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Post by anuraj »

lenkite wrote: post #318
peterfirefly wrote: post #292

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Would it be better if India was broken up into much smaller states, possibly more or less along the current internal borders? Is India really seen as a country by the Indians or is it seen more like a bunch of unwanted outside overlords ruling over your local part of India, whichever that might be? I'm asking partly because I live in the EU where we are explicitly trying to create a big, state-like construction for m…

We have a national identity that is very strong. And devolving into different nation states won't solve anything - it will lead to wars and violence and a broken economy. We would also be easy pickings for China and Islamic states like Pakistan. All our eastern states would be annexed by China in a couple of years. Kashmir and Punjab would be annexed by Pakistan. It is the Indian military and the fact that we have nu…

What country reasons its existence on paranoia and fear factor. True India shall happen when federal states get functional and financial autonomy and decisions are not shoved down their throats through an imperial mechanism.

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Post by iopq »

code_duck wrote: post #313
iopq wrote: post #143

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You're not a customer because you're being forced to pay. You have no choice in the matter. If they provide really really bad service you still have to pay.

Sure, that's the situation in a monopoly. It's not that we're not in a customer role, just that we're poorly served customers of a monopoly where management doesn't seem to understand for whom they're working. If the whole system wasn't sondysfunctional, poor service would be addressed by our elected representatives, who are supposed to be properly planning government services for us.

Government services are by definition a monopoly because there is only one government in your country. It's a bit worse, though. If there's a monopoly on electricity I can just stop paying and get a generator. If there is a monopoly on air flights I could drive or take a boat. However, if I stop paying the government I go to prison.

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Post by rgovind »

crag wrote: post #277
rgovind wrote: post #126

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I am an Indian citizen so I can offer some perspective. Atleast 50% of those in software engineering don't vote. Going to voting station, standing in queue and voting is a painful process and most of us don't take the trouble. Hence, their concerns are not really heard in the govt. These people will not go to concerned authorities and explain them how it will affect the economy. They will just whine for a few days an…

"Going to voting station, standing in queue and voting is a painful process and most of us don't take the trouble." Not exactly cupcakes and candy in America either. But I suspect the voting process is easier here. But our numbers are also very low. In 2014 I think 36% of the voting population voted? Which means, the current government doesn't represent the American people. But whose fault is that? Well ours (America…

This is news to me. I didn't know voting percentage in US was so bad. In India, its actually much better. About 50-60% most of the time but thats because candidates pay $20 per vote!

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Post by readme »

bduerst wrote: post #197
readme wrote: post #83

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The anti-immigration crowd are the conservative working class. Like it or not, immigrants are actually coming and displacing them. Where I disagree with them is their solution to the issue. The correct solution I think would be to level the playing field by making illegal immigrants citizens who pay taxes. The same conservative masterminds which influence the working class to be upset about immigration, are the ones…

Don't you want those Indian developers living in the U.S.? At least then they would be spending their U.S. based income here.

Honestly I want everyone to live in the country that they are proud of and consider to be their home. If an Indian or any person feels that way about the US, then I want them to live here.

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Post by anonbanker »

greedo wrote: post #202
chom_noamsky wrote: post #175

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That bombing may also be considered an "inside job". The demolition was due to bombs inside the building. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWwrEEP8EBk - http://physics911.net/generalpartinreport [Bomb Damage Analysis of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building by Brigadier Gen. Bentin K. Partin, USAF (Ret.)] And the meaning of terrorism, as it will always be for lapdogs of the bully with the most power, is violence and int…

Sad. I didn't know the truthers were now targeting the OKC bombing. Oh well, at least they make it easy to spot when they include 911 in URLs.

There were people calling it an inside job back in 96. The fact that you started paying attention to "truthers" post-2001 seems to be suggesting that you never knew a criminal conspiracy to commit murder was possible prior to someone on the television telling you to ignore what those people were saying.

If you want to ignore that the United States and its public officials regularly commit murder, and then cover up the evidence of a crime, just take a peek through your history books to see how many other countries/empires over the centuries have performed false-flag operations similar to McVeigh's bombing.

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Post by bduerst »

readme wrote: post #324
bduerst wrote: post #197

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Don't you want those Indian developers living in the U.S.? At least then they would be spending their U.S. based income here.

Honestly I want everyone to live in the country that they are proud of and consider to be their home. If an Indian or any person feels that way about the US, then I want them to live here.

Hmm, I wasn't implying people should be forced to live where they aren't comfortable.
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