Comments by "" (@manofsan) on "Styxhexenhammer666" channel.

  1. "caste" is an english word - a relic of the era of British colonial rule. The British promoted that narrative in order to maintain their grip over the place. What India actually has is just mere tribalism - lots of tribes and clans and ethnicities - the country is a polyglot. The rise of the "hindu nationalism" is a backlash against the divide-and-rule of identity politics now orchestrated by the Left - a disease which has only recently overtaken developed democracies, but which has long ravaged more vulnerable, poorer societies like India.
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  2. Humanity doesn't need to die over this conflict. This war needs a negotiated settlement now.
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  3. Hi, I don't think the civics exam is meant to grant all voting rights. Vivek's idea is to raise the natural voting age to 24 -- and then use the civics exam to grant early voting rights to people from age 21 onwards. So if you're 21 but haven't yet reached 24, you can then take the civics exam and get the right to vote earlier than you'd otherwise get it (age 24). :person-turqouise-waving:
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  4. Hi, I don't think the civics exam is meant to grant all voting rights. Vivek's idea is to raise the natural voting age to 24 -- and then use the civics exam to grant early voting rights to people from age 21 onwards. So if you're 21 but haven't yet reached 24, you can take the exam and get the right to vote earlier than you'd otherwise get it.
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  5. There's no way that that USA is resting on its laurels in space - it's just that everything has shifted to the private sector, which is far more efficient. Look at what SpaceX is doing, not to mention Blue Origin and ULA. There are a half-dozen other small rocket companies bringing up the rear, too. You can watch the testing and development of SpaceX's Starship rocket on Youtube every day. Once Starship is completed, it will make everyone else look like a joke. By the time the Chinese and Russians get to the Moon, Elon Musk will have the whole place covered in solar panels.
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  6. There's no way that that USA is resting on its laurels in space - it's just that everything has shifted to the private sector, which is far more efficient. Look at what SpaceX is doing, not to mention Blue Origin and ULA. There are a half-dozen other small rocket companies bringing up the rear, too. You can watch the testing and development of SpaceX's Starship rocket on Youtube every day. Once Starship is completed, it will make everyone else look like a joke. By the time the Chinese and Russians get to the Moon, Elon Musk will have the whole place covered in solar panels.
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  7. Haha, I like your deeply strategic speculative analysis. Do you have any predictions for the Game of Thrones TV series?
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  8.  @haraldbredsdorff2699  - that's just mere tribalism and feudalism, which has been practiced in many societies. I'm not justifying it, I'm simply pointing out that parents around the world often don't want their kids to marry someone from the wrong side of the tracks. That's not exclusive to Indians, so there's no point singling out Indians for special criticism. You'll see the same practices all over the world. These types of affiliations are vestiges of a bygone feudal era. Upward social mobility is a natural consequence of free market economics, which the Left are stubbornly opposed to. The way to remove social stratification and stagnation is through free market societies.
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  9.  @haraldbredsdorff2699  - no, that's your own preferred narrative. India has been an overwhelmingly rural village-based society for thousands of years. It wasn't a very mobile society, so people spent most of their lives in the vicinity of their villages, and likewise mainly socialized and married among these. This is largely a product of circumstance, and not some grand repressive theological scheme. You can try to put whatever spin you want on it, but that's on you.
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  10.  @davemi00  - yeah, but Amendments are hard to get, since they require 2/3 majority. If you have 2/3 majority, then that shows a large bulk of the country supports it.
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  11. Establishment wants more wars,, and NeoCon Nikki is seen as the most reliable route to that goal.
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  12. @2:30 - the thing is that Trump isn't going to be around forever - and so he has to also give space for others to grow, so that there can be future successors to carry the torch, and the flame doesn't go out with the retirement of Trump. :hand-purple-blue-peace:
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  13. And the RUSSIA-MEDDLING accusations would return with newfound vengeance. "Evil Putin! He rigged 2020 against us too! I hate that guy!"
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  14. @3:20 - no, Putin did mention the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact during the interview
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  15. You need to keep some milk nearby, or better yet, ice cream. Have you done any ice cream reviews lately? Maybe do those immediately on the heels of the ghost pepper stuff.
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  16.  @JM-vp8zc  - varna and jati do not translate to the english word "caste" which confusingly blurs multiple things together. Varna has no hereditary connotation whatsoever. It simply says that society is made of 4 main occupational categories (military, scholar/priest, merchant, laborer). If you've ever played D&D, you'll get the idea. Words like Jati or Gotra have no spiritual connection, and are just local words used where you live, and are not broadly used across the country. They just refer to local clan, and whatever trade they're locally known for. The name John Smith means John whose people are smiths. Tom Carver means Tom whose people are carvers. Ed Fisher means Ed whose people are fishermen. Generations of economic development means that John Smith may now actually be an airline pilot, Tom Carver may be a brainsurgeon, Ed Fisher may be an architect. But thanks to Left-wing socialism, India has remained economically stagnant for many decades since independence. People have learned bad habits over acquiring good ones -- like only wanting Affirmative Action hiring quotas instead of working hard to raise themselves up. So they've instead learned to talk about identity politics instead of talking about how to earn. The hyper-obsessive fixation on identity politics has only inevitably led to a backlash in the opposite direction. That's now happening in the US too. The Left don't know how to deal with the backlash spawned by their own excesses, so they just reflexively cry "FASCISM!!!" Nationalism is a backlash against Globalists and their Divide-and-Rule games.
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  17. yeah, until somebody stops them
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  18. A defeated nominee like Hillary running again would be unprecedented, but Hillary is so egotistical that she'd be willing to set the precedent. The remaining cast of Dems are so pathetic that it's a natural temptation for her to think she'd be the best option. If Bernie were to lose to her in a brokered convention, then he'd really be showing what kind of wuss he is, even more than in the 2016 contest.
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