#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

[cynapspew]

commie x ancom x blueman to me

esp better the devil fics dynamic

[ancom-irl]

this is how i imagine nazi and ancom

[lifeaspect]

opposite... unity?

[toasted-treasure]

Happy pride month 🫶🏳️‍🌈

[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.

[24annarino]

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2024

Hope is the deep breath needed to sing Carols heralding Jesus’ birth. Hope is the breath first breathed into all living things. Hope is the breath that softens the hard contours of defended hearts. Hope is the breath that soothes the rough edges of fearful minds. Hope is the breath that animates the graceful move to gift our very selves. Hope is the breath that lifts the blindness of…

[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…

[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.

[allegedlyalan]

oh no, they painted over the Palestine vs Israel argument that some people were having on my favourite bathroom stall door, where am I supposed to get Opposite Unity fic ideas now?? 😟

[philosophybits]

A state in which “this” and “that” no longer find their opposites is called the hinge of the Way. When the hinge is fitted into the socket, it can respond endlessly. Its right, then, is a single endlessness, and its wrong, too, is a single endlessness.

Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 2)