JacksonLamb

The gastrointestinal tract is a Hamas tunnel.

Peer review process? Also Hamas.

Here is CNN on starvation in Gaza.

Yes, pretty amusing form of copium from Braverman.

How disappointing. The way the title was worded, I thought someone had been killing trophy hunters.

I look forward to watching the Hasbara trolls try to discredit one of the world's leading STEM research journals.

It's evil to keep innocent people in these conditions.

If someone is trying to kill you and your family you do the best you can with the knowledge and resources you have to survive.

So many movies and TV shows celebrate this well known principle. Why is it that if someone is forced into that situation irl some take the opportunity to sneer at them.

No, it was in 2020.

No on both counts.

forcing politicians to vote along party lines

They are not forced to vote along party lines. However, they don't get to stay in the party unless they vote with it. They become Independent.

Some issues, usually moral issues, are "conscience" votes and there is no party line for those.

He wasn't a combatant and he hadn't killed anyone. He was an innocent bystander and even the IDF admit it.

Not sure why you put so much energy into making up a fake scenario.

One of the largest countries in the world and a hell of a lot of ethnic diversity, so it's hard to make generalizations. Kerala and, say, UP are very different. But here's my attempt.

Geopolitically as an entity it's currently suffering from some of the same things the world's other largest countries (China, US, Indonesia) are suffering from - namely: populist leaders and a large group of poorly educated people in the population propping them up.

Consequently there is way too much militant nationalism and complacency about aggression towards other nations, territorialism, persecution of certain ethnic minorities, religious fundamentalism. All the biggest countries have those traits at the moment, so it's not specifically a reflection on India.

In terms of resource and development it's dealing with a similar situation to other ex colony LICs - years of resource exploitation left it with a low GDP per capita and consequently major challenges when it comes to provision of infrastructure (eg pollution management), health, education, living standards etc.

India has made huge strides in the past but the current wave of populism relies on leveraging social conflict (as it does elsewhere in the eorld) so I think that growth has slowed. For the same reason the fault lines along ethnic, religious, caste lines - which colonialism entrenched or deepened within the region - are still a big aspect.

My personal experiences with Indian people is that just like from anywhere else there are good and bad. Cultured, well educated people are easier to deal with because there is more shared knowledge. Statistically speaking, many of the world's worst arseholes you are going to meet are going to be from India, China and the US, and that holds up.