Retarded Nationalist

Six reasons why fake news don't matter India's General Elections 2019 have just come to end. Exit polls have begun the drum-beating of their estimates and whichever part(y/ies) think they're going to lose the elections have started crying foul and despatching their leaders abroad. In all the din to the runup to the elections, if there's one thing you would have read about, and most likely come across, is Fake News .

Photo by  Amanda Kerr  on  Unsplash You know you are a LOIN (LOIN; adjective, critical of the nationalist spirit, brave acts by soldiers and / or panderer, pamperer of enemy states) when you don’t care two hoots about the deaths of your nation’s soldiers but instead keep asking why your nation couldn’t foresee every single terrorist attack. You’re definitely a LOIN if you weep and cry foul along with some vested-interest human rights’ group when a potential terrorist is caught. A LOIN knows it’s in her interest to defend freedom of speech only when siding with a rowdy group shouting  “(fill the name of your country) tere tukde honge !”. Yet, a LOIN chooses to stay conveniently silent during all the years when hundreds of thousands of citizens are killed, raped, looted and driven out of their home-state by people trained, funded and brain-washed by zealots from a neighboring enemy state. You’re a LOIN who thinks it’s freedom of speech to berate and call a se...