Solipsistic Meanderings » Tweets for 2022-07-22

July 23, 2022

Tweets for 2022-07-22

"We loved that uniform even on the 13th", one of the protestors says.
Why love the military uniform? What have they done for you? Do you think the oft repeated, "We saved you from the LTTE" is a reason to love a uniform?

Do you think loving them will stop them hurting you? 08:14:15
Love those who care for you. Love those who are unable to defend themselves. Even love those whose ideologies are not yours but who are doing what's right.
But do not love power/force masquerading as security. That love will not be returned, and will eventually be your undoing. 08:16:11
Interesting that @RW_UNP who said that #Aragalaya must continue and that people have a right to protest etc. takes power and suddenly the protests are being dismantled with more force than before …
Must be somebody else who wants to impress the new president, noh? 08:18:54
So no media coverage of the removal of the protestors either? So democracy working at it's best I guess?
Looks as if Churchill is becoming Hitler … 08:21:51
What's the point of Sri Lankans appealing to @mbachelet or @USAmbSL about what the government is doing in Sri Lanka to quell peaceful protests? Have they ever listened to anything you've said?
Governments (and their agents) be governing. Citizens be suffering … 08:26:25
This is from an AFP journalist in Sri Lanka. The power of the Sri Lankan government (and @RW_UNP) on display against unarmed civilians protesting at the fact that their government does nothing for them except to repress even their right to protest … https://t.co/nRPggxcOND 08:36:53
Peace and stability at any cost … even if you have to employ force.
What?

You shouldn’t use force to bring about peace? Isn’t that what we’ve always done? https://t.co/4dFGAvqVyq 08:44:15
I don’t know if the people in the video are involved in the protest or not. They say they were on their way home …
But to see citizens being just dragged off like this by military … It just makes my blood boil.

What next? Concentration camps for those who protest? https://t.co/jqOACpDeyC 08:48:15
The “fascist” has always been @RW_UNP but what’s the use of telling that to people who don’t even know what a fascist is?
JR said that he couldn’t make a man a woman, but if Ranil says that a man is a woman, there are those who’ll swear that’s true … https://t.co/OgggruS98T 08:50:22
Caption says “The vampire hiding amongst the pages of books has come out.”
This is @RW_UNP in action when he has full power … They say power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But Ranil was already corrupt, so where does he go with absolute power? https://t.co/9KkQWPOZMt 08:54:05
I’m fairly sure that @RW_UNP is of the opinion that other countries might object to what he’s doing but in the end he can justify it all as “establishing peace and stability” and that will be the end of it …
Will anybody do anything for Sri Lankans affected? I am not sure … https://t.co/zyvbnbpYPd 09:00:39
Yep, reduce building at the cost of citizens/civilians … Seems like shades of Ranil’s library again where everybody was so concerned about Ranil’s books being burnt but didn’t care too much about what led to that or the fact that these ghouls don’t care a whit for the country. https://t.co/egIP0fgHkW 09:03:29
💯This is just a warning for everybody else, a show of power. @RW_UNP hopes that nobody would dare challenge him after this and everybody will go home and be quiet like good little children … https://t.co/3PYeINGOJZ 09:05:53
Attack in the dead of the night, cut off media access, and then when the sun rises, go all "we are all about helping people" and announce (in English no less so that foreign media can understand) that you are offering medical assistance.
A page out of the dictator's playbook? 09:19:20
No confirmation as to whether the following thread is true or not, but worth reading. Know your leaders (or at least what they are capable of).
But then again, knowing our leaders, we still continue to elect them instead of kicking them out.

So what does that say about us? https://t.co/TCJwagKuGn 09:28:08
I’ve been rage-tweeting since I woke up but this thread encapsulates everything I wanted to say in a much more cohesive and concise fashion …
Read it. And reflect.

Are we happy with our elected leaders? Or how our country is run? If not, what can we do about it? https://t.co/MZTS0rccjB 09:45:49
This is the strongest condemnation of the attacks that I’ve seen so far.
And yet … will it achieve anything? Everybody is either condemning or saying they are “concerned” by the attacks, but if history is to be any indicator, nothing further will happen.

So is there a point? https://t.co/r2rJpFkSLi 09:52:46
Look at this face. Does it look like the face of somebody who cares what happens to Sri Lanka?
Yes, it's unfair to judge a book by its cover. But lets judge him by his actions. Has he done anything to benefit Sri Lanka recently? So why is he the PM?

https://t.co/m5qXxgubUO 11:13:12