Reminds me of this: Indian Port Workers Refuse to Load Weapons for Israel’s War

In an interview with the Middle East Eye, T Narendra Rao, general secretary of the Water Transport Workers Federation of India, said they will “boycott” handling of any vessel carrying arms or ammunition or weaponised cargo to Israel.

Workers know what’s up.

NC has public support? Haven’t they always been sarkari stooges?

Yeah, we know.

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Exactly. We need better counter intelligence. If you can’t save tourists in the most millitarised zone in the world, are you really ‘tough on terrorism’?

Yeah. Only 2 or 3 were in any way associated with the security forces, and none of them were involved in Kashmir. One was a naval officer posted in Kochi, which is on the other side of the country.

Sorry to hear what happened to your neighbour.

It’s nothing new. I would have linked to the archive photos of Abu Ghraib prison photos, but I’m not sure it’s allowed, since they’re NSFW. The fact that Bukele declared that no one can escape pretty much confirms that it’s an actual death camp. There are metal bunks just like the ones in Auschwitz. The prisoners are kept inside for 23.5 hours, with half an hour of exercise in the lobby. The cells claim to have 1 sq. m. for each prisoner, with 80-100 prisoners, and there is no sunlight, only 24/7 artificial light. The prisoners don’t speak(allegedly), and have no clocks or reading material. Some have lost their voice from not speaking. It’s impossible to keep so many people in one place; some detainees must have died eventually to make space for the newcomers. Food is scant, and violence is common.

Funnily enough, I’ve seen a couple of articles refer to them as ‘gulags’. They aren’t fucking gulags. Spreading their propaganda even when they see something this horrifying. It would be funny if it wasn’t nauseating.

Baldwin: Can you explain what you see as the misuse of the holocaust and WWII by the Russian government and nationalists?

… Havryshko: The memory of World War II is weaponized by different political actors for political and military purposes. For example, when Putin began his angry speech on the night of February 24, 2022, he emphasized that one of the goals of the so-called “special military operation” was the “denazification” of Ukraine.

Top Russian propagandists frequently refer to the Ukrainian government as a “Nazi regime” and call Ukrainian soldiers “Nazis.”

From the article. The author is a western academic, a historian of Holocaust studies. Read.

TIL veganism is Jainism.

There’s a twitter thread. An account named ‘Anonymous France’ has posted this link : https://www.mediafire.com/file/9prdor8m7a1z9f6/Leaked+Data+of+corrupt+officials.rar/file . Cannot verify the veracity of this information, but there was a r/worldnews thread saying that’s its mostly worthless. This news site is known for peddling fake news, so it might be a whole lot of nonsense.

I think he personally admires Netanyahu far more, considering how much his party tactics copy Israel but yeah, birds of a feather.

India is kissing Trump’s arse, unfortunately. They are considering removing tariffs even more than they did before the announcement. Though there’s a UK-India deal floating around as well, and talks with the EU. This might just be anti-China opportunism, though. Apple and Samsung announced that they’re moving their factories to India because of the tariffs.

Yes, I hope so too. We’ve already lost so many rationalists to Hindu terrorists :(

Well yeah, that’s common sense. I meant it rhetorically, guess I should have worded it better.

And here I thought the US and Europe alliance was over? Doesn’t matter when you’re bombing brown people I guess. All white countries are united with that. Like the Republicans who collaborated with the Democrats after the Civil War against the freed black people.

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Understandable. .world is generally Eurocentric or US-centric. I stay away from most political comms there for my own sanity.

Lucky you. I live in southern Sanghiland, Karnataka.

Dude, I know. I am an Indian too, and a socialist. Getty and Thurston definitely aren’t cold war propagandists. It is Robert Conquest, Anne Applebaum and more recently, Timothy Snyder who portray the famine as an intentional genocide done by evil Soviets. Getty and Thurston, especially Thurston was actually notorious for taking a more pro-Soviet stance. Wheatcroft and Davies did important work showing that the famine was caused by a combination of bad harvest and poor planning. As far as I am aware, the popular genocide/deliberate starvation line is not the historical consensus and has not been for some time after the opening of Soviet archives. Even liberal historians like Fitzpatrick and Krotkin debunk the many capitalist lies about the famine. People discussing it online generally have a very strange assortment of sources - from Snyder’s terrible book ‘Bloodlands’ to obsolete books like Tottle’s ‘Fraud, Famine and Fascism’ which was written before the opening of Soviet archives. r/AskHistorians is a good source for finding both Marxist and liberal sources, and it generally avoids neoconservatives like Conquest.

I am from the South too but am Marathi.

Yep.

.world really isn’t very tolerant of certain views. They are very quick to dismiss people as Russian shills/bots for instance. I disagree with this instance’s views of China and the Russo-Ukraine war, and am not an ML (though I do kind of lean Leninist) and haven’t seen much bad faith name calling. It certainly is prevalent in leftist spaces (CIA bot, NAFO shill, etc) but this place is surprisingly decent.