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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