I know this is easy to laugh off as ridiculous, but even if it's an extreme hypothetical, what if she's right? 🤔

masterplan

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    We can all discuss who should have the credit, or whether any credit is actually due, and what are the reasons behind the relative composure the country is experiencing. However, judging by even just the surface values, the country is actually in a better shape than it was like 8-10 months ago. That's a fact no one can deny. We can argue about the ghosts and tsunamis that are supposedly in the future, but as of now, most things are going well.

    Additionally, if the situation was the opposite of this, are we going to afford the opposite of same credits that is supposedly not rightfully belonging to the President? Obviously not, he'll be held responsible for everything. If that's so, obviously he deserves the same level of credit, comparable to the extent that naysayers would have directed blame at him if the situation was the opposite.

    That's the paradigm through which this tweet should be looked at. We can go ad hominem and attack the person who tweeted this using her credibility etc, but at the merits of what's actually written, aren't we allowed to have this hypothetical pondered? If we genuinely did that, would the answer be a resounding no? Or are we just too blindsided to see beyond our own confirmation biases?

    Therefore I ask again, based on what you had expected what the country to be at this point in time of 2023, and how it actually is, and going by the differences in those two cases, are you prepared to afford a cerebral, not an aortical consideration for this?

    So I ask again, what if she's right?

     

    Solo Rider

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    So What No GIF
     
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    earthling

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    Yes. There are no more fuel & gas shortages. There is no power cut due to the 2nd highest rate for an electrical bill in Asia. We are only behind Singapore.. is this a better position?

    There are fuel & gas because there is money left after not paying our loans. We faced the fuel + gas crisis because that idiot Kabral paid that $500 million bonds payment loan, when everyone said not to & wasted billions on pegging the $ to Rs. 200.. remember? So no paying loans = have enough money to buy fuel... Is that a good position? Where are the plans to increase revenue? Exports? Can you increase a country's revenue through shrinking the economy? Yes.. you can save $ & LKR by stopping the buying power of the citizens. They are certainly doing that by unbearable taxation of the poor & the middle class... What buying power?

    Even if we get the IMF, we have to start paying back the loans.. then what? Where are the new ways of earning that should be in place when we start to pay back the loans? Ranil has shit to propose other than get more loans.. we are in this mess because of the 12 billion $ loans he got from the bonds.. And his only proposal is getting more loans.. actually that is the only solution he has ever had come to think about it..