The big MAGAsanghi IT cell win this week has been to gaslight even a lot of indian progressives into a lot of anger and blame on Biden, 3 months into his term. And for some bizarre reason Harris whose only real constitutional power is breaking senate ties, currently a full job. https://twitter.com/menakadoshi/status/1386113445095907333

The win, spurred by the notoriously slippery Gaddar Poonawalla's tweet, was made possible because there indeed are legit problems with the restrictions and contracts. But they are the work of Trump & his default sociopathic approach to global politics. Whom magasanghis supported.

Not every or even most indian social media rants against Biden come from IT cell or sanghis. Many are progressive, well meaning, exhausted indians stretched to their absolute limit. *That* is the IT Cell and Poonawalla's win. Just like not every SSR warrior was a bhakt.

Modi first rose in the ranks and then to power because of one and only one skill. Managing the current news cycle without any regards to facts or ethics. He isn't really great at governing. Never was. But he knows how to hijack the news cycle for 48-72 hours. Repeatedly.

Also, after 7 years of Modi of which also had Trump, people seem to think that big policy changes can and should be made with ad hocb8 pm broadcasts on TV and/or tweets. That Biden can just come out and "declare" something like those megalomaniacs and wave a magic wand.

Not a single one of these restrictions or contracts were put in place by Democrats or Biden. US for all its flaws is still a nation of laws. And lawyers. Biden can't pull rabbits out of the hat instantly, as much as he would want to help. That's the Occam's Razor answer. Patience

As said repeatedly by the admin and its people, including Fauci, they are working on this. They will come through. But ranting indians need to have a sense of proportion. Until a couple of days ago, US media, social media was totally "we must all help india soon".

Since IT cell succeeded in putting some poona walla choona on everyone, there has been a lot of WTF questions and posts like, wait, when did it become our responsibility to arrange the logistics and supplies for India? Like genuine confusion. Affects raising funds overseas.

America collectively has never walked away from blame. Most reasonable people will be like, yeah, we messed up in Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, global warming etc etc.

But this seems as bizarre as the national crusade against Rihanna.

But right now, we are seeing sanghi fascists who see leftist conspiracies everywhere and some leftists who see capitalist conspiracies everywhere, coming together to create this narrative. A trend created by sanghi idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

This will have absolutely no positive effect. The "let's help india and also change trump era regulations" thing was already vocal in the US.

It can only have the negative effect of turning off US people who might have made more donations or helped faster. Use honey not vinegar.

To recap
- Those who wrote the restrictions and contracts are long gone
- You are screaming at their replacement, who is genuinely trying to help, within their own constraints
- Current Indian horror unconnected to any US restrictions
- This aged well https://twitter.com/gauravsabnis/status/1291739323470053376?s=19

If you are okay reading more than 280 characters at a time beyond whatsapp or podcast talking points, here is a detailed article on the complexity of the decision to suspend patent protection. Especially at this point in time. It's complicated! https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/biden-faces-calls-to-break-covid-19-drug-and-vaccine-patents-would-boost-global-supply

Obama wrote in his book that presidents aren't there to make decisions where one option is obviously better. Those are already made by those below potus level. His and now Biden's job is to deliberate on these decisions where every option is bad.

Trump, Modi, Boris, Bolsonaro, Xi have gotten us all in this mess by being world leaders who just avoided such decisions or made ad hoc ones and then issued clarifications or excuses. That's the style we have become used to. Biden's cautious nerdy approach seems weird to some.

So this. This is how things are done when it isn't governing by twitter or 8 pm teleprompter readings.