Turns out it's a protest and that Indians don't actually have the survival instincts of the green-haired pixel creatures featured in the 1991 video game Lemmings
I would :picard-troll: but it's just too :picard:
DUDE NOT EVEN JOKING IT'S BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY CAN FLIP CARS BRO
holy fucking shit redditors with the most vile, unabashed racism whenever Indians come into the conversation.
Yes and no, every thread about India or Indians there's upvoted comments about shitting on the streets and Indians being rapists.
In the redditors defense when the same tactics are used by westerners like protesting on highways they advocate just running them over so they really are equal opportunity psychopaths.
That's exactly what I came to say, these idiots put themselves in the shoes of the driver and assume the driver would do what they would do in that scenario, which is step on the gas. These people have never traveled to a place where everyday people don't just have by default a vehement hatred towards protestors of any kind.
only when the westerners in question are black or pro-black
Americans famously do not have any hero fantasies as a result of Hollywood films
Americans assume that the conductor would rather ram through the crowd and Trolley Problem a dozen people than stop the train and obstruct commerce for a few hours in solidarity.
We're all crabs in a bucket down here, and we simply cannot conceive of helping one another out rather than dragging each other down.
But no it’s the Indians who don’t know what trains are -_-
A good test of a countries progressiveness is share of rail usage between freight/extraction and transit. The US us #2 for freight and last place for passenger. China is #1 for both.
I like how the thought that the train would stop because there's people on the tracks didnt even enter their shiny-smooth brains, nah nah nah it's the Bollywood making people think they can suplex trains like it's FFVI or whatever.
Then again, in yankee land driving over protestors seems like a wholesome past-time for the whole hog-force so what do I know :shrug-outta-hecks:
White americans genuinely think Indians are insect people. The shit they'll say about them openly is appalling.
It's always so pathetic when the nationalists are trying so desperately to get the white supremacist types to like them
racism against Indians was the hardest one for me to remove from myself when I was moving into the real left out of liberalism. I'm embarrassed to admit I ever bought any of the ideas, and am very happy I purged it from myself. But yeah, the amount of horrifying disgusting things that are said an just treated as fact, like the idea they just put people on the streets to die and no one cares(and what exactly do we do about our homeless population?) or their women have no rights(cause america is a glowing paradise for women) and that they just don't clean themselves or their homes. These are the milder things, not getting into what the out and proud racists will say.
Yeah, the shit they say is fucking appalling. I was in a town group with a bunch of boomers and they would routinely call the local Indian population subhuman, imply that there were too many of them and that they need to be culled, "Muslim" jokes about Indians (like, being so ignorant you think Indians = Afghans), curry jokes, being too smelly, just all manner of denigration and cruelty
even in my day to day other minorities will occasionally talk about Indians in an "it" voice as if they don't have any humanity. I personally have had a lot of weird/bad experiences with Indians but I've also known enough of them to know that they're like....people. I remember one of my friends in middle school would cut because he was Indian. He would tell me that he wished he was at least Mexican like me "because people don't fuck with you guys as much (because everyone thinks we're all thugs or criminals, lol)".
In fact, pretty much every Indian person in the USA I know has told me they hate themselves at some point. It's fucked up shit lol.
As for the racism against Indians, yeah, I've found that hard to purge from myself, largely because a lot of them are really removed from Western Values™ (the lack of respect for personal space thing still bothers the fuck outta me) so it's jarring cohabitating with them sometimes but whatever is wrong with them is pretty much just the same shit that is wrong with everyone else, it's just we've been conditioned to give shit like insane white people a pass
but indian nationalists suck up to people like the ones in that thread. it just means hating non-hindus and their regional rivals (specifically Pakistan and China)
bourgeois or reactionary nationalism in the global south isn't coherent, nor does it have nationalism as its main component3rd world bourgeois nationalism is honestly the most cucked and pathetic thing on earth
mayos loot your country
the west runs the world
amerisharts post endless propaganda about you online"hmmm...I think the enemy is China/Pakistan/Muslims/Black people!"
Even worse is that they're often fully aware about just how horrible westerners are towards them, it's just that they clamors to be treated as one of the "good ones" in hope that they will be "elevated" by the westerners and leaving their "savage" culture behind.
And yes, this is basically the same thing indigenous collaborators did in the time of colonization.
Client states only stay that way so long as the residents agree to be cucked year after year.
it just means hating non-hindus and their regional rivals
More Hindu Nationalism than Indian Nationalism, as they're gearing up to balkanize yet again if they can't bridge the divide between northern and southern residents.
historical peak 408,000
holy fuck 1/4 of the old network is still the largest in the world and its fucking useless
The data from China is from 2020, they have built way over 3km in lines in the last year which should make the US no longer the largest network in the world.
It really sucks that the US has the most rail in the world and uses none of it.
damn reddit that's some racist shit right there :reddit-logo:
Amerisharts think they can singlehandedly kill dozens of government forces because of their movies...nvm they actually do believe that
"Indians think life is exactly like a Bollywood film" says Redditor who probably sees life through the lens of capeshit and vidya games.
Were these people struck by the train? The last comment implies that something happened.
