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Re: Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

john_max_1 wrote: post #121
motohagiography wrote: post #93

The reaction of Koo may be more accurately described as being to globalization and the cultural homogenization it entails than against the largely western right/left divide. The diversity of opinions on mainstream platforms is starting to resemble being in an airport where you have the choice of mcdonald's, wendy's, burger king, or taco bell if you are looking for something exotic. Sure, it appeals to everyone, excep…

It is actually worse that you said. It is like the US wants to have only mcdonald's, wendy's, burger king, or taco bell at the Indian airports.

You forgot Starbucks, which US is succeeding in placing in every large Indian airport.

Re: Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #171
john_max_1 wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is actually worse that you said. It is like the US wants to have only mcdonald's, wendy's, burger king, or taco bell at the Indian airports.

You forgot Starbucks, which US is succeeding in placing in every large Indian airport.

...Subway!

Re: Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

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Post by braindead_in »

WillSlim95 wrote: post #152
portpecos wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s not pejorative. Naxals are supporters of the militant political organisation that claims the legacy of the Communist Party of India. In fact, Urban youth are specifically targeted to spread the communist teachings of Mao Zedong. They fund themselves through the Drug Trade, and 40% of funding for the Naxals comes through cultivation and distribution of drugs.

I have been studying reports on terrorism in India informally last 5 years and this comment is woefully inaccurate. Every sentence in this is inaccurate.

How?

Re: Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

sgift wrote: post #43
sremani wrote: post #34

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In the mother of multicultural societies - Nationalism is the fine thread that holds the thing together. India without Indian-Nationalism is warring states inviting new colonial powers for piece of action. This has been predicament of India since Alexander the Great. Strong borders externally and shallow border internally with rivers flowing in different directions created disparate cultures and population centers. I…

Funny, there is a state in Europe which had exactly the same position: We are all individual states, we fight with each other, we are weak, we should be together under strong nationalism, so we aren't victims of others anymore and so on. That country was Germany, which unified in 1871. Two world wars later and we've decided that maybe Nationalism isn't such a great thing. But you do you. Have fun.

That was just a reaction to the imperialism of another...uhm...player on the field. Which now has brexited from it :-) We will see where that is going...

Interesting times.

Re: Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

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Post by braindead_in »

markdown wrote: post #69
nonamechicken wrote: post #64

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I share the same fear farmers have in regards to corporations taking over things. I have seen documentaries that talks about how chicken farmers are at the mercy of 3-5 corporate monopolies in USA. So I don't know if the Indian farmers fear about corporations are entirely wrong. Having said that, I think the new laws are good for India. These are the arguments I have heard in favor of the new laws: One of the main ar…

You keep using MSP, but haven't said what it is.

It is a communist price control tool to keep the peasants poor and under the thumb of the state.

Re: Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

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Post by braindead_in »

higerordermap wrote: post #167
naruvimama wrote: post #124

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India's diversity is guaranteed only because of Hindus. Communists, Christians & Islam has cultural cleansing as their core instrument. As simple scan of the world will let you clearly classify nations as catholic, protestant, sunni or shia. Projecting problems of western ideologies into false equivalences in Eastern thought does no one any good. Laws against LGBTQ was imposed by the British and it was removed by the…

I am a Hindu and definitely against the expansionist philosophies of these religions. But isn't the mainstream nationalist narrative too pushing the same Hindutva-Hindi homogeneous propaganda? And diversity is not only about religion either.

Hindutva, as laid out by Savarkar, embraced the diversity and was against any kind of homogenisation. BJP support Hindu as a second language or link language; it does not want to replace any language. Hindu Nationalism in principle wants to preserve the cultural identity of the Hindus which itself is very diverse and therefore supports diversity.

Re: Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

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Post by hannofcart »

portpecos wrote: post #149
hannofcart wrote: post #141

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For the uninitiated, 'urban naxal' is the broad brush pejorative term that the Indian right wing uses to describe anyone who disagrees with them.

It’s not pejorative. Naxals are supporters of the militant political organisation that claims the legacy of the Communist Party of India. In fact, Urban youth are specifically targeted to spread the communist teachings of Mao Zedong. They fund themselves through the Drug Trade, and 40% of funding for the Naxals comes through cultivation and distribution of drugs.

What you are doing there is lumping concerned urban dissidents with the largely rural Naxal movement.

The Naxal movement may indeed have the characteristics that you mentioned, but you have a long way to go before establishing any links between them and dissidents who simply disagree with the current powers-that-be.

Re: Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative

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Post by WillSlim95 »

braindead_in wrote: post #178
higerordermap wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am a Hindu and definitely against the expansionist philosophies of these religions. But isn't the mainstream nationalist narrative too pushing the same Hindutva-Hindi homogeneous propaganda? And diversity is not only about religion either.

Hindutva, as laid out by Savarkar, embraced the diversity and was against any kind of homogenisation. BJP support Hindu as a second language or link language; it does not want to replace any language. Hindu Nationalism in principle wants to preserve the cultural identity of the Hindus which itself is very diverse and therefore supports diversity.

Hindi as a link language is a non-starter, unless people in North Indian states also learn South Indian languages.

To simply understand this point, forcing exclusive use of Hindi in Central government institutions gives an undue advantage to people from North India.

You mention in principle, but in practice the opposite happens. I am an East Indian who has spent all his life in South India I speak both Hindi and a South Indian language along with my native tongue. When North Indians come to South India, and stay for a long time a majority of them refuse to learn the local language whereas every South Indian who has spent time in the North picks up Hindi.

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