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Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

https://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idINKCN1QY03P?__twitter_impression=true

Lol

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The Dipshit
Dec 21, 2005

by FactsAreUseless

I have difficulty believing that Bolton did anything to keep other people from committing genocide.

really queer Christmas
Apr 22, 2014

The Dipshit posted:

I have difficulty believing that Bolton did anything to keep other people from committing genocide.

its like in a sitcom where the bully beats up another bully. theyre not doing it to save the victim, but because they should be the one to beat up the victim.

BgRdMchne
Oct 31, 2011

https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1109938813382639619

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

thats not in the disputed territories if you dont know pakistan geography

Segata Sanshiro
Sep 10, 2011

we can live for nothing
baby i don't care

lose me like the ocean
feel the motion

:coolfish:

lol not this bs again

all foreplay no fornication

really queer Christmas
Apr 22, 2014

fake news

Stairmaster
Jun 8, 2012

well thats good to hear

Segata Sanshiro
Sep 10, 2011

we can live for nothing
baby i don't care

lose me like the ocean
feel the motion

:coolfish:

it would be at least a little funny if everyone had their eyes on trump and russia and a bunch of other dumb white people poo poo only for india and pakistan to suddenly plunge the world into nuclear winter

won't happen tho

Algund Eenboom
May 4, 2014

https://twitter.com/BJP4India/status/1116246724119371776

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

India needs to be humbled. Their time will come.

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 24 days!)


https://twitter.com/AvtarSi18298015/status/1116283958029774848

lot of cool replies to this guy.

Nonsense posted:

India needs to be humbled. Their time will come.

they are seriously mad that Pakistan came out with the upper hand after the recent Kashmir row.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006


Th virgin nationalist vs the Chad Sikh

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer
I forget where I read it, but there was an article that theorized why the Indian bombing mission failed. They programmed the wrong elevation for the guided bombs. So instead of going in thru windows they flew over the buildings entirely.

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


https://twitter.com/Sturgeons_Law/status/1122030387704680448

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 24 days!)

I wonder if there's going to be political consequences for Modi after his people whipped their supporters up into a war frenzy, only to back down and lose face.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

I wonder if there's going to be political consequences for Modi after his people whipped their supporters up into a war frenzy, only to back down and lose face.

The media is totally behind Modi. If electoral shifts happen we'll find out after the vote. I don't even know if Congress or regional parties will make gains, but the skirmish this year right before an election certainly didn't help the BJP

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BJP president Amit Shah on Saturday slammed meek response to terror from across the border during Congress-led UPA time, and remorsefully recalled beheading of soldier Hemraj over which the then prime minister Manmohan Singh did not say even "ohh!"

sleeptalker
Feb 17, 2011

#SayOhh!ToWar

Eox
Jun 20, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/1123133472493555712

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

Ohh

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
The video sucks but lol

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1124305252847620096?s=19

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/indusdotnews/status/1125270646563516417

slumdoge millionare
Feb 17, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
Grimey Drawer

Big footprint big life

Segata Sanshiro
Sep 10, 2011

we can live for nothing
baby i don't care

lose me like the ocean
feel the motion

:coolfish:

is it a girl yeti....

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


https://twitter.com/VinayakRathi/status/1123411184076541957

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Abominable even

Eox
Jun 20, 2010

by Fluffdaddy
Yukon Cornelius joins Pakistani military

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
Indian elections come to an end today. The only thing standing to block a modi government is a party that used the bjp's own tactics (lumpenprole violence) to turf the communists out of power in Bengal.

Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

mila kunis posted:

Indian elections come to an end today. The only thing standing to block a modi government is a party that used the bjp's own tactics (lumpenprole violence) to turf the communists out of power in Bengal.

lol that owns

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
BJP landslide. Looks like India's #saidyestowar

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Pakistan must immediately pay tribute to Modi.

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


mila kunis posted:

BJP landslide. Looks like India's #saidyestowar

lol this shits gonna happen just before every election now

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdBUQvm7itE

OhFunny
Jun 26, 2013

EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC

mila kunis posted:

BJP landslide. Looks like India's #saidyestowar

BJP's on track to pick up 40+ for 324 of the 542 parliament seats. Far and away the biggest win since Rajiv Gandhi in 84.

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

OhFunny posted:

BJP's on track to pick up 40+ for 324 of the 542 parliament seats. Far and away the biggest win since Rajiv Gandhi in 84.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48347081

Lmao

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
How the BJP made inroads in a state that's been traditionally hostile to it

https://scroll.in/article/924510/amar-saffron-bangla-five-reasons-for-the-bjps-surge-in-bengal

Seems like the answer is: they have a shitload of money and dominated social media lol

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2019/05/19/india-another-china-or-another-brazil/

quote:

Sales of cars and SUVs have slumped to a seven-year-low. Tractors and two-wheelers sales are down. Net profits for 334 companies (excluding banks and financials) are down 18% year-on-year, according to the Financial Express newspaper. The vehicle industry’s rapid expansion under the Modi government had prompted predictions that India would soon overtake Japan and Germany to become the world’s third-biggest motor market. But last month, passenger vehicle sales were 17.7% lower than a year before.

quote:

That’s not all. In March, passenger growth in the world’s fastest growing aviation market expanded at the slowest pace in nearly six years. Demand for bank credit has spluttered. Hindustan Unilever, India’s leading maker of fast moving consumer goods, has reported March quarter revenue growth of just 7%, its weakest in 18 months.

It seems that middle-class ‘consumer boom’ initiated by Modi has burnt itself out. There is a fall in both urban and rural incomes. A crop glut has seen farm incomes drop. Kaushik Basu, former chief economist of the World Bank and professor of economics at Cornell University, believes the slowdown is “much more serious” than he initially believed. Export growth has been close to zero for the last five years. And now the domestic consumer boom is weakening.

quote:

Indeed, India has the lowest productivity levels in Asia. Between 1950 and 1980, labour productivity growth averaged a meagre 1.7%. The two decades to the turn of the millennium saw that average more than double to 3.8%. This was the period when India’s manufacturing and services sectors took off, leaching labour from the lower productivity agricultural sector. Labour productivity growth peaked at 10.2% in 2010 and has been on the decline since. In 2016, it stood at 4.75%. This does not bode well for achieving the growth targets that are needed to raise living standards.

quote:

Already, India is one of the most unequal societies in the world. The richest 1% of Indians now own 52% of the country’s wealth, according to the latest data on global wealth from Credit Suisse Group. The richest 10% of Indians have increased their share of the pie from 68.8% in 2010 to 77% by 2018. In sharp contrast, the bottom half of the Indian people own a mere 4% of the country’s wealth.

quote:

Under Modi, unemployment is at an all-time high. The “Make in India” plan seems to have flopped. And no Boeing, Airbus or Apple has come to invest in factories in India.

Two-thirds of Indian workers are employed in small businesses with less than ten workers, where labour rights are ignored – indeed most are paid on a casual basis and in cash rupees, the so-called ‘informal’ sector that avoids taxes and regulations. India has the largest ‘informal’ sector among the main so-called emerging economies. But small businesses are not very productive.

Pretty stunning that an incumbent government got re-elected with an even larger majority under those conditions under their rule. Doesn't seem India's going anywhere good

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Lol who could have foreseen a right wing government doing that. Insane he won an even bigger majority and things are going to become extremely grim

Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

(and can't post for 24 days!)

mila kunis posted:

Pretty stunning that an incumbent government got re-elected with an even larger majority under those conditions under their rule. Doesn't seem India's going anywhere good

It's incredible that they got punked by Pakistan and backed down from a war that all their CHUD fanbase desperately wanted, and still pick up more seats in the aftermath. I guess controlling social media is really all you need.

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Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Having people assault or threaten opposition activists also helps

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