It's my belief these days that most people don't care about political idealogies, they care about results.
If a fascist in America promised free healthcare, affordable housing, and student loan forgiveness, the masses would love him and the uniparty media complex would hate him.
haha,,,, as more and more kids are being raised on pure and unadulterated hate, things will take decades, maybe more to settle down.
a promise is not a promise, it is advertisement to make BJP the king and then they turn back and proclaim how the people "chose" them, and endless feedback loop.
in my "valley", which is home to 8 million people, 1/3 are of voting age and no one votes. multiple reasons but one of the major ones being that people do NOT accept indian rule over our land and people. that means, for the most part, voting used to be 0.1%-5% at best.
now, the ruling BJP is doing what is being termed as "election tourism", bringing 2.5 million voters from rest of mainland india and having them vote BJP into power and then the same BJP will say "you voted us in power, kashmiris have accepted India, bwahahah"
i have studied in "delhi" back in 2013-15. same with thousands of kashmiri kids outside the valley, in mainland india and abroad. that never changed even in 1990's, let alone after 2019. education was never stopped to a point "you as a kashmiri kid shouldnt go to delhi to study". if anyone says that then they are lying.
i am talking about voting in the valley and about this new "election tourism" that the ruling BJP is bringing. since no one was going to vote for them, they are bringing in their own sham voters.
>This made me think that at some level, mainstream Kashmiri youth are willing to give the rest of india a chance.
kashmiri kids have been to delhi and karachi at the same time, there is no difference for both.
>I feel bad about abrogating A370 but at the end of the day, the existing status quo had gone on for too long.
i am not for lamenting the past and all but cooking up false premises over which to justify an illegal act, against international law is not something i would get over. why should i ? "what is done is done" is said by the victor, tomorrow china takes over ladakh and BJP turns to the country on national tv and says "it was inevitable, we couldnt do anything, oh well". i mean they have done that but doesnt make that right? or does it?
Modi was running the state government in Gujarat when his government fanned religious hatred leading to one of the worst riots in the state's history. One of the prominent victim of this hate and violence was Bilkis:
(TRIGGER WARNING - rape and death)
> Bilkis Bano was in a group of 17 people that included her three-year-old daughter, her mother, a pregnant cousin, her younger siblings, nieces and nephews, and two adult men ... On the morning of 3 March, as they set out to go to a nearby village where they believed they would be safer, a group of men travelling in two jeeps stopped them. "They attacked us with swords and sticks. One of them snatched my daughter from my lap and threw her on the ground, bashing her head into a rock."
> Bilkis Bano had cuts on her hands and legs. Her attackers were her neighbours in the village, 12 men she had seen almost daily while growing up. They tore off her clothes and several of them raped her. She begged them for mercy and told them she was five months' pregnant, but her pleas fell on deaf ears. Her cousin, who had delivered a baby girl two days earlier while they were on the run, was raped and murdered. Her newborn was killed too. Bilkis Bano survived because she lost consciousness and her attackers left, believing she was dead. Two boys - seven and four - were the only other survivors of the massacre.
For 15 years Bilkis braved death threats and government intimidation through the police to fight for justice. And eleven people were finally convicted for this rape and massacre and sentenced to life imprisonment. On this year's independence day Modi's party, BJP, in power in Gujarat used their power to curtail the sentences of these convicts and free them.
The released convicts were treated like heroes. The BJP / RSS in power right now in India are right-wing religious fundamentalists who want to convert India into a fascist theocracy, where anyone who isn't a Hindu and doesn't believe in their twisted ideology is to be treated as a third-class citizen with limited or no rights (like the "untouchables" as per the regressive caste theory of Hinduism). Indeed, one of the reasons given for releasing these convicts, by a BJP politicians who was on the panel who granted them their freedom was, “They are Brahmins, and as it is Brahmins have good values”. (https://thewire.in/rights/bilkis-rapists-are-brahmins-have-g...) ... Brahmins are one of the communities at the top of the rigid caste hierarchy. And apparently for these religious fundamentalist, even a rapist Brahmin is still a good Brahmin .... this is just one of the example of the sorry state India is in today, under our dear, glorious leader Narendra Modi.
What Modi is up to us basic electoral arithmetic - what admixture of Hindu grievance, painting of a rosy future, and sound bites/empty gestures can he use to win the next election?
I don’t think india is descending into Fascism though I would agree that it is no longer behaving like a Republic and more like a majoritarian democracy.
For one, the BJP isn’t (yet) saying there’s a “prototypical” Indian and that some Indian citizens are not prototypical. From what little I know of fascism, this is important.
Second, don’t be taken in by the headlines. People do speak up against majoritarianism. BJP/NDA does not have universal support.
Third, give electoral politics a chance to formulate a response to the BJP/NDA. Democracy is and will hold in india. E.g., the recently ousted chief minister of Maharashtra (home to Mumbai) spoke up against the tricolor campaign.
Painting the current state of affairs as fascism is foolish.
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[ 6.7 ms ] story [ 63.3 ms ] threadIf a fascist in America promised free healthcare, affordable housing, and student loan forgiveness, the masses would love him and the uniparty media complex would hate him.
a promise is not a promise, it is advertisement to make BJP the king and then they turn back and proclaim how the people "chose" them, and endless feedback loop.
in my "valley", which is home to 8 million people, 1/3 are of voting age and no one votes. multiple reasons but one of the major ones being that people do NOT accept indian rule over our land and people. that means, for the most part, voting used to be 0.1%-5% at best.
now, the ruling BJP is doing what is being termed as "election tourism", bringing 2.5 million voters from rest of mainland india and having them vote BJP into power and then the same BJP will say "you voted us in power, kashmiris have accepted India, bwahahah"
and all that crap..
The upshot is that for the first time in my life, I was interviewing engineering students from the Kashmir valley for internships.
This made me think that at some level, mainstream Kashmiri youth are willing to give the rest of india a chance.
i have studied in "delhi" back in 2013-15. same with thousands of kashmiri kids outside the valley, in mainland india and abroad. that never changed even in 1990's, let alone after 2019. education was never stopped to a point "you as a kashmiri kid shouldnt go to delhi to study". if anyone says that then they are lying.
i am talking about voting in the valley and about this new "election tourism" that the ruling BJP is bringing. since no one was going to vote for them, they are bringing in their own sham voters. >This made me think that at some level, mainstream Kashmiri youth are willing to give the rest of india a chance.
kashmiri kids have been to delhi and karachi at the same time, there is no difference for both.
>I feel bad about abrogating A370 but at the end of the day, the existing status quo had gone on for too long.
i am not for lamenting the past and all but cooking up false premises over which to justify an illegal act, against international law is not something i would get over. why should i ? "what is done is done" is said by the victor, tomorrow china takes over ladakh and BJP turns to the country on national tv and says "it was inevitable, we couldnt do anything, oh well". i mean they have done that but doesnt make that right? or does it?
(TRIGGER WARNING - rape and death)
> Bilkis Bano was in a group of 17 people that included her three-year-old daughter, her mother, a pregnant cousin, her younger siblings, nieces and nephews, and two adult men ... On the morning of 3 March, as they set out to go to a nearby village where they believed they would be safer, a group of men travelling in two jeeps stopped them. "They attacked us with swords and sticks. One of them snatched my daughter from my lap and threw her on the ground, bashing her head into a rock."
> Bilkis Bano had cuts on her hands and legs. Her attackers were her neighbours in the village, 12 men she had seen almost daily while growing up. They tore off her clothes and several of them raped her. She begged them for mercy and told them she was five months' pregnant, but her pleas fell on deaf ears. Her cousin, who had delivered a baby girl two days earlier while they were on the run, was raped and murdered. Her newborn was killed too. Bilkis Bano survived because she lost consciousness and her attackers left, believing she was dead. Two boys - seven and four - were the only other survivors of the massacre.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39843555
For 15 years Bilkis braved death threats and government intimidation through the police to fight for justice. And eleven people were finally convicted for this rape and massacre and sentenced to life imprisonment. On this year's independence day Modi's party, BJP, in power in Gujarat used their power to curtail the sentences of these convicts and free them.
The released convicts were treated like heroes. The BJP / RSS in power right now in India are right-wing religious fundamentalists who want to convert India into a fascist theocracy, where anyone who isn't a Hindu and doesn't believe in their twisted ideology is to be treated as a third-class citizen with limited or no rights (like the "untouchables" as per the regressive caste theory of Hinduism). Indeed, one of the reasons given for releasing these convicts, by a BJP politicians who was on the panel who granted them their freedom was, “They are Brahmins, and as it is Brahmins have good values”. (https://thewire.in/rights/bilkis-rapists-are-brahmins-have-g...) ... Brahmins are one of the communities at the top of the rigid caste hierarchy. And apparently for these religious fundamentalist, even a rapist Brahmin is still a good Brahmin .... this is just one of the example of the sorry state India is in today, under our dear, glorious leader Narendra Modi.
I don’t think india is descending into Fascism though I would agree that it is no longer behaving like a Republic and more like a majoritarian democracy.
For one, the BJP isn’t (yet) saying there’s a “prototypical” Indian and that some Indian citizens are not prototypical. From what little I know of fascism, this is important.
Second, don’t be taken in by the headlines. People do speak up against majoritarianism. BJP/NDA does not have universal support.
Third, give electoral politics a chance to formulate a response to the BJP/NDA. Democracy is and will hold in india. E.g., the recently ousted chief minister of Maharashtra (home to Mumbai) spoke up against the tricolor campaign.
Painting the current state of affairs as fascism is foolish.