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these sorts of comments from nonwhites need to be taboo too; just how it goes in a multiracial country. sorry.
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You are missing the point: Hindu-ness is fundamentally suspect on the left. The bogey of “Hindutva” looms large and is used as a cudgel to keep prominent Hindus in line. To remain in good standing, one must subordinate themselves fully to progressive ideological dictates, which requires the sort of perfunctory denunciations of the BJP we see from Ro and Anand. If and when you reach prominent political office, you’ll be forced to do the same
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Never forget that Palestinians were offered a state in 1937, 1947, 1967, 2000, 2001, and 2008.
They said no every time!
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Why India may never allow an Abdul El-Sayed moment.
Will an Indian Abdul ever get away by making a sharia - shawarma joke? By rejecting Islamic Brotherhood outright ? Win a campaign based on health care and not a religious agenda ?
Can a Muslim politician in India speak beyond his Qaum, question orthodoxy, embrace other faiths and still be considered Muslim enough?
My piece in The Indian Express on faith, freedom and the politics of identity.
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MCD workers in Delhi go to their assigned locations, just click GPS photos for attendance, and then go back to their homes 😭😭
Most of them earn salaries above ₹50,000.
They will oppose privatisation because kaam karna padega na .
@MCD_Delhi
@CMODelhi
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Talarico argues pro-business really means pro-big business, socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for everyone else
“I've seen that when people talk about being pro-business, what that usually means is being pro-big business, right?”
“we basically subsidize Walmart through Medicaid because they don't give their employees quality healthcare.”
“So again, socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the rest of us.”
“And this is not a radical vision. It's what we had before.”
w/ @jamestalarico
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If you increase your font size by 1 point every time you respond to someone in an email, eventually they'll stop emailing you.
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Excellent summary of identity politics in the United States - who can wear their religion on their sleeve and who cannot. Nithya Raman, a Hindu, is expected to distance herself from her religious identity and meet a higher bar of religious neutrality, almost to the point that criticizing her own faith is viewed more favorably than embracing it. By contrast, Sayed and Mamdani wear their faith as a badge of identity and win elections despite fairly bigoted religious associations - a case of a lower bar for religious reform and neutrality being applied to them.
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These seem like cool, healthy guys, who are in no way working out racially-coded psychosexual resentments and anxieties in public
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This too, sadly enough, is Trumpism.
Abdul El-Sayed TROLLING Trump and JD Vance After Winning Michigan’s Senate Race
To JD Vance: “Habibi, there is this delicious irony in the fact that you’re constitutionally obligated to swear me in, in January.”
To Trump: “I know you struggle with my name, so after JD swears me in, you can just go on and call me Senator.”
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Little do they know that BJP at heart is a classically-liberal and pragmatically-progressive party who wants to save the country from Congi castiest feudals whose idea of India is prestige + power for themselves and their Muslim allies while khets to shit in for the subalterns.
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This is just so amazing, President Trump took the call from a journalist from an org not particularly sympathetic to him. And answered questions on a day the results are a definite negative to his party. This is why the media thrives in the US.
“I don’t want to be just sitting there for two years vetoing everything.”
President Donald Trump picked up a call from @DashaBurns on POLITICO Elections Live and talked to us about the blue wave and how he’s willing to work with incoming congressional Democrats.
Watch live now: politi.co/4AgCofb
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His position is clear— full right of return. One state solution. Pre election he hedged, now he’s open about it.
With each gain in power, more emboldened
This is a declaration of a “right of return” for “Palestinian kids” to the “land of their forefathers” in modern day Israel. As I’ve documented at @FoxNews Digital, “Free Palestine” means the “right of return” of diaspora Palestinians to modern day Israel and a demographic overthrow of the nation by Muslims over Jews in Israel to rename it “Palestine.” It’s a “one-state solution.”
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This contentious interchange between the NY Times and @GinaHinojosaTX was truly amazing. Hinojosa offered one of the best explanations of populism I've ever seen. Her comments were a total rejection of Corporate Dems' neoliberal formula. Her Texas victory is a game changer.
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This is a declaration of a “right of return” for “Palestinian kids” to the “land of their forefathers” in modern day Israel. As I’ve documented at @FoxNews Digital, “Free Palestine” means the “right of return” of diaspora Palestinians to modern day Israel and a demographic overthrow of the nation by Muslims over Jews in Israel to rename it “Palestine.” It’s a “one-state solution.”