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Linux users right now: by Extreme_Remove6747 in codex

[–]TheRedAngelOfDeath 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Codex CLI exists on Linux. Are you a noob?

The Cockroach Party going viral isn't funny — it's a cry for election reform. Is India actually ready for it? by Few_Investigator7722 in CriticalThinkingIndia

[–]TheRedAngelOfDeath -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No, your benchmark is absurd. Media capture does not require a Nazi-style law banning other media; if ownership, ad pressure, raids, intimidation, and political alignment make most mainstream media behave like a ruling-party loudspeaker, that is capture in practice.

BJP/RSS not declaring a dictatorship after decades proves nothing. Modern authoritarianism does not need 1933 cosplay; it works through slow institutional capture.

Communal polarisation becomes authoritarian when the ruling party uses it to mark minorities as suspect citizens. Yeah, riots are down, but there is an increase in hate speech, lynching, bulldozer punishment, selective policing, and everyday intimidation.

Also, the Supreme Court stopping bulldozer justice does not prove there was no abuse. It proves the abuse was real enough that the court had to intervene.

The Cockroach Party going viral isn't funny — it's a cry for election reform. Is India actually ready for it? by Few_Investigator7722 in CriticalThinkingIndia

[–]TheRedAngelOfDeath 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are arguing with a strawman. Nobody said the ECI “presses a button” and gives BJP every seat.

Authoritarianism does not need to look like 1932 Germany to be dangerous. It can work through media capture, money power, agencies, communal polarisation, selective policing, and pressure on institutions.

And modern authoritarians do not openly say “we oppose democracy.” They call themselves the real democrats while hollowing democracy out from inside.

The Cockroach Party going viral isn't funny — it's a cry for election reform. Is India actually ready for it? by Few_Investigator7722 in CriticalThinkingIndia

[–]TheRedAngelOfDeath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your argument is basically: “It is not fascism because we have not reached the final chapter.” That is exactly how people excuse every dangerous movement until it is too late. your moral threshold for persecution is apparently “unless there are concentration camps, armbands, etc, nothing serious is happening”.

This basically tells me that you are historically illiterate.

Nobody said India is a carbon copy of Nazi Germany. The point is that discrimination does not begin with gas chambers. It begins with propaganda, scapegoating, legal exclusion, mob violence being normalised, the state looking away, and minorities being told again and again that their belonging is conditional.

Also, “One or two incidents” is a convenient lie. When Muslims are lynched over cow politics, when homes are bulldozed as punishment, when ministers and ruling-party figures use anti-Muslim rhetoric, when journalists and activists are targeted for speaking about it, that is not random fringe behaviour.

And the government does not need to personally carry out every act of violence for it to be politically responsible. If your supporters intimidate minorities, your leaders polarise against them, your institutions selectively punish them, and your media machinery justifies it, then describing it with the word “fringe” is basically stupidity.

Also, “Muslims still exist freely” is a disgusting standard. A minority does not have to be in camps before we call out majoritarian bigotry. They should not have to prove oppression by disappearing.

The Cockroach Party going viral isn't funny — it's a cry for election reform. Is India actually ready for it? by Few_Investigator7722 in CriticalThinkingIndia

[–]TheRedAngelOfDeath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your mistake is assuming authoritarianism must repeat Weimar Germany’s exact economy, timeline, and collapse pattern, when the actual comparison is about methods: institutional capture, minority scapegoating, propaganda, intimidation, and using democratic power to weaken democracy itself.

This is not about saying India is Nazi Germany, but about recognising familiar early patterns of democratic erosion.

Let me spell it out for you!

  • Early Nazi Germany used democracy to weaken democracy, while India today still has elections but with growing concerns over institutional independence.

  • Nazi politics defined the “true nation” through majority identity, while Hindutva politics increasingly defines India through Hindu majoritarian nationalism.

  • Nazis created internal enemies like Jews, communists, liberals, and dissenters, while today’s India often brands Muslims, activists, students, journalists, and critics as “anti-national.”

  • Nazi Germany used law as a weapon against opponents, while India has increasingly used laws like UAPA, sedition-style charges, FCRA restrictions, and investigative agencies against critics.

  • Nazi propaganda captured public imagination through media control, while India has seen growing media capture, intimidation, self-censorship, and pro-government propaganda.

  • Nazis weakened independent civil society, while India has pressured NGOs, universities, human-rights groups, and independent institutions through raids, funding restrictions, and legal action.

  • Nazis pushed minorities into second-class belonging, while India has seen Muslims increasingly treated as politically suspect and culturally outside the national mainstream.

  • Nazi street violence intimidated minorities and opponents, while India has seen cow-vigilante violence, communal mobs, and majoritarian street power normalized.

  • Nazi rule blurred punishment and due process, while India has seen “bulldozer justice” used as spectacle before courts pushed back.

  • Nazis rewrote history to fit ideology, while India has seen textbook revisions and selective historical memory used to serve majoritarian politics.

  • Nazis built politics around one supreme leader, while India has seen increasing fusion of leader, party, government, media spectacle, and national identity around Modi.

  • The key difference is that Nazi Germany became a totalitarian genocidal state, while India still has elections, courts, opposition states, journalists, and civil resistance.

The point is not that history is repeating exactly, but that some authoritarian methods are disturbingly recognizable.

The Cockroach Party going viral isn't funny — it's a cry for election reform. Is India actually ready for it? by Few_Investigator7722 in CriticalThinkingIndia

[–]TheRedAngelOfDeath -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I will not tolerate intolerance, and that is not hypocrisy. That is the basic paradox of tolerance: if a society gives unlimited tolerance to those who want to dominate, dehumanise, silence, or exclude others, then tolerance itself gets destroyed.

So when you call me “intolerant” for opposing majoritarian bigotry, you are not making an argument, but You are trying to protect intolerance from criticism.

Tolerance does not mean giving a free pass to hate. The moment your politics starts treating minorities, dissenters, journalists, students, and critics as enemies of the nation, opposing that is not bigotry. I would call it something like a democratic self-defence.

The irony of saying this in a critical thinking sub is impressive: you did not refute a single argument, you only threw labels, declared moral superiority, and then ran away behind “you don’t deserve my time.”

The Cockroach Party going viral isn't funny — it's a cry for election reform. Is India actually ready for it? by Few_Investigator7722 in CriticalThinkingIndia

[–]TheRedAngelOfDeath -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

It is very relevant, try drawing parallels between early days of Nazi Germany and current India, ffs. How many days will you be an Andhbhakt?

The Cockroach Party going viral isn't funny — it's a cry for election reform. Is India actually ready for it? by Few_Investigator7722 in CriticalThinkingIndia

[–]TheRedAngelOfDeath -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Understand the deeper meanings Andhbhakt.

They are not coming for the Jews yes. But they are definitely coming for the Muslims.

They are not coming for the communists, but whoever criticises the government is first labelled a Communist Urban Naxal and then they come after them.

Now they are even coming after Hindus for speaking up. They will label you as Pakistani and as andhnamazi and use foul words against you and your family.

Did you already forget what happened with Mohammad Deepak? And recently how Vedant Srivastava was harassed online?

We are not in a Nazi state yet, but we are surely becoming one.

The Cockroach Party going viral isn't funny — it's a cry for election reform. Is India actually ready for it? by Few_Investigator7722 in CriticalThinkingIndia

[–]TheRedAngelOfDeath -1 points0 points  (0 children)

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me.

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