Don't forget Fascism based on religion.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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Israel and America are trying to wrestle for that one, too
Israel's got us beat by a lot, man. In the US we have grasps for religious power (some successful) but it doesn't describe everyone in government
Go to Utah. The Mormon church has a lot more influence on politics, than people want to admit?
Ohh I'm very aware of SLC. I'm speaking of the country as a whole, though
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There sadly are even more countries that are completely under control of religious leaders. Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, Afghanistan, .... Vatican City (they even have something like their own military).
It's insane how far the Vatican has fallen. It's just so religious nowadays.
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The Abraham Wars
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Or scams!
I think I missed the "mysticism and spirituality" period. Twenty years ago I knew India for cows, castes, and crap in the rivers.
You may be too young for Depak Chopra.
He specifically said he thought of it as being full of shit.
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On the bright side, you need a tech tutorial, they've got your back.
Yeah, but it's often in the form of a YouTube video with narration that's not always so easy to understand. I miss written tutorials, but most of the good ones I find these days tend to come from Central/Eastern European forum posts.
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Germany f*d up so bad we're still using them as a meme after most of a century. Never go full Germany.
I guess Germany after the 30's (and maybe even after 1919), France after the whole Revolution and Napoleon thing, the UK after voting to KEKW their economy, Norway after being ruled by Sweden... The list probably goes on
Which french revolution? ;) There's lots of people who saw and still see the whole french revolution thing as a net positive. The UK has never had a good proper revolution and it shows.
Napoleon did a lot of things, but those bad things were in line with the absolutist rulers from before the revolution, he just happened to be more successful at it. But he also did many good things during his rule. Fe, the Napoleonic code was hugely influential worldwide and a major change for the good. 2 centuries later it doesn't hold up as well in the countries that still use the same justice system, but for it's time, it was really good. Overall, I'd say Napoleon still has a stellar reputation, unlike India.
How was Norway worse after they last gained independence from Sweden?
never had a good proper revolution
Are you forgetting or discounting the English Revolution and Glorious Revolution?
I'm discounting that one yes. The powerful politicians that came out on top (all who were already upper class and power brokers beforehand), called it a revolution, but there was no class/societal upheaval, redistribution of wealth/land or anything else like happened in the many popular revolutions in Paris. It was just a change of government with some help from a foreign power at the end. A forced change of government or coup d'etat can alo be called a revolution, but it's pretty obvious that it's not the same thing as fe the 1789 revolution in Paris.
I'll refine my previous statement: what the UK needs is a good proper popular revolution.
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How did Norway's "PR" fall after independence?
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This is insanely relevant to me right now. I left India in 2004 and I am there right now for my cousins wedding. I legit hate it everywhere I look. Love my family, but idk if I want to come back.
Hello unkill
4chan is gonna know the world through the perspective of an average 4chan user.
Rapists and shit being India's image is far, far from being exclusive to anons on 4chan...
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Also the land of abhorrent javascript horrors.
mysticism and spirituality
You mean scammers like Sadhguru and Deepak Chopra?
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Thought to myself "San Francisco isnt a country"
To be frank, google's reputation fall pretty significantly in the last 25 years.
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Never forget the Designated Shitting Streets
Good luck with this post OP lmao
edit: Did way better than I expected. Maybe I think too poorly of Lemmings
Yeah things are pretty bad here. People lack even basic civic sense. I've always felt like an outsider.
I kinda feel the opposite. Seen as some backwater third world country 30 years ago, to the most populous country in the world, a democracy aligned to its own goals forming a third pole in the global order apart from the US and Russia/China.
Even their reputation as scammers comes from the insane growth of English-language tech work that is now focused in India.
I don't know if "the most populous country in the world" is really something to brag about nowadays. And if I'm not mistaken, approval of the current gov't isn't really across the board. I understand the scamming being a thing because of the amount of people, that's just gonna happen everywhere, but it says a lot about the lack of regulation out there where it can happen so blatantly.
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To be fair, no one believes in Mysticism anymore...
Observe.
Neopagans are dumber than Evangelical Christians, and all their manufactured rituals just whitewash dead religions that belonged in the dirt.
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