#Opposition Unity

[brijendrasstuff]

"Action Over Drama: PM Modi Calls for Opposition Unity in 18th Lok Sabha Session"

Action Over Drama: PM Modi Calls for Opposition Unity in 18th Lok Sabha Session Modi, opposition unity, 18th Lok Sabha, action, drama Discover how PM Modi’s call for opposition unity in the 18th Lok Sabha session emphasizes action over drama. Unite for progress and efficiency in governance! #BreakingNews | PM Modi sets the tone for Parliament session in historic first session of 18th Lok Sabha…

[khabarwala247]

Lalu Yadav: अपने पुराने अंदाज में नजर आए पूर्व सीएम लालू यादव

बिहार के पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री लालू यादव (Lalu Yadav) ने शुक्रवार को INDIA गठबंधन के मंच से संयुक्त प्रेसवार्ता में केंद्र सरकार और भाजपा पर जमकर निशाना साधा। उन्होंने अपने अलग ही अंदाज में चुटकी लेते हुए अपनी बात रखी। इस दौरान वहां मौजूद लोग ठहाके लगाते हुए दिखाई दिए। लालू ने अपने संबोधन में गठबंधन में शामिल सभी दलों के मिलकर लड़ने की बात भी कही।

[banglakhobor]

মেরুকরণের রাজনীতিই দায়ী, মণিপুর আজ দ্বিখণ্ডিত, অনাস্থা প্রস্তাবে কংগ্রেসের নিশানায় মোদি

নয়াদিল্লি: রাহুল গাঁধী লোকসভায় অনাস্থা প্রস্তাব নিয়ে আলোচনার সূচনা করবেন বলে কথা ছিল। কিন্তু দলের সাংসদ গৌরব গগৈয়ের (Gaurav Gogoi) হাতেই গুরুদায়িত্ব ছাড়লেন রাহুল। কংগ্রেসের তরফে গৌরবই কেন্দ্রের মোদি সরকারের বিরুদ্ধে অনাস্থা প্রস্তাব জমা দেন। মঙ্গলবার অনাস্থা প্রস্তাব নিয়ে আলোচনাও শুরু করেন তিনিই। আর তাতে আগাগোড়া প্রধানমন্ত্রী নরেন্দ্র মোদিকে নিশানা করলেন তিনি। (No Confidence Motion) বিগত তিন…

[allegedlyalan]

"if a boy makes fun of you that means he likes you 🥺" your children will grow up to ship opposite unity

[clongoisdead]

So... do yall fuck w opposite unity yet or do I have to go back to the cuck chair and watch left unity?

[thirdity]

Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.

Henry Miller, Henry Miller on Writing

[ancom-irl]

this is how i imagine nazi and ancom

[toasted-treasure]

Happy pride month 🫶🏳️‍🌈

[philosophybits]

What opposes, unites; the finest harmony is composed of things at variance, and everything comes to be in accordance with strife.

Heraclitus, Fragments, B8

[roxannepolice]

Just read someone saying thoschei is endgame and cousin in Omega I see what you mean, except. There is no endgame here. Like, if there was a Doctor Who endgame, they would be it, but there isn't one. It's not even the case of BBC coming up with the ultimate milking the brand potentially forever mechanism, at least not only that, but of "if they haven't got there by now, they never satisfyingly will".

They aren't doomed by the narrative, they are doomed by the absence of the narrative.

[morlock-holmes]

@onecornerface linked me to this paper, which I mostly agree quite a lot with, and lays out some thoughts that I've been having lately in a much more coherent, far less fundamentally angry form than I have. Particularly the fact that the American racial culture wars are primarily waged between rival groups of middle-to-upper-class whites and that the distinction between de jure and de facto segregation is actually important and worth focusing on.

I'm trying to think how to put certain thoughts in order, but over the last few years I have been increasingly fixated on the fact that de jure segregation and affirmative action have both been resolutely defeated in the law here in the US.

The defeat of segregation has been the quicker and more complete; I cannot bring to mind any attempt to revive Jim Crow or repeal the Civil Rights act.

Affirmative action, in contrast, has not been completely excised from the US but it seems to be well on the way out.

My followers will know that I like to piss people off by asking for a legislative or court victory for Affirmative Action that happened in the last half century. I think the closest I've gotten was a California ballot measure that didn't pass and maybe, like, one Supreme Court decision that was kind of a mixed bag rather than being entirely restrictive from the early 70s.

Both these situations strike me as incredibly weird, and people hate when I say that, because they sense a kind of dismissiveness lurking behind the assertion that these total legal defeats are weird.

Which frustrates me because it makes them incapable of even admitting that anything happened.

I cannot name any other important culture war issues like this. Roe V. Wade dates to very close to the Civil Rights Act, and American conservatives never once stopped working at overturning it through the courts and legislatures, and, as we know, they finally succeeded.

The same kind of continual push for legislation and court victories can be observed for every other culture war battle I can think of. If I asked you to name one legislative or court victory for anti-gay activists in the last fifty years you could probably name several off the top of your head, e.g. Prop 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act. If I asked you to name similar victories for pro-gay activists you'd cite Lawrence V. Texas and the Respect For Marriage Act.

Gay rights battles have been fought in the courts and legislature and continue to be fought up to the present day, just like battles over Abortion, drug use, gun rights, etc.

But the same is not true of Segregation or Affirmative Action. For example, current Supreme Court precedent bans the use of official racial quotas in college admissions. Affirmative Action advocates could pass trigger laws requiring such quotas, which would go into effect as soon as they could get friendly court judges to overturn current precedent. The same is true of white supremacists who want to bring back the bad old days.

But they don't.

When I point this out people get very angry and say, "Just because something isn't done by the courts or legislature doesn't mean people don't still do it. Here's an example of some private citizen doing something really egregious! Everybody knows that you don't get results by going to the courts or the legislature anymore! Please ignore all the states that are now banning abortion!"

I disagree. If something is a huge, controversial culture war flashpoint, but only one side has won any legal victories in a half century, that's actually so anomalous that I genuinely cannot come up with a third example after Segregation and Affirmative Action.

I think this is related to a conviction that destroying segregation and affirmative action are held (By different political groups) to be the key to achieving racial harmony.

It may look like segregation was defeated so thoroughly that nobody could possibly advocate for it seriously anymore, but that hasn't led to an end of racial strife. Since racial strife is caused by segregation, if it's still around that means segregation and race hatred must have somehow gone underground. Those feelings must be as strong as they were in the 60s, but now they're hiding and we have to do more and more psychological work to figure out where they're hiding.

And an essentially exactly analogous process happens for affirmative action.

Essentially, on the left the feeling is that if we had actually rooted out race hatred from the white psyche, we'd have racial harmony and equality.

We don't have racial harmony and equality, therefore the white psyche must still be riddled with race hatred, and we need to find it. It must be expressing itself through white chefs that want to cook soul food and tourists trying on kimonos, and we need to treat people who do those things as the racists they are.

On the right, the feeling is that the psychological problem is the ability to conceive of race at all; the way to racial harmony is colorblindness and particularly color-blind policy.

We don't have racial harmony and equality, therefore the affirmative action mindset must be heavily embedded in the left-wing psyche, and we need to find out where it is hiding. People hide it behind innocent-sounding phrases like "diversity" and "inclusion" and we need to run anybody who uses those phrases out of town on a rail.

Our whole approach to race in this country is devolving into increasingly hysterical attempts to force (white) people to have the correct attitudes about race.

Step back for a bit and the fact that we are trying to make it illegal to cause a white person to feel guilt about history has a sort of bizarre, 1,001 Nights fairytale quality about it. Like some fairy story where it is illegal to remind the Emperor that he will die someday.

I think I am coming around to the idea that racial strife in the US is no longer caused primarily by defects in the individual (white) psyche, and that our efforts to keep finding those defects are kind of the same mindset that convinced Soviet leaders that all failures were caused by sabotage.

[techtechonmymind]

Doyoung, sobbing: Taeil, please get well soon.

(Camera cuts to Taeil)

Taeil: 😃😅🙈

[banglakhobor]

‘শেষ বলে ছক্কা হাঁকাতে চাইছে’, অনাস্থা প্রস্তাব নিয়ে INDIA-কে নিশানা মোদির

নয়াদিল্লি: মণিপুর হিংসা নিয়ে অনাস্থা প্রস্তাব এনেছে বিরোধীরা। ভোটাভুটির আগে মঙ্গলবার থেকে শুরু হয়েছে আলোচনা। সেই আবহে ফের একবার বিরোধীদের নিশানা করলেন প্রধানমন্ত্রী নরেন্দ্র মোদি (Narendra Modi)। তাঁর দাবি, ২০২৪ সালের লোকসভা নির্বাচনের আগে সেমি ফাইনাল চাইছিলেন বিরোধীরা, তার কী পরিণতি হচ্ছে, দেখতে পাচ্ছেন সকলে। (No Confidence Motion) লোকসভায় অনাস্থা প্রস্তাব নিয়ে আলোচনার আগে বিজেপি-র সংসদীয় দলের…

[ikzegmaarwat]

Is nuance really that difficult to understand? Does everything really have to be black or white, good or bad, left or right,...? Can't we just be human and make some mistakes? Or better yet, be ourselves with a little internal struggle and a pinch of internal contradiction?

What does the world gain by everybody choosing a side and having to stick to only that one side? What if after a while I realize I was wrong and want to have a little bit of both sides? Or maybe even try and understand the other side? Imagine if someone really understood other people or even just one other person? Wouldn't that be nice?

Nuance shouldn't be discouraged like it is nowadays. Nuance should be celebrated like the Olympics! Except not a few weeks every four years, but every day again and again... And again.

Oh well.

[acaciapines]

TELL ME ABOUT MARI. TELL ME ABOUT LUZ-MARI. PLEASE INFODUMP I AM AAAAAALL EARS 👂👂👂👂👂

he he YEAHHHHH

okay so the big thing about luz and mari is that its like. god okay.

so the human world in my fic is basically his dark materials pushed to the extreme--i took all the parts i hated about how daemons are presented (second to their humans, only talk to other daemons, mostly there as a symbol, settle very young) and went yeah :) this is how the world works.

and thus we get luz and mari. luz who was never so great at picking up all these rules because she was a neurodivergent kid and it just--they were so SLIPPERY. she was just doing her best, wasnt she? and mari, who knew they were wrong, they EXISTED wrong, did everything wrong, and had to step up and do everything right but daemons aren't supposed to be the ones leading the way. they are supposed to follow.

but theyre also supposed to protect their humans and lead them down the right path and its this horrible catch-22 where to be a good daemon mari has to be a bad daemon and it just. it eats at her. it eats at her so much, as they go to the boiling isles, where everyone accepts luz and luz fits right in and theyre wrong wrong wrong but luz is having fun and mari is too but no, no she CANT, she cant be a bad daemon, has to be good, and good, and good--

and then comes the choice. blow up the portal to save eda's life. or let eda die so she can go back home to her mom.

the good thing to do is to go back home. the demon realm? its just...a distraction. temporary. besides, theyre settled, arent they? sure, mari hates the form, and her scales are too-tight, and she can't shed them. sure, she drops her tail, and won't ever grow it back, but--shes being good, right? right?

luz wants to save eda.

luz wants to be a Bad Daughter.

luz is trying to be a good daughter. to eda, though.

and mari--

see, theres one thing worse than being a bad daemon. and thats being a daemon who unsettles.

so now theyre trapped in the demon realm. now luz is saying all these things about how maybe its good, actually, and maybe the human realm wasnt so perfect, but doesnt she get it? this isnt a STORY. this is real life, and in real life, you close the book and go home. in real life you swallow down lizard and you sit with it no matter how much your scales itch. in real life bad kids are sent away to become good kids. and youve never, ever been a good kid.

its wrong, to stay here. its wrong, that luz isnt as dedicated to building the portal as mari is. its bad, and its SO BAD, and mari keeps trying her best, and then makes it, halfway, and shes seeing the human realm, seeing home, and look, thats how daemons are supposed to be, and--

was it always so...stifling?

surely, she's just...misremembering. thats home! its where she needs to be! its...

sometimes people call them luz-mari clawthorne and it makes luz grin a bit and mari want to claw her own fur out (but she cant have fur it should be scales why is the fur more her than the scales ever were--)

sometimes mari looks at her own paws and wonders why she even bothers trying to make luz good when all its ever done is get them both hurt.

sometimes mari lies awake at night and thinks only to herself: does belos have a point?

but mari's a Good Daemon. she's doing everything shes supposed to be doing. shes doing it right, and she'll just--settle again, settle BETTER, and even witches settle, even if they're weird as kids, even if nothing is adding up, even if shes learning things in belos's mind, learning HISTORY, and if it's true, if belos is wrong, if witches and humans actually arent so alike at all, if luz is maybe more a witch than she's ever been human, if, if, if--

mari just. has to be good.

why cant luz see that?