• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    6 months ago

    I am nothing, only an instrument through which God has decided to achieve and so whenever I do something I believe that God wants to get it done

    Holy fuck, this is the sort of thing someone says before they start an actual “kill them in their beds with machetes” Rwanda-style genocide.

    • SlothMama@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      What? This reads like what a lot of politicians actually say, including American politicians that site God and the Bible as their grounding, and declaring themselves as an instrument to God.

      This doesn’t read as outlandish to me at all, if you pay attention to people in general, this is a commonly used statement.

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        5 months ago

        I don’t think that he can unilaterally order a nuke strike. It is decided by a command with a no-first-use mandate. Besides, he isn’t the head of the forces. It’s the president.

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            5 months ago

            It’s unlikely in the next 5 years anyway. The “emissary of God” won the elections, but lost the absolute majority. He is now the leader of a coalition government, with a stronger opposition to match.

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              5 months ago

              For now. We’ll see how strong India’s democratic institutions are I guess. Because ultimately Modi is still very popular and if no one else is willing to fight him and his followers then it doesn’t make any difference in what you’re voting for. Authoritarians will just do what they want if they feel they can get away with it.