The most honest man in the BJP. pic.twitter.com/6Q4D43uo0d— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) October 21, 2019
seem to have been a lot of concerns about the companies who make and maintain the electronic voting machines
― ogmor, Monday, 21 October 2019 08:01 (four years ago) link
I've never known what problem electronic voting machines are supposed to solve, what advantage they provide over simple paper ballots.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Monday, 21 October 2019 14:04 (four years ago) link
there is none, the machines are specifically made & designed for voter fraud imo
― Book Doula (sleeve), Monday, 21 October 2019 15:50 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/world/asia/india-muslims-citizenship-narendra-modi.html
Mr. Modi’s fellow lawmakers in the B.J.P. are unapologetic about their pro-Hindu position.“There are Muslim countries, there are Jew countries, everybody has their own identity. And we are a billion-plus, right? We must have one identity,” said Ravi Kishan, a famous action-film hero and member of Parliament who is a central supporter of the citizenship legislation.
“There are Muslim countries, there are Jew countries, everybody has their own identity. And we are a billion-plus, right? We must have one identity,” said Ravi Kishan, a famous action-film hero and member of Parliament who is a central supporter of the citizenship legislation.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Monday, 9 December 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
Lok Sabha passes Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. 311 votes in favour of the bill and 80 against it. Live updates here: https://t.co/Onl48CsBEJ pic.twitter.com/PISAtnjhHy— Times of India (@timesofindia) December 9, 2019
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Monday, 9 December 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
Have to admit that I've been avoiding reading about this stuff because it feels like too much to process emotionally which, yeah, is privileged etc. Will get to it all in one go soon.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Tuesday, 10 December 2019 03:29 (four years ago) link
Similar thing with Brexit and the UK:
“The economy is in tatters,” said Aman Wadud, a human rights lawyer in Assam. The bill, he said, was “the only issue left to polarize the country and distract people.”
As there are less returns to be had from Capital hate against the minority...
The same playbook in Brazil, the US, much of Europe.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 10 December 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
Mass protests happening in India, centred around universities, against the new citizenship law. Meeting heavy repression from police with tear (and possibly worse) gas and (possibly live) ammunition.— libcom dot org (@libcomorg) December 15, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 15 December 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
Jesus
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Monday, 16 December 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
https://amp.scroll.in/article/947545/in-assam-an-adivasi-man-burned-to-death-last-week-as-caa-protestors-targetted-shops-of-outsiders?
The mob on a rampage against all
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 December 2019 09:47 (four years ago) link
A BJP minister reminding Muslims of the Gujarat genocide. "The majority here is capable of repeating it" https://t.co/wSspBFMYjK— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) December 20, 2019
Stuff like this reinforces the obscenity of idiots like Ian Bremner who backed Modi as an ‘economic reformer’ currently churning out articles about how disappointed they are in his far-right turn. Apparently overseeing one pogrom killing 2000 people while governor wasn’t enough to tip them off that he might be a wrong ‘un.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Sunday, 22 December 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
No words
― Un sang impur (Sund4r), Sunday, 22 December 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
In UP, Muslims have been picked up en masse from all over,thrashed, their homes barged into, properties confiscated & met with live fire on streets. And no one will be prosecuted because it is being done by the State. UP is already Hindu Rashtra. A thread on chilling reports(1/n)— Asim Ali (@AsimAli6) December 26, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 December 2019 12:08 (four years ago) link
Thanks for sharing that. It's horrible. Could this be as bad as the 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms?
― Un sang impur (Sund4r), Friday, 27 December 2019 01:16 (four years ago) link
Kerala becomes the first state in India to pass a resolution against CAA in legislative assembly. All members except the lone sanghi there voted in favour. Another proud Malayali moment :)#IndiaDoesNotSupportCAA pic.twitter.com/cJpUdRGpAl— Sankar Das (@mallucomrade) December 31, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 08:08 (four years ago) link
Good for Kerala, although I hope this spreads wider than a tiny state.
― Un sang impur (Sund4r), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
Doubt it but I am going to taking any glimmer of hope.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
Good news (I think):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/11/india-modi-ruling-party-poised-to-lose-delhi-election-after-polarising-campaign
― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
Pogroms taking place in Delhi..
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
Mobs using data to work out who to target:
Wow! What fantastic use of technology. Using an app, rioters identified vehicles belonging to the Muslims and then burnt them down.#DelhiRiots #DelhiBurning #delhivoilence pic.twitter.com/21CG5g7zan— Chaai Wala (@Chaai_Wala) February 26, 2020
Absolutely not an unforeseeable/ unforeseen consequence of the government-level move to ensure everyone is trackable online and irl.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
fuck this is horrible
― pet friendly (Euler), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link
Horrifying
― Sund4r, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
xp
Over 200 million Muslims call India home. Widespread anti-Muslim mob violence has killed at least 27 and injured many more. Trump responds by saying, "That's up to India." This is a failure of leadership on human rights.https://t.co/tUX713Bz9Y— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 26, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
so incredibly grim
― ogmor, Thursday, 27 February 2020 09:12 (four years ago) link
It’s grotesque and the coverage is almost universally lying about it too.
― median punt (gyac), Thursday, 27 February 2020 09:47 (four years ago) link
Soul-crushingly depressing, but I can't say I'm surprised, what with a fucking firestarter at the top.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 27 February 2020 09:50 (four years ago) link
Hard to even read: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/01/india-delhi-after-hindu-mob-riot-religious-hatred-nationalists
― Sund4r, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
following events through arts/food/politics-related indian twitter is strange/bathetic/poignant, ppl talking about how to gently persuade modi-sympathising relatives, very dark humour, outrage with centrist platitudes... when the stakes are raised the discourse still follows the same rules. makes this piece about the media and discourse around the 2002 gujurat violence and rwanda in the 90s very interesting imo
https://thepolisproject.com/journalism-as-genocide/#.Xl4cL6j7SCo
― ogmor, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 09:09 (four years ago) link
lots of reports of dalits being attacked as well, par for the course I suppose
― ogmor, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:10 (four years ago) link
There's a strong anti-leftist / anticommunist element to this as well. RSS types are obsessed with the idea of 'urban Naxalites' undermining the country.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:23 (four years ago) link
Waiting for the first cricket team to refuse to play India. You'd have thought New Zealand would have, if anyone. Maybe today at the WWC?
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:28 (four years ago) link
Tomorrow even
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:29 (four years ago) link
A cousin linked me this to correct the misinformation I have apparently been exposed to from the MSM. It certainly provides an, um, alternative perspective: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=140303730563256
― Sund4r, Saturday, 14 March 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
Really alarming situation described here for vast numbers of people who are stranded under the sudden lockdown, with reports of widespread police violence: https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/26/amitav_ghosh_india_coronavirus_lockdown
― Sund4r, Friday, 27 March 2020 03:05 (four years ago) link
With this and his Kashmir actions I believe Modi's solidly in the lead and pulling away from the field as the most horrible authoritarian elected president right now. When you consider the field includes Duterte and Bolsinaro, that's quite an achievement.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 27 March 2020 04:18 (four years ago) link
leading the vanguard of never-letting-a-crisis-go-to-waste, uttar pradesh suspends almost all labour laws for 3 years to spur investment https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/up-govt-to-exempt-businesses-from-all-but-three-labour-laws-for-3-years-120050701531_1.html
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Sunday, 10 May 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
Tesla should move it's factory over there
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 10 May 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
Haven't brought myself to read the last story yet but this story seems to put the rest of the world to shame: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/14/the-coronavirus-slayer-how-keralas-rock-star-health-minister-helped-save-it-from-covid-19
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 14 May 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
It's fantastic! I posted that on the UK pols thread
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 14 May 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I thought of putting it on Canadian politics, esp as Kerala has basically the same population size as Canada (and is more dense). Our handling of this doesn't seem as satisfactory anymore.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 14 May 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
Impressive!
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 May 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
Three Indian soldiers killed in a clash with the Chinese Army in Galwan Valley.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 09:12 (three years ago) link
So this situation has been going for a while?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 09:13 (three years ago) link
Since independence, i guess, but this is apparently the first time anyone has been killed in 45 years.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 09:17 (three years ago) link
There was a Chinese 'incursion' about three weeks ago, i think, that kicked things off again.
Actually, to be more accurate, i think the incursion came as part of the Chinese response to India building a new bridge across the valley, against China's objections.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 09:19 (three years ago) link
apparently now it's up to 20 casualties
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
The report I heard mentioned hand to hand combat, rocks and clubs used, it sounds as brutal and deadly as army combat gets without shots being fired.
― calzino, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
I saw that too. 20 soldiers beaten to death strains credulity imo, but obvs it's too early to know anything concrete
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link