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How should Australia respond to India’s ‘complicated, problematic’ democracy? (www.smh.com.au)
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Labor MP Andrew Charlton, whose electorate has the nation’s biggest Indian diaspora community, says Australians should not be hung up on the superpower’s flaws.

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

And then there's the question about how Western nations should react to the cocaine on a plane allegation. /s

Edit: added the /s, since I guess the article describing the allegation as "disinformation" didn't make it clear.

[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Using people not open affiliated to his political party to caste scurrilous & defamatory allegations on his opponents is one of Modi's modus operandi. It makes his opponent go on the back-foot while Modi can maintain plausible denial over the allegations. The puppet who carries out the hit job gets rewarded for it or is often threatened to do it.

In this case, the puppet is Ex-Sudan Ambassador Deepak Vohra and Modi govt has used India's federal investigative agency, the CBI, to threaten him with in a case of alleged financial bungling in Indian diplomatic missions.

source: https://thewire.in/law/cbi-gets-govt-nod-to-prosecute-ex-sudan-ambassador-deepak-vohra-in-financial-bungling-case

Mafia tactics are predictable, and 9.5 years of Medi regime has taught Indians to look behind the smoke & mirrors to spot the puppet strings.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you don't put the /s at the end, people will think you're not being sarcastic

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't that one of those Internet laws? A certain portion of readers can't differentiate between satire and serious text?

[–] xuxebiko@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

tags help, because its difficult to convey tone using texts.

[–] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. They're called Trump voters.