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Thanks for proving my point!!!
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Thanks for proving my point!!!
Thanks for the tag it feels good to see my name in that list.
But i hope i didnt make it to the list by mistake. Lolz
Flummoxed i was, after i saw the tag on a thread titled "India on war path" and i was lead to a post which described India's political history,some of which i could never envisage.
After reading through 7 pages of this thread here are my views on the topic... and the thread:
1) Did anyone here bother to watch the video where IAF chief Dhanoa made the statement on hitting the Pak's nuke arsenals?
Anyone who is abreast with India's activity in the space, will tell you CARTOSAT-2 series has changed the game for India. Cartosat-2E has resolution of .65m or lesser and its NOT for civilian use so the exact resolution is not disclosed. Next year we will be launching series 3.
So if Mr.Dhanoa said what he did then be assured he wasn't wrong. But then he was merely talking of India's capabilities.
He didn't stop there.
He told the media that IAF has its issues so India is now working on a plan-B, incase (bold and red) India has to face a two-front war. So no our chief would never make juvenile statements like "we are planning to attack Pakistan soon" or that "we are craving for a war".
If anyone plans to watch Air chief's statement then pls watch the one aired on DOORDARSHAN and not the ones where journos are giving their opinion of Chief's statement. I don't want you to be mislead.
I entirely agree with you about the Air Chief's statement and its intent and entirely disagree with you about the effects of better visual viewing of the ground from satellites.
The Air Chief's statement has been taken out of context, and misquoted by a Pakistani reporter who has the impertinence to boost his statements with the bragging phrase that these matters are what he reports for a living. A pity that he finds someone with an equal brain to his, someone who then pays him for distortion and war-mongering.
As regards CARTOSAT, the increase in visual capability will not help us detect Pakistani missiles (as they are mobile, it is not the sites that are important, it is the launchers). Without going into harmful territory, it will be impossible to track every missile or bomb-platform. Twenty years ago, with fairly good monitoring facilities, an effort was made to track every Pakistani aircraft in inventory.
It couldn't be done. Not 100%. There were always a missing plane or three.
2) WAR is not happening any time soon.
I'm sorry to rain on your party guys but this is the fact. No country in the world can afford a war right now, not India,not Pakistan and not even China and America. World economy isnt in its pink anymore.
I wish I could agree.
47-48 happened before I was born (yes, really).
I heard the rhetoric in 65, from both sides. It was ugly but it was more rah-rah football cheering than anything bitter and irretrievable. Flt Lt. Cariappa was offered decent quarters by his father's junior, and refused. It was a funny war, in many ways, nowhere as bitter as subsequently.
71 was awful. We were college kids then, we watched the 10 million flood in, nearly half of them on our side of the border (West Bengal; the other side was Tripura and Cachhar in Assam), crowd into camps all along the eastern boundary and settle down to die. A cousin came across with Mujib's speech; everyone was quiet and deeply emotional long after he left. Our hatred of an inactive Indira Gandhi, an inactive Indian Army grew to an intensity you cannot imagine. On the Pakistani side, after December, there was the shock and pain of a road accident victim.
93, the bombs went off in Bombay. It was bound to happen, but nobody thought it would be so widespread, so brutal.
99 followed; the whole nation arose in outrage and anger.
08 followed; that was the low point for Indian thinking about Pakistan.
What I want to say is that relations have never been as bad as before, and it is due more to the Indian side becoming unwontedly aggressive; what had been routine matters earlier are now fighting matters today. It is this that we wanted to draw people's attention.
3) How dare the OP change the title to suit his narrative? Even the FB post which was posted in the OP had a title, but to catch more eyeballs the word WAR was included when it was posted on PDF. I'm surprised that even the great mod @Oscar missed it. These are stuff for which mortal members like me and others get warnings and bans.
Now you have touched the point I wanted to talk about. This is why you were tagged.
First, I agree that the OP was making mischief; however, I was not very concerned. I had already read the original - elsewhere - and, beyond feeling bored that someone was trying such infantile tricks, I was not bothered.
4) Negative rating?
Joe, you and me both have something in common. Both of us are not very kind to criticism and views which are divergent from our own. Albeit your views and mine are poles apart.
What @pothead said resonates with ppl like me. I can tell you for a fact that its ppl like us who gave Modi a clear majority in the parliament so I'm assuming his opinion will find many takers among the Indian audience. I find it wrong to silence such a sizable majority like ours, when he was merely defending his points despite him getting called names by the badge holders on this thread. Not fair sir! He was not even provocative.
Have you noticed me hand out negatives without a rational basis? In this case, whatever his feelings and his loyalties, and given my equal disposition to dislike intensely all three and a half political factions, I was not negative rating his politics, in case you think that was the case. I was negative rating his false and slanderous assertions towards individuals, and his repetition of RSS slander derived from the lowest variety of web-site. His personal demure manner had nothing to do with it; I was disapproving of the content, not of the mouth-piece.
If you go back and check, it is always the content, rarely the mouthpiece. So his being provocative was not relevant.
Dalit?
Sir our president is a Dalit himself- Ram Nath Kovind.
But then to discuss political issues of India, you and me should be on a more appropriate thread.
Putting up a token Dalit is no cushion against atrocious behaviour towards Dalits in the real world.
Now, to the real purpose.
I wanted to take an internal conversation further, and wanted you to read the posts here. Rest on 'conversation'. I believe that my views in that conversation have been totally vindicated.
yes sir, I heard it just now. After all I am a village idiot. I respect your knowledge but you seriously need to tone down your condescending attitude.
Straw man argument does not refer to JUST what you quoted. You obviously have the intellectual capacity to know in which other scenarios the phrase can be used. Please us it.
The Congress party had a discussion through ballot, the democratic means to elect Patel. That should have been the end of it. What you are now 'hiding' is the fact that Nehru sulked and went to Gandhi. Thee rest is history. You can obfuscate the facts but that's what happened.
Sir, that it was an internal decision of the party is a ridiculous position to take. @Oscar Sir, do you support this claim that it was an internal decision and hence rest of the Indians had no stake or position in the decision?
1. Thank you.
2. Ridiculous position. I wish you would reconsider it.
3. Another straw man argument. Sangh or not, it was not just the gentlemen who sat in that room deciding Nehru as PM who fought for independence. Millions of people and that includes my great grand parents, yours and many others who participated in the freedom struggle. regarding Sangh, make another thread and we can exchange views. I think you are bringing in Sangh just to score points which are not relevant in this debate.
If mine is half baked, let people who read decide in your argument that Nehru being made as PM is internal party matter and rest of Indians had no stake in the decision.
Kingdom can be built by ballot. You know this for a fact.
My point was about using Gandhi as a shield when it suits one argument only to pretend the fact that Gandhi asked for Congress dissolution never existed.
Whether one is poorly equipped or not is something YOU participating in the debate should not judge. let others who are reading our exchange chip in.
The sanghi jibes are overused. After all we all know who was sent to kaalapani and who was put in 3 star jail.
yes sir, I heard it just now. After all I am a village idiot. I respect your knowledge but you seriously need to tone down your condescending attitude.
Straw man argument does not refer to JUST what you quoted. You obviously have the intellectual capacity to know in which other scenarios the phrase can be used. Please us it.
The Congress party had a discussion through ballot, the democratic means to elect Patel. That should have been the end of it. What you are now 'hiding' is the fact that Nehru sulked and went to Gandhi. Thee rest is history. You can obfuscate the facts but that's what happened.
Sir, that it was an internal decision of the party is a ridiculous position to take. @Oscar Sir, do you support this claim that it was an internal decision and hence rest of the Indians had no stake or position in the decision?
1. Thank you.
2. Ridiculous position. I wish you would reconsider it.
3. Another straw man argument. Sangh or not, it was not just the gentlemen who sat in that room deciding Nehru as PM who fought for independence. Millions of people and that includes my great grand parents, yours and many others who participated in the freedom struggle. regarding Sangh, make another thread and we can exchange views. I think you are bringing in Sangh just to score points which are not relevant in this debate.
If mine is half baked, let people who read decide in your argument that Nehru being made as PM is internal party matter and rest of Indians had no stake in the decision.
Kingdom can be built by ballot. You know this for a fact.
My point was about using Gandhi as a shield when it suits one argument only to pretend the fact that Gandhi asked for Congress dissolution never existed.
Whether one is poorly equipped or not is something YOU participating in the debate should not judge. let others who are reading our exchange chip in.
The sanghi jibes are overused. After all we all know who was sent to kaalapani and who was put in 3 star jail.
The Greeks said it very well,"Know thyself".
Please don't use that chestnut,"I know what it is, but I won't tell you, you have to find out for yourself." It's kind of shop-soiled.
Debaters invoke a straw man when they put forth an argument—usually something extreme or easy to argue against—that they know their opponent doesn't support. You put forth a straw man because you know it will be easy for you to knock down or discredit. It's a way of misrepresenting your opponent's position.Feb 4, 2016
Which fact was obfuscated? You are doing the straw man again. I never introduced any facts, nor did I hide any. Just using the word 'obfuscate' doesn't get you or your argument anywhere; it was inappropriate.
And how can you possibly say that it was the right of the rest of the Congress party, including its several widely divergent factions, to appoint somebody through secret ballot and overturn the 1941 decision of Gandhi that Nehru was his political successor? Oh, of course, you wouldn't know that. That and nothing else was why Gandhi intervened. If he was nobody, then surely neither Patel nor the rest of the party had any business paying any attention to him. If he was the unquestioned leader, who is the RSS to judge what should be going on within a party and an organisation that they hated?
Who was sent to Kalapani and who was sent to -what did you call it? a 3 star jail? Are you referring to the head of the Hindu Mahasabha, and do you know the difference between that and the RSS? For that matter, do you know what that head in Kalapani wrote to the British, or is that also irrelevant?
What does that mean? If a secret ballot offers no protection, then what do you propose? a Loy Jirgah? Or a Panchayat? Do you really have even an elementary grasp over political theory?
May be bad choice of words but you won't mention the most important fact of Congress - that Gandhi wanted it dissolved.When did I pretend that? Please point it out. You take too many liberties with the truth.
Hard boiled egg? I swear Joe, my mom wont take that joke lightly. Btw she's younger to you.I would not take such liberties with a hard-boiled egg who has banned me (on another forum).
No sire you 're forgetting that Uri attack happened after Modi's visit to Pakistan.My view of the current situation is that an improvement in the Pakistani tone of speaking had been met by a sharp deterioration on our side,
I concur.the free flow of rhetoric on both sides only encouraged a mindset that would move from irritation to anger to belligerence. For both sides.
Accidentally?Further, that this verbal belligerence might accidentally transmute itself to physical action.
We have 8 CARTOSAT satellites in the space not one and these are capable of tracking even the moving cars and their number plates.entirely disagree with you about the effects of better visual viewing of the ground from satellites.
As regards CARTOSAT, the increase in visual capability will not help us detect Pakistani missiles (as they are mobile, it is not the sites that are important, it is the launchers)
So relations between India and Pakistan have touched rock bottom and you blame India for it.What I want to say is that relations have never been as bad as before, and it is due more to the Indian side becoming unwontedly aggressive; what had been routine matters earlier are now fighting matters today. It is this that we wanted to draw people's attention.
First, I agree that the OP was making mischief; however, I was not very concerned. I had already read the original - elsewhere - and, beyond feeling bored that someone was trying such infantile tricks, I was not bothered.
Not always or you would have seen me pick on every negative that you marked here.Have you noticed me hand out negatives without a rational basis?
You've clearly confessed that you marked him negative for his views. In India even the PM and President face abuses on daily basis, going by the power that constitution has given them, half of our Journos and their leads should have been behind the bars by now. But sir, they get their freedom of speech. We are Indians and we are opinionated, because our system gives us that liberty.I was negative rating his false and slanderous assertions towards individuals, and his repetition of RSS slander derived from the lowest variety of web-site. His personal demure manner had nothing to do with it; I was disapproving of the content, not of the mouth-piece.
Thats your opinion.Putting up a token Dalit is no cushion against atrocious behaviour towards Dalits in the real world.
I wanted to take an internal conversation further, and wanted you to read the posts here. Rest on 'conversation'. I believe that my views in that conversation have been totally vindicated.
0% content , 60% delusion , 40% religious inferiority complex.
Yup still the same troll you always were .
yes sir, you are all on a roll today.
After all how dare the son of a farmer, educate himself and choose to provide better life for his family by working outside of India.
I don't seriously know whether laugh or feel pity at some of the adjectives being thrown around at me.
After all how I dare I try to have a civil debate on a forum. After all a Forum is not a place for different POV to meet and have a civil discourse, right?
You abuse me and yet turn around and pretend what ever it is that you pretending.
Btw, Joe sir mentioned his daughter returned to India. Wonder if your views extend to all NRI's or it changes with the person?
And the pothead said "Get Over Yourself and have a joint".
There is no chestnut.
You use Straw man as a means to caricaturize my position. yes sir, it can be used that way as well.
ok, let say you were less than wilful with the whole truth.
That Nehru was not happy and approached Gandhi is the truth.
I did not know about the 1941 incident. Thanks for sharing. Still, the pre-independence Congress and the post served completely different objectives.
Hence my point about the Patel being usurped by Nehru.
Again, your bringing in RSS has little bearing except to point finger at me and say 'you are a RSS sympathiser and you should not be asking these questions'. Does not work that way. I will ask questions, it can't be a right given to only one set of people professing to a certain ideology.
What was written to British is relevant but I am not interested in debating this in this thread.
You are too smart for me & I can't handle you with you trying to push me in circles.
My other points I quoted you won't address and they were more important than the Sangh argument which you are forcing me to debate.
Sir, two words, Political dynasties.
You are talking about the idealistic position of a democracy and I am pointing at the realistic positions on the ground.
Look around India sir, you will find kings and prince's in waiting. Just that they have renamed themselves as leaders and cloaked themselves in the garb of democracy.
May be bad choice of words but you won't mention the most important fact of Congress - that Gandhi wanted it dissolved.
Imagine if that had come to pass and there was a new party fighting the political battle, would Nehru still have become the first PM?
Religious inferiority complex?????????????A Muslim minority ruled hindus for nearly a 1000 years
Your lack of basic education is amusing , shows how the quality of education you are brought up in.wheras you guys havn't ruled us.
indian Muslims not included as there are identical to hindus and sikhs minus their beliefs.
Hinduism ruled this subcontinent for 4000 years kid. Your ancestors are hindus , secondly the mogal empire lasted 1550-1700, its peak was only 70 year which. Besides they were central Indian kingdoms invading Pakistan , dunno why you need to gloat about that.
Your lack of basic education is amusing , shows how the quality of education you are brought up in.
Now you are just being a racist baigot to your own people. So much for "Islamic brotherhood"
Isn't there an agreement of not targeting each other's nuclear sites?
Modi has given Indian Forces a free hand to handle Pakistan whichever way they want
The first name of the guy that made this threat is “BS” and that tells us everything about his threat.
India would have attacked Pakistan a very long time ago but is deterred by the later’s nuclear program and other strategic assets.
Having said that, it’s clear to everyone that has paid attention to India in the past decade or so that it has been preparing for a showdown with Pakistan. While Pakistan has been forced to deal with foreign funded internal turmoil in the shape of terrorism, hostile media and treasonous politicians, India has been on a shopping spree buying high-tech weapons specifically geared for a limited war with Pakistan. This war according to the Indians will be about 48-72 hours and limited to a specific theatre but will be relentless and devastating. The major aim of this war is to teach Pakistan a lesson, get the historical monkey of 1000 years of Muslim rule off the Hindu nationalists back and signal the arrival of India as a major world power. India will then make peace overtures to Pakistan and attempt to settle the Kashmir issue and other outstanding issues with Pakistan. This will put it in a position to challenge China moving forward.
Very troubling time ahead for Pakistan.
So far, it has only led to many Indian casualties.
Keyboard warriors and empty threats
In the past iaf had the chance to attack twice but they didn't
The real fear is on India’s side as their wolf of two front war is finally becoming real and their window of opportunity to deal a military solution to Pakistan is all but closed
There is not a single person in uniform on the Indian side who can provide any assurance as to where this will go once they roll the dice.
Little weiner boy, the nations where the Muslim invaders came from and ruled over india have NEVER EVER been conquered and ruled by indians.
If you go back far enough you will realise that all humans originate from the same source.
That does not make Sub-Saharan Africans Aryan Germans.
Don't care what happened 1000s of years ago
India is sub continent , Indians are not a homogeneous group . You Pakistanis are identical to west india to us east Indians you look all alien .but modern day indians and Pakistanis are 2 distinct and fundamentally very deifferent races.
You are to be congratulated both on your memory and on your encyclopaedic knowledge of Indian military personnel records.