Don’t know about that. Even r/worldnews is pretty much a Wumao forum after the Pretti-Good Incidents. It still goes foaming at the mouth whenever Iran is mentioned, however, so not a total lost cause?
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Don’t know about that. Even r/worldnews is pretty much a Wumao forum after the Pretti-Good Incidents. It still goes foaming at the mouth whenever Iran is mentioned, however, so not a total lost cause?
Incorporation of automation and AI is the only way that India (and other countries) can be competitive in today's world, but that also means major job losses.
Huge labor class that is unemployed due to lack of skills and job loss caused by automation and AI will not be advantageous but rather problematic. Government will have to give them free stipends just to prevent them from revolting.
We've seen this before already, in early Rome with the plebs, and how it ended with the crippling of the government due to constant revolting and free handouts.
So, where is automation in India? It doesn't exist. Like most countries, it cannot compete much against those countries who've already adopted it far earlier. What will you do with that huge unemployed population that is largely unskilled? There is no industry to occupy them.
This is a recent development. Just 10 years ago, Indians were very pro-Iran (maybe only outwardly). They were trying to pitch the Irani Chabahar Port as some sort of rival to the CPEC Gwadar Port; had plans to create a trade network from Chabahar into Afghanistan that was occupied by a India-friendly NATO puppet government.
NATO loss and Taliban take over was a major blow to India. But earlier when US sanctioned Iran, India complied and gave up on Chabahar, at which point Iran ejected India from such projects and instead showed interest in joining CPEC and China's OBOR.
It was a series of strategic miscalculations; unable to withstand US pressure. Iran's interest in OBOR did not go well in India either.
They are anti Iran now because current strategy consists of aligning with Israel, and working with UAE to create a middleastern trade corridor from Europe to India that goes through Israel and UAE. Not sure what they'll be exporting to Europe.. maybe their huge population.
Needless provocation from Turkey. Historically, the ancestors of Turkey, the Oghuz Turks, hailed from modern Turkmenistan, east of Aral Sea and far from Xinjiang.
But modern Turk revivalism efforts attempt to link to an even older Gokturk state which was a loose confederation of nomads on the steppe between Korea and Ukraine.
And who drove them out? It wasn't any Chinese group. It was other Turkic groups and Mongols.
Oghuz were, mostly, local Turkmen vassals of Gokturks, Khazars, and various other Turkic confederations.
The problem with India incorporating AI and automation is that India has such a large and cheap labor market, because of their large population, that it would be better to exploit the cheap labor force than to invest in expensive AI and automation technologies that also require India to have skilled technicians and engineers to operate and maintain them. In addition, since most of the higher-end skilled laborers prefer to emigrate from India to the West to find better pay for their services and skills, it will be very difficult for India to transition to these new technologies, even if they wanted to. Not to mention, India does not have the established infrastructure to support these transitions. Moreover, China has outlined in the next five-year plan that they will focus on high-quality development because the Chinese leadership recognizes that China will face, in the coming years, a shift in demographics and, therefore, developing AI and automation technologies to replace the labor shortages, all while making manufacturing and future services more inexpensive, will also put tremendous pressure on India's cheap labor force market--who will build factories in India and employ unskilled Indians with a higher over head labor cost than to build and manufacture in China, if China can produce more efficiently, and more inexpensive with AI and automation than to employ indian laborers.
I think India going into the 21st century will be very challenging for them to modernize and grow at a similar pace that China, under the CPC leadership, has done in the past 30 years. India has too much unmanaged corruption, and is politically and ideologically too diversified--it has no unified national strategies or planning--not to mention, their national cultural ills are also barriers to their own progress. Sure, the EU and Ursula von der Leyen can claim to have struck a great strategic deal with India, but the EU failed to recognize, or does not want to recognize that India may have a large population, but the overall market is small because the majority of the population of India's per capita, according to the IMF is only about $2,800. How many people will be able to afford over-priced European goods in India?
Just as I said, TikTok America was going to become a MAGA propaganda echo chamber.
LMAO tweet of the day: Schrodinger's CIA!
So that's why I was always supportive of a deal to spinoff TikTok USA. China gets to keep TikTok global and the algorithim, Trump now has another arsenal to continue propagandizing and dividing the US, win.
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Do NOT sue ICE now, no matter how much of a slam dunk case you have. Even if you are a Latino US citizen who was mistaken for someone else, thus dragged out of your home at night, forced to the frozen ground nude and shot 5 times but you survived, hold your lawsuit! All the judges and legal mechanisms are against you and anything you manage to inflict upon the agents that terrorized you will be pardoned on Trump's exit. The best thing that can happen to them is to be charged before Trump's gone so he can pardon the crimes and they can't be re-tried. But he can't pre-emptively pardon anything so hold your case so that it never hits his table. When the next president comes, and it's going to be a democrat at this rate, then you sue the shit out of all of them, altogether, against individuals and class action against the agency. The new administration will be thirsting to make an example and an apology to the US constitution out of them.
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