Modi is going to regret asking Biden to give him a state dinner and another joint session. There are going to be so many protests & public events, that his sins will get more exposure worldwide than from a dozen BBC documentaries.
We are a country about to arrest our ex Prez.
You visit the White House any given day and there's protestors there. Protesting the US president. Without any pushback, as long as it is done peacefully.
Can Modi's fragile ego handle throngs of protestors outside the White House during his state dinner?
It's his core base that will embarrass India the most as always.
I remember his 2014 concert at Madison square garden. The were only a couple of dozen protestors outside with 2002 signs. His bros tried to intimidate them until NYPD stepped in.
His drunk-on-success fans also manhandled @sardesairajdeep in 2014.
And there wasn't too much protest action or counter narrative in 2014 NYC or 2016 DC against DC cos he was still relatively new to PMship.
His core base this time: violently aggressive. And his opponents vocal.
I hope @DCPoliceDept has run drills for the eventuality of Modi fans outside the White House attacking Modi protestors outside the White House during the Modi state dinner.
Cos there WILL be protestors. And there is WILL be violence-loving Hindu right wingers.
The manufactured outrage over the obviously provocative Indira Gandhi assassination float in Canada is a good dress rehearsal.
Sanghis & others were OUTRAGED & wanted to scold the Canadian high commissioner & govt over the float.
The thing is, distasteful isn't always illegal.
Even if Trudeau and everyone in the Canadian government found the Indira assassination float distasteful, it is very much covered by free speech and such norms and laws in Canada. Dragging in diplomats & scolding them is pointless.
America is even more into free speech generally
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Modi's state visit will be marked with protests, after which Godi media & IT cell will flood social media with "how can US gormint allow such blasphemous insult? 😡😡😤😤" tantrums. And invocations of George Soros.
But a reminder that as I tweet this, USA is about to criminally indict and arrest the previous President for his very objective wrongs.
If America didn't shut down anti-Trump protests, no way will it shut down anti-Modi protests.
Bhakts are in for a lot of butt hurt.
I totally get this sentiment.
Why it's important for all of us to amplify the truth as much as we can for Indian audiences on Twitter, LinkedIn, Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook.
We can either cry about Godi media bias. Or try to punch through it.
Remember that Modi gang first achieved social media hegemony before they bought and neutered Indian mainstream media.
They can be defeated on social media at the very least, if we all understand the deeper game being played, beyond the provocative headlines and #QTbait.
Exactly. And they aren't going to be shamed by our whining about it.
What they will feel, is market pressure. Like they did with farm protests and even wrestler protests beyond a point.
Why we all need to spread around Modi fails on social media.
A conservative rancher Airbnb owner, himself a chemical engineer, once ranted to us about how useless college is. The next day, he proudly showed us how the right mix of cows, goats, sheep got the max returns for his ranch, something he remembered from a college course.
In Oaxaca museum, there was a display on how ancients figured out how to predict eclipses. But they kept this knowledge secret and used it for political power. Pretending that predicting eclipses made rich educated people gods.
Belittling college is elitist protectionism.
And the funny thing is, those with generational wealth still get premium high education.
Conservatives go to Harvard and JNU and then shit on colleges while sending their own kids to Premium colleges
LOL, this is such a tri-state area thing! Even Catholic bros doing noora kushti fundraiser. Giving like 3 new meanings to the phrase Turn the other cheek. 🤣
But seriously, NY-NJ-CT has a very long and storied history of small scale pro wrestling. Why WWE was born here.
I often use the Monday Night Wars as a Marketing case in class. One student, who came from a family of wrestlers, nailed it when he said the tri-state market being so solid & lucrative is why even Ted Turner could not defeat Vince McMahon. "rasslin can never beat wrestling".
The story of the rise, fall, and rise of the WWE is such a classic Strategy case, where a lot of textbook business and economics principles play out.
When wrestling goes from regional models to one big national behemoth, oh course it's the richest market whose player grows.
This weekend I got a tad excited at #OurWawar when I saw these. And funnily, it connects to this show!
Long time followers will know I was/am a big fan of #Elementary cos I thought it Was more like the original procedural stories than the unnecessarily complex Cumberbatch one. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Living in NYC added an extra layer of enjoyment to #Elementary cos they very truly genuinely made it an NYC show, using a lot of actual stuff, news, and other peculiarities of the region, that could not work in England. Very well written well researched episodes.
One of my favorite episodes, very much Arthur Conan Doyle DNA, had a Catskills element in it.
A dude has been killed. They can't figure out why. He doesn't have anything of value. In fact he was about to shut down a bankrupt business which has a lot of cheap forest land.
Seen a few other people be like, Doc is too harsh & daily doing this & it shows his own "bias".
Saying that a liver doc on Twitter daily busting liver related myths is "too much" is like saying a compass points North A little too often, and that feels biased.
You want to believe in alternative medicine, homeo, cow feces, astrology, numerology, completely your choice.
But if you come to Twitter and get offended at science minded people trashing your favorite pseudo science, just unfollow or mute na. Why get why about it public?
Just to give people a general political context for Ro Khanna writing an invite for Modi to do a joint session. Especially those upset at this as a betrayal or endorsement of Modi.
I totally get being upset. But FYI, this was an "ex-officio" invite. More about India than Modi.
When there is a state dinner, it is often traditional to also have a joint session of Congress. It's a protocol and respect thing. Yun Sook Yeol did one around his state dinner. Macron did not this year, cos he's already done one.
So has Modi. But Modi thirsty as we know.
It's an open secret that this state dinner thing came at the request of the Indians.
Once there is a state dinner, a joint session invite is the polite thing to do. And the caucus most associated with the country generally sends this invite.