Saturday, August 01, 2026

Humor difficult to counter.

One week ago, "India's Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has called off its five-week long-protest, hours after EducationMinister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned." "This was the most visible expression of public anger against PM Narendra Modi's government in recent years" as "Thousands of posts mocking Modi have flooded social media. The prime minister's videos, intended to quell anger, have been turned into jokes and memes." BBC. Mockery, derision and ridicule are the most potent weapons against a regime using force, intrusive surveillance (ET) and a militia of Bhakts (DH), who live in delusion of Hindu utopia, similar to the Islamist Basij militia of Iran (Britannica). On 31 July, Mr Modi "expressed 'shock' at female protesters using expletives and said he wished to forgive such 'misled children'. He did not mention the use of force, including pellet guns," (The Wire) or firing the deadly AK47 at unarmed students (News18), protesting against criminal incompetence. "A girl, who was booked for allegedly using abusive language against PM Modi during protest at Jantar Mantar, has now apologized. In a viral video, she claimed to be 15 years old and said others influenced her at the protest." Newsbytes. When you have to use coercive force to terrorize a minor into apologizing, you have no respect or dignity left. Needless to say, social media was not impressed. The All India Students' Association (AISA) observed, "It has been a shameful normalcy of trolling and doxxing dissenters and giving rape threats to women and gender minorities. All this done by the IT cell run with utmost precision by Amit Malviya." The Wire. Malviya is the "national convener of the IT cell of the Bharatiya Janata Party" (wikipedia), which is Mr Modi's party. "The police claim to have identified 480 social media handles allegedly originating in Pakistan for spreading deep-fakes, and another 450 accounts that were sharing deep-fakes," wrote Bharat Bhushan. This is a crude attempt at tarring the protesters as anti-national. But, "The most viral of the Gen-Z memes and slogans are, on the other hand, personally derisive and mocking," and "As a result, the personal ridicule of Modi has gone deeper than in previous campaigns." "The idiom of mockery cannot be countered through rational responses of factual counter-arguments. This leaves the government with no ground to counter them except by resorting to the legalese that ridiculing constitutional public figures is punishable under the law." DH. Using pellet guns to deliberately blind protesters, shooting live rounds or using law enforcement as psychological terror on a minor are crimes against humanity. " Article 7 (1) (f) and Article 7 (1) (h), International Criminal Court. Western countries claim ownership of so-called liberal democracy (wikipedia), a civilizational superiority over others. Now is the time to act. Just stop inviting regime leaders for visits or summits and politely, and quietly, tell them it is not convenient if they want to visit. No lectures or any public statement. That will be used by the regime as an insult to the sovereignty of the Indian nation and the regime will create a siege situation and increase persecution of the people. Forget the idiotic principle of "Constructive Engagement" (Model Diplomat) which has not worked in the past and will not work here. Just ostracize the regime. Silently. Mr Modi's carefully nurtured invincibility has been stripped away. The king is in the altogether. Just laugh.            

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