India has long been a land of thugs: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44881/44881-h/44881-h.htm
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#152The Modi Question on Peertube: https://peertube.tv/search?search=The%20Modi%20Question%20&s...
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#153Isn't it impressive how incompetent authoritarian regimes are? I mean, India has a great thing going. Geopolitically, it's exempt from bans on trading with Russia, so it can play both sides and get away with it. It has build up a vast services industry as the "back office of the world", a major driver of economic prosperity. It's likely the main beneficiary of re-shoring manufacturing out of China. In this position,…
> You scare investors. You don't realize how unlike manufacturing, services are extremely easy to move to another country. And why even start manufacturing in this regime, when plenty of saner countries are nearby?
You have it backwards. This is the stuff that manufacturers, and particularly capitalist American manufacturers go absolutely nuts for. Authoritarian governments are their wet dream. If you have an authoritarian govt on your side, there's nothing you can't get away with. Labour troubles disappear, red tape? gone! Environmental issues? swept under the carpet.
It doesn't get much more Authoritarian than China, and world manufacturing moved all moved there over the past 50 years.
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#155India has long been a land of thugs: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/44881/44881-h/44881-h.htm
Wow. Racist dog whistles in HackerNews. Sad to say I’m not surprised.
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#156Isn't it impressive how incompetent authoritarian regimes are? I mean, India has a great thing going. Geopolitically, it's exempt from bans on trading with Russia, so it can play both sides and get away with it. It has build up a vast services industry as the "back office of the world", a major driver of economic prosperity. It's likely the main beneficiary of re-shoring manufacturing out of China. In this position,…
I thought India was "the world's largest democracy". When did it become an "authoritarian regime"?
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“The Hindus are bullies” is too broad of a generalization.
At least the current nationalist Hindu government are authoritarian anti-democratic almost fascists, using democracy to reduce the rights of others and block competition.
The us is not without our own groups trying to keep others from voting. And although the US strives to be a democracy for all, we were historically and to a good extent today are very racist. But the imperfections of my own country doesn't prevent me pointing out problems in other countries, and it goes the other way too.
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Is India afraid of being invaded by Britain? :-)))
It's not like the British haven't done it before, though.
There was no united Indian state though, as the Mughals were falling and the Marathas were just a confederacy. Plus neither of them had nukes.
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#159Attacking the press is never a good look in my book. Without even having seen the documentary, this convinces me that Modi is guilty of anything it accuses him of.
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I never understood the Indian ban. Aren't BBC documentaries available in the UK only anyways? Indian residents couldn't have accessed it without a VPN anyways.
It’s the result of a thin skinned paranoid government ruling the country. There was gonna be absolutely no impact whatsoever if they had just kept quiet and not said a thing. Instead their touchiness has meant that this has become a much bigger deal and is actually impacting their favorability negatively, at least anecdotally.
It's so pathetic how thin skinned this "strong"men are. Oh, you think I bear a nearly non-existent resemblance to a much loved storybook bear? Off to """reeducation""" camps with you!
You make a milquetoast documentary about things I did a decade ago that were pretty bad, GTFO!
"No you're a puppet, you are you are"
It's just pathetic. How does anyone look at these people and think they are strong?