Opinion of Narendra Modi

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Dangerous fascist. Hopefully at least once foreign leader has the guts to call him out on being a murderous thug.

Basically this.

Liberals shouldn't be opposing a moderate third wayer whose tenure had his province's GDP increase by 3.

Buzzword buzzword buzzword. I suppose you think we should be hailing the 'Texas miracle', too?

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He certainly didn't lift a damn finger to help, and made political bank in the aftermath.

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No.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Dangerous fascist. Hopefully at least once foreign leader has the guts to call him out on being a murderous thug.

Basically this.

Liberals shouldn't be opposing a moderate third wayer whose tenure had his province's GDP increase by 3.

Buzzword buzzword buzzword. I suppose you think we should be hailing the 'Texas miracle', too?

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He certainly didn't lift a damn finger to help, and made political bank in the aftermath.

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No.

All that you are saying is that he is a politician and that somehow the growth wasn't real. Economics and India's Supreme Court disagree.

The growth was real so far as these things go but, as in Rick Perry's Texas, not the point for anyone who wasn't already well-off by Indian standards; legal exoneration does not equal moral innocence and the kind of deliberately contorted, brutish cynicism necessary to reduce essentially sitting back, relaxing, and enjoying the show during a pogrom (and that's the most charitable possible interpretation of his involvement) to 'just being a politician' is the kind of flagrant, frightening amorality worthy of, well, Narendra Modi.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Growth is growth, no matter how you slice it.

That's one of the most vapid things I've ever heard.

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ITT: taking Mr. Pollo seriously

I promise you that's not what I'm doing.

He's such a strange persona, isn't he? A tumblr leftist and a moderate hero at the same time. I wouldn't have imagined such a thing.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

ITT: taking Mr. Pollo seriously

I promise you that's not what I'm doing.

He's such a strange persona, isn't he? A tumblr leftist and a moderate hero at the same time. I wouldn't have imagined such a thing.

I tell ya', he's Opebo!

opebo was neither of those things. His schtick was way different. It may very well also have included Modi apologism, but the reasons wouldn't have been the same.

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opebo was neither a tumblr leftist nor moderate hero. Also with his hatred of all religion he'd never defend the BJP.

Like many--certainly not all, but many--people who hate or claim to hate all religion, opebo hated Islam significantly more than at least some other religions, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if he viewed the BJP as a useful weapon to deploy against his proverbial 'bearded men'.