Listen to @naomiseligman, a former staffer in the administration of ex-LA Mayor and a Biden admin’s nominee to be US Ambassador to India #EricGarcetti, explain to @jaketapper how rampant sexual abuse cases were in mayor’s office. #Shocking
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Looks like Eric Garcetti's parents' lobbying efforts did some wonders. Wonder how much money was spent. politico.com/news/2022/05/2…
FWIW, Garcetti as LA mayor filled a Venice Beach skate park with sand in order to prevent citizens from utilizing it. So much for human rights. cbssports.com/general/news/s…
This LA train looting video epitomizes Garcetti's qualities as an administrator.
A strong US-India relationship is imperative for the World.
However, the US-India relationship will suffer badly with an activist, regime change diplomat at the helm.
A former Eric Garcetti aide, who has accused the former Los Angeles mayor of ignoring allegations of sexual harassment during his time in office, said Monday that he is “unfit” to become US ambassador to India amid his embattled nomination.
Just as he tried to project himself as the "free speech" savior in the #TwitterFiles release, Ro is also trying to project himself as the savior of the working class.
In reality, in both cases, he helped his own rich liberal friends.
Khanna in #TwitterFiles was probably tipping his friends in the company about a possible “backlash on hill (sic) re (sic) speech” more than his concern for free speech.
When journalist @mtaibbi released the 17th version of the Twitter Files, some 40,000 American Twitter users, including many US citizens, discovered a US government-funded group was tracking them for alleged “disinformation” and “online harassment.”
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Dataset sent to Twitter’s Trust & Safety team by the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab. TheDFRLab alleged that those handles belonged to “Hindu nationalists” and “paid employees or possibly volunteers” of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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"[Lord] Macaulay traveled from Madras to Ooty to meet Governor-General Bentick--a distance of 400 miles--on the shoulders of Indian men, and then back: Twelve bearers--six at a time--carried his palanquin down to Madras, as he reclined and read Theodore Hook's Love and Pride"
"[Lord Thomas Babington] Macaulay was a brilliant mind, who had already written, at the age of eight, a convincing essay on the desirability of converting heathens to Christianity."
From #TheRulersGaze by Prof. @aravindasharma
The native scholars, with hardly one exception, “have displayed a far greater respect for truth and and a far more manly and generous spirit than we are accustomed to even in Europe and America.”
~ F. Max Muller as quoted by @aravindasharma in #TheRulersGaze.