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Sanity Claws

(21,849 posts)
1. That is a story from India
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 11:13 AM
Jun 2019

Is he claiming that it happened in the US and certain Democrats made a statement about the baby?
If so, he is a lying sack of shit.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
5. Except isn't India under long term right wing rule and just got re-elected ? Modi was b4 trump
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 12:25 PM
Jun 2019
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/india-modi-bjp-elections_n_5ce66d59e4b0547bd132c230
The lack of concern for health, poverty and education is what critics claim in part of the problem with the right wing govmnt there
Am I wrong ?

hedda_foil

(16,375 posts)
7. Actually, Modi is excellent on health, poverty and education.
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 03:28 PM
Jun 2019

He gets a bad rap here but he seems to be doing a very good job. My very liberal daughter works in India on Water Sanitation and Hygiene (abbreviated as WASH) issues, so she's had a lot of experience with his policies. Her NGO includes religious leaders representing every religion in India. She is very positive about Modi's commitment to the environment and says he is far from the right wing Hindu Nationalist he's portrayed as here.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
10. Press always compares him to Duerte or Trump why is that?
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 04:02 PM
Jun 2019

From my link and it even quotes Indian nationals ?

Five years after he was first elected, the economy remains sluggish and the credibility of many of India’s democratic institutions — from the judiciary, to the election commission, to the media, and even the country’s central bank, Reserve Bank of India — have been compromised.

Yet enough of India’s 900 million voters felt Modi deserved another chance. His victory suggests that the global rightward shift — from Donald Trump in the United States and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, to Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines — is likely to endure.

Shiv Visvanathan, a social anthropologist and professor at OP Jindal Global University, said that like Russia under Vladimir Putin and the Philippines under Duterte, India under Modi faced a “tyranny of the demagogue.”


I guess everybody’s idea of right wing or liberal is different maybe
Some well tell you trump is doing great things for America

hedda_foil

(16,375 posts)
11. Damned if I know what's with the attributions. It's very strange.
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 05:22 PM
Jun 2019

Maybe he's too much for the people, though he's not far enough left to be slimed in the normal course of things. It worries me because he is really good on the environment/climate change and that's terrifically important everywhere, but in India especially. My daughter is in the foothills of the Himalayas and the temps there have been close to 120F every day for weeks and weeks.

Maeve

(42,282 posts)
8. Thou shalt not bear false witness, Huckleberry
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 03:37 PM
Jun 2019

But you'd rather slander your opponents than advocate groups that might be able to assist with the problem of unwanted children, wouldn't you?

Initech

(100,080 posts)
9. What an asshole!!
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 03:44 PM
Jun 2019

We're out to make sure that these kinds of incidents don't happen in the first place. These psychopaths on the other hand...

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