Exactly! Those of us who remember him as the unlikely small fidgety nasal but charming outsider class clown Abhi and watched him become the top dog just because of his presence, this likeability, his niceness, and his legendary interviews. To go after him is a telling choice.
SRK is what used to be considered the "model Muslim". Doesn't wear his religion on his sleeve, Hindu wife, ergo mixed kids, playing roles of every religion, profession, social class. He played so many 21st century Indians, even defined us in many ways.

Sanghism's worst nightmare
Shahrukh is just Shahrukh.

I loved reading his interviews in the 90s. What an interesting and entertaining dude, fully loving the life he was living. Dilkhulaas guy!

Sanghis can't handle a success story like SRK cos it cuts at their core ideology of Muslims = not Indian.
In fact all these Khans with their Hindu wives or girlfriends are a major MAJOR counter point, clinching evidence against the Sanghi vision of a segregated India where inter faith marriages are bad by default and harder by law. Where Muslims stay hidden, if not stop existing.
Their most frequent targets are the 3 Khan's with Hindu wives.

Salman seems to get a pass. He does suck up to Modi actively. Plus his mother is a Marathi brahmin. This fact was often repeated by sanghis proudly in Pune when I was growing up. How Salman is half KoBra!
The obsession over what Saif names his kids and deciding he is anti Indian... The guy whose great grandfather literally wrote the national anthem and whose dad captained the Indian team... If he can be made anti national, anyone can be made anti national. That's their strategy.
It's a fascist flex. That if we can turn even SRK, Aamir, Saif into villains... Who literally live the unity in diversity multi religious secularism dream and look good doing it... then we can turn ANY Muslim into a villain.

That has always been the main goal.
The sentiment behind #BoycottPathaan or #BoycottBollywood is pure distilled bigotry against Muslims

AND

the vision of an orthodox India segregated along religious and caste lines. Like Golwalkar dreamed.
Oh yeah! We were told how Sushila tai only changed her name to Salma cos less paperwork getting married that way. But she is very much "aapli". And how Salman grew up speaking Marathi. And all that special status.

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Some people are pointing out a few apparent inconsistencies or errors in the #HindenburgReport and asking "then can we trust anything in there"?

That's binary cable news debate logic, not actual investor logic. Actual investors don't think like debate judges. They are careful.
Actual investors, analysts, media people who report on this, will all do their own fact checking, cos all of it is extensively cited and verifiable.

If they see 10% wrong 90% right, they will focus on the 90%. Not throw it all out cos of a few errors. Makes no sense.
People in India are not realizing how much weight Nate Anderson carries in the US investor community AND the serious mainstream media. A New Yorker or Atlantic or Rolling Stone or NYMag longform on Adani must parallely be in the works, working with Nate during the investigation.
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Haha, they are suing a short seller for telling the world why they are taking a short position. 😂😂😂

If they seriously file suit in the US, there will be so much more stuff that comes out in discovery!
Journalists also breathlessly report vague impulsive legal threats from billionaires as if they are real threats.

The last thing Adani wants is the Discovery process of a lawsuit in the US.

Remember that Musk wanted to avoid it so bad, he eventually bought Twitter in the end.
A quick explainer for folks who aren't sure what exactly a "short seller" is.

A short seller "borrows" a share from a long seller and sells it off instantly. With the promise to return the share in the future.

Both sides bet. Short sellers that it will fall, long ones opposite.
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WOW! This is quite a thorough report!

Question for RSS is how long they keep their wagon hitched to him.

They brought him on par with & then ahead of Ambani. But Ambanis afaik don't do outright fraud, just regular cutthroat crony capitalism. This has political downsides.
If the Indian govt doesn't come out strongly as a neutral regulator and arbiter, and instead acts like Adani sympathizers, it sends a massive signal to the global financial community and WILL hit investments. Cos the stuff in this report is well beyond business as usual.
I know I know the official line from Adanis and many on the Sanghi side stanning him is that this is some biased report, hitjob, same old whataboutery, and sure, that will win you cable news or Whatsapp arguments.

But the financial community will take note. Esp rating agencies.
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Here's a thread with a collection of tweets about all the time we ate the localized Chinese food in all these countries we visited.

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It is the beginning of the end if we make it the beginning of the end.

It is not the beginning of the end, if we think it is not the beginning of the end.

Once fascists come to power, the only thing keeping them there is the unearned illusion of invincible & inevitability.
But history has shown that once they reach a breaking point, they unravel and wither very rapidly.

Mainly cos most fascists don't consider themselves fascist. They think they are just following orders or thinking about familiar or suchlike.

They desert the elite fast!!
Compare and contrast just how quickly Germany surrendered versus how long Japan fought.

For Germans, it was an experiment with fascism that they were happy to ride when it seemed nice, but abandoned after the horror of it. Swiftly.

Japan was fighting for the emperor!
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