This is an aspect of humanity that fascinates me. If you can't find enough nastiness in the present day to piss you off, you can always search history and become "fulfilled" in your desire for victimhood.
An unfortunately familiar presentation of smug, facile cynicism.Simple Minded wrote:
This is an aspect of humanity that fascinates me. If you can't find enough nastiness in the present day to piss you off, you can always search history and become "fulfilled" in your desire for victimhood.
People who do evil deeds die. The accountability of group identity never does. The bizarre desire to search for the dark side of life.
Unless of course, it is the first step towards some sort of financial compensation. Then, not a bad tactic at all.
kmich wrote:
An unfortunately familiar presentation of smug, facile cynicism.
https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/07/artic ... india-inc/The death of V.G. Siddhartha, the founder of Bangalore-headquartered coffee chain Cafe Coffee Day – an Indian version of Starbucks – has sent shockwaves through corporate India, which is currently battling economic slowdown and worsening investment climate.
https://www.asiatimes.com/2020/01/opini ... -politics/Recently, historian Ramachandra Guha courted controversy when, speaking at the Kerala Literary Festival, he chided the resident Malyalis for electing to Parliament Rahul Gandhi, who, in his words, is a fifth-generation dynast. Gandhi is a great-great grandson of Motilal Nehru, a leading figure in the Indian National Congress and great-grandson of India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. His grandmother Indira Gandhi and father Rajiv were also prime ministers. Naturally, Rahul took up the cudgels of the Congress party – which lost two consecutive general elections, and fell to historic lows in the number of seats it won in Parliament.
Every romantic theory of solidarity is good until men are bludgeoned and thrown in ditches and warships rammed.
Indian Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri told CNBC on Wednesday that his country will continue to purchase Russian oil despite growing pressure from the West.
The minister explained that it’s a question of energy security, pointing out that India consumes around five million barrels of oil per day.
Asked whether he has a moral conflict with buying Russian oil amid the military operation in Ukraine, Puri replied, “No, there’s no conflict. I have a moral duty to my consumer. Do I as a democratically elected government want a situation where the petrol pump runs dry? Look at what is happening in countries around India.”
The Indian petroleum minister added that the EU has no right to judge India for importing Russian oil, as it buys much more itself.
“The Europeans buy more in one afternoon than I do in a quarter. I’d be surprised if that is not the condition still. But yes, we will buy from Russia, we will buy from wherever.”
