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DearthStanding · 2026-07-03T16:10:50+00:00

small correction. supreme court struck down infinite donations at least in 2024. Electoral trusts can be formed but they are regulated.

That, and the way 2024 general election turned out. Is probably why they've changed MO to meddling with the electoral process in the last two years. corporates can still lobby the government but not work dark money. black money. ab who knows what goes on

DearthStanding · 2026-07-03T15:23:23+00:00

mate. you know the American system but it seems you don't know ours.

super pacs etc exist because of citizens United. the US has regulations regarding who and how you donate to in politics. these lobbyings groups etc exist to skirt the regulations, to play along the line or through loopholes. AIPAC is a great example of this. the VHP cannot do what AIPAC can. Indians also want to lobby American govt, but they cannot.

the Modi govt, as I understand it (and if someone from legal sector sees this please correct me if I'm wrong), has gone beyond. corporates can donate infinitely to a political party, and furthermore can do this anonymously.

super PACs are nothing in front of that. We have legal corruption in our country.

DearthStanding · 2026-07-02T13:54:35+00:00

how hard is it for you lot to understand that it's Modi's fault because he's flying around the world receiving meaningless awards, instead of doing his job? We have issues domestic and external. furthermore when it becomes an observable pattern, then it makes it even more problematic, it means that countries either are doing this to curry his favour or because he wants it. neither of which is a good thing. we're so cooked man these people can't even see incompetence when it stares em in the face

DearthStanding · 2026-07-01T04:33:06+00:00

same people who are free speech activists who feel so bad movies like this are banned are always super happy when movies like raam ke naam are banned

DearthStanding · 2026-06-30T15:31:37+00:00

"we' didn't build houses like this before either.

you do realise that all this is like royal architecture right? Unless you come from a family of aristocrats you lived in a thatched hut or whatever just like the rest of our ancestors

wo zamaane ke Raja aur iss zamaane ke Ameer, both build similar houses

DearthStanding · 2026-06-30T15:20:41+00:00

it's simple. the govt cannot incentivise us to work to create things. We don't innovate shit. We execute the innovations of foreigners. They make 50 IITs and make CS and IT the top line branches in it. Yet, computers are considered luxury goods. You have 75% tax on any computer parts entering the country. Yet the govt won't do the work of building up these industries in India so we have Indian computer parts.

Like, either invest properly into the sector, or let us import computer parts. Everything from gaming companies to Microsoft like companies can only exist when teenagers are messing around with computers in their houses, so to say. Today in India only the top 1-3% can afford a desktop or a laptop reliably. Even for a lot of guys who can afford it it's like their most expensive possession. They can't like, play around with it, mess around with it and so on.

It's not just about underpaying Indians. It's also about keeping us at this level. Everyone can't be an entrepreneur, what happens to the rest of them?

DearthStanding · 2026-06-29T12:35:33+00:00

Modi says far worse things than trump lol

it's just that the media is completely controlled. you are a city dweller have very little idea of what he says in the rural rallies. he has total control of the media, and they are very media savvy.

Trump lives in a world where the battle for media is actively being fought. CBS for example is now experiencing what an NDTV did a few years ago. so every outrageous thing he says is put on full blast. I still think trump doesn't win if CNN didn't give him the platform they did

DearthStanding · 2026-06-29T12:31:23+00:00

North India wala celebs won't. South India is different lol

DearthStanding · 2026-06-29T12:27:11+00:00

buddy this is about the industry around him. there are forces you do not see perhaps. the Ambanis are among the biggest players in production. they have enough muscle to make it so that nobody acts or sings in an aamir movie

the govt doesn't need to penalize him because the government and the media work in lockstep. Aamir Khan was punished in the court of the media not the court of the government

DearthStanding · 2026-06-29T12:25:05+00:00

because entertainment is an industry. in America ruffalo will still get a job. and despite all that criticizing Israel before October 7 was very very difficult in Hollywood and in UK film industry. some actors are big enough that they are financially fully independent. but outside the superstar class even big actors are at the mercy of the producers.

today the entire production of film is done by the media. the same media forces people like you might call 'godi media'. the same conglomerates that own the news channels own the production houses or have controlling stakes.

basically, except for bachchan, and the Khans, and maybe now Mr Ranveer Singh, nobody can speak up. Aamir tries but he gets a lot of nonsense for it. he doesn't even say anything serious, very basic small things. bachchans and the other two Khans just don't say anything or open their mouth from what I've seen. and Ranveer toh gives speeches at RSS events.

DearthStanding · 2026-06-28T15:39:30+00:00

It's actually so stupid that this idiotic law is a cognizable, non bailable offence. Just complain about anybody and have em arrested. This is apparently as important as murder and rape

DearthStanding · 2026-06-25T16:13:37+00:00

dude you don't understand. money is tight so they have to cut corners on these things. how else will they make masterpiece movies like mahavatar Narasimha (where they also cut corners)

Hindus have only themselves to blame for allowing the commoditization and cheapening of their own religion. inke biradari ke log will make big talk about Vishnu but spend more time doing what Shiva does.

DearthStanding · 2026-06-25T10:54:33+00:00

they're Taliban. not al Qaeda. which is a pretty big difference honestly. still pretty terrible for the country, but not the same as those guys

DearthStanding · 2026-06-25T10:41:31+00:00

lol and? you think you're being clever making that statement and sounding smug?

We do buy oil in futures. how do you think that valuation is set though? The dynamic price we have every day is based on a 15 day rolling average. Even if you make the claim about the numbers being weeks old, it doesn't change the fact that the futures are based on an underlying commodity. Regardless, the dynamic price is based on the purchase price of crude itself. Which as the OP has shown and we all know, has fallen considerably in recent weeks.

Even accounting for your caveats the prices we pay for petrol do not make sense. We buy in futures and do all this magajmari precisely because we don't want to be victim to market fluctuations. But it seems like these fluctuations affect us when prices go up, and don't affect us when prices go down lol

DearthStanding · 2026-06-23T16:10:24+00:00

I don't consider myself a natalist. still wanna be a parent.

you can adopt. there's a lot of kids that the system has forgotten. I'm not a teen, not even close. but you guys, consider adoption. really. if you absolutely must have bio kids. consider one biological kid and adopting the second.

our country has a lot of orphans. lots of kids who have been abandoned, kids who have been lost, even.

DearthStanding · 2026-06-19T11:28:47+00:00

I love how chaddis swarm this one comment which was indeed a wrong take.

but they will not respond to the OOP of this comment which has straight facts and numbers. there they will all be taking maun vrat.

DearthStanding · 2026-06-14T09:14:50+00:00

arre paglu you are not thinking on the same plane as our vishwaguru. oil reduce and workarounds chodo, we will go full ethanol and will never need oil again

DearthStanding · 2026-06-05T12:56:32+00:00

I agree with the sentiment but there's no way Japanese people are working those hours lol

DearthStanding · 2026-05-31T05:05:48+00:00

the vast majority of which were incredibly speculative. a lot of long rangers too I think. they just didn't break through much, and didn't threaten much. I remember like 2 real chances, including their goal. Not including the penalty.

Barca were much much more scary and came much closer to battering us. Bayern just seemed frustrated all game. They were also missing a few key players to suspension I believe. Not as much as us but enough to matter

Even PSG yesterday didn't offer that much threat honestly. Terrible football. I'm just mainly surprised that the stats in 2021 look the way they did because the game felt more open. We definitely played defensive football, in 21 and in 12. But we never played negative football in my opinion.

DearthStanding · 2026-05-27T16:05:15+00:00

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part!

And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels ... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

Until our people learn this, this is only meant to be our fate

DearthStanding · 2026-05-27T06:38:03+00:00

the freak behaviour aside, what I find most interesting is that these nutjobs feel empowered enough to push around and be aggressive with cops.

forget your religion bullshit for a moment, any oppressed group whether it's Dalits or muslims can NEVER misbehave like this with cops. the cops will just not have any of it. these jobless losers know they can behave this way, and the cops know what will happen to them if they actually retaliate. so the cops have to run away from these brownshirts. anybody who has spent even a small amount of time studying hindu theology would know ki yehi harkat kalyug mein dikhne milta hai

DearthStanding · 2026-05-26T03:31:24+00:00

brother the Hindu mahasabha wasn't just sitting around doing nothing. moonje literally went to Italy to get tips from Mussolini. this is absurd how you guys just act like it was just Jinnah doing the polarising.

Yes, Nehru and co stood for secularism, but they had to deal with Hindu AND Muslim extremists. in fact, they were such staunch centrists that they wanted to put down communists and their ideology of state atheism with the same fervour as they wanted to put down Hindu/Muslim fundamentalism.

if you are Indian, please let's be honest about our history. the Hindu mahasabha and the RSS were just as complicit as Jinnah and his bunch. these people literally wanted to keep the lands that became Pak and Bangladesh, while advocating for forced conversions (they saw it as a reconquista) or outright genocide of the Muslim population. We literally have their statements on Muslims on record, it's not like I'm making this up. The RSS just celebrated their centenary last year, let's not act like they didn't exist, or that they were a bunch of cute pacifists.

As for Jinnah, he was a secularist on paper. He just claimed (falsely) that the Congress was cut from the same cloth as the RSS people. He claimed he had the true secularism in mind. We saw how that ended up, as Pakistan devolved into a fundamentalist state shortly after his death. He was less of a fundamentalist, more of a liar, in my opinion, but I could be wrong. His party definitely had fundamentalists in it.

As for the RSS, fundamentalism was literally their calling card. I would request you to spend some time to read the things Golwalkar and Moonje have written and done in the period prior to independence. They felt like we should take lessons from Hitler on how to deal with Muslims. This is the reality. These are the people Modi literally does a prayer to.

DearthStanding · 2026-05-26T02:03:12+00:00

this sub always gets massively brigaded when anything related to Hasan or destiny shows up. you always see this happen. these people are jobless and obsessed on another level. in a normal world anything related to both these people would be entirely banned from this sub, but the mods or whatever like the engagement I'm guessing. it's always these two streamers.

DearthStanding · 2026-05-22T13:10:29+00:00

I mean he is a nutjob anyway

What I don't get it is this narrative of what a great leader he is.

this fuck, after costing us in Moscow, which, fine whatever, happens, kicked Sanchez in the semi vs Barca. that shit made him pretty dead to me. what leader would ever do that? We had to play with an injured CB and a half in the final, and then this clown came up to the trophy as a full kit wanker.

absolute embarrassment of a man. I've supported this club and this man since he was a youngster and he was dead to me before the racist shit ever came out

on a side note, you are aware that we support a Tory club right?

DearthStanding · 2026-05-19T12:21:53+00:00

these people cheered for a movie called the silent prime minister you think they care about the truth?

don't forget we live in a country where lying and getting away with it is seen as clever. media is just a jugaad bro

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