Maximilian Verstappen🍉

Like 🏏 and F1.

[Maximilian Verstappen🍉 @Rakshit____]

@gtbut143843 @Oxygen18_ I think you meant "How to recognise propoganda"

[Maximilian Verstappen🍉 @Rakshit____]

@SamuelSequeira1 @Amockx2022 Uncle please come back to India to enjoy the Amritkaal and honesty by BJP. Easy for you to say stuff like this when you're enjoying in a foreign country

[Fae - Female Fitness Coach @FaeCurves]

Frequent gym goers know this, you have to move fast when you get out of bed right before your brain starts negotiating

[realyuriyearners @realyuriyearns]

bro you're a such fake give-uper i saw you persevere time and time again even when you thought there was nothing worth fighting for. i'm proud of you bro. i truly believe in you.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

He takes scamming to a whole new level

[Maximilian Verstappen🍉 @Rakshit____]

@Pallavi5490 @misobaguette @svostika2 @Isawrooka4 Look at the first thing you retweeted

[Maximilian Verstappen🍉 @Rakshit____]

@VigneshKamathM1 @prismdarkly @Vishwaguru2026 Dude you don't need to defend stupidity. You're not Nation first you're BJP first, don't be an andhbhakt have some critical thinking skills man

[Maximilian Verstappen🍉 @Rakshit____]

@bij_ra21k @Vishwaguru2026 So it is okay then? Kya chutiya log hai yaar Desh mei, no wonder the Minister went when people like you will support him after this bewakoofi

[Maximilian Verstappen🍉 @Rakshit____]

@parimi_krish @abhijeet_dipke Are you stupid?

[Maximilian Verstappen🍉 @Rakshit____]

@greenfuzon @Smita_Sharma Are you stupid? What has the government done to take action against any issue. Let's take paper leaks for example they've been happening regularly and you're bootlicking instead of thinking about the nation's future?

[Maximilian Verstappen🍉 @Rakshit____]

No wonder the whole world hates us

[Chad Infi𓄿 @chad_infi]

Eid mubarak to Gaza kids

[Maximilian Verstappen🍉 @Rakshit____]

Just so people know, not every Indian has this kind of sadistic mindset.
No wonder the hate against Indians has increased when people like him celebrate kids becoming orphans

[⚜️ @Skanda_Warrior]

Eid Mubarak to GAZA CHILDREN'S 🥀

[Maximilian Verstappen🍉 @Rakshit____]

@Deepak920582 Just so people know, not every Indian has this kind of sadistic mindset.

[Maximilian Verstappen🍉 @Rakshit____]

@habitchamps @talk2anuradha @KaartikGor Why are you in US? Come enjoy the amritkaal like all of us na?

[Maximilian Verstappen🍉 @Rakshit____]

@gridlostz @Neharyy @__ILLUMINATED I think he's replying based on this
https://t.co/adty7GQBGb

[nihil @_nihil25]

@__ILLUMINATED muslim in avians

[Maximilian Verstappen🍉 @Rakshit____]

@sendrayofhope @baxiabhishek Bro thoda bhi sharam nahi hai kya yaar? Tera 1st retweet dekho Congress ko criticise karne valu hai same issue pei. Milta kya hai yaar goverment ko itna chaatke?

[Maximilian Verstappen🍉 @Rakshit____]

@mastero_mr @mikromoons You do know that data centers radiate heat and consume a lot of water and electricity right?

[Maximilian Verstappen🍉 @Rakshit____]

@AntmanGoat @sixringsofsteeI He's not "So much" better than young Lebron. You just feel that way because you are currently watching Wemby. You can argue he's a bit better but not so much better

[Akshat @lilxkshat]

Until the poets run out of rhyme
In other words, until the end of time

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Look at this map.

Nagpur 45°. Ahmedabad 44°. Prayagraj 43°. Delhi 42°. The entire country is a single dark red mass. This is not a heatwave. This is a country that was told its forests were fine.

And this is April. Not May. Not June. The hottest months have not even arrived yet.

The past few days have been hell. So I did what I always do when something bothers me. I went looking for answers.

What I found was a policy con job that has been running for over two decades.

But before I explain what happened, let's clear some definitions.

A garden is not a forest. An orchard is not a forest. A plantation is not a forest.

A forest is a living system. Soil, water, fungi, insects, birds, mammals, decades of accumulated complexity, specific to its land and climate. It cannot be designed. It cannot be harvested. It regulates water, cools land, shelters hundreds of species. It takes decades to become what it is.

You can plant a forest. But it will take decades to become one.

In 2001, India's forests were disappearing. The Indian state, led by the Vajpayee government, faced a choice. Protect what remained, or change what the numbers said.

It chose the numbers.

The Forest Survey of India quietly changed the definition of what a forest means. Any land with 10% tree canopy cover and more than one hectare in area was now a forest. Your mango orchard. A coconut plantation in Tamil Nadu. A tea garden in Assam. Lodhi Garden in Delhi.

All forests, on paper.

The FSI will tell you that 10% canopy cover follows international norms. The FAO also uses 10% as its threshold. But the FAO's definition comes with a crucial exclusion that India's FSI quietly dropped. 

The FAO explicitly states that fruit tree plantations, oil palm plantations, olive orchards, and agroforestry systems are not forests. The World Bank says the same. India adopted the number but discarded the exclusion. 

It took the cover of international legitimacy while gutting the standard that gave it meaning.

The government will also tell you this was never hidden. That it was publicly stated in every report, disclosed in Parliament. That is technically true. But a disclosure buried in a technical government document is not transparency. It is the appearance of transparency. 

I did not know any of this until I went looking. Neither do most Indians whose forests, whose land, whose air this directly concerns. The con is not in what was hidden from experts. It is in what was never explained to the people it was done to.

This is not a technicality. This is the con.

It was a trick as old as power itself. If you cannot fix the problem, fix the measurement.

For ten years after 2001, Congress governed India. Two terms, two environment ministers, including Jairam Ramesh, one of the more serious ones. They saw the numbers. They knew what the numbers meant.

They did nothing.

Because the lie was convenient. India looked good in international climate negotiations. The fiction of a greening India served everyone in power, so everyone in power kept it. Congress did not create this lie. It simply chose, year after year, to live inside it.

The BJP is different.

When they returned to power in 2014, they came with something Congress never had. An absolute majority, and no coalition compulsions. They did not merely inherit the lie. They built on it. And in 2023, they legislated it.

The Forest Conservation Amendment Act of 2023 removed legal protection from "deemed forests." Forests that existed outside the official definition but were ecologically real. 

Forests that Adivasi communities had lived in and depended on for generations. Forests that cooled land, held water, sheltered species. They were not on the right list. Since the amendment, forest destruction on Adivasi land has accelerated. 

The people who knew these forests best, who had protected them longest, now watch them being cleared. Legally.

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