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India on Thursday criticised as inappropriate a post by Donald Trump in which he shared comments that called the South Asian country a “hellhole”.
The inflammatory post on Truth Social comes ahead of a planned visit next month to India by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, who is seeking to ease recent tensions between the normally friendly powers.
On Wednesday Trump posted a 4-page screed – apparently a transcription of remarks from conservative podcast host Michael Savage – that denounced the US constitutional right to citizenship of everyone born in the country.
Without evidence, the post accused Indian immigrants in the tech industry of not hiring white native-born Americans and inaccurately alleged that Indian immigrants lack English proficiency. Trump also posted a video of Savage delivering those comments to his podcast audience.
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A hellhole is this goddamn country where my elderly parents have to drive for DoorDash, in a car I’ve ‘lent’ them, or face homelessness.
According to “Monkey see, monkey do”, turns out that USA is a hellhole. And yes, Donald Trump is a fucking monkey-brain.
That’s hardly fair to monkeys!
His face is orange as a baboons ass is pink
In all fairness, he calls all other countries “hellholes” or “shitholes”.
But if you think everyone else is an asshole, then you’re the asshole.
Talk about calling the kettle black.
India is a shitty country that has religious idiots, poor safety standards, garbage infrastructure, serious pollution problems, and overbearing leadership.
America has religious idiots, garbage infrastructure, murderous police, and rights-stripping leadership trending toward fascist.
There are differences, but both countries are shitholes in different ways.
Yeah but which one has better food?
I mean…America has literal Indian food restaurants AND everything else.
America is a shithole right now for politics, but they know how to eat.
America has Panda Express?
Yet another projection from Trump, lol
Trump has been on TikTok recently, then? Against the better wishes of his own cybersecurity analysts?
Trump was never a man known for sharing hard truths, but in all fairness…
Living in India there were two kinds of visitors: one was in awe of the culture and architecture, the other spent the entire time complaining about how dirty and different everything was. Guess which camp Trump would have belonged to?
I visited India in November. The only things I liked were the sights, like Charminar, Golkonda Fort, loved it.
Every fucking thing else, and I mean everything was awful. The air was bad, trash choking literally every waterway, stray cows, dogs, cats, sifting through trash for food, the drivers — holy shit street lights are not suggestions guys. First hotel I stayed in literally had rats fighting in the walls.
Food was good, until it made me so violently ill I had to call the trip off. People were very friendly, actually I should mention this — I didn’t have any bad experiences with the people (aside from the conditions they live in). Literally all of them tried to scam me though, like literally every single vendor that did not have fixed pricing.
All of this to say, fuck India I’m never going back — at least not while Modhi is still killing climate protestors.
like literally every single vendor that did not have fixed pricing.
There’s no such thing as a fixed price on the streets of India. You’ve gotta understand that that society is still essentially stuck in medieval times. That means no tax on most things, but also that he who haggles the best can get the biggest discount.
Oddly enough, the absence of a fixed price is a concept Western corporations are trying to bring back.
Ngl, nothing I’ve seen about India gives me any desire to visit there. From travel videos I’ve watched, it just looks like too many people, lots of scammers in the streets, and it just looks like a clusterfuck when it comes to roads and transit. I also don’t really care for Indian food mainly for what it does to my gastrointestinal system, and second I’m not super in love with the taste. There are a handful of things I really like, but eating it daily does not sound appealing (my stomach can only take so much). Having said that, the US is turning into a “hellhole” in front of our eyes for one fucking reason, so the orange doesn’t have a leg to stand on here (as usual)
Ngl, nothing I’ve seen about India gives me any desire to visit there.
It would be if you only watch ragebait videos. Some places there are indeed quite bad, but others (Mumbai, Bangalore) are fairly normal. And by the way, “Western” food does exist there, it isn’t like people are being fed curry exclusively everyday.
I get it, just not my thing…
America for the most part on a day to day basis hasn’t really changed at all.
Its mostly our politics, and largest city that have experienced the most change. But you go to any rural area and it’s exactly as racist or nice or pretty or shitty as it was 20+ years ago.
America does really well as insulating it self from it self. Covid had more impact on daily life then anything trump has done generally speaking. While the expections to that are absolutely truly massive single points tho. Like truely massive.
So it’s a weird problem.
don’t forget all the scammers and rapists running around.
Trump would feel right at home then.
I’d love to see the Baha’i Lotus Temple some day. I’ve seen pictures and it looks even more lovely than the one in Wilmette, IL, US.
Our leadership is so cucked they wont say a single word against trump himself
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Have I interacted with you on lemmy before
It only cost the livelihood of 260 million people, but the ISI has successfully joined hands with Mossad to put Trump on their payroll. And only for the purpose of publicly demeaning India /s
Surprisingly, no payroll was even needed this time. All it took was either a look at the H1b program, or a visit to social media.
Everywhere is a fucking hellhole.
Allways remember that the USA was
the onlya place the top gear crew was physically assaulted and huntedEdit: i stand corrected
Top Gear” cast, crew attacked in Argentina:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMiUUkmV5cA
From Google search:
In 2014, the Top Gear crew, including Jeremy Clarkson, was chased out of Argentina by angry locals throwing rocks, following outrage over a Porsche license plate (H982 FKL) deemed to mock the 1982 Falklands War
I wouldn’t be surprised, Clarkson is the kind of asshole that would do exactly such a thing.
Dann, never saw that Episode, guess i stand corrected
Guess you never saw the Argentina special.
Or the Saudi Arabia one.
Or the India.
Or Vietnam.
Or Burma.
Or Albania.
I don’t remember them being hunted in the India or Vietnam episodes. The other ones I don’t think I have seen, but considering the false claims of those two, I am beginning to doubt the veracity of your comment.
They weren’t hunted, but they were attacked in Vietnam and India.
Maybe you should watch them all. You can not believe if you want, but it just makes you look like an idiot. If you go around telling people nothing happened in Argentina people will think you are fucking clueless.
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And we only seriously fucked with like 1 or 2 of those countries. We don’t deserve the hate
Hunted??
They painted their cars pink and covered them with pro-LGBT text, then drove through rural Alabama. So yeah, they got followed for a bit.
No surprise then. Let’s do this thing we know the locals will hate where they are known to be armed and hope we live.
That doesn’t make it OK to “hunt” them (or whatever they did), though.
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I mean, they do be abusing the H-1b visa program
The ones abusing it are the American business owners
Both sides are abusing it. The American business owners are abusing it and harming everyone in the process. And immigrants are abusing it for the benefits it provides.
It takes two to tango. If Indians weren’t so willing to abuse it then corpos wouldn’t have any to abuse and wouldn’t be able to take advantage of it. If corpos weren’t so keen on abusing it then Indians wouldn’t have it as in option in the first place.
Life isn’t fair, but it’s also bullshit to dismiss one side because the other is worse. When both are problematic.
Those who come here on the visas would get a pass if they were being forced to take them. But they arnt slaves. They willingly aid and assist the corpos.
While I can respect it may be a massive improvement in their life quality. I still find zero reason to excuse someone for helping a shitty system that causes harm to everyone involved at the benefit to the ones causing the harm.
