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Algorithm of Madness | Super Londay | #supercut
Sarkarien aayengi-jayengi, par yeh desh rehna chahiye! Jai Hindi 🇮🇳
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His work was funded by Ford Foundation and McArthur Foundation. How many million years would it take to those "100 workers" to match billionaires like Henry Ford and John McArthur? Or is this calculation meant only for the non-white billionaires? Saving Indian souls - backed by western business - is a very old game.....
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Note to Indian origin foreign politicians and foreign NGOs. The more you tweet in support of any political movement, organisation or person in India, you deal them a death blow. It’s seen as conclusive proof of foreign subversion.
I understand this is a tough concept for Americans and Europeans to get since they seek mutual validation and reassurance, (the Golden Arches theory or whatever BS) but your “validation” in the Indian context is a poisoned chalice.
Your embassies in Delhi are mostly too anglophone to understand how this plays out with India’s non anglophone population. Compounding this is the fact your embassies are also too dumb to understand the depth and scope of their lacunas and their love of listening to what reinforces their beliefs instead of challenging it.
Those asking you to be loud, do so because it gives them individual publicity and opens up whole new avenues of networking and funding. It doesn’t ever help the intended victim/target.
So please be my guest and tweet more about the CJP, and journos, and the electoral revision. It’s fun because it riles up the right…. But it’s even more fun, because you take that riling up as “impact”. …it tickles your vainglorious belief that you’ve achieved “something” “noble” and “meaningful” however intangible. Whereas you don’t even realise, you’ve wrecked any chance your pet movement/organisation/person had, because they’ll be tainted permanently by association with you.
So tweet away - make my day.
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The pricing of the common mobility pass is a testament to how out of touch the babus are with ground realities.
And the cancellation/forgotten existence of proposed lines like BHEL - Lakdikapul is the icing on the cake.
And as I've maintained before - a liberal FSI policy is actually an excellent urban practice, but only and only when clubbed with a dense multi-modal mass transit network. Everything else is setting up for a grand urban failure.
A couple more rants coming later because it has come to that. 🤠
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Good spanking for world’s richest oligarch.
India is not for sale.
His advisors failed to educate him that Indians are fiercely independent thinking.
Ambani has many opponents in India but this assault by @elonmusk is seen as undermining India’s sovereignty.
His stubbornness will make more enemies.
It becomes politically impossible now for Modi to bend under his pressure.
A genius technologist can be such an idiot politically.
Elon, you've officially run out of arguments. Now every Indian who disagrees with you is "Ambani's shill."
Nobody said Starlink is too strong. Nobody's scared of your competition. India's problem is you. A Pentagon contractor building Trump's Golden Dome wants to run internet over Indian soil, and he throws a tantrum every time someone asks who holds the off switch.
Ambani's de facto monopoly?
You SIGNED A DEAL with that monopoly in March 2025 to sell Starlink in India. You didn't have a problem with Ambani when he was your reseller.
You only discovered his monopoly when Jio announced its own satellites.
And let's talk about hypocrisy.
Tesla's biggest factory is in Shanghai. Starlink is banned in China. Have you ever called Xi Jinping a monopolist?
Called Chinese critics shills? Written a sarcastic letter to Prime Minister Xi?
No.
Because Beijing would shut your factory by Monday. India can't, so India gets the insults.
now the math your own fans keep posting starlink could add 100–200 million Indian homes. Starlink is approved for 600 Gbps over India. Split across 100 million homes, that's 6 kilobits per second each. Your revolution is slower than a 1998 dial-up modem. 🤡
If it's too expensive, no one will buy it.
Your own India website showed ₹8,600 a month. A Jio plan costs ₹349. Indians already ran the numbers.
Five days of meltdown. Crime against India. Prime Minister Ambani. collages. And now shills.
The richest man on earth, crying on his own app because a sovereign country wants a security check.
Sit down, elon. Finish the paperwork. India isn't a tesla shareholder you can bully on X.
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Elon, you've officially run out of arguments. Now every Indian who disagrees with you is "Ambani's shill."
Nobody said Starlink is too strong. Nobody's scared of your competition. India's problem is you. A Pentagon contractor building Trump's Golden Dome wants to run internet over Indian soil, and he throws a tantrum every time someone asks who holds the off switch.
Ambani's de facto monopoly?
You SIGNED A DEAL with that monopoly in March 2025 to sell Starlink in India. You didn't have a problem with Ambani when he was your reseller.
You only discovered his monopoly when Jio announced its own satellites.
And let's talk about hypocrisy.
Tesla's biggest factory is in Shanghai. Starlink is banned in China. Have you ever called Xi Jinping a monopolist?
Called Chinese critics shills? Written a sarcastic letter to Prime Minister Xi?
No.
Because Beijing would shut your factory by Monday. India can't, so India gets the insults.
now the math your own fans keep posting starlink could add 100–200 million Indian homes. Starlink is approved for 600 Gbps over India. Split across 100 million homes, that's 6 kilobits per second each. Your revolution is slower than a 1998 dial-up modem. 🤡
If it's too expensive, no one will buy it.
Your own India website showed ₹8,600 a month. A Jio plan costs ₹349. Indians already ran the numbers.
Five days of meltdown. Crime against India. Prime Minister Ambani. collages. And now shills.
The richest man on earth, crying on his own app because a sovereign country wants a security check.
Sit down, elon. Finish the paperwork. India isn't a tesla shareholder you can bully on X.
The ridiculous arguments by Ambani’s army of Internet shills make no sense
On the one hand, they say Starlink couldn’t possibly compete with the amazing low prices offered by Ambani’s de facto monopoly in India and then, in the same breath, they essentially claim that Starlink would be too strong of a competitor! This is absurd hypocrisy and hyperbole.
The reality is that competition would greatly benefit the average citizen in India by giving them more choices, as it always does. Ambani’s profits will be lower, but he is not going out of business. And, obviously, if Starlink is too expensive in India, no one will buy it, so SpaceX will need to make pricing affordable.
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Imagine finding out that your grandmother passed away, and then consciously lying about it to gain political sympathy.
@abhijeet_dipke, you really are a special kind of vermin to claim you weren’t informed.
This footage absolutely ends you.
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The American establishment has drunk their own kool-aid - doctored academic research on India, its history and what constitutes Indian nationalism. They genuinely believe the country is an artificial construct where the state stitches together weak alliances between warring tribes and communities. Extending this, the belief is that the nation can be colonized, brought to its knees and broken.
The echo chamber the Americans live in will be the undoing of the Indo-Pacific/Pivot to Asia. Relying on paid acolytes in the target country backfires in the end. It gives a colored view of the ground reality of what makes the country resilient. It also overestimates weaknesses. Refusal to understand Hindu civilization for what it is, and the Indian state as the inheritor of this civilization, leads to miscalculations and misjudgments.
Moreover, a country of India’s size that has tasted progress after several generations, is unlikely to give up on the upswing it is enjoying at any cost. When a giant starts moving, it gains momentum enough to push back against internal and external sabotage.
Washington’s miscalculations are not unique with respect to India. They briefly cracked Iran decades ago, but it did not last. We see how that is playing out today. They tried to turn China into a democracy, and that too failed. They believed Russia would break further after the Soviet Union fell, and yet, nothing like that happened. All efforts involved galvanizing “dissidents”. If anything, all three countries have emerged strategically stronger.
Over time, the US has only lost relative power in the global order. It is no surprise that they turn to white Christian nationalism and lofty talk about mythical “Western civilization”. It is a hard coping mechanism. The US is still powerful but on the wane. The Pavlovian response to this is sharp edged, often schizophrenic foreign and economic policy, which undoes the RBO undergirding decades of unipolarity. This naturally gives way to multipolarity.
The rise of the East is unstoppable. The relative decline of the West is inevitable. Europe has resigned to its fate. The US too will eventually when India breaks free. It is the last major power which will tilt the balance of power firmly from the North Atlantic to the Indo-Pacific. It is for this reason the viciousness with which the US will target India will be far greater than seen with any other country. Now, going back to the original point, their miscalculations will only accelerate India’s rise as a pole in the world.
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Dear @elonmusk,
India is not your colony, and its telecom policy is not yours to dictate.
Before you lecture India on who really runs the country, learn the difference between a nation and a market you want access to.
Your Starlink pitch is a sales proposal reinforced with humanitarian concern, is a gratuitous insult to India thrown in for effect. You invoke our children, our villages and our disaster victims, then suggest that our elected leadership exists to protect a billionaire’s commercial interests. I have to say—this is an absolute metaphor foe corporate entitlement.
Here are a few facts you might find inconvenient.
In August 2026 alone, India’s UPI processed 24.5 billion transactions worth ₹29.82 lakh crore. A homegrown digital payments system has made instant transfers part of everyday life for millions, without requiring Indians to depend on American payment giants. By May 2025, 97.65% of India’s villages had mobile connectivity, and 96.8% had 4G coverage. These are official Indian government figures, not a billionaire’s sales pitc
Does India still have connectivity gaps? Absolutely. Can Starlink help remote communities and disaster-hit regions? Certainly. Then make a compelling case for your service, compete fairly and let Indian consumers decide. You do not get to portray an entire country as technologically helpless merely because you want a bigger market.
And the irony of your political condescension deserves attention.
You come from a country whose electoral administration is fragmented across more than 10,000 jurisdictions, with voting rules and procedures varying from state to state. India conducts the world’s largest electoral exercise through a constitutional framework administered by the Election Commission of India, bringing hundreds of millions of voters into the democratic process. Our electoral system has imperfections and deserves scrutiny, just as yours does. But the notion that an American billionaire is entitled to sneer at Indian democracy while demanding that its leadership accommodate his business is breathtaking arrogance.
And let us be clear about the word monopoly. If any Indian corporation is abusing market power or using political influence to obstruct competition, produce the evidence. Investigate it. Prove it. But do not confuse a regulatory decision you dislike with proof of corruption, or wrap an unsubstantiated insinuation in concern for poor children.
Starlink is not a gift to India. It is a commercial service seeking customers in India. India has every right to insist on spectrum compliance, security safeguards, lawful interception and terms that serve its national interest. No company, however wealthy its owner, is entitled to exemptions from the laws of a sovereign nation.
You have built businesses by challenging established players. Fine. Now face the same test yourself: compete, innovate, lower prices and earn the trust of your customers.
India does not owe you access on your terms. Its people are not props in your public-relations campaign, and its Prime Minister is not your subordinate.
You may own a company that wants to enter India. You do not own the right to lecture India on how to run itself.
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@ShivAroor Just like Trump repeating lie hundred times that he has stopped war.
Yatha Raja Thada Praja @aravind @AadiAchint @Sanjay_Dixit @AdityaRajKaul @rishibagree
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ANI has covered and amplified every statement of Saurav Das, too, but never asked him questions.
Neither did they come to people like us who are exposing this CJP gang.
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Elon Musk to Grok
Key disadvantages of allowing Starlink in India include:
National security risks: Foreign-controlled network limits India's ability to shut off service in sensitive border areas or ensure availability during crises. Past reports of terminals with militants or smugglers raise misuse concerns.
Data sovereignty issues: Laser links could route traffic outside Indian gateways, complicating monitoring and lawful interception.
High costs: Hardware and monthly fees likely far exceed affordable terrestrial options like Jio or Airtel, limiting rural access.
Market impact: Could disrupt local telecoms and foster over-reliance on a single US provider instead of domestic alternatives.
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Key disadvantages of allowing Starlink in India include:
National security risks: Foreign-controlled network limits India's ability to shut off service in sensitive border areas or ensure availability during crises. Past reports of terminals with militants or smugglers raise misuse concerns.
Data sovereignty issues: Laser links could route traffic outside Indian gateways, complicating monitoring and lawful interception.
High costs: Hardware and monthly fees likely far exceed affordable terrestrial options like Jio or Airtel, limiting rural access.
Market impact: Could disrupt local telecoms and foster over-reliance on a single US provider instead of domestic alternatives.
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🧵Important
As Elon Musk claims that 'oligarchs' in India are allegedly running a monopoly and blocking Starlink, read how his satellite internet system has been repeatedly used by terror outfits
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Is China one of those 165 countries? The same China where you have a giga-factory? Too scared to take their name, eh? Even if Starlink meets all requirements - if! - their application should be on hold given Musk’s behaviour. Cannot be trusted to follow Indian rules in the least.
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Spare us the crocodile tears, @elonmusk.
My home office, in a village at the foothills of the Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu, runs on 200+ Mbps BSNL fibre for under $15 a month. Starlink's comparable 200 Mbps plan in the US costs $85 a month, plus a $349 dish.
BharatNet has made more than 90% of village panchayats broadband-ready, and the rest are due by March 2027. In rural America, nearly 1 in 4 households still has no wired 100 Mbps provider.
Rural India isn't waiting to be rescued.
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Dear Elon @elonmusk
You hv certainly stirred up plenty of reaction with ur posts. But this needs a response from me, as did ur “Electronic Voting machines can be hacked” post from some time ago.
As someone who knows a little bit abt Telecom as someone who played a decent-ish role in building Indias wireless sector as an Entrepreneur and then as a policy maker , let me share my thoughts.
It is true that Indias Telecom was a sector beset with opaqueness and corruption for several decades - where cronies ruled under the benevolent love and the politics of ur latest fan (name not withheld - @RahulGandhi )
But under PM @narendramodi , 3 principles govern the tech (including Telecom/Internet) sector.
Open, Safe & Trusted and Accountable.
#OSTA
✅ Open - Free from any monopoly-duopoly. Free and fair competition.
✅ #SafeAndTrusted - Infra, Network , Platforms must be safe and trusted.
✅ Accountable - Every participant should be legally accountable for safety and trust.
I was a MP first and then part of PM @narendramodi jis team when this framework was developed. I have more than a little experience of fighting years of political and bureaucratic opaqueness and corruption, which shaped these principles.
so todays India is not that old crony driven India.
I am not in govt anymore and certainly dont speak for it. But it seems to me that Govt has made it clear: all three satcom licensees are at broadly the same stage of ensuring security clearance by verifying its safety and trust first, then spectrum.
Satellite IP services have many security implications. More so in a country like India which has faced years of Terror and insurgency supported by inmical state actors in our neighbourhood. From 26/11 terror attacks to recent ones in Pahalgam, satcom has been preferred comm for Terrorists. Satellite VOIP and encryption creates more challenges security wise. Not insurmountable but new capabilities and capacity hv to be built to ensure Safety and Trust.
I hv used @Starlink and I think its awesome technology - and represents a new era in mobility innovation. No doubt.
But a country has to plan for itself and its interests before every new choice. Thats what India is doing. Patience is unavoidable and in this case is a necessity.
