Re: Guest Post: Modi Operandus

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The obvious solution is for India to let Canada kill Canadian emigrants in India. But maybe that's not useful for Canada.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-16-24 8:11 AM
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Maybe there's a market and Canada can sell those rights to someone else.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-16-24 8:15 AM
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There's interesting issues around sovereignty and smaller countries in a world where it's so easy for governments to keep tabs on people. Supposedly China runs a bunch of police stations in Canada where they enforce Chinese law and policies on Canadian citizens, in some cases kidnapping them and bringing them back to China.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/china-us-stations-canada-1.6818889


Posted by: Unfoggetarian: "Pause endlessly, then go in" (9) | Link to this comment | 10-16-24 8:27 AM
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Of course, we famously kill people with drones wherever we feel like it, so it's not like our hands are clean here. Not mostly focused on American expats though. But it's really hard for countries to do anything about it if the US, Russia, India, China, Israel, Saudi Arabia, etc. wants to kill one of your citizens.


Posted by: Unfoggetarian: "Pause endlessly, then go in" (9) | Link to this comment | 10-16-24 8:29 AM
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Whoa, that's wild. I had no idea there were little foreign PDs.


Posted by: heebie | Link to this comment | 10-16-24 8:30 AM
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We have somehow stopped Turkey from killing Gülen. Kinda surprising honestly, on the one hand the US has more clout than Canada, but on the other hand India tried to assassinate Sikhs in the US too. I'd say it's because US intelligence knows more, but presumably we're sharing the relevant stuff with Canada anyway as part of the five eyes.


Posted by: Unfoggetarian: "Pause endlessly, then go in" (9) | Link to this comment | 10-16-24 9:09 AM
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The line between foreign police departments and the KGB/whatever Putin calls it assassinating dissidents s pretty thing.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-16-24 9:10 AM
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7 was supposed to make sense. Probably should end with "a pretty fine line."


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-16-24 9:14 AM
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Too late. MOBY THINKS ASSASINATIONS ARE PRETTY THINGS!!! Moby wants to marry assassinations!


Posted by: heebie | Link to this comment | 10-16-24 10:59 AM
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I want to marry shoplifting. I want to make assassinations a concubine.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-16-24 11:26 AM
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You don't want to share property and life insurance with assassinations.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-16-24 11:51 AM
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Seems like you might not want to share property with shoplifting either.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 10-16-24 12:24 PM
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I can fix her.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-16-24 12:27 PM
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Ew, sticky fingers.


Posted by: heebie | Link to this comment | 10-16-24 12:28 PM
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In other charming BJP behavior:
https://www.deccanherald.com/india/manipur/manipur-govt-to-deny-benefits-of-government-schemes-to-unregistered-villages-in-state-3226105


Posted by: mc | Link to this comment | 10-16-24 6:45 PM
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They're also really keen on changing the petrostate bit:
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/indias-latest-oil-gas-auctions-signal-growing-private-appetite-foreign-interest-still-elusive/


Posted by: mc | Link to this comment | 10-16-24 7:33 PM
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https://www.ft.com/content/7ba16fc2-2290-44ca-b1e7-10d5f553bf7e

Spencer, an emergency doctor at Brown University who has tended Ebola patients (and who himself survived the disease), praised the response on X: "I can't overemphasize how incredible it is that Rwanda went from announcing Marburg cases just over a week ago to getting frontline providers vaccinated today."
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Posted by: mc | Link to this comment | 10-16-24 9:32 PM
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2 made me laugh


Posted by: simulated annealing | Link to this comment | 10-17-24 12:33 AM
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9-12: Most meta fuck/marry/kill ever.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10-17-24 4:56 AM
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Of course, we famously kill people with drones wherever we feel like it, so it's not like our hands are clean here.

It's close, but the actual phrasing was:

"There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. What, do you think our country's so innocent?"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/05/donald-trump-repeats-his-respect-for-killer-vladimir-putin


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 10-17-24 5:10 AM
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"This is the skin of a killer Bella."


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-17-24 6:34 AM
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Also, OP title is nicely done.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 10-17-24 6:43 AM
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If it had been "Modi operandum" it would have literally translated as "someone needs to do a job on Modi".


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 10-17-24 6:48 AM
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https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-charges-ex-indian-intelligence-official-foiled-sikh-murder-plot-washington-2024-10-17/


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 10-17-24 7:58 PM
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Lots of hotels are run by "Guptas". Hard to hide.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-17-24 8:01 PM
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23: Actually, the post title as written is correct for "someone needs to do a job on Modi." "operandus" is a gerundive in the nominative masculine; "operandum" would be neuter, and I'm assuming there aren't many nonbinary individuals among the BJP leadership.


Posted by: lourdes kayak | Link to this comment | 10-17-24 8:14 PM
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Great. I don't know Latin but I did it right.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-17-24 8:26 PM
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My wife thinks I'm drunk just because I've been drinking and now slur my words. But I'm really a scholar of Latin.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-17-24 8:29 PM
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Who only knows Latin from the little bits that survived Vatican II.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-17-24 8:37 PM
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26: gratias ago.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 10-18-24 12:27 AM
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Passengers were in the dining hall when there was a sudden, loud bang, which a crew member (speaking over the intercom) ascribed to an "electrical failure".[39] "We told the guests everything was [okay] and under control and we tried to stop them panicking", a cabin steward recalled.[15] During this time, "My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic was playing in the dining hall.[40] The ship lost cabin electrical power shortly after the initial impact.

Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 10-20-24 7:13 PM
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It's really the best Canadian song to drown to.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-20-24 8:44 PM
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Stan Rogers had some good drowning songs.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 10-20-24 8:53 PM
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I was delighted to discover the story of Charles Joughin, chief baker aboard RMS Titanic, who behaved like an absolute pro during the sinking. His first reaction was to send his assistant bakers to each lifeboat with packages of bread to ensure that the survivors would have something to eat. On reaching the boat deck himself he found that all the lifeboats had been launched, so he decided to do what he could to assist survivors in the water, throwing about fifty deckchairs overboard for use as flotation aids. (At least one survivor remembered clinging to a bundle of deckchairs in the water.)

So, in fact, "rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic" really happened and was a very useful thing to do!


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 10-21-24 1:51 AM
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He survived the sinking and, in a display of immense hardihood, moved to Paterson, NJ.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 10-21-24 1:53 AM
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We can't have a conversation about Canadian drowning songs without bringing up "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". At least not while I'm around.

Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 10-21-24 5:41 AM
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33/36 while putting together this post (songs about ships) I found a story about a sailor who was able to survive a shipwreck by singing "Mary Ellen Carter" to give himself strength. See the footnote for the link (including a touching comment from his daughter): https://earnestnessisunderrated.substack.com/p/what-is-your-favorite-song-about


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 10-21-24 6:11 AM
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36: Strong candidate for worst song to strip to.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10-21-24 6:21 AM
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Kink-shamer.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 10-21-24 7:04 AM
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38: Sounds like the voice of experience.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 10-21-24 7:08 AM
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Also,
And further below, Ontario / takes in what Lake Erie can send her
is the only way I can remember which is which.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 10-21-24 7:09 AM
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40: Probably just my conceit to blame the criticism on the song.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10-21-24 8:20 AM
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