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You should really try reading entire articles when you think you're posting gotchas.
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#72The reason the Indian government is afraid is because they know the secular Southern India will secede if they found out they're ruled by a religious North Indian madman who killed 750-2000 Muslims. Before this documentary the 2002 Gujarat events were largely brushed aside as ordinary 3rd world sectarian violence but the BBC documentary shows that Modi personally orchestrated the whole thing. The complete balkanizati…
You’re effectively saying a civil war is about to erupt?
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#73India is increasingly going down the slippery slope of repression that we have seen frequently in countries about 5-10 years before they lose their collective minds, and everyone wonders when the state "went bad".
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#75India is increasingly going down the slippery slope of repression that we have seen frequently in countries about 5-10 years before they lose their collective minds, and everyone wonders when the state "went bad".
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A more nuanced and informative view of this incident basically shows it was bureaucracy gone awry due to funding cuts and abuse. Not a top-down witch hunt.
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I'm sorry but I really don't think this is true and almost any source would prove you wrong. Like this one for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index Almost all countries up in the list are so called "Western", while India is number 46. Most sources would more or less agree with this index.
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> India is much more robust democratically. Out of curiosity, why do you think that is the case?
I would agree, many Indians, the democratic majority support this.
The fact that you agree doesn't make it correct, and there is no such thing as "democratic majority" in supporting something without a proof.
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#80So the Indian government have got all the time in the world to raid offices over tax but don't do anything over scam call centres scamming innocent victims all over the world.
I see that, but for calls going to the US, the US could actually implement STIR/SHAKEN and other measures to quell it...but they drag their feet.
I feel like the US is in a position to simply have some police deliberately fall for these scams, then wire over the $25k as the scammer instructs, then trace that money as far as the indian border, then demand the indian government repay it.
The indian government can continue tracing and find the scammer to get their money back (hard), or just shut down the call centers (easier).
Yes, I know this isn't the way international disputes work right now. But I think the US is in a position to make demands like this, with the threat that US borders will be closed to indian nationals, goods and investment unless india pays up.
Repeat however many times are necessary to solve the problem.