Grapplejack posted:

I said it in the main D&D thread but Pakistan has a first strike policy and India does not, so that limits what India would be willing to do

Mantis42 posted:

Remember that episode of the Simpsons that predicted a Trump presidency? Remember this joke?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQKPSMIVHbQ

FoolyCharged posted:

In their defense, "Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!" is super catchy.

Troy Queef posted:

she still uses triple parentheses in "solidarity" four years after that was a thing, therefore she's a loving rube

cargo cult posted:

that there were fundraisers doesn't mean a majority voted for him or love him lol. asians much like every minority bloc vote solidly democratic

gradenko_2000 posted:

Xelkelvos posted:

Most of the people who have the money or skills to emigrate to wealthier nations and start a business are the same sorts of people who believe in pulling oneself up by one's own bootstraps and that sort of Conservative stuff.

It's the same with Filipinos in the US and Duterte.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Tulsi Gabbard likes Modi and she's literally a Democrat.

i say swears online posted:

Being mildly religious as well as a SBO or tech worker will do an ideological number on any demographic

CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

Many _______-Americans are from the comprador/landlord class in the old country. America's immigration/asylum policy post-1965 creates a never ending stream of native informants who then turn around and justify US foreign policy and intervention overseas.

The Dipshit posted:

Please tell me you aren't serious.

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

technically the caste system is illegal, so everybody just pretends it doesn't exist

Typo posted:

maybe it's because bourgois parliaments make it impossible to implement market socialism like a certain country next door?

Over Easy posted:

CAPS LOCK BROKEN posted:

nah, America is trying to align with India in a effort to build a bulwark around China, which is why the western media has been respectful of the Indian government rampaging through Kashmir, shutting down telecommunications, and arresting local political leaders.

Feranon posted:

wonder why they decided to just fuckin go for it now of all times. because the election is over i guess?

Jose posted:

The economy is in the shitter

OhFunny posted:

#Article370revoked was near the top of the trending charts on Twitter for me this morning. Hindu nationalists are ecstatic.

Over Easy posted:

Global warming being cancelled out by nuclear winter was a joke on futurama and now it is real.

i say swears online posted:

india is threatening to invade pakistani kashmir now

https://economictimes.indiatimes.co...ow/70556584.cms

cargo cult posted:

there will definitely be a huge wave of terrorism within india not limited to J&K

i say swears online posted:

it's amazing how successful this overnight deployment and occupation was

https://twitter.com/asadowaisi/status/1158792780950335488/photo/1

AFancyQuestionMark posted:

I am not trying to be smug or whatever, its just that seeing people respond to a fascist clamp down in a persecuted region of another country primarily with essentially "wait, this one could potentially affect me!" feels kinda lovely imo

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/1160460575454957568

cargo cult posted:

assam i think is majority christian. maybe theres an influx of migrants from majority muslim bangladesh there

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/MLM_Mayhem/status/1162762094611185664

Fuzzy McDoom posted:

Assam is about 60% Hindu 30% Muslim. Some of the small neighboring states like Mizoram and Meghalaya actually do have Christian majorities, but these are tiny and generally sparsely populated states that also barely have any Muslims in them. No doubt Assam is the target because its Muslim minority is probably larger than the total population of all the other NE states put together. Also, much like Kashmir there is potential for fuckery on the NE frontier since most of those states (I think all of them except Assam?) have internal migration and development restrictions designed to stop the native populations from being easily out-populated by migrants from the major Indian states or -gasp- Bangladesh. Politicians in the region talk poo poo about illegal immigrants every so often and have historically ICE-raided limited numbers of Bangladeshis with great fanfare, especially around election times.

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The most widely discussed talk at the Indian Science Congress, a government-funded annual jamboree held in Jalandhar in January, wasn't about space exploration or information technology, areas in which India has made rapid progress. Instead, the talk celebrated a story in the Hindu epic Mahabharata about a woman who gave birth to 100 children, citing it as evidence that India's ancient Hindu civilization had developed advanced reproductive technologies. Just as surprising as the claim was the distinguished pedigree of the scientist who made it: chemist G. Nageshwar Rao, vice-chancellor of Andhra University in Visakhapatnam. "Stem cell research was done in this country thousands of years ago," Rao said.

His talk was widely met with ridicule. But Rao is hardly the only Indian scientist to make such claims. In recent years, "experts" have said ancient Indians had spacecraft, the internet, and nuclear weapons—long before Western science came on the scene.

Such claims and other forms of pseudoscience rooted in Hindu nationalism have been on the rise since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014. They're not just an embarrassment, some researchers say, but a threat to science and education that stifles critical thinking and could hamper India's development. "Modi has initiated what may be called ‘Project Assault on Scientific Rationality,’" says Gauhar Raza, former chief scientist at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) here, a conglomerate of almost 40 national labs. "A religio-mythical culture is being propagated in the country's scientific institutions aggressively."