When I think of genocide, it comes to mind images of some evil dictator using poison gas in a population, chemical weapons, an atomic bomb, etc.

That’s just lack of education on your part, though. Neither the Cambodian Genocide nor the Rwandan Genocide would be a genocide according to you, but in reality these were two of the worst genocides in the last 50 years.

Come to think of it, neither would the Bosnian Genocide according to you, because it mainly targeted males for execution.

then cry genocide

The people who are “crying genocide” are those of us in the international community who know what a geenocide is, including experts in international law.

Well that’s annoying. No more wearing Adidas.

To determine that, I will need two pieces of information:

• do you stand to profit from the killing or intimidation of Palestinians?

• are you one of the US Government’s main sources of money and weapons?

forcing politicians to vote along party lines

They are not forced to vote along party lines. However, they don’t get to stay in the party unless they vote with it. They become Independent.

Some issues, usually moral issues, are “conscience” votes and there is no party line for those.

It’s a false analogy. Chiquita were paying the paramilitary to do its bidding.

Here is a more in-depth article.

One of the largest countries in the world and a hell of a lot of ethnic diversity, so it’s hard to make generalizations. Kerala and, say, UP are very different. But here’s my attempt.

Geopolitically as an entity it’s currently suffering from some of the same things the world’s other largest countries (China, US, Indonesia) are suffering from - namely: populist leaders and a large group of poorly educated people in the population propping them up.

Consequently there is way too much militant nationalism and complacency about aggression towards other nations, territorialism, persecution of certain ethnic minorities, religious fundamentalism. All the biggest countries have those traits at the moment, so it’s not specifically a reflection on India.

In terms of resource and development it’s dealing with a similar situation to other ex colony LICs - years of resource exploitation left it with a low GDP per capita and consequently major challenges when it comes to provision of infrastructure (eg pollution management), health, education, living standards etc.

India has made huge strides in the past but the current wave of populism relies on leveraging social conflict (as it does elsewhere in the eorld) so I think that growth has slowed. For the same reason the fault lines along ethnic, religious, caste lines - which colonialism entrenched or deepened within the region - are still a big aspect.

My personal experiences with Indian people is that just like from anywhere else there are good and bad. Cultured, well educated people are easier to deal with because there is more shared knowledge. Statistically speaking, many of the world’s worst arseholes you are going to meet are going to be from India, China and the US, and that holds up.

No, it’s like if you owned a massive chain of Italian restaurants that notoriously exploited people, and you were actively paying the mafia to intimidate your workers and to bust unions.

The judge saw through Chiquita’s ridiculous fabrication, I’m disappointed to see you parroting it here.

I look forward to watching the Hasbara trolls try to discredit one of the world’s leading STEM research journals.

The killer was pretty obviously insane. He was making a sacrifice to a demon which he thought would allow him to win a lottery. He’s also in jail for life.

I can see it could be harder to forgive someone with no real excuse who just violated your dead daughters’ privacy for clout.

The US president is literally going around his own Congress to ensure the Israelis are always well stocked with weapons during their genocide.