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"What's wrong with being a scammer?" Romani Gypsies ADMIT to scamming and think it's OK

I believe in India because I saw China transform in a way that I never thought possible. Yeah the buildings and trains are amazing, but the way people behaved changed completely. If China could, why can’t India? People blame genetics for behaviors that are driven by culture and incentives. India has a lot of disadvantages that China did not have: - more chaotic government - more languages, less national identity - AI poses a greater threat to their industries But India also has advantages that China did not have: - better English language skills (also can be a negative) - more accomplished diaspora who can return - rising in an era without a clear hegemonic power The things I see people mock India for, I saw firsthand in tier 3 city China 15 years ago. I watched a chef drop a wok of rice on the floor and put the rice right back into the wok. I saw a pile of manure that got dumped in the downtown. Broken glass and sharp wires at neck height everywhere. Gutter oil! Restaurants cooking with used oil from other restaurants. Is India more dysfunctional in states like Bihar than this? Yes, but I think they can fix it, just needs time, education, and different incentives. Will they match China? No one will ever, but they can be unique and great in their own Indian way.

I don’t think you knew that since March Israel has killed a staggering 2,576 men, women, and children IN LEBANON. That’s a 9/11 level of death. It’s an ethnic cleansing campaign. And Western media has almost ignored it while Israel literally flattens ENTIRE CITIES.

Here's what a lot of folks do not realize. They've run this pattern for 400+ years. What is going on with the labor invasion was known by our founders. You know there was a lot of speculation and argument about who to allow into the county but NOBODY at the time doubted the damage that could be done by immigrants from the sub-continent. Face it our forefathers were quite a bit smarter than we give them credit for. We are facing the absolute reality they warned us of- dissolution of our very culture. They got as far as the Islands but under no circumstances were they allowed on our land. Think about that. Slaves were grudgingly allowed from Africa but under NO CIRCUMSTANCES were other regions allowed. From the English East India Company spice and textile trade starting in the early 1600s, through full colonial rule, British planters and later global economic interests repeatedly used waves of Indian labor to undercut and displace local workers in dozens of colonies and countries. They were imported, exploited, and when tensions exploded they've been expelled or driven out from places like Uganda under Idi Amin, Fiji, and multiple East African nations, often leaving economic wreckage behind them. These were desperate people from famine-ridden regions, willing to sign on for almost anything just to escape the subcontinent. They kept and many feel keep their country from improving so they can continue their largest export. What we're seeing now in the West was understood even in colonial times: mass settlement from that source created friction, and America specifically barred them from citizenship and entry in the early 20th century with laws like the Asiatic Barred Zone and the Thind Supreme Court decision. Nothing fundamental has changed in the incentives and outcomes across all that time. Here's where it gets insane, under the indenture system that replaced slavery after 1833, there were effectively fewer real protections for these contract workers than for chattel slaves in many British colonies. This is in the Indian DNA going back hundreds of years- this is the expectation and reality. English traders and planters shipped them out by the millions on 5-year terms. They were often deceived, worked to breaking point on sugar plantations, flogged, and saddled with debt. Injured, old, sick, or finished? Many were simply discarded and left to die or fend for themselves. Slave codes at least treated human property as capital worth preserving from outright murder in some cases. The British like to argue that they ended slavery, and they did while replacing it with something far far worse. These indentured Indians undercut even freed slave labor costs in places like Jamaica because they were cheaper, more controllable, and more subservient to the system. This is the heritage of Kamala Harris btw. Now we're at the chapter where America and Americans are waking up to what has happened across centuries of this labor substitution playbook and are rejecting open-ended immigration that repeats the pattern.

Starbucks CEO defends a cup of coffee costing $9 He says the customers needs to just not think about it as a $9 cup of coffee, you’re paying for the “experience” of getting a Starbucks coffee “In some cases a $9 experience does feel like you're splurging, and then what that means is we have to make it worthwhile.” He says Starbucks customers “want to have a special experience and regardless of what your income level is, in some cases, a $9 experience does feel like you're splurging — well, this is a really affordable premium experience” How out of touch could a person possibly be…

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Chinese are the same pretty much but they're not nearly as disliked as Indians because they don't rub it in and remain humble in their success