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The strike took place following months of protest from Indian farmers, a response to three farm acts passed by the Parliament of India in September 2020. According to protesters, the farm acts would leave small farmers, the vast majority, at the mercy of large corporations. Poor farmers were already desperate before the laws were passed - in 2019 alone, 10,281 agricultural workers committed suicide.

Dozens of farm unions began organizing protests demanding the repeal of these laws. After failing to get the support of their respective state governments, the farmers decided to pressure the Central Government by marching to Delhi en masse.

The farmers arrived at Delhi on November 25th, 2020 and were met by police, who employed the use of tear gas and water cannons, dug up roads, and used layers of barricades and sand barriers to try and stop their march.

On November 26th, 250 million workers from all over the country initiated a general strike in solidarity with the farmer's struggle. According to Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, trade unions issued a twelve-point charter of demands which included "the reversal of the anti-worker, anti-farmer laws pushed by the government in September, the reversal of the privatisation of major government enterprises, and immediate [Covid] relief for the population".

Farmer protests continued for more than a year, featuring mass marches, clashes with police, and many failed negotiations between farmers' unions and the government. Rakesh Tikait, a leader with Bharatiya Kisan Union (English: Indian Farmers' Union) stated in October 2021 that approximately 750 participants have died in the protest.

Among the dead was a Senior Superintendent of Police in the city of Sonepat, who committed suicide, saying he could not bear the pain of the farmers. His suicide note read "Bullets fired from the guns kill only those whom they strike. The bullet of injustice, however, kills many with a single stroke... It is humiliating to suffer injustice."

In a televised address on November 19th, 2021, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that his government would repeal the three acts in the upcoming winter parliamentary session in December. The national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Kisan Union, Rakesh Tikait, stated the protests would only cease once the laws were repealed.

The film actor Deep Sidhu also joined the protests, and was quoted as having told a police officer the following: "Ye inquilab hai. This is a revolution. If you take away farmers' land, then what do they have left? Only debt."

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fixing my sleep schedule like castro is fixing pineapples

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I got arrested driving home from Thanksgiving an hours drive from my house. I was passing 2 cars on a long straightaway passing zone on a regular 2 lane road. I floored it since that's the safest way to pass in an area like that, but a cop was sitting in the dark on the side of the road and clocked me at 98 in a 55. Got charged with reckless driving.

I'm paying extra for not having any social circle where I live, I literally didn't have a single phone number of someone to come get my car. My partner was with me, but she never learned to drive so they towed my car and she had to get cuffed to ride with me. Then I got processed and released but we were now stuck at the state police barracks even further from my home. Called every cab company and tried Uber and Lyft but couldn't get anyone to get us home.

Eventually they were getting ready to kick us out of the state police barracks at midnight when it was below freezing outside(and I didn't have a jacket). So I tried to find a hotel that was open and finally found a weird roadside place with cabins that answered. We started walking and a cop leaving the barracks offered us a ride, but then told us we had to be in handcuffs to ride in the car. So we get to the hotel and the owner sees us getting uncuffed in his driveway and I had to tell him the whole story so he didn't think he was letting freshly released murderers stay on his property.

We didn't have anything we needed, no phone chargers, medications, warm clothes, etc. I didn't sleep at all without my meds and started feeling really janky the next day.

Then I still had to get my car back the next day, but it was towed to a different town 30 miles away, and they weren't answering the phone. So we had to take a cab home, which cost $250 because the nearest cab company was 40 miles away in the wrong direction.

Now I still have to get my car back on Monday, which is 25 miles from my house. I thought about walking it, but I'm afraid I'll get there and not be able to take my car for some reason and I don't think I can walk 50 miles in a day. I found someone on Facebook that is going to drive me, but they're in a completely different town, so that's going to cost me another $150.

I wanna say fuck the police(and I do), but this is sort of on me. I still think the cop could have just wrote me a big ticket instead, but I did go 98 mph. Police tows are just punishment though, since if I was broke down they would leave the car there for 5 days before towing it. It's also bullshit that the tow company gets to charge a much higher rate to tow and store the car than they would get from AAA or someone who calls them directly.

It's frankly embarrassing that I have nobody to call in an emergency, I'm seriously thinking of joining the episcopal church just to get a little bit of community. I'm not at all religious, but I met the pastor a while back and she's a really kind lesbian who moonlights as a social worker.

I'm not sure why I just posted all this, I guess I'm just stress dumping. I also don't really have anyone else to tell about it I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I wish I could be part of an actual community. I don't know if they really exist anymore. It feels like everyone is just playacting most of the time.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (6 children)

good morning to the beautiful trans people who live in my computer.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

being euthanized by grandma next saturday oooaaaaaaauhhh

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Something strange has been happening to me lately thonk I've just spontaneously been in a good mood

Is the depression finally waning?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The best kung fu movie trope is a master making a pupil train by doing absurd chores.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Rocky catching chickens

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

CIA inventing aging to finally get to Castro

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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No current struggle session discussion here on the new general megathread, i will ban you from the comm and remove your comment, have a good day/night :meow-coffee:

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Finally resolved this bullshit with my landlord. Good news folks. I'm not getting evicted!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (7 children)

In the space of a week I have seen people post, unironcally, on two different websites, that the age of consent should be 25. I am LOSING it. What is GOING ON with purtanism.

CW: Some potentially triggering discussion including discussion of Statutory you know what

spoilerFirst was an unnoticed post on twitter, not a big deal. Second was a reddit comment with like 50 upvotes on /r/downvotedtooblivion, dude said that up to 25 there should be a 2 year age gap law and anything more than that should be statutory. Lmao brother u think a 25 year old fucking a 21 year old should be STATURORY RAPE??? BROTHER????? BROTHER NERO?????

Dude said he was OVER 25 so not even a puritanical zoomer situation. Said he was basiing it on his own development? Is this an NT thing because at 34 years old I cant identify with it at ALL. My brain does not feel all that significantly different than it was at 21. Ive learned things and grown as a person but my capability to DO SO hasnt changed? Ive been told im developmentally delayed but, come on??? Its so weird and I see takes like this on Reddit ALL THE TIME. But twitter and tumblr too. Even here sometimes so im a bit scared to post this lol but yaknow.

Also btw the "brain development stops at 25" study is widely misinterpreted. Study did NOT study people PAST 25. All evidence since has shown that brain development simply doesnt stop. So uh... ban sex?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Guilty (?) pleasure: getting anticommunists mad when I destroy them in counterstrike.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

My Maoist roommate was up in my shit telling me that Cuba was a Soviet colony and that the CPC being destroyed would be good for the proletariat, so I told her Shining Path was just a cover for a narco op and that her breath smells like babies from French kissing the photo of Gonzalo on her desk. I called her a wannabe Jiang Qing when she stormed out muttering something about revisionist pigs. AITA?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Moron shitlib I work with has to brush up on basic economics for a temporary position, which is not his training or forte and I know it's hard for him.

I recommend him an economics podcast to be kind and help out with building out fluency on macro stuff.

He tries to impress me by telling me he read Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics once and I'm like huh

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

We can all consider the man an idiot. But naming his book that was a strokes of fucking genius.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (8 children)

"Imagine allll the people"

waits for you to imagine 7 billion different people before continuing

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do American boomers hate their kids? I remember them always bragging about how they'd be free when their kids moved out and those that had their kids live with them really resented it and said the kids had it easy because "they don't have to take care of themselves when they have someone else doing it for them."

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Grubhub messed up my order. Billions must die.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

it is now real paleolithic posting hours who up right now???

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

If femboys are still boys then why am I attracted to them? Checkmate, liberals.

xi-clap

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

dear diary:
I got a pumice stone and my heels are so smooth I can't scratch my ankles this is a travesty

thank you for the pity upbear

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone else: I hate Walmart!

Me: So do I!

Someone else: Look at the people who shop there and work there!

Me: OK, you can fuck off.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

They're gonna make a WolframAlpha that costs 1000 times as much to operate lmao

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I decided that for this week I would just accept that I'm probably trans and just enjoy that transitioning into my preferred gender is an actual possibility.

Starting tomorrow I will actually begin to examine stuff critically, think about if there could be other reasons why I feel the way I do, and about all the difficult things it would entail. sadness

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate wikipedia.

Li [Keqiang] was generally regarded as advocating economic reform and liberalization.[47] He was described as representing the less ideological and more pragmatic and technocratic side of China's leadership.

That's not what those words mean. The fact that the west likes this approach better doesn't make it any less ideological or more pragmatic.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

So crazy that we drive on a highway and get high in a driveway. Really says something IMO

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Due to the mass influx of French people both in the Discord server and on our website, we have decided that: IP addresses coming from France will be geoblocked from our launch. The community has spoken and is not happy with your kind here.

https://twitter.com/Syncus_Fi/status/1727350440415891629

Critical support for crypto scams?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Aussies when they are surprised: norway

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

White supremacists should see 10 white people play the Jackbox game where the robots rap battle. They'd immediately recognize the need for diversity.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Do gay leftist men make base/superstructure jokes about bottom/top stuff or are my jokes gonna bomb?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Okay I've nowhere "fitting" to post this on any uh spaces online but I wanted to post this.. A tarot creator I had supported and bought their deck (I collect them) just came out with a stance against trans people and general "wokeism" loads of "biology" and "standing up for women" shit, the usual and ignorant spiel you'd hear from these types, while saying he's gay and about he cares for his trans friends in the same breath.. I'll spoiler the exchange to keep this a bit shorter.

spoilerI knew not to try to argue with his logic because he's not going to consider anything, hard stance on the subject and all that. But I had to say something.. So I just said he is "clearly ignorant and bigoted and needs to educate himself." He then proceeds to try to attack me with stuff like "Love how they always go straight to the "Name calling and insults"... Just proved my point, as mentioned in this podcast. Whilst hiding behind a faceless profile. No ignorance here (sadly I wish there was) that would at least save me from this sick fuckery, just straight facts here" And `In order for it to be a community there would have be some actual consensus on what it even is. And there just simply isn’t any more. And the idea that a man can put on a dress and take away biological woman’s rights is beyond sick and degrading to woman. Trans woman are (trans woman) no denying that. But if a man can be a woman simply by saying it, why can't I say I'm black? Going by that level of logic." I replied to that with "Never believe that fascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The fascists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

He never replied. That's the first exchange of that kind I've ever had.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Under the question "bottoms, what are things tops do that you love?"

lets-fucking-goheadpat

mystery-emote bottom-speak

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

"Guys in skirts" to the tune of "girls on film"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (8 children)

i met an actual, married, zoomer tradcath the other day 💀 💀 💀

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

why do i still have gastro aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa screm-aaaaa

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this mf shiddin out his doodoo ass

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

diagnosis:

poopy bum

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Women drunken masters hold up half the sky

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Any of you nerds know what the best option for a pre- built computer that can comfortably run games at 4k is right now because my partner suddenly wants a new computer and wants me to do all the shopping for it because they don't know computers but I'm lazy and don't want to have to spend the next few weeks getting a phd in computers and an omniscient awareness of manufacturer quality in order to not be swindled

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

check out /r/buildapc. They'll help you out. Just have an idea what your budget is. PC Park Picker is also a good resource.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I went to the Twitter account of a dude I work with because a coworker said it sucked.

Dude is power posting right wing covid truther rabbit hole nonsense, which is like whatever.

Funniest thing though is on his Twitter bio he says he's a professor. He's not a professor lmso he works with me think about that any time you see some dumbfuck posting credentials.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What really is the point of putting up so many lights that the main shopping street is bathed in permanent daylight when all the stores close at 6

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

someone tell me not to let the libs get me down.

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