[Hlennisal]

Please explain to me how this is 'depraved barbarism'.

I'm looking for the 'vile and immoral' acts.

[mesZibeds]

PS - You're from Pune.

[medprof]

No.

Politics is about power. Rules for radicals is no different than any political science class in any university in the world. The fact that some people try to get power for those without it is only a bad thing for those people who currently have power and don't want to share.

You see nothing at all wrong with those "rules"? Nor with the fact that a man who claims to have cut his teeth feeding on resentment and hate (without accomplishing anything to show for it, mind you), and dangling hope as a carrot to manipulate people, is the President of your state?

(These are not rhetorical questions, by the way; I am genuinely curious in a horrified sort of way.)

EDIT: With respect to your last sentence, are you implicitly saying that the ends justify the means?

[DoctorQuquriramba]

You see nothing at all wrong with those "rules"? Nor with the fact that a man who claims to have cut his teeth feeding on resentment and hate (without accomplishing anything to show for it, mind you), and dangling hope as a carrot to manipulate people, is the President of your state?

(These are not rhetorical questions, by the way; I am genuinely curious in a horrified sort of way.)

EDIT: With respect to your last sentence, are you implicitly saying that the ends justify the means?

That's how the world works. If you don't want your country to be a craphole that is perpetually dominated by foreigners you need your leaders to be ****ing ruthless.

If India is lucky the Naxalites will seize power. Communists are some of the most ruthless people on the planet.

[Elaltergephah]

That's how the world works. If you don't want your country to be a craphole that is perpetually dominated by foreigners you need your leaders to be ****ing ruthless.

This may or may not be true, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with my criticism of Obama in the OP, does it? And since when did the USA have to worry about foreign domination?

As for ruthlessness - this is not it.

[JamesTornC]

On a serious note - I'm with Imran and Ozzy on this.

[Eromaveabeara]

This may or may not be true, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with my criticism of Obama in the OP, does it? And since when did the USA have to worry about foreign domination?

As for ruthlessness - this is not it.

Never, because the US kicks ass. Maybe someday India will learn.

[Jackson]

You see nothing at all wrong with those "rules"? Nor with the fact that a man who claims to have cut his teeth feeding on resentment and hate (without accomplishing anything to show for it, mind you), and dangling hope as a carrot to manipulate people, is the President of your state?

(These are not rhetorical questions, by the way; I am genuinely curious in a horrified sort of way.)

EDIT: With respect to your last sentence, are you implicitly saying that the ends justify the means?

STFU Indian.

[Prarnenoexpog]

Also, alisnky wrote the primer on internet trolling, FWIW.

[Larisochka]

So... Gandhi was a community organizer. His goals and tactics were no different. Was he an evil man?

If he ran for office these days I'm sure the smear machine would get him.

[KRbGA0Bg]

I'm guessing people in India have a much greater fear of social disruption than we do. Mind you, I dislike rabble as much as the next elitist, but those rules sound like a dramatic rendering of ordinary political behavior which happens to take place on the local level. Maybe he just accidentally left out the rule about strangling hookers and planting their bodies in opposition headquarters?

[acneman]

That's nothing - I have a glacier in Florida for anyone who is interested.