My wife manages an extended team of about 30, several of whom are Indians. She’s had at least one from a lower caste complain that in private, some of those from a higher caste treated her very poorly.
And when my wife spoke to HR, they wanted no part of it. They were worried that any action would be called racist. If you recall, when CA tried to include caste in the list of protected classes, there were a number of Indians (presumably of higher caste) who called it racist.
Well, J.D.'s gotta do something to try to get attention these days, what with Musk and Trump running the country and VPs being historically irrelevant.
But why isn’t he down at the Mexican border 24/7 holding back the tidal wave of pet-eating migrants?
Modi, the Indian Prime Minister, is a Hindu nationalist who many (including the US state dept) consider to have, at best, done nothing to stop a massacre of Muslims and at worst to have orchestrated it. And India is now 159th out of 180 countries in terms of freedom of the press.
So, in the maga world he’s one of the good, “strong” leaders.
However, Indians of any faith just look like scary Muslims to MAGAs, and any other faith than Christianity is evil anyway, so MAGA will never openly embrace them. If Vivek was still prominent I could imagine an attempt to claim Brahmin indians as one of the “good” races, but he seems to have vanished.
Not correct. Of course they promote Nazi ideology in a clever enough way to avoid being sued. And when they are sued, for instance their Youth Organisation Junge Alternative, they dissolve and start anew (link in German). It takes months or years for the Verfassungsschutz (you know, the state organisation that discriminates against Nazis, as Vance complained, only they lean heavily rightwards and are not truly commited) to compile the new dossiers and until then the AfD will keep on claiming they are not Nazis at all. And Adolf Hitler was a communist, you know? It’s in the name of his party, nationalsocialists (nudge, nudge, wink, wink). Said Frau Weidel when she spoke with Musk on X, née Twitter.
You know he doesn’t believe that. He believes there were fine people on only one side.
HeleneMayer (The first link goes to the Guardian. The second link goes to Wikipedia.)
Not so much a law as a dictate by Goebbels that her non-Aryan status not be mentioned. Of note is during the Nazi Olympics, when she was on the stand, all three medalists were of Jewish descent.
When Trump/Musk/2025 cut USAID, when they were telling the world two very important things about the kind of value system the United States intends to export from now on:
The United States (under MAGA anyway) is done with alliances unless there is a clear, obvious, transactional benefit to the United States. All alliances, with every country - every last one - are being reevaluated right now on that basis.
We’re also done with giving a shit about human rights. In fact, we’re openly hostile to human rights. That’s noteworthy because a global power that exports that kind of message is also giving itself permission to abuse them in the future. We’re done with the ICC and ICJ. Done with the Geneva Convention. If other countries want to brutalize their dissidents, that’s just fine with us, as we’ll probably do the same from time to time - just give us the raw materials and natural resources we want (and if you don’t, we’ll commit war crimes against you until you do).
I have no doubt that couch fucker has Nazi tendencies, but his over the top rhetoric sounds like he’s trying awfully hard to show the co-presidents that he too can be a complete piece of shit and nothing is too loathsome for him to tackle. He’s just trying to establish his dickhead cred so he too can sit a the big boy table.
