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Jun 20 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Imagine how joylessly committed to racism you must be to hate on an extra holiday, an extra long weekend at the literal start of summer. Who exactly is losing what by America deciding to take a day off in honor of #juneteenth?
Even if you don't care about black history or racial justice, what level of bigotry must it take to be bothered by getting an extra long weekend halfway between Memorial Day and July 4?
The Juneteenth Act passed unanimously in the Senate! Unanimously! The Senate these days can't agree on the color of the sky. But even a historical asshole like Ted Cruz didn't oppose it.

There were 14 members of the House who voted no. What a way to lean into racism!
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Jun 22
My predictions (for what absolutely little they are worth) for #MaharashtraPoliticalCrisis are as follows.
The one inescapable outcome seems to be a formal pre poll alliance between Sena & NCP. Uddhav can't survive going back to the BJP politically, from any direction.
Eknath Shinde has been overplaying his hand since that Zee produced Dharmaveer movie came out, which was sanghi propaganda to put Dighe on par with Bal T in minds of the cadre, in preparation for putting Eknath on par with Uddhav.

The movie was the prequel for this drama.
Watch that movie Dharmaveer if you can get access to it. It's very much unvarnished propaganda, and to someone who grew up in the 80s&90s there, a remarkably dishonest retelling of the Anand Dighe phenomenon. Making him seem like he was almost on par with Bal Thackeray.
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Jun 20
Laaj naahi vaatat wari hijack karaayla?
The Wari has been happening for centuries without any leader trying to erect massive cutouts himself to piggyback on the devotees. The Wari has generally been above politics, always peaceful, & without any communal tension.

It is disgusting, this ostentatious Modi glorification.
There is no ostentatious imagery or anything, not even of Dnyaneshwar or Tukaram, in the Wari. It's just devotees walking together, praying, introspecting. I'm an atheist but I've always found warkaris chill & understated.

This is like a big selfish middle finger to the Wari. Image
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Jun 20
First Chile and now Colombia, choosing leftists pushing Nordic style socialism, defeating bijnessman conservatives.

In general, South America is making a leftward tilt in a democratic grown-up way.

theguardian.com/world/2022/jun…
Throughout my South America travels, when I noted this trend and talked to locals about it, they had a very interesting explanation.

"After 9/11, CIA turned their attention to the middle east and left us mostly alone 🤭🤭"
20th century South American leftists were also very much trying to emulate Castro. So it was either Uncle Sam or Uncle Stalin, with both spy agencies playing mischief there.

The 21st century South American leftist like Boric or Petro is more like Bernie Sanders than Chavez.
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Jun 20
Today was a lovely day so on the way back to the city, I thought I'd take parents to a distillery that isn't really a distillery although it is a distillery.

Apple Dave's Distillery in Warwick NY.

What they make is a colonial era spirit called Apple Jack. By freezing it!
Hard liquor is basically made by fermenting something with sugar and then reducing its water content.

You ferment a mash of barley, it's beer. You distill beer, it is vodka or gin or if you age it in wooden casks, whiskey.

Ferment grapes, wine. Distill wine, brandy.
When white folks came to the US, they discovered that apple grew very easily here. So of course, they started fermenting it to make apple cider. And when they distilled it, typically using peat or coal for heating the stills, they got apple brandy.

Apple Jack is different!
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Jun 18
Putting band-aid on a fire you started instead of using a fire extinguisher.
What!!???

It's like they have never actually met someone wanting to join the military! How is offering paramilitary jobs after a concession?

If anything, it is confirmation that #Agnipath is dunzo-fication of the Indian military. A slap in the face.

Also, why is the Home Ministry jumping into what is clearly a Defense Ministry matter?
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Jun 18
"Dad and Pizza: An Epiphany"

Growing up, I thought of Dad as an unadventurous eater & very much a gharcha jevan (home food) junkie. Mom, though a no-eggs vegetarian, has always been very adventurous in terms of restaurants & cuisines. I thought I got my foodie gene from her. /1
Dad took us to restaurants. But he rarely enjoyed the food. He loved a good vadapav, misal, all Marathi and Indori street food.

But other stuff, he found meh. We'd go home & he'd eat leftover poli bhaaji and THEN look satiated.

He was okay being called a non foodie.
He eats eggs regularly. Makes the best Indian style omelets in the world. He eats some fish and poultry and mutton, but doesn't really relish it the way I do. Basically Dad was never one to suggest a "non-veg" restaurant. He preferred simple Thalis.

Very comfort zone guy.
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