@PotatoMcWhiskey A state ID (valid for voting) costs btn $15 to $35, is valid for 4 - 8 yrs, and only requires 1 visit to the DMV. It is not some great burden. I have voted in NY - no id check. I have voted in FL where they do check id. Without ID check, very easy to commit voter fraud.
@AskAnshul The Hamidul Rahman guy said Muslim “caste” not Muslim “rashtra”: as in these sorts of social sanctions happen within the Muslim caste, but in this case they overdid it, and possibly violated the law. This is what I heard the Hamidul Rahman guy say in Bengali.
Hindsight is always 20/20. In retrospect, Uncle Sam should have just wrote every person in Afghanistan (all 38 million of them) a $100 check per month every month for the last 20 years. The outcome would have been more pleasant for all concerned.
Thread (1/16). How is that our economic statistics suggest workers have been making slow but steady progress in recent decades, while popular perception is that their family finances are coming under increasingly untenable pressure? I've been working on this, here's my answer:
@razibkhan Protestant converts generally do not change their names. My grandfather, a Baptist pastor, named his sons Shomir, Sudhir, Sushil, Susanta, Joyanta. My dad (Susanta) changed his name to Andrew in his ID during the 1971 war, so that he doesn’t mistakenly get killed as a hindu.