I have to admire Neo-Buddhists. It takes a special kind of buddhi to look at a Muslim celebrating the destruction of Buddha statues - carried out by the Taliban, a Muslim group that rose after the US funded Islamists to push the Soviets out of Afghanistan - & still blame Hindus.

were regulated by traditional practices & religious ethics. They were responsible for building many Murugan temples, which are still extremely popular in Malaysia & other Southeast Asian countries. Ultimately they were capitalists, but they were also bhaktas 2/2.

The Nagarathar Chettiar financial system was not "built around" seizing people's properties. Their kula devam (clan deity) was Pazhani Murugan, & their covenant with this god was formulated as a contract. Their loans, donations & business dealings w/family, caste, & strangers 1/.

RT @BigBillMoon: You weren’t ‘just living, minding your own business’ though, were you?. You were lecturing, hectoring, calling the police,….

Musk is dressed like an advisor whom Trump uses for his savant-level Mentat IQ, even while regretting that his congenital mental instability means he must be discarded when his behaviour becomes too erratic for the Landsraad to tolerate.

Why I haven't fixed it: after Covid lockdown I quit my job & moved in w/my parents. Getting an official translation of my Malay birth certificate into English so I can prove I'm male was super expensive & not a priority during various life crises. Guess I chose violence 3/3.

Apart from inconvenience & confusion w/healthcare providers, the only negative effect I've noticed is increasingly angry letters from the health department pleading w/me to get my cervix screened. They have no record of me ever having done so (bc I've never had a cervix) 2/.

About 12 years ago, a glitch at the Australian government changed my marker to 'F' on my Medicare records. No idea why it happened. I have to disclose that I'm NOT trans whenever I see a doctor. According to Lady Gaga, I've actually been suffering from daily violence 1/.

Conservatives will say gender identity theory is ridiculous (it is) & then call any man who doesn't act like Genghis Khan "spiritually female" with zero irony.

I've reposted good journalism from Reduxx, despite my growing qualms about this unhinged person's increasingly homophobic & racist opinions. It will be interesting to see at what point her advocacy for dehumanisation & the wholesale expulsion of the Indian diaspora ends 7/.

So she hates Indian merchant castes for their capitalist ways. She hates Indian worker castes for being too hard working & submissive to their bosses. She hates that the Brits spread us to other colonies & used us in their imperial machinery, instead of eradicating us 6/.

No. While the British (wrongly) said Southeast Asians were lazy, & Indian labourers were docile & hardworking, Anna says that's bc Indians are subhuman cockroaches who enjoy being cramped into compounds & slaving for our British overlords, unlike the noble Burmese or Malay 5/.

But is Anna's problem just w/sly, grasping Indian merchants who were servants of capital? Is she kinder to working class Indians who were indentured labourers, bonded to British plantations in Southeast Asia, (inc. some of my other ancestors), & later trade unionists? 4/.

Anna blames Indian merchants for capitalism, not the British, Dutch, French or Portuguese East India companies who were USING Indian merchants as middle men to extract resources from Asia & send them back to London, Amsterdam, Paris or Lisbon. Why is that? 3/.

Anna gleefully says that bc we introduced the "evils of usury" to the Burmese, that justifies Burma's later dispossession & expulsion of the entire Indian population (inc. Indians who'd lived there for generations). 2/.

There is literally no form of evil racism this woman won't endorse. The British Empire used Indian merchant communities (like Chettiars, a clan I'm descended from) to provide capital for their Southeast Asian expansion, as they used Jews in mediaeval times 1/.

To do one Roman salute may be regarded as a misfortune, to do two looks like carelessness.

Matt Walsh rediscovered existential psychology, a mainstream approach in the US 60 yrs ago (or Chat GPT discovered it for him). This man just goes from one diagnostic inflation to the next, puncturing them w/ insights that seem fresh & profound if you're illiterate.

Cited in EM Fisher, Hindu Pluralism (2017).

"We need to reintroduce blasphemy laws in the UK because Muslims keep killing people and our PR is a disaster. Freedom of conscience & expression are incompatible with our community, so no one else can enjoy it.".