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Randolph Carter's avatar

I feel like this piece misses the Occam's Razor answer to the question, which is that a new narrative about "globalists" who want to meddle in every nation's politics and is decoupled from previous anti-Semitic canards has become extremely popular in the wake of COVID?

Maybe we're just obsessively looking at all arguments as at the end of some chain of transmission, like a Sufi barakah, where the argument can never be severed from its origins - but people adapt arguments and ideas to new circumstances, and sometimes the arguments and ideas become something new and different. The idea of "states' rights" was used to defend the institution of slavery in the 1800s, but then it was used to defend the idea of marriage equality and legal cannabis in the 1990s and 2000s. I think smart people have a tendency to assume that everyone knows everything about the arguments they're using, but arguments are tools, like fire or knives, their use is in their utility, not where they came from. You don't need to know the history of guns to shoot one.

To make a long comment short - maybe Modi and the Hindi Nationalists don't like Soros because as you quoted, he said that Modi "isn't a democrat" and that he "expects a democratic revival." That's a pretty clear threat to Modi and his supporters, and they are reacting the way any in-group would to a foreigner with immense wealth and influence suggesting that their in-group is bad, or that he knows their country better than they do.

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RD's avatar

While Liberals are censoring the planet you're worried about Florida. Sounds about right. I'm not into partisan politics. I'm into logic and reason. LMK when you can meet on that playing field.

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