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BJP won't last forever. Next general elections aren't too far away
by isanjay 3y ago
BJP won't last forever.
Next general elections aren't too far away
- coolg54321 3y agoBJP will be there till there is a strong opposition party, congress is a mess
- isanjay 3y agoI don't think they will as many parliament seats as they did last time. I agree with your point though
- 0xDEF 3y agoThe rest of the world didn't care about Indian politics before the right-wing populist BJP was elected. Many Westerners have seen Modi's name along with the year 2002 so they assume he has been the sole dictator of India since 2002.
- rayiner 3y ago[flagged]
- dang 3y agoYou've been crossing well into flamewar lately and what begins to look like trolling in many cases—in effect if not intent (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=troll%20effects%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). You're a formidable commenter who has contributed a great deal to HN, often with minority views and that's fine. But we need you to take a few steps into the intended spirit of the site, because your comments have been trending in very much the inflammatory direction. Can you please review the guidelines and recalibrate? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- cool_dude85 3y agoAmerican media loved the USSR? Interesting theory.
- churchill 3y agoUp until the Soviet Union split up, Western academics praised the USSR as the best thing in the world since sliced bread. I remember a story by Solzhenitsyn where he says a journalist came to their gulag and interviewed them. Since they were right before camp guards, they praised the Soviet system of 'correction through labor' since they liked breathing. He assumed the journalist knew it was a scam and wouldn't dare publish it. Years later, after Solzhenitsyn left the gulag, he moved to the West and he saw that interview was published word for word and the journalist wrote a piece praising the 'humane' Soviet system over America's 'cruel & evil' prison system! Another example: during the Holodomor (Stalin's engineered famine) that killed 6 - 8 million in Ukraine, New York Times' Moscow Bureau chief Walter Duranty privately acknowledged to British intelligence that as many as 10 million folks had died. Publicly, he praised the Soviet system and said everything was abundant [0]. I could go on and on, but whether it's the USSR, Mao's China, or Castro's Cuba, there's a pattern of Western academics & media personalities praising brutally violent regimes. Now, I'm not saying Putin's Russia is Christian & right wing; I'm simply pointing out how Western media never misses a chance to support the wrong guys. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty
- rayiner 3y agoIt’s completely nuts how you’re being downvoted. My family wasn’t in America for all the anti-communist stuff, and indeed my home country was more Soviet aligned. But it’s apparent even to me that america media covers communism with kid gloves compared to any sort of right wing government.
- churchill 3y ago[flagged]
- rayiner 3y ago
- throwaway384629 3y agoNarendra Modi is the only person ever denied a U.S. visa based on a little-known law on religious freedom. https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-narendra-modi-was-banned-from-the-u-s-1399062010 https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-narendra-modi-was-banned-fr...