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Hardik Rajgor retweeted
Currently there are two simultaneous race wars, Turkey vs. China and Japan vs. French leftist/immigrants.
The Japanese 🇯🇵, as you know, are culturally allergic to public disorder. So the Franco-Japanese War kicked off when they saw French accounts cheering on the riots while using anime avatars and Japanese characters in their handles.
They said those anime characters are about virtues such as courage, justice, effort, and friendship, and they shouldn't be associated with torching cars or looting. Basically the message was: “if you need a symbol for destruction, invent your own. Stop culturally appropriating ours for your ugly ends.”
From there it escalated into classical mutual stereotype annihilation. The Japanese didn't hold back, using typical allusions to apes and hounding on their failure to build thriving societies despite being given all the aid and welfare in the world. The French accounts (majority were rocking North African flags) hit back, insulting Japanese for screwing sex dolls and working so hard they commit suicide. It wasn't pretty.
While that was cooking, a separate Turkey vs. China war was already underway. Algerians 🇩🇿 noticed and decided to ride for their “Turkish brothers,” dropping cartoons roasting the Chinese.
The Moroccans 🇲🇦, watching from the sidelines, started laughing and saying "screw the Ummah," telling them they really didn’t want to invite the Chinese to attack them. The Algerian account responded by calling the Moroccan’s sister a whore. This, my friends is what I personally call "fractal racism."
On the surface, you think it's just one undifferentiated “brown Muslim” mass. But when you zoom in, what you get is infinite-resolution tribalism and more divisions of recursive hate. At this magnification, the French Muslim immigrant blob split along Maghrebi lines that few of us outsiders know exist.
French-Algerian accounts volunteering as Turkish proxies then invites Chinese 🇨🇳 online aggression. Which means the Chinese and Japanese (and Koreans 🇰🇷 who joined them), are now united in common cause in mutual contempt for the same people. Two separate race wars are threatening to collapse into one lol.
The internet is so weird and entertaining isn't it.
Where and how else could this have happened? Two sides with the deepest historical hatreds on the planet, and likely a fissure point of the next actual kinetic World War, are briefly aligned.
My dad is not a tech-savvy person.
In over three decades of his CA practice, he has discarded many computers because of hardware issues or because they stopped working for one reason or another.
But he always took out the SATA hard drives from the CPUs and kept them safe in a cupboard, knowing they might still contain sensitive client data that could fall into the wrong hands. He never knew what to do with them.
Some were 1TB, some 500GB, some 250GB, and a few older ones were 80GB.
The other day, he stacked all of them in front of me and asked me what the safest way to dispose of them was.
I asked him, “Are they working?”
He had no idea.
So I bought a SATA to USB connector from Amazon for ₹750.
And upon testing them, I found that every single one of them (except one) was still perfectly functional! 🤯
In a year when storage devices and portable HDDs have become ridiculously expensive, this felt like finding a ₹500 note tucked away in an old pair of jeans. 😁
Hardik Rajgor retweeted
"Sharjeel Imam is a nightmare for liberals because he says in public what many of them are afraid to say even in private. He does not look like a textbook text-adherent mulla, yet he sounds like one. The reaction is shock, or the performance of shock. He is a scholar of a particular kind, and his colour is too stark for the liberati, who keep a Sufi sher ready for every argument. When pressed, they retreat into the claim that understanding him requires critical theory, and this, and that, blah blah.
Calling the Constitution fascist, secularism a trap, and democracy a device to deny Muslims their "divine right" is not critical theory. It is the Two-Nation Theory updated for a new century."
By @kkstau
indiatoday.in/opinion/story/…
Hardik Rajgor retweeted
The full picture on Chinese export controls is sharper than just TBMs alone.
The licence rule applies to exports to “sensitive countries and regions in dispute with China.”
The list also covers walking excavators and plateau shotcrete machines used above 3,000 metres.Basically the equipment that builds roads and tunnels as part of India's massive infrastructure buildout in Himalayas.
Beijing has also put controls on drone autopilots and engines, and last week floated a draft to restrict 40+ technologies, including next-gen solar manufacturing.
Every sector where India is trying to cut dependence on China is now a chokepoint.
Just need to face it and build it here, and build it fast. via @businessline
China announces export controls for tunnel boring machines (TBMs)
From Nov 18, exporting TBMs will require a licence. These are the machines fuelling India’s infrastructurebooming especially metros and highway tunnels.
Beijing is classifying them as “dual-use” items, which gives the move a security label, but in effect it is economic coercion.
This has happened before. In 2024, China began delaying customs clearances for TBM shipments to India, and in August 2025 it told India it had lifted the curbs on TBMs. With this licence rule, the delays become a formal mechanism that Beijing can tighten or loosen whenever relations change.
India’s dependence here is real, but it is narrower than it might look. TBM imports from China had already dropped sharply, from $18 million in 2022-23 to $3 million in 2023-24, and most self-propelled TBMs have come from outside China. The serious risk is deayed metro timelines and cost escalation if suppliers’ Chinese plants or components get stuck in licensing.
India’s response has to be to make these machines itself, and that work has started. The government is preparing a $1.2 billion incentive scheme to make tunnel boring machines, firefighting equipment and elevators in India. It is expected to bring in about $1.8 billion in investment over seven years.
BEML is preparing to manufacture TBMs locally, and L&T could also benefit. Building this capacity will take years, but each round of export controls from China makes the case for it stronger. asia.nikkei.com/economy/chin…
Hardik Rajgor retweeted
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THIS IS THE BIGGEST WIN OF 18-YEAR-OLD ANAHAT’S CAREER! 🔥🔥🔥
People (including me) often use this platform to complain about brands.
It's only fair that I also share a positive experience I had recently.
I had to cancel a trip a few days back due to medical emergency at home. It was a serious matter, we had to get multiple tests done and then schedule a surgery immediately.
I knew the flight tickets were non-refundable but I asked @airindia if they would consider, since it was not an ordinary case.
Honestly speaking, I wasn't expecting much. The rules in terms of ticket cancellations are quite clear.
But they asked me for a few documents, just to assess that the case was genuine!
And Air India offered me a full refund.
A couple of their executives also called me and wished the patient quick recovery.
I really appreciate it.
They didn't have to, but they made that extra effort. And I believe it is this soft human touch that separates our Indian brands from many others in the world.
Thank you, Air India.
Sanjay Raut had no idea his own party will split in half and Eknath Shinde would end their political careers, but he knows who is right and who is wrong in Albania. 🤡
The French police must learn to respect the democratic right of students and ordinary citizens to protest against their government.
A democracy is not merely about holding elections, but also about allowing dissent, listening to opposing voices and protecting the right to peaceful assembly.
Using violence against students and protesters is unacceptable and only weakens the democratic spirit.
The French authorities must remember that liberty, equality and fraternity are not just slogans to be invoked when convenient, but values that must be upheld even when citizens challenge those in power. 🙂
It is better to err on the side of caution
and shut down an entire goddamn area with force
than to preach gyaan about freedom and liberty
and have your capital turn into Paris with rioting and violence
when we have 1 cop for every 830 people
Hardik Rajgor retweeted
.@FRANCE24 TV: “India has come to standstill with protests.”
Meanwhile, France right now:
Within one week, we have gone from everyone in the government trying to explain SIR to everyone in the opposition trying to explain what they mean by regime change. 😂
Abhijeet Dipke and Arvind Kejriwal are trying to convince the aam janta that the Government is against the Tiranga.
The guys who did the surgical strikes.
The guys who have put the Indus treaty in abeyance.
The guys who keep buying Russian oil despite international pressure.
Arey bhai - bad roads, broken civic infra, E20, local corruption, lack of jobs, there are so many issues out there.
Unka toh main plank hi nationalism hai.
And you will convince people they are anti-Tiranga?
Ok.
Good luck to you.
If you’d asked me 3 years ago who would portray Bhagwan Ram if Indian cinema were to make a Ramayana film, I couldn’t have given you a name.
But if you’d asked me 3 years ago who could play Sita Maa, I would have given you a name in a heartbeat.
Sai Pallavi.
For me, it is the biggest no-brainer casting choice in the entire film. And I’ve been quite surprised by the criticism of this choice.
If you’ve watched any of Sai’s Tamil or Malayalam films, you’d know she has a charismatic presence on screen. Her face has an innocence that this character demands.
I’m sorry, but a lot of the criticism over her ‘beauty’ is rooted in an inferiority complex. People saying she’s not ‘fair’ or ‘beautiful’ enough have a problem with the fact that she’s ‘Indian-looking’.
Just a gori-chitti actress doesn’t cut it. This is not a Baywatch casting. The actor also has to bring the depth and emotionality that the character demands.
Sai is beautiful and charming. And more importantly, a terrific actor.
I have no doubt she’s going to prove all the sceptics wrong.
I wish her and the team behind #Ramayana the best.
What we are seeing right now is an attempt to mainstream the 'idea' of a regime change.
Little by little, every day.
No one is advocating violence openly.
Everyone is legally correct and morally ambiguous.
Neha Bora wears a One Piece t-shirt to the protest, which was the symbol of the Gen-Z protests in Nepal, that stormed government buildings. But haha it's just a shirt, why would you make more of it? Don't overreact.
She also claims she is inspired from the revolution in Bangladesh. No mentions of the Hindu massacres or houses of politicians being burnt. Her inspiration could just be the 'spirit of change', why would you assume more? Students all over the world just want better lives, duh!
Dhruv Rathee is only appealing to the conscience of the Army and Cops to do 'the right thing'. What is wrong about that? Shouldn't they do the right thing instead of 'following orders'? Orders can be wrong, you know.
Prashant Bhusan is clearly saying he wants a regime change. But it could also be through elections. Why would you assume it would be a violent overthrow? Did he say that?
Everyday you hear some or the other politician dog-whistle that the 'faisla' will happen on the 'streets' now. What faisla, they don't elaborate. What do they mean by streets? Violence? Or just pressure groups? Not clear.
The CEC is now being called 'Gyanu' in pop-culture. It's the Pappu-fication of a constitutional figure so people don't take him as seriously anymore. The CJI is politely (and impolitely) being called a 'sellout' or 'compromised' by different people to different degrees.
International media and reels have already joined the bandwagon of 130 million deleted voters. International audiences are being told that the Indian government has gone unhinged and there are 'big protests' against the government.
This is the setting of a stage.
To normalize the idea of a regime change, which is not through the ballot box.
Everything and everyone is compromised.
Are you just going to sit and watch, or do something about it?
Get angry now.
When the time is right, we will get to the 'doing' stage.
















