quite entertaining: the sock-puppet goonsquad includes the 'secular' 'right' [sic]

feb 22nd, 2011 CE

talk of action and reaction! i am being proved absolutely correct about the existence of a sock-puppet goonsquad whose intent is to terrorize. 

nice when the validation of one's hypothesis is instant and massive. 

i tweeted this yesterday quoting verbatim the den-mother of indian mainstream media, bdutt. (for lack of space, i left out her second phrase, which was just an expansion of the same idea by bdutt.):

RajeevSrinivasa

 

Hence has sockpuppet goonsquad on twitter RT 

@BDUTT

: Mob attacks in my experience can be more frightening than bombs, ieds and grenades...

it seemed like a logical conclusion that since she knew mobs were frightening etc., that would be a good reason for those supporting her to form a lynch mob on twitter, which they do. [note: i am, carefully, not accusing bdutt of hiring them or encouraging them, i am simply noting that she has such a squad of supporters, which might be sui generis, a group of true believers. no section 509, nor section 507.]

and sure enough, right on cue, god's rottweiler showed up, barking inanely and mercilessly. this i expected. he would, given that that's his nature. as the arabs say, "dogs bark, but the caravan keeps going". 

but i must admit i was a little surprised when i heard via others that the 'secular' 'right' people were rolling their eyes at me. (i think this pragmatic_d fellow is 'secular' 'right' -- i have seen his writing now and then. if he is NOT  'secular' 'right' then i stand corrected.)

Rao_V

 

All secular Intellectuals are frothing at mouth RT'ing

@Rajeevsrinivasa

 

's sarcastic tweet on Gujarat seceding… (cont) 

http://deck.ly...

barbarindian 

barbarindian

 

Sense of humor missing from think tank intellectual?http://bit.ly/hbaqq7 | Plus we can't have nationalism as a millstone around our neck

so following these links, i found out pragmatic_d's peeve with me:

@pragmatic_dpragmatic_desi This is pretty close to Syed Geelani's view. Alas they call themselves *nationalists*:http://bit.ly/dXNIoZ

how distressing! sigh, yet another nationalist gone wayward! i can see pragmatic_d brushing off a tear, actually. tragic.

so what exactly is pragmatic_d's problem? here's what i had said:

RajeevSrinivasa

 

Anybody can secede, all we care is that dynasty rules RT

@ashutoshshah

: 

@Narrendra

@RajeevSrinivasa

 

Gujarat needs to secede from India.

i quite like the "milady doth protest too much" act by pragmatic_d, and his deliberate "playing-dumb" act. i especially loved his wrapping the flag around himself. what is it they say about "patriotism being the last refuge of the um... 'secular'"?

if he knows enough about me to know that i call myself a nationalist, he would know my views on the dynasty. it is pretty evident that he is pretending to not understand the sarcasm. i doubt that he fails to see the irony. i believe he is fully literate. 

so why this elaborate charade?

the only conclusion i can come to is that the sock-puppet goonsquad has two types: one the hard fundies, whom nobody pays any attention to; and then the soft fundies, who almost make you believe them. but not quite. in other words, classic good guy/bad guy routine.

well, very nicely done, indeed. so this is what 'think-tank intellectuals' are all about? how can i get a cushy sinecure like that myself?