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[Abijit Ganguly @AbijitG]

The entitlement of urban upper class never ceases to amuse me. Last Saturday had a show at a pub in Pune where there was a group of middle aged women who kept referring to themselves as GP Divas, I'm assuming GP to be their society's name.

[𝔽eral ℙawg ℍunter @FeralPHunter]

yes there seems to be a lack of voices out there preaching having an internal locus of control and examining ones own behavior: who we are attracting, picking, and filtering out

much easier to blame the opposite sex, and theres a whole industry for that

[das crystal @crystalxduan]

On this note, most of the discourse around how to have better friends includes things like, how to Be More Fun as opposed to “create psychological safety in other people”

Stop just trying to be charming or something

[divya venn @divya_venn]

6'5" blue eyes works in finance is not real. women saying they'll only date super tall super rich well endowed men is also not real

sometimes it's a meme, sometimes it's manifestation, sometimes loudly signal that you are confident + attractive enough to have high expectations

[Rants&Roasts @Sydusm]

Does anyone remember how Osama was taken down? In an operation with precision, hardly any civilian deaths. From deep inside Pakistan. Overnight in one swift operation. Pakistan had no clue about it.

Without declaring a war.

So, all those who lust for war, you're being highly myopic. There are ways to curb this terrorism. And it is very much possible without indulging in a mindless war.

And please don't tell me only US is capable of doing that and not India because then you're clearly undermining our forces.

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

Be it 1993 serial blasts, 2001 Parliament attack, 26/11 or German Bakery, Indian govt identified perpetrators and laid out details of how they happened very soon.

But we still have no answers or details on Uri all these years later. Public was satisfied with Balakot alone.

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

I want folks to reflect on the logic which the government is following on the flow of information.

1. Indian news channels ran programming for hours last night reporting that the Indian Navy had been deployed and had bombed and destroyed Karachi Port.
2. Indian news channels ran stories that the Indian army had entered Pakistan.
3. Indian news channels ran stories that India has captured Islamabad.
4. Indian channels ran stories about suicide terror strikes in Rajouri

All of this 'reporting' by major new channels was not just fake news but also inflammatory and provocative and clearly intended to ensure the very escalation (from the Pakistani side) that the Indian government has cautioned against from the outset.

Earlier, channels described an Indian Muslim victim of Pakistani shelling in Poonch as a Lashkar-e-Tayyaba terrorist.

Instead of firmly clearing the air with respect to this kind of dangerous reporting, the government issued instructions to Internet Service Providers across India to block access to The Wire — one of the largest Indian news platforms that has been reporting on the emerging situation with responsibility and restraint.

The blocking order is unconstitutional. It is an attack on press freedom and on the right of every Indian to access information. It must be lifted immediately.

[dollar store kirk hammett @olivesagan]

mysticism and essentialism have been core pillars of fascist thinking for all of human history

[Ariele 🏗️🌐🏳️‍⚧️ @PositivistWitch]

sounds familiar

[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

American visiting Canadian supermarket in 2027, amazed at being able to buy more than one kind of cheese.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

I didn't sign up to live in the fucking Soviet Union

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

"To make it to India's top 10% income earners, one must earn just Rs. 2.9 lakh a year. To enter the top 1%, Rs. 20.7 lakh will suffice. Wealth paints a similar picture. Accumulate Rs. 21 lakh in net assets, and one is now a 10-percenter. Accumulate Rs. 82 lakh and one is in the 1%. There's a reason the 1%ers and 10%ers do not view themselves as belonging to the upper echelons. Many have no generational wealth to fall back on. Most know they are one bad mishap away from an entirely different bracket".

[Asim Ali @AsimAli6]

This bit of the speech of Indrajit Gupta (CPI) in Parliament in 1992 on MMS economic reforms seems sort of prophetic. To paraphrase, he says 10 crore of the population (upper middle class consuming classes) might benefit. Besides corporates & NRIs. But 70 crores would be left out

[Asim Ali @AsimAli6]

Also in line with the Blume report

"The country's consuming class..potential market for start-ups or business owners, is only about as big as Mexico, 130-140 million people"

"Around a billion lack money to spend on any discretionary goods or services"
https://t.co/G5O5wRDiGy

[Miles Brundage @Miles_Brundage]

Not sure why the gutting of American science funding isn’t a bigger story.

No one voted for it, it reduces American innovation and economic competitiveness in the near-term and long-term, and it isn’t even being done efficiently, if that were in fact the goal.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

Amazon decides to make the cost of Trump's tariffs transparent on its site. Trump finds out, calls Bezos to stop it because it will make him look bad. Bezos - who is not even the company's CEO anymore - gets Amazon to stop it.

It's an amazing story of government interference with the private sector, interference that serves no public good, but only protects Trump politically. And a week from now, it'll be largely forgotten.

[Asim Ali @AsimAli6]

No pretence of a fair process, lives of hundreds of working class people turned upside down overnight based on "intelligence inputs".

https://t.co/XgpR06W1Ia

[Mr. Spock 🖖 (Commentary) @SpockResists]

This really is the end for America and its standing.

Arresting judges for “believing” they are not following the law is how it starts.

America becoming a Nazi state was never hyperbole.

They are not even trying to go down the “legalist” authoritarian state. They are going

[Vamsi Chandran @VamsiChandran]

Poor Dr. Manmohan Singh, he does not know how to show off and set fake narratives like Modi. Even after 26/11 as well, there was troop build up near the border, but Singh chose to exert diplomatic pressure on Pak as result 26/11 mastermind Hafeeze Saeed is in jail now
But Masood Azhar, the master mind behind 2016 Pathankot & 2019 Pulwama attacks, is still roaming freely. In fact, none of the terrorists named in Pulwama FIR were killed in Ballakot air strikes.
Irony is Masood. Azhar was in Indian jail till 1999 he was released as an exchange for hostages in 1999 Kandhahar flight hijack,which was a failure of BJP rule.
Sadly, innocent youth today are not aware of this. They are brainwashed by IT cell.