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[incorrectmahabharatquotes]

im 14 year old rn, so ill be eligible to vote for the next elections, so can you suggest some unbiased sources to learn more about the agendas of all parties from? I keep hearing that x newspaper is bought out by bjp, y channel is bought out by congress, etc, so where do you go if you want authentic, real and true sources that record the good, bad and ugly of every party?

So far your only option is independent media- Newslaundry, NewsMinute, The Wire, etc.....some have a clear liberal bent, but what they do is actual on the ground investigations. These media are funded wholly by the subscribers, and have done some excellent reporting despite the 'mainstream" media being the most profitable.

If you are looking for opinion type reporting or video essay types, you have Ravish Kumar in Hindi. Youtube might actually be your saviour when it comes to news.

For rural news and essays, you have P Sainath's PARI (People's Archive of Rural India), which does interviews with people in very less reported areas of India, giving you a sense of their lives.

What I can give you as a way to escape the mainstream is that- you need to be critical of any news you recieve without a verifiable primary source. Learning to differentiate between opinions, versus news articles that are meant to evoke a certain emotion in you is a skill you will need to work on yourself.

Remember, none of us are immune to propaganda. Its just how you make sense of what you see and read.

-Mod G

[bills-library]

Look at my kitty!

ooc: BÆǍÅĄBBŸŶÝY

[salty-cs]

does anyone remember chicken smoothie

nonny did u die while writing this bc where is the rest of this sentence??

[artfightdramaconfessions]

are you guys going to make a post listing the users with low defenses this year? last year i had a blast checking them out

Yes! Closer to the middle of the fight more than likely :)

[lionews]

"Please understand, for now, we would like to keep this line private. We would like to have a few clones ourselves before setting anything in stone." So much for that. Nothing like a little competition to get things moving right along, eh?

Anyway ya'll, please enjoy the 7.26.24 RL at last, either my knock off or their official one. They're basically the same lion anyway lmao

If we weren't too broke for your stud fee, we would have </3

[glasspyramid2211]

Follow up to the odd squad ask, briefcase is olive I’m sure. I do not know who otto would be but you did say Ace is the silliest

probably (ooc)

[mod-python]

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weirdge it took them this long to say smth but better late than never ig

[c0mmander-rudboys]

Steven do you know what happened to Francis? Is he sick? (@ask-themilkman hasn't been online for a few days so I thought maybe you'd know..)

“Of course, if anything serious happens to him, give me a heads up. That would be appreciated.”

//I don’t know them that well so I kinda just assumed that they were either taking a break or busy with work. Maybe you could ask them about it

[elbdot]

I'm dying to know. Have you played Scarlet/Violet yet, and if so, what do you think of it? It's definitely my fave pokemon game since probably gen 4. And if you haven't got it yet, do you plan to?

A LOT of people have been messaging me about Scarlet & Violet and what I think of the games - I have to be honest, I almost SKIPPED on this generation, Gen 8 left me really disappointed and I didn't feel up to pay so much money again for a game I didn't even feel hyped for :'D

But my friends convinced me that it apparently was REALLY GOOD and absolutely worth it and in the end I got a copy of Scarlet gifted by a friend as an early Christmas present! ;w; Thank you so much Sparx!! I haven't played through the story yet, I barely got 3 Gym badges and took down 2 titans and 2 Star bases, but I'm really enjoying myself so far!! I'll give my full opinion and answer previous asks when I'm fully done with the game, I started considerably late and haven't found much time the last few days to continue, but I'll eventually share my thoughts on the game! Thank you for asking! 😊💖

But ye I definitely like the big red Lizard and I started with Sprigatito 💖

[ask-paper-ii]

is this blog as dead as every single contestant

(goddamn.)

(📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄📄)

(I’m trying to make it not be as dead as every single contestant but I am ass at answering asks)

[ask-the-egg-empire]

Hi yes it's the bird asker again this iant a question but moreso a little note for whoever runs this ac

This is my little guy. His name is Sunshine. Enjoy the bird pic as I am running on no sleep due to programming. Have a good day.

Oh my god I love Sunshine! Thank you for sharing (I drew fanart of him btw)

[incorrectmahabharatquotes]

I just turned 18 and I was never into the political aspect of India and I'm not sure if I should be because everything is a mess and so confusing.

My parents are BJP supporters, being of the Scheduled Caste and we live in an urban area. I acknowledge the development BJP has done for India in the last years but im not well educated on the atrocities they've committed. I'm aware of their speeches being incredibly right-leaning and they create a sense of unease in communities.

And I sense that most people my age are aligned with Congress but I'm not sure why seeing that their urge to support Congress only comes from a feeling to remove Modi. I'm not sure how good a Congress govt could be, when they're aligning themselves with TMC which is akined to BJP.

I've heard Congress got a lot of minorities votes but also seeing that theyre promising 1L to Muslim women, if they win dosent seem like a good use of tax money.

I know India is far away from even getting close to the development we need, such as equal marriage opportunities, true secularism, abolishment of caste system and everything. But since there isn't a party/alliance in India that truly aligns itself with my views, I can't help but be stuck in a limbo between both the parties and feel helpless.

Do you think it's okay for a person to not be into politics in India, it's not something I want to concern myself with atm, but I'm afraid when I do start getting involved it might be too late.

Sorry, this was sort of a rant instead of an ask sjdhdh

I just wanted to get an opinion on how other people may view my thinking atp

One word of advice: Don't align yourself with parties. Develop your own worldview first, make it in such a way that you are ready to accept data and information in a way where you can analyse and create meaning for yourself. Have some non negotiable principles for yourself- don't forget humanity and compassion.

No party will ever have the ideology that 100% aligns to your worldview, hell, I voted against my own principles this election.

Also Congress isn't promising 1L to just Muslim women, its for ALL women. They're proposing a kind of Universal Basic Income to help try and bridge the MASSIVE inequalities in this country. That's why they're increasing the wealth tax.

But now that the elections are over, it doesn't really look like EVERYTHING they propose will go through. But our Parliament and the discussions in it will at least have livelier discussions and better viewpoints.

Anyway- whatever you do- work from grassroots. Join organisations that do work on that level, political parties (with maybe the exception of AAP) don't usually do this work. Gain a wealth of experience talking to your fellow citizens, and you will realise the complexity of our society.

-Mod G

[bills-library]

Can i give him a hug??"

ooc: yes!! hugs for everyone!!

[salty-cs]

“you’ll be okay” literally who is running this blog. excusing borderline sexual harassment like this is really fucking gross? and no im not horror, for the record.

buddypal i think ur reading too deeply into the original ask

edited to add: if you had genuine concerns about this typa shit. maybe DONT approach me on a blog full of posts shipping two real people? idk maybe just my salty 0.02 but gooning over someone's relationship and applying ur cringe fandom culture to it is just as bad if not worse than a buncha metaphors involving the word "cock"

also just putting this out there that OP's the same person in a different acc who got one-off salt on him before (prev blog) for having a "hissy fit," which he wanted deleted bc apparently calling it that was "misgendering" him (not attaching scs of this one so look for it in the old blog if ur truly curious). so ya the history of throwing a piss fit @ blog mods over innocuous shit is there.

[artfightdramaconfessions]

Can we share our friends accounts?Like I want my pookie to get more attention by getting her out here more.

We will have a pinned list again this year a week or two into the fight where people can suggest friends or other players that meet certain criteria (less than 10 attacks received this year, huge ratio imbalance where they attack more than they receive, etc). More details will go up closer to then.

[lionews]

Made my lion into a me for y'all to take a breather

wtf