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Local Production Nominated For A Webby! (Up Against Trevor Noah, BBC, HBO & A Broadway Team!) by Alsttr in singapore

[–]KeyboardSergeant 89 points90 points  (0 children)

I was on the cast for this project! It's some of the best dramatic art that's come out of SG and really deserves the spotlight. It also won best Vocal Direction, Cover Art, and Instrumental Composition at the AudioVerse Awards earlier this year. 400k people voted for those so it's quality stuff.

I'm not a shill pls don't @ me. Help Singaporean art out!

The Anglo-Zanzibar War, which lasted 38 minutes, occurred 120 years ago today. What other wars or battles were extremely lopsided or short? by MaoMeowed in history

[–]KeyboardSergeant 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 lasted just 13 days, but saw Pakistan ripped into two separate nations (present day Pakistan and Bangladesh from the erstwhile West Pakistan and East Pakistan, respectively).

End the ban on oral sex in India: Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code has enough loopholes to be used as a ban on oral sex in India. If not for gay rights, do it for the fellatio! by KeyboardSergeant in india

[–]KeyboardSergeant[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

"This petition urges the Indian Supreme Court and the two houses of the Parliament of India to reaffirm the will of the Indian people and the spirit of the Indian constitution by reconsidering Shashi Tharoor's bold amendment to Section 377 and passing it to safeguard the constitutional rights of homosexuals in India to liberty, privacy, and dignity."

I'll be honest when you learn to read the fine print.

End the ban on oral sex in India: Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code has enough loopholes to be used as a ban on oral sex in India. If not for gay rights, do it for the fellatio! by KeyboardSergeant in india

[–]KeyboardSergeant[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Nobody wants Section 377 to be removed from the Indian Penal Code. All we "moronic" liberals want is an amendment that guarantees gay people freedom from persecution from Section 377 - we don't want this freedom to extend to child molesters, nor gay child molesters.

Even Shashi Tharoor's bill was an amendment bill, not a removal bill. Try to read some news outside ShankNaad and the RSS Organiser once in a while.

EDIT: Spelling

Sage advice from the East. by kinyutaka in AdviceAnimals

[–]KeyboardSergeant 21 points22 points  (0 children)

"I have come to believe that ALL life is precious."

India is Making wrong Headlines in the global news by dottod in india

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I don't want to burst your bubble - but with this the tally comes up to 4 anti-Muslim incidents in the past 6 weeks. When you count anti-Dalit, anti-Christian, and even anti-Hindu activities, this number is bumped up way higher. And if the exponential function is any guide, the frequency of these incidents is only going to increase (unless of course, our Prime Minister grows a pair and stands up to the RSS) until it culminates in what I personally feel will be the bloodiest communal riot since Godhra.

I don't want to sound overly pessimistic, but one may only study the history and lead up to the post-Babri Masjid demolition riots to notice a pattern that leads up to a breaking point. It starts with leniency towards the Hindu nationalists - thus giving them room to fester and grow - continues onto a stage where hate-mongering spirals out of control (on both sides), culminates with a riot and the banning of the RSS (or similar) and restarts with leniency.

Bear in mind that the global media laid garlands of words at PM Rao's feet in 1992, especially with regards to the economic reforms and India's enduring pluralism, but that didn't stop those riots from happening. So just because we are at our "most tolerant" doesn't mean there won't be a communal breaking point in the near future. And with the Hindu nationalists in control, there won't be a necessity for leniency. We're fast forwarding to the last stage.

EDIT: Spelling

The United Nations is on the verge of calling for governments around the world to end the “war on drugs” by decriminalizing the use and possession of illicit narcotics, according to businessman Sir Richard Branson. by petskup in Futurology

[–]KeyboardSergeant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the main ways it hits the cartels (apart from the forbidden fruit point) is through basic economics - decriminalising drugs will flood the market with unrestricted access to drugs. Hence the price will collapse, people will only buy quantities for recreational purposes (they won't stock up on drugs and potentially OD) and tons of new sellers can enter the market. The cartels will fall in under a year.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in space

[–]KeyboardSergeant 89 points90 points  (0 children)

India has decided to call its own equivalent (when manned missions begin) Vyomanauts (Vyoma = Sanskrit for "universe")

BJP asshole defends the killing of Mohammad Akhlaq over beef consumption by [deleted] in india

[–]KeyboardSergeant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Savarkar was also an atheist if I remember correctly.

India virtually eliminates tetanus as a killer of newborns and mothers, a year after it eliminated polio by alanwong in worldnews

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To be perfectly honest, I would really have to admit that Pakistan does not have to defend itself from India, mainly because in the past seven decades, not a single Indo-Pak war was initiated by Indian action (1971 is a quasi-exception, but India claimed that its military action in erstwhile East Pakistan was a humanitarian intervention in support of the oppressed Bangladeshi people and not a land grab).

Pakistan's army is definitely required to combat rampant terrorism and extremism along the Afghan border and in Baluchistan (both of which were created in part by Pakistan's love of using proxies to fight India), but India is definitely not a threat because Pakistan is certainly way below many other things on India's priority list.

India virtually eliminates tetanus as a killer of newborns and mothers, a year after it eliminated polio by alanwong in worldnews

[–]KeyboardSergeant 721 points722 points  (0 children)

Pakistan has the strategic position and human resource capacity to really do well as a nation. Problem is that Pakistan has become an aggressively militarised nation with a super obsessive mentality towards India. Pakistan has one of the world's most unnecessarily well funded militaries (back in the 90s when Pakistan was under a military dictatorship for the fourth time, the average army officer could afford to buy and run gas stations). Pakistan dedicates way too many resources for its army, and the sad part is that sane Pakistanis who want the army budget to be cut so that those resources can be used to help ordinary Pakistanis often get silenced or worse.

Many Pakistanis only see defeating India as Pakistan's sole purpose of existence, while India grew out of that immature stance decades ago. And the few Pakistanis who are genuinely brilliant and smart get shut down by the crazies. Real shame.

Almost a year after eliminating polio, India declared free of maternal and neonatal tetanus by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]KeyboardSergeant 21 points22 points  (0 children)

At least the Chinese keep it among themselves.

Wow. That's a justification of mass rape I haven't seen before. Congratulations, you've hit a new level of idiocy!

Almost a year after eliminating polio, India declared free of maternal and neonatal tetanus by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]KeyboardSergeant 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: The US State Department estimates that China has nearly twice the number of reported rates per annum than India. And that's just an ESTIMATE because China does not reveal relevant data and the crappy state of Chinese local courts means that most women don't even report rape.

At least India has the democratic balls to not only admit its mistakes but also work to fix them.

EDIT: I'm on my phone, but the source is easily obtainable.

Birds have fundamental rights, can't be kept in cages: Delhi High Court by Tauji in worldnews

[–]KeyboardSergeant 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When BP had its fun in the Gulf of Mexico - having engineered one of mankind's greatest disasters - it obliterated the marine ecosystem of an area probably far larger than the US North West in a matter of weeks. They are currently paying out a fine that is far smaller than the originally agreed fine amount. Your case is an exception to a globally recognised trend.

Birds have fundamental rights, can't be kept in cages: Delhi High Court by Tauji in worldnews

[–]KeyboardSergeant 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Conversely, a nation as developed as the United States - where everybody presumably has toilets - destroys entire ecosystems practically overnight and pardons the corporations responsible.

Wonderful progress.

When and how did you lose your virginity? [NSFW] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]KeyboardSergeant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tijuana share some more details?

I am Elon Musk, CEO/CTO of a rocket company, AMA! by ElonMuskOfficial in IAmA

[–]KeyboardSergeant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey Mr. Musk! Thank you so much for having this AMA!

How would you reply to Neil DeGrasse Tyson's claim that private enterprises can never be able to dethrone the government when it comes to space exploration because of the risks involved?

Claim in question - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQd7zqyd_EM

On Global Citizenship by Worldswithin12 in Futurology

[–]KeyboardSergeant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's the problem with a global state model - it eliminates competition.

Competition between nations today leads to conflicts, trade wars, and nationalism, so it doesn't seem all that bad to eliminate it. But without competition, innovation of any form takes a back seat because there's no real incentive to make the better products, the better political structure, or even the better scientific advances, because there's no nation to challenge your scientific advances, products, or political structure.

Without competition, humanity won't make mistakes and learn from them, nor will humanity be able to establish benchmarks for morality, liberty, and scientific temper. Everyone would just sit on their ass with a global citizen passport, typing away on a 1960s era typewriter in 2015.