Comments by "Alexander Philip" (@alexanderphilip1809) on "ThePrint" channel.

  1. One of the factors that assisted Bangladesh's rapid industrialization is the restrictions placed on trade unions. Compared to W.B the difference is palpably visible.
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  2.  @gugugyg  seriously ? you are comparing Seoul and Tokyos cleanliness to that of Mumbai's, New York makes sense its run by idiots but Seoul and Tokyo are miles ahead in terms of regional governance than you can imagine. dont say stupid shit that dont just make no sense but are hilariously laughable.
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  3.  @vayshakug8952  Don't bother arguing with her. She sounds like an activist, the type is known for its cognitive deficiency.
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  4. Turks bought the older ver. and within a decade they had their own domestic ucav. Maybe with 10+ order's we'll have something to learn from and hopefully build a homegrown one before middle of this century.
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  5. 😂all the nations that are part of the five eyes network experience more geographic security than India ever did. We have eternal enemies and perpetual external threats. THEY have options. We DONT.
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  6. That first Sarpanch from Telegana Sashidhar is an honest and competant man. hard to find people like him.
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  7. Well for this to work anywhere else there needs to be a competant bureaucratic structure that os flexible enough, kerala at the moment has that. So Modi's taking the alternative route using corporates to fund big infra projects, time will tell which is more sustainable. Though kifbi has been around for more than two decades, the communists under Vijayan's leadership have done a relatively good job of using it effectively compared to previous regimes. Combative binary narratives along ideological lines without a clear understanding of costs and benefits have always been India's greatest failing. Vijayan has done some really good work on the phyiscal and health infra side and has commited to eodb improvements along with freebies for winning election all that without the obsession with what people eat doesnt mean he didnt have missteps. At the moment ideology aside he is amongst the most competant chief ministers.
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  8. Infra push is appreciated even if its more than two decades too late
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  9. This is India, taxing the hell out of anybody in the name of socialism and welfare state is kinda like our thing. Common sense be damned. If they'd used those funds responsibly by spending it on infrastructure where it could provide long term dividends would have been nice alas This is India. #incompetantindia
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  10. Because its a stupid and short sighted demand. Kinda like asking for more labour friendly legislation in India.
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  11. Concerted effort by the govt. to invest in infra, technical education and a highly favourable business/industrial environment on a multi decade time span. We Indians are only good at whining about labour rights, justice for farmers and soke idiotic notion of democratic superiority while serious nations funnel their investments into necessary infra. across varying sectors.
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  12.  @caaashijain2069  finally, somebody with a functioning brain.
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  13.  @gugugyg  which part of Seoul did you visit to have such a stupid take on the matter, London, NY and LA make sense East Asian cities especially Japan, Taiwan and S.K are light years ahead of even the best of what Indian cities can offer including hygiene.
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  14.  @Vizorfam  and muslims are soooo innocent. How did they come to populate the Indus/Ganges Valley stretches anyway ? Not as purveyors of peace that i can tell you.
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  15. Come on man. Its just a kid.
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  16. You do realize that RSS was formed in response to islamic presence in the sub-con right ?. They are reactionaries and they are reacting to something, what they are reactibg to is not some innocuous ideology, dont let self righteus idiocy cloud your common s3nse, assuming you have any. Doesnt justify the crap they do by protecting criminals who kill innocents because of their dietary choices. But RSS at the very least doeasnt want to see an islamic majority India, thats more than what you can ask of their opponents(who at best dont care).
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  17. There are other nations with actual conscriptions in place that have been able to reintegrate their veterans. US does a poor job in that regard despite having an entire department assigned for this purpose but they have a globe spanning military committments. Israel, Singapore and S.Korea do a better job, But they are small nations with lesser population.
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  18. Regional governments compete for not just government funds but private capital as well, They have to hit certain growth targets. So Provinces compete to invite businesses, primarily manufacturers(employment generation) to set up shop.
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  19. proxy war would imply that russia is using another nation/anonymous units, as a proxy thats not the same thing, False flag is the process of using units anonymous and/or military assets of unknown origin inorder to preserve deniablity and divert attention. Training excercises they've been conducting along Ukraines border has been on conventional lines(probably posturing). plus a full scale invasion would require active russian c&c assistance, doesnt mean it'll stop them.
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  20. Well thats more aerial warfare than drones. But you're right.
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  21. Centre for arts. So broadly speaking a waste of space ?
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  22.  @AshikJonathan  NY is not exactly garbage free let alone dirt free. Make sure you are comparing cities that actually have something worth being compared to.
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  23. thats what you get when you have reduced diversity in the social, ethnic and political sphere. Awami league has in power for quite some time. 90%+ Bengalis(linguistic Majority) 90%+ Muslims(Religious Majority) Near absence of left wing trade unions. Nations can kill for this and still fall short of this kind of socio political advantages.
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  24.  @Vizorfam  kid. get of the comment section and read a damn book thats not recommended by your avg twitter user.
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  25. Nazi's fear of the jews are based on fictional believes and resentment.
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  26. Is this supposed to be sarcastic if not, somebody should cut off your access to internet.
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  27. Thats something Indians havent learned. If some politicians offer them free shit or reservations they will votw for them, its embedded in the culture. No need to worry, No Meritocracy here.
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  28.  @sauron2000000  bad joke. workers owning the means of production.
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  29.  @smartlearning6390  And you title yourself "smart learning" how poignant. plus who qualifies as a bhakt ?
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  30. Divide and rule was the British policy regarding Europe, but British policy in India was different as they ruled/managed India. So its safr to assume that while D&R might've been the initial policy for conquest, sustaining their colonial interests would have required them to be flexible. Kinda like now, central government has to be mindful of the often competing interests of the constituent states, ruliny BJP's conflicts in Punjab, west bengal, maharashtra and to a lesser extent in Tamil Nadu are reflective of that.
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  31. Books, Manuscripts, Artifacts and Sculptures should be relocated to a facilty with better infra and accessibility. Burn the rest.
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  32.  @Abhishek-vj4ib  not socialism. There were socialists in India like Kamaraj and R Venkitaraman in Tamil Nadu who were intelligent enough to understand the value of industrialization. Its not just socialism, its the idealistic stupidity of the intellectual class and the pathological degeneracy of the bureaucratic class that saw capital as a threat to the "govt's power"(some still do, you need only look at JNU) what ever the hell that means in a dirt poor nation like ours. Compare that to what the Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, Singaporeans have done in the East and what the Turks did amd Israelis did in the Mediterranian and what the Vietnamese and even the Bangladeshis are doing right now. Blaming modi wont change the structural corossiveness of the Indian constitution and the structure it endorses. We need federalism(real one) where each state has the financial independance and the centralized mandate(vested within their constituent state governance bodies ex: we are already divided in linguistic lines) to rule and follow through with the policies regardless of the idiotically idealistic ramblings of our unimaginative and inadequate society.
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  33.  @Vizorfam  just because hindutva is shit doesnt mean there existence is without cause.
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  34.  @Vizorfam  also eviserate social-ism. Hindutva could be useful to create a broad hindu coalation if it wadnt so hateful. But socialism, dont even get me started. The fact that you are raging against capitalism on a US based tech platform shows how stupid you ideology is. Dont get me wrong effectively administered and competantly enforced flexible welfare policies are goo. Ultimately Tempered Capitalism is always better than any form of social-ism.
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  35. @UCkP_ydgB-12Wmb7aK798swwi can plainly conlcude that you are an unintelligent simpleton. Modi has a lot of camps he draws his support from Religion is merely one of them, other tents might be small but they are present. Plus national security voters and business community voters are still with him, religious nuts just so happen to be the largest one. Plus your sanctimonious comment deserves a reply, look at afghanistan u dumb fck, at Iraq and Syria. In addition to that Muslims are a liablity where evr they might be. You see it as Islamophobia we nonmuslims see it as self preservation. That being said killing people and assaulting them should be avoided at all costs, we are not muslims its when these rss nuts forget that, tht they behave like common thugs.
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  36. white skin ?
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  37. Welfare populism is an excellant way to curb wealth inequality related resentment in any given society. Ofcourse it has to be matched by market led growth and investment in infra structure and education by the state. Tamilians have proven themselves over the years plus having a competant bureaucracy goes a long way. Their per-capita income is amongst the highest in South Asia. It pays to have intelligent people running the govt. Personally I find welfarisn to be a nuisance but its capcity to stave off public discontent should always be acknowledged especially in a democracy.
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  38.  @ayanangshunayak6731  Joe Rogan Experience. Check it out. Also Lex Friedman he's a must watch.
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  39. Switzerland, albiet much less populace weapon handling discipline is ingrained in Swiss citizens during their mandated service. US's R2BA is much more about owning guns without any kindof even sensible regulations. Gun ownership in the US is unconditional. Plus most people whining about this seems to be non Americans who have no stake in this. US's gun laws didnt come into effect in the last decade. Gun ownership was prevelant before that.
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  40. Reminds me of that one Yes Minister episode. We really never learned anything useful from the Brits did we, except for administrative incomptence and clueless amd stupid politicians.
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  41. This is the same country where intellectual JNU grads shit on private Capital as if its devil's spawn. Those a-holes havent experienced unemployment or hunger. When you treat Capital like shit, it moves to a region with lesser hostility.
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  42.  @vikramkumar-og8jp  not entirely true, but the problem is their existence jeopardizes the future politcal and physical security of our children who are not muslims. Look at the history of how they conquered anatolia or how they conquered India. Give a camel space for its hooves and soon enough you will be dying of hyporthermia.
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  43.  @nawoxare5194  Not necessarily, it's very much possible given how targets are set by the central authorities over there from the Politburo to there implementation via Secretariat to every thing South of it. But yeah that's not really an L OP is wishing on china. Given that China is more Industrialized than India. We have a natural geographic advantage via our close proximity to the arabian Peninsulas hc's but it kind of ends there.
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  44. or just focus on industrialization.
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  45. not really unless you are expecting vox like production quality.
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  46. This is much more personable.
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  47.  @sohamsteel1345  its probably just a hoax. The point is simple, My enemy's enemy is my friend and as beggers cant be choosers best to make do with what you have, RSS might be crude, bombastic and its members jingoistic morons but they are numerous and organised For a country like India thats flanked by Islamic states on both sides on its land and maritime borders, they are a necessary evil.
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  48.  @tausifbashir6434  protesting laws passed by an elected govt for not letting in their preferred group to shore up future demographic support for their identity group is not something the rest of the population is willing to sit by and entertain.
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  49. equal peers ? come on now I would caution against such pseudo jingoistic claims.
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  50. (That's where Industrial Estates/Parks come in, they have relatively advanced infrastructure made available it mimics and creates the kind of advanced Industrial infrastructure you would find I. A developed country but in a designated space, then you take what you learn and build more of them, This is what Tamil Nadu did ), because PRC and it's various regional governments see industrial expansion as an economically productive employment generation program unlike in India where we have cash burning programs like MNREGA and the many freebie fetishes and populist idiocies of the illiterate masses, The regional governments over there at times fund their own infra programs to attract more capital. They have a Build Operate Transfer Model, which is what they used to setup SMIC's initial fabs(just an example), SMIC grew out of it but thats a very prevelant model over there. Regional governments build local infrastructure then vye to bring in foreign and domestic manufacturers and capital and know how to take advantage of whats available plus lot of sops.
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  51. Add to the fact that labor unions are pretty much non existent and strikes are pretty much unlawful(not that they don't occur but the govt's clamp down quickly unlike here where every a-hole can fire bomb trains and public infra and nobody bats an eye) Worker activism is repressed heavily, which is similar to how South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and even Japan developed their Industrial capacities. Infrastructure expansion + Labour activism repression + Constant skill upgradation of workers(They train a lot of workers in Vocational education programs and then release them into the market, they do this for large anchor companies and release the rest of the workers into the market, Americans in the South East do a similar thing ) + Stable reliable policies (You need Bureaucrats who aren't left wing turds and level headed politicians who have functional brain cells, departments in which India is severely lacking) + (Given that India has a lot of people) 'Strongly' encourage and link market access of foreign companies to JV's with local partners. These are just a few of the things that the Chinese did. India still doesn't have enough Industrial Estates in its most populous states(which is where Industrialization needs to happen at tremendous scale yet the BIMARU states are still sick and poor), most of which are landlocked so infrastructure needs are greater meaning more roads, dedicated freight rail lines, connective Infrastructure is still worse than piss poor. Hope NLP, Bharatmala, Sagarmala and DFC(all of which have been over budget(which is bearable) and still not even half way complete) changes things but I have 60+ years of reasons to think that nothing will. All I can think of is that old ad song. incredible India, Except incompetent instead of incredible.
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  52.  @Avinashm7  No. You are wrong.
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  53. Hope that it happens. Fear that it wont or atleast not have the intended effect.
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  54. @2:23 could have done away with the unnecessarily dramatic reenactment.
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  55. You guys need to invest in a new audio setup.
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  56. Highly likely given that India's only major thalassocracy was centered in the south east end of the peninsula.
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  57. Just what i was thinking.
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  58. Still more Industrialized than ours truly.
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  59. Also don't mean to sound like a 50cent shill, but their PCI is more than five times ours. green initiatives are not focal point of industrial advancement, for an undeveloped country with relatively less value added Industrial and technology base salivating over the approval of Washington Post and NYT readers is no different from self flagellation at best unaliving thineself at worst.
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  60. Well because it is. We had 5 decades to do something. But we wasted it on idiotic democratic idealism and left wing labour justice fantasies. Leading to the status quo. While the chinese burned their way to the top.
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  61. White majority makes up a significant chunk of their right wing, their demographic decline accentuated by low fertility rates and high inward immigration has and will continue to reduce their political representation and is in the process of removing their economic advantages by virtue of loss of participants to old age without sufficient replacement from their cadre. That's what awaits India in the long run if Hindus can't maintain their tfr above 2.1 and reduce Muslim's tfr below the same figure, slow numerical erosion. A death by thousand cuts without drawing a drop of blood.
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  62. That's the propaganda Dept.He isnt getting much help even in actual governance from the people who ride on his coattails. Plus you can't govern the central government like you would a state government, Which is one of the contribution factors of why he underperformed severely on his first outing. The bureaucratic apparatus in Gujarat doesn't exist elsewhere, Few states like Maharashtra and TN have developed a functional bureaucracy over the years(decades actually) but highly populated and landlocked Northern states like UP and Bihar are severely under managed and likely overstaffed. Central govt can only do so much if the states themselves aren't interested.
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  63. Forget Incredible India trend this #incompetantindia . The thing that is holding this country is the avg citizens aspirations and enterprising spirit despite the state's best efforts to scuttle them in the name of idiotic statism(at very least learn how to govern effectively and competantly). Left wing intellectuals would rage and foam at the mouth screaming about the oppressive capitalists who fund their delusional pet fantasies, while right wing nuts salivate at the prospect of hollow jingoism, while muslims clamour for their regressive delusions and voters cry for free shit where ever they can get them. Truly a civilisation worthy of emulation.
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  64. fairly balanced.
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  65. Inability of the governance systems to catch upto the aspirations of the citizens isnt due to the absence of ideas. Vaccination has been bungled beyond measure, bureaucratic incompetamce and political grandstanding and armtwisting private firms to stroke and pamper the incompetant political/bureaucratic class is just one of the foundational flaws of our republic, it will change but it wont improve. Indians thrive on self flagellation by villifying the things that work and supporting the things rhat dont.
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  66. Stupidity knows no bounds.
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  67. Not necessarily. Not without foreign Technological input and that at the moment is very limited. You might wanna look at case studies in SK, Israel, Singapore, Taiwan. Ofcourse our govt regardless of political parties can never be even 1/10the as forward thinking or productive as them. Then again time will tell
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  68. you clear dont understand Bangladesh. Liberalist fantasies are just that. You need effective and pragmatic governance unencumbered by intellectual delusions like liberalism(esp. social liberalism).
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  69. Guy Fawkes masks. But ok.
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  70. 0:43 thats every military force using scortched earth. you dont treat your adverseries with flowers and garlands.
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  71. Wtf
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  72. If land is necessary to build out something more valuable say a railway line, technical school, Engineering/Science college, University, Industrial facility, a Manufacturing unit or a research and development facility then it absolutely has priority over any and all religious buildings or cultural fetishes Indian intellectual/religious elites are obsessed with be it a Temple, Mosque or a Church. If it gives tangiable benefits to the individual/society/nation that deserves absolute priority over idealized fantasies that goes for religous nuts and far left/union degenerates. This should have been drilled into the mind of every damn Indian since independance instead we got a parade of disingenous leftwing intellectual fcks.
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  73.  @shalivahana1300 come on man. That guy might be a self righteous idiot, doesnt necessarily mean he is a muslim.
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  74. The thing is Bengaluru rarely ever gets this level of rainfall. So the infrastructure is not used to nor built to handle the stress of it. Even govt's can only prepare for what they are used to.
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  75. Its a matter of funds, both nehru and modi are faced with nearly the same problem, a poor nation, Except with nehru dysfunctional economic and political idealism reigned supreme, with modi political and economic policies have a semblance of pragmatism with meaningful priority given to market driven policies, but atleast he doesnt have the same level of administrative incompetence and dogmatic delusions as Nehru did, perhaps except with the whole 'Hindutva' thing, aside from that he's got potential, the opening up of the defence sector was a smart move but its a multi decade project to build up the capacity to manufacture and maintain complex hardwares and indigenous supplychains that would have to be internationally competitive to sustain without regular govt assistance with guaranteed(this is India afterall) cost overruns that too in a corrupt and over bureaucratized country like ours is nothing short of tall order, plus our bureaucrats have too high an opinion of themselves with too little to show for it to carry out any sort of meaningful reform defence or otherwise add our illiterate and incompetent politicians to the mix and you have a brilliant recipe for India. It'll probably take us close to a century to get to a place where have a resilient enough economy and relatively high value added workforce that we can make shit that actually works, rather than beat our chest at the drop of a hat and stuff our ears at the first sound of criticism making accusations of jealousy and conspiracy when aside from the paki's nobody has a vested interest in making any, most of them are disinterested at best and apathetic at worst.
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  76.  @Vizorfam  i dont believe my religion is better than anybody elses, there are idiots who do, but just because somebody believes they are superior doesnt make it so, there needs to be proof(in some shape, form or metric)
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  77.  @Vizorfam  agree wholeheartedly with the latter part of you statement.
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  78.  @mizisawesome8442  you are no better than the person you are attempting to make fun of.
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  79. 0:15 if they didnt realize that before 2020 they were fools who deserve the heart burn that comes with such short sightedness.
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  80. We know how this'll turn out.
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  81. Al jazeera does some good work on the international front. But cant trust them when it comes to issues featuring middle east.
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  82. These idiots need to learn from Mahathir Mohammed on "how to hate minorities".
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  83. Our Country has a tendency to behave like an arrogant toddler that isnt particularly cute. There are left wing nuts here that have tagged this issue as neocolonialism without having a damn clue as to what it is. A nation ruled by incompetant bureaucrats that donot understand the concept of consequence becausr they never had to bear any. Retrospective taxing is as regressive as it can get, why not just flush thus country down the drain, a population resistant to labour law reforms and land reforms not to mention the fiasco with agricultural reforms, just raze it all and save the oxygen for the rest of the world.
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  84.  @g1y3  relatively small ethnic divisions and an island large enough is a recipe for overseas ambitions.
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  85.  @abhilashdas9115  Arent there are already quotas for them ?
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  86. And we wonder why India is underdeveloped.
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  87. Need sustained multi-billion dollar investements in the defense industry for more than two decades to even dream of catching upto our rivals. This is good for the time being but just seems lazy. Might wanna look at how the Turks launched their aerial ambitions. Indian politicians are quite useless and obsessed with socialistic incompetance and capitalist corruption all rolled into one, not much in the way of hope for anything in the defence arena, private sector might be able to do something, again you'd need multiple decades and large infusion of tech and capital and then ensure adequate flexibility so that the tech thats been ready to be rolled out hasnt been rendered obsolete. Its pathetic that we dont even have a functional rifle thats been designed by us that been battle tested, pathetic like our disjointed defense spending where we are yet to have a dtc like the space commission, instead of having to deal with the bureaucratic cancer that is the indian central ministries.
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  88. Well if you ask a left wing nut their first response will be that development will destroy their cultural values. Also when ever infra projects are announced especially near tribal lands these a-holes are the first ones their fulfilling their destiny as perpetual andholanjeevies that thrive on uselessness. As a rule of thumb you can't have any kind of advancement without a cost, one way or the other there will always be one, far Left mutts are often the last to realize that.
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  89. Anericans picked Morroco so as to get them to play ball with the Israelis. So it upset the Status quo in NA where there are competing territorial claims.
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  90. Americans are going to play hardball. They already have deals with every one of their consequential trade partners. India has no room, at least not enough to push through, Lighthizer had made it clear. We should've scrapped our labour laws and set out on the road to real industrialisation with regional state led dev. Model back in the 60s(like Tamil Nadu did), Now we will always be the perrenially poor courtesy of moronic intellectual humanists and idiotic leftwing ideologues.
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  91. There are also stupid-nativism and morobic jingoism in ample measure the kind that led to states in India planning for reservation in private sector that too in a country with less than pathetic educational system and even worse infrastructure where the cost of doing business is a bloody joke and the activist judiciary jerks of to their pet fetishes in every session, economic consequeces in an overpopulated perpetually poor nation be damned, should've burned these soft science intellectual fcks on the eve of independance, and channelled our resources to the hard sciences.
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  92. Seriously. Being receptive to criticism is important to iron out the flaws. Stop being a littIe bItCh about it.
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  93. Stupidity abounds.
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  94.  @upadisetty  pardon ?
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  95. @UCHC2F0LtYT-pwymu66UpUDA minorities ?. Minorities are a liability any where on earth aside frima few exceptions. Dont let idealism devolve into delusional stupidity. From the Malaysians to the Turks to the Israeli's are all nations that have had to tightly manage their minorities, ofcourse modi has dropped the ball on multiple occasions doesnt, but the choice is between a bad and a worse option in India every option is a a bad option. That being said brutalizing minorities is never a smart move leads to collective guilt for future generations but in the case of muslims their very existence on the subcontinent in large numbers is an example of how they got here and how useless the native kings where against them, that kind of loss and the humiliation of living side in your OWN home side by side with the very people who invaded you is just too much, as admirable as the Israeli jews are just ask the Palestinians.
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