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Himal Kotelawala
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Himal Kotelawala
@himalkk
Writer. Former Deputy Editor at @EconomyNext, Senior Assistant Editor @himalistan. Bylines: @nytimes @TIME @NewStatesman @FT_SriLanka @Roarlk & @TimesOnlineLK
Colombo, Sri Lanka Katılım Nisan 2009
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To even suggest that a backwater economy the size of ours could take a moral position on any of this at all is a) stupid, and b) comes from a place of privilege, showing total disregard for the consequences, the brunt of which will be faced by the poorest members of our society.
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Political discourse on Twitter has been hijacked by idiots who think we have any kind of say in great-power shenanigans. This platform used to be interesting.
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I don't know, man. I'm not sure Villeneuve is the right fit for this. Then again, I can't think who else might be. Better him than Nolan, I guess.
Patrick Heizer@PatrickHeizer
I am pleading with the forces of the universe to convince Villeneuve to tackle yet another "unfilmable" sci-fi series.
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Disingenuous to say Gota "resigned and left" like he woke up one day and decided he wanted to get into knitting full-time. AKD is nowhere near that level of unpopularity. Not yet anyway.
NewsWire 🇱🇰@NewsWireLK
“Gotabaya resigned and left. Anura Kumara will have to flee in a way no one can even find him — remember, we said this.” – Harin Fernando
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You can hate Israel. You can even hate the Israeli people for electing governments that commit such atrocities on the Palestinian people. But if you hold random non-Israeli Jews responsible for Israel's crimes, you gotta question your ability to think critically. Or think at all.
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The govt brags about how, unlike in 2022, the country now has funds. They conveniently leave out the part about how those funds came to be.
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Sri Lankan clickbait media, take note. You don't just regurgitate what a public figure said. You verify it. You double, triple, quadruple check it before you run the story.
NBC News@NBCNews
President Trump said Monday that he spoke to a former president about bombing Iran. • An aide for George W. Bush says that “they haven’t been in touch." • An aide to Bill Clinton says that whoever Trump was referring to was not Clinton. • An Obama aide says “no recent conversations” have taken place between Barack Obama and Trump. • A source familiar with the matter said the former president Trump was referring to was not Joe Biden. nbcnews.com/politics/donal…
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I understand the post-crisis anti-establishment feeling that got the NPP elected. I hate the opposition's naked opportunism. I feel bad that AKD can't catch a break. But I wish the NPP's supporters would hold their beloved govt to the same high standards they claim to champion.
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Both OBAA and Sinners are deserving movies with much merit. But Marty Supreme was robbed.
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Always concerning when private media continues to back the govt even as anti-govt sentiment starts to creep in. It sucks when state media does it too but that's to be expected. When profit-motivated private media does it, something more than simple partisanship has to be at play.
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I beg NPP fanboys waxing lyrical about energy independence to look up the JVP's historical position on energy sector reform.
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There's an entire clickbait ecosystem surrounding guys like Seelarathana. Their outrageous-by-design statements seem to exist solely to generate views and clicks in exchange for some otherwise inconsequential and mostly harmless notoriety. It's not a bad business model, honestly.
DailyMirror@Dailymirror_SL
“If a monk had come to power, there would not have been any gas queues.”
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ධූර කාලය පුරාම ඒ මනුස්සයගෙ කකුලෙන් ඇදලා, කරන්න හදපු හැම ප්රතිසංස්කරණයක්ම අන්තිම බාල, මෝඩ විවේන වලින් කඩාකප්පල් කරන්න උපරිම උත්සහ කරල, දැන් සජබෙ එවුන් ශේප් එකේ රනිල් කරපු වැඩ වලට ලකුණු දාගන්න හදන එක හෙන ආතල්. තමන්ගෙම කියල දේශපාලන දැක්මක් නැති, දාර්ශනික වශයෙන් බංකොලොත් පක්ෂයක්.
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There's a hugely consequential war going on with major implications for the global economy and for import-dependent countries like ours. The president speaks about this important issue and THIS is the sound bite our media thinks is worth highlighting.
NewsWire 🇱🇰@NewsWireLK
Anura Kumara Dissanayake has assured that the government has plans in place to ensure uninterrupted fuel supplies for the next two months despite uncertainties in global markets due to the Middle East situation. The President said fuel prices may go up or down depending on global developments, stressing that he is not an owner of oil wells and did not increase prices for personal profit, nor is he an agent of any oil company.
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Insane that this even needs to be said but you really don't need to find common ground with actual neo-Nazis who think Hitler was onto something.
Himal Kotelawala@himalkk
Sri Lankan pro-Palestine activists don't seem to be aware that a lot of "anti-Zionism" from American evangelical types is thinly veiled antisemitism. Because they blame the Jews for Christ's crucifixion. They're not your allies. They don't care about Palestinians. Or about you.
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Sri Lankan pro-Palestine activists don't seem to be aware that a lot of "anti-Zionism" from American evangelical types is thinly veiled antisemitism. Because they blame the Jews for Christ's crucifixion. They're not your allies. They don't care about Palestinians. Or about you.
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Sri Lankan "anti-Zionists" finding out in real time what their MAGA-adjacent white American allies are really like
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It seems unfair that the political left, which is supposed to speak up for the economic interests of the hardworking majority, a lot of whom happen to be poor, dismiss them entirely to demand justice for a numerical minority of state sector unions who recoil at a whiff of reform.
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Especially since most consumers in SL just get by. We're far from a rich country. Liberals make the mistake of referring to them as "taxpayers", a word that, in the leftist imagination, conjures up images of disposable income that doesn't really exist. Most pay tax indirectly.
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I sympathise with state sector workers, but the left, which has historically monopolised this particular cohort, tends to overlook the interests of the consumers, who make up the majority of the population and arguably subsidise many govt workers' very employment. It feels wrong.
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