Doesn’t Mbin have them? Kbin did.

It has had a social credit score for a while now. Content from people with low social credit gets auto flagged to the mods.

The US role in the East Timor genocide is common knowledge. Henry Kissinger is usually blamed for greenlighting and facilitating it, but Carter did not have clean hands.

OP is probably an American, it’s that simple.

Be the change you want to see. Post memes about past politicians from other countries. I will upvote them.

Plenty of people wrote about how shit these people were AT THE TIME.

This. It’s disheartening to realise that in a hundred years’ time, most people will be excusing Trump and Putin with “that’s just how people were back then”.

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If you don’t agree with the person above you, maybe don’t start your comment with

I’m wondering this too.

Accusing people of being shills for commenting that bluesky is going to become (shitty) like twitter is out of pocket.

Bizarre that you and that other guy thought “will become the next Twitter” was some sort of praise. It’s not.

What are the best mbins these days? I’m out of the loop.

I think arseholes are distributed evenly too.

If 5% of all people are arseholes, everywhere, then a country with 50 million people has 2.5 million arseholes. But a country with 1,428,000,000 people has over 71 million arseholes. This is why they seem to be over represented by the large nations.

You are right that we are more likely to notice them if they travel near us or communicate in a language we understand. This is why Estonians are more likely to think badly of Finns whereas South Africans are more likely to think badly of Nigerians.

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.

Medium’s just a collection of random writers though. Some ignorance is expected.