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How India runs the world's largest election

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  1. [4]
    Kuromantis
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    Admittedly the optimism in the video is palpable.

    Admittedly the optimism in the video is palpable.

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    1. [3]
      cfabbro
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      Yeah. It's just really unfortunate that as a result of this amazing achievement in ensuring everyone got a chance to vote, a right-wing, ethno-Nationalist, Islamophobic party took power, and is...

      Yeah. It's just really unfortunate that as a result of this amazing achievement in ensuring everyone got a chance to vote, a right-wing, ethno-Nationalist, Islamophobic party took power, and is now attempting to seriously curtail the rights of every Muslim in the country, and violence (riots, lynchings, etc) is now on the rise as a result. :(

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      1. [2]
        Kuromantis
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        Yeah. Just because Trump needed to abuse the electoral college and a mass of voter suppression and other weird US institutional nonsense to eke out a win doesn't mean that right-wing populism...

        Yeah. Just because Trump needed to abuse the electoral college and a mass of voter suppression and other weird US institutional nonsense to eke out a win doesn't mean that right-wing populism can't be successful elsewhere. Really it only takes a bad left-wing candidate and some lies thrown around social media for this to happen.

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        1. cfabbro
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          Indeed, and apparently misinformation has been, and still is, rife in India. See: Whatsapp lynchings

          Indeed, and apparently misinformation has been, and still is, rife in India. See: Whatsapp lynchings