manifestdissent

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by manifestdissent 4y ago
As a mixed-race individual, I don't face that question by default in the US. There are enough mixed people in the US that I don't get asked "where are you from." But as soon as they realize I'm half-Indian, they wil
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by manifestdissent 6y ago
Hitler was a vegetarian and the Nazis established nature preserves. You had to ask for permission to experiment on a worm not the untermenschen. They funded programs to populate the forests of Europe with Big Game like Bison All political m
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by manifestdissent 6y ago
From Umberto Echo's famous hierarchy, we have a group that has an obsession with a plot for e.g. here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25207458 and here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25208543
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by manifestdissent 6y ago
Fascism rarely has any internal consistency or meaning. It’s an ideology of hate towards the other and sucks to be you if you’re the other. It’s not surprising that they turned on him. If he had bothered to read history, he’d have read what
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by manifestdissent 6y ago
The country has become nationalistic to a nonsensical degree. I’ve met multiple people who have refused to use PayTM because they think it is Chinese. This won’t end well.
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by manifestdissent 6y ago
The nationalism in these comments isn’t surprising. But it is disappointing. Several comments are implying that HuffPo is an influence operation or conspiracy... ??? There’s a clear boogeyman (the Chinese) and a grand arching conspiracy sto
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by manifestdissent 6y ago
> Mostly I find this amusing and chalk it up to cultural differences. But I can't help but conclude that Indians are almost obsessed with "placing" each Indian-appearing person they mert based on their ancestry, and find i
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by manifestdissent 6y ago
True story. I met this Indian woman while working out of the local hipster cafe. We had mutual friends. And ended up going out for lunch. On the way back, she started asking questions about my background. They grew intensely personal. Until
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by manifestdissent 10y ago
It will be linked to their national census which records religious data. http://www.deccanchronicle.com/151015/nation-current-affairs...
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by manifestdissent 10y ago
In a country where genocide and sectarian violence are a regular occurrence†, I am sure that a detailed database of religious affiliation, biometrics, photographs, and addresses won't be misused. Much like the Dutch census, history wil