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My hot take is that, viewed under the right conditions, India today is what a long-term MAGA victory in the US would look like (as in multiple consecutive Presi
by julianeon 2y ago
My hot take is that, viewed under the right conditions, India today is what a long-term MAGA victory in the US would look like (as in multiple consecutive Presidential administrations). Now obviously the religion must be changed; obviously also the demographic/racial aspect is different too. But in general, to see how MAGA might operate if it succeeded completely, look at India.
- ethan_smith 2y agoThat's exactly what I keep saying - both governments use the same tools to control relatively gullible masses. For example, BJP won by a vast majority largely due to their IT cell[1], an army of people paid 1-10$ per day to berate or praise anyone, re-tweet/like/share to manipulate algorithms and make things go viral. This was a huge one-sided operation for the initial few years until the opposition finally caught up. The party is headed by an alleged murderer (people died and cases against him conveniently disappeared as soon as the party came to power)[2][3]. He's the mastermind while Modi is just the face. Modi hasn't held a single unscripted press conference/interview in the last 10 years and can't handle questions that aren't pre-arranged. Its not just related to India, Right wings across the globe have more or less figured this out. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BJP_IT_Cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BJP_IT_Cell [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68653573 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-68653573 [3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/amit-shah-narendra-modi-right-hand-man-india https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/amit-s...
- slake 2y ago[flagged]