Remember people, if its not made in the US, there's something suspicious about it.
The big tech oligarchs in the US should have free reign across the planet, but anyone else, well they first need to answer a few questions.
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#162Remember people, if its not made in the US, there's something suspicious about it. The big tech oligarchs in the US should have free reign across the planet, but anyone else, well they first need to answer a few questions.
Is this sarcasm? Is it based on anything in the article?
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#163Remember people, if its not made in the US, there's something suspicious about it. The big tech oligarchs in the US should have free reign across the planet, but anyone else, well they first need to answer a few questions.
Is this sarcasm? Is it based on anything in the article?
Yes.Yes.
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#166I grew up in India - nationalism is definitely a growing concern for the country IMO, more so than can be expressed online by articles such as this. And nationalism definitely has a huge overlap with hinduism in the country. Creating siloed media platforms that lets such ideas fester and grow is probably the worst thing that can happen. The thing is that even gently challenging these ideas (with some folks I know bac…
Why does 'nationalism' concern you. Is 'nationalism' always or almost always negative?
Not him.
* People start to believe propaganda which they want to believe - spread of nationalistic feelings helps this. People value these feelings over science. Boomers were reading whatsapp forwards and thinking "Ayurvedic" honey and ginger will cure COVID19 during the pandemic. You might be labelled anti national for saying Ayurveda is pseudoscience and not reliable. The mainstream nationalist narrative is so anti-science, and further, this propaganda is being used to build a cult of personality around Modi.
* Because the ruling party can portray themselves as patriotic and nationalist, and get the media skewed towards perpetuating that viewpoint, people ignore the economic and policy failures of the government. Currently Petrol/Diesel prices are rising in India but most of the India is silent about it. If it was during last govt, there sure would be riots and what not.
I am neutral regarding Indian politics. The opposition party (Indian National Congress) is fucked up due to nepotism and minority appeasement tactics too. But nationalism is a valid concern.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
In this instance it concerns me because this form of 'nationalism' is a net negative for India and its future generations. It's masquerading as national pride but it's an attack on the secularity of the country, an attack on minorities (religious, lgbtq+ folks, etc), an attack on free speech and an attack on political freedom/opposition. India is not a monolith but a diverse country with a rich history and trying to…
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.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Is Europe a country? Europe and India are different in many ways. Because Indian Nationalism dates back to 323 BC and with Mauryan Empire.
For what it's worth, Mauryan empire didn't rule the entire south India, which had different culture. India makes more sense as a subcontinent, not a unified culture. It's a spectrum of cultures.
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#169Remember people, if its not made in the US, there's something suspicious about it. The big tech oligarchs in the US should have free reign across the planet, but anyone else, well they first need to answer a few questions.
That's why I only support non-US oligarchs.
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#170Not the best start when you name your platform something that has the same sound as the more vulgar name for the hole between someone's butt-cheeks.