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Every four years, as the FIFA World Cup captures global attention, Indians once again confront an uncomfortable question: why does a country of 1.4 billion people remain so far from qualifying for football's biggest stage?
The discussion that follows is usually predictable.
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One of the side effects of living in an environment that doesnโt consistently reward competence or achievement is that people begin searching for alternative ways to establish legitimacy and signal importance.
Instead of deriving status from performance, they do it from spectacle
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Yet in many societies, it is almost unthinkable because status is expected to be visibly performed. The office alone is not enough; it must be continuously reinforced through ceremony, distance, and spectacle.
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When achievement becomes the primary source of legitimacy, status symbols tend to fade into the background. When achievement is scarce or difficult to measure, the symbols themselves often become the message.
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This is so unbelievably disingenuous. The comparison ignores the most important question: why are those companies dominant in the first place?
TSMC and ASML are not giant companies because of regulatory protection, rent-seeking, or market distortions.
Next time someone blames Indja for market concentration, show them this ๐
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A market dominated by a company because it is vastly better than everyone else is not the same thing as a market dominated by a company because competition has been distorted.
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Lumping ASML and TSMC into the same category as fucking Reliance and Adani and compare it with every other form of concentration misses the entire point.
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A year ago, foreigners on social media started a game. They would have to pick a random corner of India on a map until they hit a place that didn't had any garbage. They problem was that the game was too long. Most of the country looks like a dump.
Foreigners visited Hyderabad... and were completely shocked! ๐คฏ๐ฎ๐ณ๐
This is India but Elon's algo keeps pushing Old Anti-India, pro-slum content
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We have the worst urban governance in the entire world but the thing that offends you people is why are foreigners showing 99% of the country that's dirty and not the 1% that's clean
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India being an unbelievably dirty place is not an artificial narrative and nor a secret conspiracy. Its a lived reality of billions who live here.
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Does anyone else finds this cringe and pathetic?
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I am really fine with people enjoying in any way they like. I get the passion they have for the game and respect it. I just find this sort of support for a country and culture you have no relation with a bit over the top but its a subjective opinion. Feel free to disagree. ๐
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Not a single person in the world does this. The embassy actually takes pains to organize these events and bring people so that they can perform for him and he can transmit these images back home to boost his political capital.
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๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ฆ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฅ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ซ๐ข ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐๐ข ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ข๐๐, ๐
๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐. ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ซ๐ท
Upon his arrival, PM Modi was greeted with great warmth, while a vibrant traditional dance performance added a special cultural touch to the occasion.
๐๐๐ค๐ ๐ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค ๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฅ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐. ๐ฝ
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I think the main learning Top took away from 2002 event is that people associating your failure won't be an issue if you just stop acknowledging its existence. He takes credit for the most random events in the country but takes pain about never talking about any failure.
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- 3 vishwagorillians killed by the usa.
- no condemnation nor condolences from mahamanav.
- father of one of the victims busy retweeting mahamanav thanking foreign politicians for their wishes on "overtaking" pandit nehru.
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RaGa has built identity around criticizing privilege and inequality, despite being one of the greatest beneficiaries of inherited privilege.
Undeniable irony in seeing a man whose entire political relevance stems from inheritance present himself as a crusader against privilege.
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If inherited privilege is a problem in business, education, or society, it is difficult to argue that it suddenly becomes acceptable when the privilege being inherited is political power.
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