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Seshadri Kumar

@KumarSeshadri

I wrote this to a #BJP supporter who wanted to know my political position. I am expanding and sharing it here.

1. BJP is as corrupt and inefficient as #Congress, but it gets a free pass because it is successfully advancing the cause of #Hindu #majoritarianism.

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2. Examples are #Rammandir, #kashivishvanathtemple, #Article370, #TripleTalaq, #UCC, #CAANRC, #Cowslaughter bans, random #lynchings of Muslims, ban on #Azan in public, etc. A majority of Hindus in India support these, as they believe these will "put Muslims in their place."

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3. In fact, #Corruption under the BJP is likely to be far worse than under Congress rule, because the media (which is now entirely under the control of Modi's corporate cronies like A&A) simply refuses to investigate any BJP corruption scams. Examples: #Vyapam, #Rafale...

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Live Law

@LiveLawIndia

[Plea alleging attacks against Christians in India in #SupremeCourt]

SG Mehta: Please see the compliance. The petitioner claimed that there are some 500 incidents where Christians were attacked. We sent everything to State government.

#SupremeCourt #SupremeCourtOfIndia

SG Mehta: We collated all information we got. First let's see Bihar. The total number which Petitioner gave are internal fights between neighbours one of which happens to be Christian - this they have resolved.

#SupremeCourt #SupremeCourtOfIndia

SG Mehta: Wherever actual offence was committed, that has been noted. The figure given by them, which obviously persuaded your lordships, was not correct.

#SupremeCourt #SupremeCourtOfIndia

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Article 14

@Article14live

Yesterday, a #SupremeCourt bench led by the Chief Justice gave the home ministry 2 weeks—first ordered in Sept 2022—to collate data on cases filed & action taken against attacks on #Christians.
Here is a thread on our investigations of attacks against #Christians in 3 states
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In Nov 2021, @nikita_jain15 reported from #Uttarakhand how civil rights campaigners recorded 305 attacks against Christians in 21 states between Jan-Sept 2021, almost every attack followed by a police case against a pastor alleging religious conversion.
article-14.com/post/pastors-a…

In Dec 2021, @mohitmrao travelled to 4 #Karnataka districts & found many attacks unreported, pastors & congregations fearful, with police reluctant to act against attackers, most allied with the ruling #BJP or its sister outfits
article-14.com/post/as-bjp-ta…

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Filomena Rocha

@Filomen03258997

#Israeli hate crimes against #Christians soar in occupied East Jerusalem

The Jewish supremacist rhetoric of the far-right government has reportedly emboldened extremist settler attacks against Palestinian Christians thecradle.co/article-view/2…

#Israeli extremists have increased their attacks on #Palestinian #Christians and Christian institutions in occupied East Jerusalem since the beginning of the year, with police doing little to stop violent incidents, according to Israeli daily Haaretz.
thecradle.co/article-view/2…

Church leaders say the spike in violence can be attributed to the Jewish supremacist rhetoric of the current far-right government, whose ministers have called for Palestinian villages to be “wiped out” and even denied the existence of a Palestinian people.
thecradle.co/article-view/2…

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Sohail Ahmad

@oolabmys

Manzoor Masih, Rehmat Masih, and Salamat Masih were #arrested in May 1993. Maulvi Fazl-e-Haq had accused Salamat Masih, who was only thirteen, of writing #blasphemous slogans on the wall of the local #mosque.
But testimony emerged that Salamat Masih could not read or (1/16)

write. Still, he and his two older companions were charged under section #295_C of the Pakistan #Penal Code, which provided a mandatory #death penalty for anyone defiling the name of the Prophet Muhammad. Human rights campaigners took up the case and protested against (2/16)

the three Christians’ imprisonment. It was pointed out that they could not be fairly tried in #Gujranwala where the safety of the prisoners could not be guaranteed. SSP held frequent demonstrations in and outside the courtroom, demanding the execution of the three (3/16)

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CFI UK

@cfi_uk

On #InternationalDayOfHappiness we note that #Israel is ranked 4th this year, up five places from last year. That puts it well ahead of the #UK (19th place) and the #USA (15th place).
worldhappiness.report/ed/2023/world-…

This is a remarkable and important result when we think of the tensions experienced by the population of this tiny country and that in happiness it also ranks ahead of the #Netherlands, #Sweden, #Germany and #France.

Also note that 21.1% of population of #Israel is #Arab (2,037,000 people) with 73.6% #Jewish and 5.3% ‘others’ including non-Arab #Christians, members of other faiths and those not belonging to any religion. timesofisrael.com/israels-popula…

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Kris Dreemurr of the Pnictogen Wing (at Large)

@KrisAtLarge

we still love @JRRTolkien, which is why we detest Peter Jackson so very much—we think he turned one our favorite childhood works of art into coarse crass (and racist) action trash, and for some reason hardly anyone's noticed. I suppose it's a sign we're in the Bad Place™.

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it's one of the ill-kept secrets of the modern-day fascıst movement, by the way, that they *adore* the Peter Jackson #LOTR films—people like @MattWalshBlog and @Timcast and @benshapiro have probably watched those trashy movies a thousand times. they're big hits, after all.

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and if someone like @benshapiro adores your movie, then you've done something dreadfully wrong—and I earnestly hope that Peter Jackson's treatment of #Tolkien one day gets a very thorough critical laceration. Jackson's a hacky director, and he made polished hackwork.

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Kris Dreemurr of the Pnictogen Wing (at Large)

@KrisAtLarge

there's a #CSLewis quote that I believe comes from many sources—it's a thought he's expressed in multiple places. it goes something like this: "if what you want from a religion is maximal happiness, then the religion of the self is the happiest of all." not a direct quote.

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I wouldn't be surprised if every right-wing Christian I've ever pestered on Twitter—@MattWalshBlog, @RepMTG, @DouthatNYT, @DavidAFrench, every single one I've ever irked—could correct me on the *exact* #CSLewis quote and where it's from. the cult of Jack Lewis is *lively*.

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I suggest that #CSLewis's quote applies best to #Christians. extremist Christianity, "conservative" Christianity, @GOP Christianity, fascıst Christianity, @MattWalshBlog / @DavidAFrench Christianity, is effectively a mere religion of the self—decorated with "Jesus".

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🇺🇸 JewWhoHasItAll

@JewWhoHasItAll

#DearStaff,

#Chag #Purim sameach to everyone!

As you may have noticed, as your Christian colleagues ask for numerous days off again, we are now in the midst of yet another #Christian #holiday #season.

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As we all celebrate Purim, Christians are celebrating the Christian holiday of Christian Purim! Christian Purim is observed the last day before the beginning of the Second Christian Omer, which is also called Christian Elul.

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The #Pope #Gregory #calendar used by #Christians is manipulated to ensure that Christian Purim always takes place on Third Day (which is referred to by Christians as “Tuesday”).

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timethief 🇨🇦 progressive left center voter

@timethief

#Populism Poses Dangers to Democracy. It Does the Same to Christian Witness. How polarizing narratives corrupt our hearts and redefine our faith. christianitytoday.com/ct/2021/septem…

"The plot of the populist story is simple, unchanging, and melodramatic: Life consists of a perpetual struggle between “common people” and the elites who exploit them. The former are noble, virtuous, and righteous;

the latter are corrupt, arrogant, and self-serving. The key to eradicating social ills and injustices lies in helping the people recognize their true enemies and mobilize to defeat them." ...What populist rhetoric adds to the mix is fear, outrage, and an all-consuming urgency.

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🇺🇸 JewWhoHasItAll

@JewWhoHasItAll

#DearTeachers,

Tomorrow some of your Christian students may be observing the Christian holiday of Yom Saint Valentine Ha’Kadosh, more commonly known as Christian Tu B’Av.

It is one of their important religious ‘Feast Days’ that even the least frum observe.
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The holiday falls on Shvat 23rd this year, which is 14 Febuairiy according to the #Christian #holy #calendar #of #Pope #Gregory.
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Even though we are all accustomed to celebrating love on Tu B’Av in the summer, Christians have a tradition of celebrating Yom Saint #Valentine Ha’Kadosh as their own #cultural #day #of #love #and #friendship in the bitter cold of winter.
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📚The Story Teller

@I_am_the_Story

🔆An #FBI internal official use memo (Approved by the FBI's chief lawyer) has been leaked to the public, outlining the FBI's investigatory playbook for 2023.
#USA #BIDEN #FBI #Christian #WhiteSupremacy
uncoverdc.com/2023/02/08/the…

1. The #FBI’s Richmond Division would like to protect Virginians from the threat of “white supremacy,” which it believes has found a home within #Catholics who prefer the #Latin Mass.
#USA #BIDEN #FBI #Christian #WhiteSupremacy

2. An intelligence analyst within the Richmond Field Office of the #FBI released in a new finished intelligence product dated January 23, 2023, on Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (RMVE) and their interests in “Radical-Traditionalist #Catholics or RTCs.
#USA

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Kris Dreemurr of the Pnictogen Wing (at Large)

@KrisAtLarge

the possibility of someone like Tetsuo existing is the inevitable result of humanity's intersection with the numinous. if this sort of thing is *possible at all*—if it's possible for an ordinary human being to acquire godlike powers over matter and energy—then Tetsuo is possible.

magic doesn't exist, so the #Christians and @michaelshermer both say (curious how they always agree in almost every way) but the human _fiction_ about magic seems to grasp this fundamental truth: magic + humanity = world-shaking catastrophe, with appalling ease.

~Chara

it's not clear that humanity *can* safely wield "true magic", which for the sake of discussion I'll define roughly as "magic capable of causing objectively measurable changes on matter and energy". casting a fireball ought to be *measurable*—producing real heat and flame.

~Chara

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Kris Dreemurr of the Pnictogen Wing (at Large)

@KrisAtLarge

Western culture does not regard children as human beings. the values of "the West"—the values instilled by authoritarian #Christianity—do not permit children to be respected as human beings who deserve to have their feelings and wishes respected, like any other person.

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no better example of the general Western *contempt* for children can be imagined than the "gender critical" cult—the @bindelj / @Docstock / #JKRowling brigade—which functions almost entirely as a kind of support group for abusive parents who loathe their LGBTQ+ children.

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they cling to the faded celebrity of @jk_rowling as a shield against the charge that they despise children—after all, #JKRowling is the Best Fantasy Writer in the Universe, according to the @HJoyceGender / @AbigailShrier gender theorists. she's the friend to all children!

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Pnictogen Horses

@PnictogenHorses

Western #education is in abysmal state, and #capitalism is to blame.

the noisemakers at all levels of the #conservative noise machine, from the august @AEI propagandists (like "race scientist" @charlesmurray) to circus sideshows like @Timcast, try to blame "woke", but...

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that "woke" game is extremely thin by now. really it's just rebranded Red Scare nonsense. in 1950, it was Commies who were "destroying our youth" with virulent ideas that right-wing ideologues didn't like, like abstract algebra; now @mtracey and @DouthatNYT blame "woke".

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but ask any low-level right-wing expert on "woke"—ask @realchrisrufo or @ConceptualJames what "wokeism" actually *is*—and you'll get the word "Marxism" in no time: "woke" is, in other words, nothing new at all. it's the same old paranoia about pinko Rooskies in closets.

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Pnictogen Horses

@PnictogenHorses

I am not a #Christian; my friend Chara (who writes at @KrisAtLarge) is Catholic—albeit a heretical one—but I am no "believer". as I've said, I tend to leave religion to others.

all the same, it's tough *not* to have opinions about #Christianity—we're inundated with it.

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in the United States especially, right-wing politics—which infallibly promotes an extremist and hyperpoliticized form of #Christianity—pours enormous effort and money into publicizing #Christian political demands.

@GOP politics and Bible-bashing are practically the same.

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in fact, it seems like *all* public spokespersons for Christianity in the U.S. are political figures. #Christian @GOP politicians and activists and corporate executives proudly proclaim their purpose in public office to be the promotion of "Jesus" and "faith" and "values".

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Saurav Das

@OfficialSauravD

#StoryAlert 🚨

Meet Victoria Gowri, an advocate who was recommended to be a Judge at d Madras HC by the SC collegium led by CJI Chandrachud.

I found evidence of her bias & extreme views against India's #Muslims & #Christians

A thread on her utterances🧵
article-14.com/post/-problem-…

Gowri's first known association with BJP started in 2010, as Kerala Mahila Morcha state in-charge. When Modi's govt came to power in 2014, she was appt a senior central govt counsel at Madras HC in 2015.

In 2017, a cabinet committee headed by Modi also appointed her as... 2/

...an independent director at Kamarajar Port Ltd in Chennai.

In 2020, Modi's govt appointed Gowri as the Assistant Solicitor General of India at Madras HC's Madurai Bench.

Pic: Gowri tying Rakhi to Modi on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan. 3/

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Pnictogen Horses

@PnictogenHorses

let's try again. I wanted to write more *specifically* about Mr. @elonmusk—speculating about why he's the catastrophic person he is, based on what's popularly known about him. everything I'm going to mention is something reported in the popular press (not by @mtaibbi.)

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https://twitter.com/PnictogenHorses/status/1619558112171810819

we know that Mr. Musk had an abusive father, whom @elonmusk has had little good to say about. the man was typical colonialist trash—a South African grifter and speculator who *got lucky*, making a lot of money quickly with a partial share in an apartheid-era emerald mine.

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Mr. Musk (and certainly his #ElonMusk fan club) has tried as hard as possible to suppress any chatter about the emerald mine; Mr. @elonmusk himself, a prolific and habitual liar, has even tried to pretend that the press made it up. but it's too broadly reported to deny.

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Kris Dreemurr of the Pnictogen Wing (at Large)

@KrisAtLarge

the turgid and dreary writings of #AynRand (hi @AynRandInst, @AynRandOrg, @RandPaul) aren't worth reading exactly, but they are worth analyzing. the difficulty is that to analyze Ayn Rand's awful prose, first you have to *read* it. we've only been able to stomach "Anthem".

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we've seen King Vidor's film of "The Fountainhead", scripted by Ayn Rand herself. Vidor's 1940s adaptation of "The Fountainhead" is a true _film maudit_, a "cursed film": right-wing Hollywood star Barbara Stanwyck (I'm still grieving, I used to love her) wanted to make it.

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instead we got Patricia Neal, playing off against a plank of wood named Gary Cooper—Cooper had little acting range, but he specialized in looking dour and stern on screen. he was a bit like @RonaldReagan with more panache and polish. Reagan was a lightweight in comparison.

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Pnictogen Horses

@PnictogenHorses

#loyalty.

loyalty is prized most by the habitually disloyal, just as love is craved most by the unloving and unlovable. @mtaibbi's new friend, @realDonaldTrump, is infamously treacherous and prone to backstabbing his associates—therefore, he demands constant loyalty.

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loyalty is an expression of #trust. if you are loyal to someone, you trust them implicitly, i.e. without needing to affirm the trust in words—remember this, when dealing with anyone (say, a bad boss like @elonmusk) who is constantly demanding explicit promises of loyalty.

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true #loyalty does not need to be tested or propped up constantly with ritualistic affirmations and extraction of promises to be loyal.

there is a *false* loyalty, that bears some superficial resemblance to true loyalty; it's the enforced loyalty of a criminal conspiracy.

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Pnictogen Horses

@PnictogenHorses

Western civilization has failed.

there's no way to avoid this. #COVID19 proved to be the "final straw", as they say—the West's general response to the challenge of the Covid19 pandemic was to abandon its commitment to public health. the next pandemic will scythe us down.

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https://twitter.com/MackayIM/status/1618799056045871104

the breakdown in the West's ability to respond to crises of disease has been ongoing—many decades in the making.

#capitalism has been corroding and corrupting the apparatus of Western health care, especially in the United States, which became a vast reservoir of #COVID19.

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the needs of *public health*—measures to ensure that ALL inhabitants of a nation receive some acceptable minimum of medical care of all sorts, including mental health care—conflict with the needs of #capitalism: the more _profitable_ #medicine is, the more costly it is.

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