vote in either.
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May 18
The thing is, you yield Aurangzeb without pointing out accurate history, it's not like they'll pack up & go home. Tipu is also a favorite villain. Shahjehan too.

The link is already there in Hindu minds. It can't be wished away. At least it can be corrected as much as possible.
I do agree that the onus of contextualizing Aurangzeb should not fall on Indian Muslims. They do not indeed give a rat's ass about Aurangzeb in general. It's a uniquely Hindu obsession. So it must be countered by Hindus like us. Loudly and frequently. No ceding ground vs sanghis.
I grew up a pretty well read kid and a history geek. Knew much world history. Was the history guy on quiz teams.

But well into my 20s I had two blind spots or hate spots. Aurangzeb and Tipu Sultan. Because they were indoctrinated into me in sanghi brahminical Pune.
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May 18
What's the randomest item you coveted in childhood?

For me, it was a flat foldable magnetic chess set his dad got when flying @lufthansa (in the 80s). You know the pocket ones with small metal discs with magnets as pieces and? I was obsessed with it! I coveted it!

So random! 😂
I spent many hours in high school during class playing book chess. By 10th, teachers had caught on to book cricket lol. It was no longer an option. So we did book chess. Just pencil, eraser, paper. Teachers thought we were making notes.

No, I did not get laid in high school.😂
The great thing about Book Chess was that you could genuinely multi task. Be paying attention in a good lecture and still playing chess on the side. Like we do on phones now.

Do kids today still play book chess in class?
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May 17
Today is the kind of #NYC day that underlines why my standard answer to the question

"What is the best time to visit New York?"

Is

"Anytime except February, but if you MUST pick a month, pick May".

Hands down the best weather to explore NYC is in May.
I'm sitting outside listening to the intoxicating sounds of the city, while posting tweets and grading some long-ass finals!

Note to self - page limits for take home finals next year.
My favorite semesters are those in which I don't feel the need to give a grade lower than B.
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