Siddharth Ballure

[Siddharth Ballure @ballure]

"At Fed level, libertarian; state, Republican; local, Democrat; family/friends, socialist."
- NNT

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Watch the BJP supporter at the CJP protest.

1. His son studied 12 hours a day for two years.
2. He and his brother-in-law took loans and mortgaged their land to fund it.
3. Then the NEET paper leaked. He says it plainly: this didn't destroy his kid's future, it destroyed their future.
4. He's a Sanghi. He'll probably still vote for Modi. But even he is now saying it out loud, "BJP leaders send their kids abroad while we suffer," and demanding Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation.

That's the whole point.

The hardcore Sanghi voter won't move. Nothing shifts them. But this man isn't the target.

The target is the huge silent crowd watching him, the fence-sitters who can be persuaded.

When they see even BJP's own people hurting, one thought lands: if the party does this to its own loyalists, what will it do to us?

And here's what people forget.

In 2024, BJP's vote share fell by just 0.77%.

That tiny drop took them from 303 seats to 240. In our electoral system, a small shift in votes becomes a huge shift in seats.

Now add the rest: no jobs, rising prices, economic misery, one leaked exam after another. Anger like that doesn't stay quiet. It spreads.

CJP's strength is that it belongs to no party. That's exactly why it works.

A disenchanted BJP voter listens to another disenchanted BJP voter, but would not talk to me, you, or even Congress. Because that's how much India has changed.

CJP can do what no party can: stoke the disappointment, start the anger.

But anger needs somewhere to go. Fire needs a path. CJP can light it, but someone still has to be the destination that turns that anger into votes.

So the job is simple. Let the CJP light the fire. And Congress should build the channel to carry it. That's how 240 becomes less than 150.

This is purely electoral math, votes and seats, not about me. Criticise me all you want; the numbers stay the same.

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

thinkpad in the parliament

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

RIP Edgar Morin, born Nahum.
(Incidentally, he came from a Maghrebi Jewish background and stood for Palestinians)

[Siddharth Ballure @ballure]

When Gen Z says, "I don't care". They MEAN it.

[Mr Sharma @sharma_views]

THIS 18-YEAR-OLD DID NOT BLINK 🔥

RAJDEEP: CBSE says TCS quoted around ₹951 crore, Coempt Edutech around ₹384 crore. Lowest bidder wins, so rules were followed.

SARTHAK 🎯: My question is not whether CBSE followed the rules. My question is why CBSE changed the rules.

RAJDEEP: People say you are batting for the opposition.

SARTHAK 🔥: In a democracy, opposition parties are pressure groups. If someone supports me, I am thankful. If someone ignores me, I do not care.

[Siddharth Ballure @ballure]

Elite ≠ erudite

[Rohini Mohan @rohini_mohan]

'India's Finest Families' all seem to want to marry into the same caste!

Ad in The Hindu Magazine today.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

My grandfather, a politician, never failed an election. He had a way of talking to pple as if they had been friends for a long time.
I learned from him to do that systematically, particularly w/disfavored communities.
But I've never repressed my urge to irritate arrogant fucks.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

If you feel that you are in competition with anyone, for anything, you are a loser.

[Satyaki Roy @Satyaki_R]

The trick middle class idiot savants will not tell you is to find just one, give 100 and walk off.

You wont find 4 worth buying.

[Goutham R @Goutham29R]

@stelo_verda @AmshumanKR @hamsanandi @a_srinidhi @KShrikaanth ಇದೇನು ಇವರೇ (ಯೂರೆ) or ರಿ

[Siddharth Ballure @ballure]

Existing media reporters and undercover reporters have been branded and promoted in such levels no faith left in their reports.

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

"The most striking aspect of the CBSE-OSM controversy was that it was not uncovered by a formal audit, parliamentary oversight, or an internal security review, but by teenagers and young independent researchers who took the time to examine the system"

[Siddharth Ballure @ballure]

Politics is not smarter than the collective knowledge of the crowd.

[vir sanghvi @virsanghvi]

I think the government & its chamchas are making a mistake in telling the middle class that it’s fine to let the rupee collapse having said the opposite when the BJP was in opposition
Every time some stooge says something dismissive like this, public anger grows. We are not fools

[Siddharth Ballure @ballure]

Someone a few years ago in my circle talked about the intention of the goals. Intention goes down the dungeons if not taken enough actions to reach the goals.

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

He has lost interest, there are newer schemes with new brochures with newer photos of him.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Always ask the right questions ✍️

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

When I spoke out against the Gaza genocide, a bunch of midwit VCs ganged up on me both in public and tried to hurt me in private too.

Many of those who stood by me were also VCs. Just the better ones. Both morally, and in return profile.

The best way to avoid sociopaths is to have them self select out of your life by standing for your beliefs.

[Sebastian David Lees @sebs_tweets]

@MatiosTV The limit of human knowledge is whatever happens to be on Page 2 of Google search results. No mortal has ever ventured further than Page 1 and returned to tell the tale.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

2/ Economists are usually employed by the public sectors: regulators & central banks where they hire one another.
Their knowledge is too weak for the real world.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Advice to a university president.
In ~40 years in finance I've never see anyone hire an economist. We hire electrical engineers, quants, physicists...
The MD heals patients, the engineer builds bridges, the economist writes papers (used by other economists to write papers).

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

@waad11982 العرب والروم يشاركون ثقافة قديمة لها جذور شرقية.

[Siddharth Ballure @ballure]

It means ground level party workers are also lying or they have no say.

[Keshav Bedi @keshavbedi]

Census data EXPOSING REALITY on ground