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Dec 28 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Yeah this. Nuanced point but important.

At least Christians have aggressive marketing campaigns and budgets and conversion targets and all. Church run.

There are no incentives of any kind for an Indian Muslim to convert a Hindu by fraud. And dangerous systemic disincentives...
Seriously dangerous life threatening disincentives. The idea that any real constituency of Muslims exists in India that is focused on seducing and converting Hindu women is so bizarre that only a bigoted mind can buy into it based on a couple of freak incidents out of 1.4 bn.
But that's the thing with this #LustLibel tactic. That was used against Jews for centuries. Then against blacks in Jim Crow US (and even today). And against minorities and Dalits in India.

All they need is a couple of freak incidents & they demonize everyone with mass lies.
Exactly. This has been going on for decades. This sanghi mass whisper movement that any Muslim is just eager to spring upon any Hindu to seduce or convert. Whereas Indian Muslims just want to be left alone for the most part.

Yup.

Remember that they had a l0vej1had commission and could not find any credible cases. Why they need the media to turn any violent Hindu Muslim couple incident into a national headline.

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I honestly don't know and am very intrigued.

There are 5 outspoken GOP #NeverKevin reps. If they vote no, he loses.

They have shown no signs of bending.

I'm not sure how McCarthy gets to 218 without at least 1 of them breaking rank.

It's a boiling pot for sure.
It is NOT common for a speakership to be this closely contested, because the House generally has a bigger margin no matter which party has the majority.

Remember that a "party whip" has no constitutional power in America like it does in India. You can vote against the whip.
In India, once you get elected to parliament on a party's ticket, you pretty much have to vote the way their "whip" says, or get expelled.

In America, there is no such rule. You can vote against your party a lot and still not get "expelled".
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There is a very legit data driven case to be made that @RalphNader has saved more lives in America (and around the world) than anyone else in history.

He's easily saved millions of lives with his vehicle safety activism. So much we take for granted is cos of him alone.
This thread is responsible for the epiphany above.

Detroit pretty much used every single such excuse to shut down Nader. He fought. They bullied, intimidated, sued. He won. And changed Detroit.

Chevys in US still way safer than Chevys in India.

Airbags objectively save lives. When an airbag deploys, the person almost always walks away from the accident.

And yet in India, auto cos are using the same gaslighting tactics that Detroit used against Nader decades ago.

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I hope Rishabh Pant's near escape leads to some serious awareness campaigns and policy changes about something all too common in India - impaired driving.

It is insane how high (or low) the bar for impaired driving is in India, with an undeniable "macho" element attached.
The number of folks I've seen driving when visibly drunk ("yaar I tell you I drive better when I'm drunk hahaha") or clearly sleep deprived ("just chai sutta every hour and a podcast and I'm good yaar") in India is crazy. And yet the tendency is towards pushing limits not caution
Pushing the limits of driving when knowingly impaired is hardly exceptional to India.

What is exceptional is how little stigma there is attached to it, how little awareness there is about it.

And how many bros will still boast about successful impaired driving.
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Year 1 Cooking as a Car-less Desi Fob in Rural America, a 🧵

A young friend recently asked if I had any tips from my Penn State grad school days when I didn't have access to desi stores or whole foods type fancy stores or even online options.

And I thought of many!

Strap in!
My 1st year in the US, I had no car. I was in a tiny college town that had only 1 Desi grocery store with EXTREMELY mediocre inventory. Only supermarkets in walking or bus distance were Weiss or Walmart. Occasionally GIANT.

Basically white people grocery stores.
Contrary to what you might expect, I had NOT arrived with a suitcase full of grains and spices and a pressure cooker packed by my mom.

I was 26 then, been cooking since I was 11 or so, lived alone in Bombay before grad school, was already cocky about my cooking skills lol.
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This is why Democrats are all "🤣🍿🤭" about #GeorgeSantos. With the GOP looking set to seat him, there's 2 years of this non stop grift, cos he will make his time count.

Trump GOP is a party of donor grifts. With the RNC running most donor grifts for Trump past 2 years.
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If this dude was in some faraway district in flyover country, it was one thing.

But he's a short drive from where the most political journalists in the country work and he's such an easy dumpster fire fountain.

GOP will cut him loose in Feb or so, I predict.
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How very pyoorvheg. Image
Simple really.

- Break off the ends of the guar & pull off as much string as you can, then break or chop. Potatoes optional.
- mix with turmeric, chili, salt, hing to mustard seeds, high smoking pt oil
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