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@_amitbehere Market reversed today itself after the results were out, you don’t need to wait till tomorrow for this. Bhakt retailers get excited thinking everything changed and institutions thank them profusely while selling at good prices.

10,000 dollars say that markets don't react positively to BJP winning. Everyone, including Indian investors (forget foreign investors) have given up on India's stock market. I expect Indian stock market to stay flat at best for 2 more years. Because, where the fuck is the growth going to come from ...??? And you can be sure Modi Govt with Bahi khata Sitharam will give duniya bhar ka faltu excuses. Iran war hua, yeh hua, woh hua, Congress nay 40 saal pehle hugg kay rakha tha, Nehru nay 70 saal pehle hugg kay rakha tha, duniya mein hi haalat kharab hain. hum bechare kya kare ...??? ting ting ting ...

Princess Camilla & Trisha are like the rare examples that keep the hopes of side chicks going that their time will come and they won’t just be discarded. Bad examples though, like every averagely athletic kid not studying thinking he will become Kohli some day.

@docakx Terrific marketing thing by whoever is selling Ozempic, now even people who don’t have diabetes and are not obese will try ozempic. Basically Ozempic is using the same marketing hack every baba on the roadside shops selling some ayurvedic lotions and potions uses.

What is buried penis syndrome?

@nistula @PrashantKishor There are a lot of social media commentators who got it right too, doesn’t mean a thing! It is like buying 100 stocks and then quoting the 1 stock that did well!

Like me, @PrashantKishor is better at analysing and advising others…..his prediction on TN results back in March.

@malpani You can fool enough people in India with money and a good PR agency.

What lessons can we learn from Modiji's dramatic rise to power?

Finally some realization in people that BJP will NOT do any wonders and most probably will help deteriorate the situation further, so coping by saying how do you undo this and undo that.

I think India will get solved with just 2 things: 1. Cleanliness: Clean the streets. Punish the litterers. 2. Respect: Treat the citizen with respect. FIRs are lodged. Complaints are addressed. Every government official has a body cam. Just two things. Can be done in two years.

@Cloudwatch199 @VivekGRamaswamy Taking the confusing and hellhole creating moral relativism to America to turn it also into the miserable country that you left. Ofcourse yes, there is only 1 truth, there are no shades of truth whether you like it or not, that’s the nature of truth.

. @VivekGRamaswamy is running for GOVERNOR, not Pastor‑in‑Chief. If your faith collapses because a Hindu says Jesus is a path to God instead of the ONLY path, the problem is your insecurity and bigotry. The Constitution BANS religious tests for office. If you think a non Christian is disqualified from governing, just admit you don’t actually believe in America.

@DealsDhamaka SINK - Single income Nine kids.

New words that I learned! DINK - Double Income No Kids SINK - Single Income Nine Kids HENRY – High Earner, Not Rich Yet DINKWAD – Double Income, No Kids, With A Dog What else ??

Infosys board member speaking here, both Nandan and her are pushing the same narrative at the same time that Indian tech is going to help “scale” AI as the tech stocks continue to slide! I will take it with a pinch of salt.

Now you got to avoid fruits too it looks like. Is there anything not being adulterated?

@_amitbehere Jesus summed up the entire Bible in 1 line, here it is : “Love God, treat your neighbour as you want to be treated.” That’s it, that in essence sums up the entire Bible.

Koran, Bible, Torah are simplistic nonsense. Vedas and Upanishads, Gita are complicated nonsense. End of the day it's all nonsense. Core philosophy of life is not that complicated. Strive to be happy, don't hurt others. That's it. It's that simple. One line. You don't need any religious book or spiritual guru to tell/teach you this.

@tranquiltempes1 @_amitbehere ofcourse you got to start somewhere. But at the core, it is the belief that affects the behaviour.

@WesleySam7 @_amitbehere Untenable. Almost all religion is based on the supposed infallibility of scripture. To change scripture would be to invent a new religion. It is the practice that we must focus on. The interface between religion & society. Common understanding of common spaces & social conduct

#LongRead A lot of people have asked me about my Islamophobia. Anyone who knows someone like me, upper caste, upper middle class, heart of Pune upbringing probably can guess my story. Given my environment I grew up both casteist and Islamophobic. Zero awareness about minority issues. So anti-reservations, superiority complex about both caste and religion, belief that Islam is uniquely bad/terrible. Basically I grew up with a mild but definite Islamophobic bias. Then I moved to the US and 9/11 happened. There was insane Islamophobic propaganda worldwide for years and I was 22-23, already primed to hate Islam the religion as an atheist, hate Islam/Muslims *more* because of my Hindu conditioning, and I was fed this propaganda. So I became a proper Islamophobe in the first decade of this century. The standard tropes. Islam is a jihadi religion, it's a cult, all terrorists are Muslims, blah blah blah. The only saving grace was I was never hateful. Even at my worst I never wished harm on innocent Muslims. I just thought Islam and Muslims were uniquely terrible and objectively far worse than all other religions. The worst thing I have done as an Islamophobe, by far the worst, is rationalizing Godhra. I literally have used the "well, they burned the train first" argument. What changed? Well, I supported Modi for PM in 2014. And he came to power. And it became very obvious very quickly, at least to me, how radioactive shit he was, his Government was. Within months. So I started questioning my political biases first (mild pro BJP), then my social biases (caste, Islamophobia), and started educating myself. I met some exceptional human beings through my association with AAP (yeah yeah that satanic B team of RSS). As I learned more, educated myself more, the transition to a better set of morals and values was not hard. It happened very fast in fact. I understood Islam in the context of geo-politics. How evil American/Israeli imperialism was. How you can't collectively judge a group. I have one quality very few desis have. The ability to admit fault, mistake and ignorance and try to do better. That helped a lot. So very long story summed up in short. I was a sasta asshole because of my biases and ignorance and I became a better human being (I think) by removing both my ignorance and biases.

@tranquiltempes1 @_amitbehere No, I think there is a problem with scripture too. I mean some of the most unbelievable stuff is there in the scripture, I dont want to quote it here as I dont want to offend. But yeah Islam & Hinduism & Judaism need some type of a New testament to the Old testament.

@WesleySam7 @_amitbehere It is the practice that needs reform not scripture. The first thing that Muslims/Jews/Hindus need to learn is to learn to mind their own business and to not force their views down somebody else’s gob. We also need to focus on what’s common between us rather than what divides us

Living in denial and delusions is the norm, not the exception, across the board.

@sabeer Living in denial is the norm here, not an exception.

Someone on Twitter says India is already a developed nation. Whaaaat? Did I miss the memo - or the development?

TN’s per capita income is now $4300, almost double the national average. Just around 1990, TN was maybe half the national average. TN is the only state now that can compete head to head with Vietnam and even China. This is the result of decades of good policies, emphasis on education to the masses (TN also was the first to introduce mid day meal etc policies for better school enrolment). Because of the grounding of the radical social justice movements, TN is blessed with socially aware and conscious leadership regardless of parties. This is real long term vision and real progress that touches peoples lives Vs short term hype and endless marketing for votes. AP should learn from this @naralokesh @ncbn @ysjagan @PawanKalyan @brahmaninara

@docakx @DennisGodsmark OK. Thank you.

@WesleySam7 @DennisGodsmark Receptive anal intercourse causes abrasions through which virus can transmit efficiently. More easier than vaginal intercouse.

There was no HIV infection reported in humans before 1959. There are two types of HIV viruses - HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 originated from gorillas and chimpanzees, and HIV-2 originated from a monkey species. How do you think these viruses jumped to humans?

@docakx @DennisGodsmark Maybe right. Stay the hell away from monkeys generally!!

@DennisGodsmark Bush meat it is.