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Indian politics and its attitude toward free speech is depressing. We are abysmal from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Just in the past few hours, I have heard 3 separate news segments where individuals are arrested for different reasons:
1. BJP’s state secretary SG Suryah is arrested over a tweet on an allegedly false remark.
2. An FIR has been registered against a Gadag-based paan shop owner for sharing an alleged derogatory Facebook post against Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, criticising the Karnataka government’s free bus scheme for women.
3. The Maharashtra Police is on the lookout for a man who allegedly shared a post on social media comparing CM Shinde with a character from the film 'Adipurush'.
No matter what the political outfit, the attitude towards free speech in India remains the same.
The software was updated long ago, it seems not to have rolled out yet
Decide whether you want to be a slave or stand on your feet
Clearly not any party.
Karnataka chose congress coalition in last state election too, right, remember? Why was BJP ruling the state? How long do you think current congress govt will be allowed to continue?
It's full-term since they have a majority, Best of luck poaching from that kind of
majority 
Goa chose congress coalition in last to last state election too, right? Why was BJP ruling there despite losing?
Madhya Pradesh chose congress with, right? why is BJP there?
Same story in Arunachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur. Everywhere BJP came to power by undemocratically stealing MPs. It's called operation lotus. It failed in Bihar. Right now we can see it in operation in Rajasthan.
So yeah, a political party can come to power despite losing. Vote don't seem to matter. Many wouldn't call it democracy.
This used to be worse in the past, there was that saying from decades ago 'aya Ram gaya Ram'
Didn't they pass some law a while back to curb these abuses for exactly the reason you said, not a democracy? Maybe it was a bill
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The public fix to this where possible is to award a thumping majority to the party they want.
This is called shifting responsibility on "fate".
Either remain a slave or stand up. Or spread awareness, someone will if you won't
When majority of population vote on matters of real importance & not caste, region & religion then it is known as a mature democracy. India is a democracy but not mature democracy, pakistan is a failed democracy where even peaceful transitions of power did not happen.
This will take a larger middle class than is the case today. It will happen
You call meeting an unhinged dictator like Kim Jong Un or pulling out from Iran nuclear deal without international consensus or policy reversal in Afghanistan "achievements? Just because he was anti-China does not make him a good leader, even a broken clock tells time correctly 2 times in a day. In US, prez is not elected via popular votes like in India but via indirect votes so if a state votes in favour of a candidate by even 100 extra votes then all the representative votes of that state goes to the winning candidate. Trump never won a majority in "popular votes" but that is also not required to win prez election in US.
Meeting Kim cut China out of the deal which they were trying to fix in their interest. didn't get that subtle point did you?
Iran was about recognising that they have proxies in four countries and would become an even bigger threat. There is a clear partisan divide on this one.
Afghanistan was about giving up on a lost cause. The time to go back was after Operation Neptune Spear. But it took three presidents to finally pull out. And see the result, the Paks are now embroiled on their western border.
Being anti-China was reversing a half-century policy where US finally understood colluding with the enemy was a bad idea. Note that Biden has not reversed anything to date on this.
You've left out some others. Abraham accords. Where one president was responsible for Israel being recognised by more Gulf countries than the last six administrations put together going back to Carter.
He put the democrat thing called Project Ukraine on hold. There never would have been the present conflict if he got a second term. Because he kept blocking these warmongering attempts they slapped him with the Mueller investigation. Trying to prevent a war with Russia gets you investigated for colluding with Russia. Go figure.
They accused him of being a warmonger which was the exact opposite. The only place he'd send US troops is HOME. The man was the most benevolent president the Americans had in a long time. But oh no the liberal media would never let you realise that. The media bias and its extent were completely exposed during his term. What does it say when Russian media is more sympathetic to his policy than his own? The funny thing is we're seeing some shades of this from the Paks on Modi's policy these days.
We have the same first-past-the-post system in India too. In the '99 election, Congress won the popular vote by over 20 million more yet Vajpayee became the PM.
Internet nowadays is nothing but an echo chamber where anybody can find support for anything if look far enough incl Flat Earth theory. Simplest explanation is often the right one, to put anything in print version of a newspaper make that newspaper liable to court cases in case of any inaccuracy but that is not the case for online resources. That is why, only read important news in print versions of national newspapers.
Well, you need to exercise care and be selective. There are more specialised options available that you could not dream of having even five years back. They discuss anything the mainstream puts up. But understanding that can take more effort. It is easier to figure out what is happening abroad then it was twenty years ago. It is possible for some foreigner to have a better idea of what is going on in your city than you.
