Readit News> The sheer amount of hubris in your post is astounding.
Good to know you consider the World Happiness Index 2023 as hubris. We can finally agree on something.
> I won’t be replying again to you because I don’t think you are capable of accepting that other people disagree with your world view
Funny how you believe "I don’t think you are capable of accepting that other people disagree with your world view" and in the text rejected my valid argument which you had absolutely zero counter for.
Either accept that the World Happiness Index is a fabrication of the West or rebut with facts as to why India ranks below Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. You got stumped with just this easiest piece of fact that you couldn't even counter. Tells me everything I need to know.
> when we’re discussing actual issues like arresting protestors
Cry me a river. The West is so pristine it doesn't arrest protesters at all. Nor do Government agencies kill people randomly. Nor does it indulge in assassinations both within its own soil or in countries that it has no jurisdiction over. Nor does the West bomb other nations to bits. Nor does it arrest farmers and confiscate their properties and bank accounts. The West is epitome of truth, fairness and justice. While puny Indians back home, which you incidentally rejected because of the deep seated hatred, are the horrible ones who do not have capacity to discern truth from fiction and do not understand how a Democracy functions.
Give me a break!
Mate, you do realise that Whataboutery is simply another way to have a faux conversation with yourself?
webartisan commented on Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/sorokod
every sentence of this is wrong.
There are several foreign channels that are banned in India including Al Jazeera and for very good reasons.
Plus, I’m sure the West doesn’t get Russia Today or CCTV right now. nor India’s DD
There’s little one can do if some in the country are hell bent on putting their heads in sands like an ostrich. Doesn’t change the truth, unfortunately.
As for Al Jazeera and other channels you mentioned, they can be watched online – unlike the Modi documentary.
Sorry all. Apparently I need to put Cloudflare back on the server. Here is the achive.org version:
https://web.archive.org/web/20221107120623/https://ipde.com/...
Edit: I discovered the Render.com autoscaler setting. Hopefully it's back now.
What made you remove it?
webartisan commented on XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works blog.nindalf.com/posts/xc... · Posted by u/nindalf
Because I have seen this bias on HN. I feel the need to call it out. Why is it bothering you? Can't I have my opinion? Or should I be forced to conform to everyone's opinion here? I'm no sheep. I have my own independent thinking and I base my opinions on that. I am infact against Big Tech censorship as a whole. What I find amusing is that Big Tech on HN gets preferential treatment based on which side of the political aisle one is on (as the Company you support or are against depends on the Company's overarching political leaning).
Well, it is an object fact though — isn't it? Twitter is an order of magnitude smaller than Meta, and Facebook / Meta / Zuckerberg have been fined and trialled an order of magnitude more times than twitter for its deeds. Whistleblowers have presented an order of magnitude more documentation and proof for Facebook's shady practices. It is only fair that it is discussed an order of magnitude more times than Twitter.
Just because you want the two to be "equally bad" doesn't make it so, and bringing up Y when the topic is X in this case is the textbook definition of whataboutery.
webartisan commented on XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works blog.nindalf.com/posts/xc... · Posted by u/nindalf
IMO, the way the govt dealt with the pandemic was much more skillful than they get credit for.
Developing our own vaccines in the face of the MNCs - especially Pfizer - prevented the country from being held hostage.
Being the vaccine manufacturing hub of the world since a few decades, if India did not manufacture its own vaccines it would be a shock. I don’t think that’s something unusual – if anything failure to scale up vaccine manufacturing that led to a deadly second wave is to be considered an abject failure.
webartisan commented on XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works blog.nindalf.com/posts/xc... · Posted by u/nindalf
> Meta meddling in politics and turning a blind eye to those who used the platform to peddle misinformation isn't news.
But Twitter doing the same is perfectly fine right? I see the hypocrisy in HN when it comes to how it treats Meta vs how it treats Twitter.
I don’t get this Whataboutery? The news story and the article is about Meta - why bring Twitter or any other media into discussion, unless you want to distract from the topic at hand.
webartisan commented on XCheck at Meta: Why it exists and how it works blog.nindalf.com/posts/xc... · Posted by u/nindalf
Because, believe it or not, plenty of Indians are satisfied with the current Government in India. We have had shit Governments for more than 70 years. So don't be surprised if Indians don't support Western media narratives on Indian Government (which is mostly fabricated/fake).
I think you should speak for yourself instead of for all Indians. You believing or not believing something has little effect on facts. Bullying everyone into believing your unquestioned love for the present day government is rather disenginious.
If you're a proponent of the balkanization of India, then you're by default a proponent of of the biggest as-of-yet-unrealized genocide of the 21st century.
We could all use a little drama to support our points here.