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So 18% of the population of India organised the largest general strike in history. A quarter of a billion people. 3.2% of all living humans on planet Earth. And the English speaking world is mostly just... not paying attention?

india pol, largest general strike in history, current events

@InvaderXan dpa, a german news agency, states it was deemed to be irrelevant because the lack of violence. So much to the often heard demand for peacefull protests by white-bread media .. Also, they "could'nt verify the numbers of participants" 🙄 lmao

@BlauerKlabauter Turns out, when they keep asking "but why can't you protest peacefully" the answer is that no one will pay attention otherwise.

@InvaderXan as usual. Very few Americans pay attention to anything outside of their own nation. I can't speak for other countries, but my experience has been that people who only speak English take no interest in nations where it's not the primary language. I follow the news from India specifically, because I have friends there and because it affects my dayjob. I'd like to follow other nations but just don't have the bandwidth.

@WanderingBeekeeper @InvaderXan also corporate media in general downplay and ignore events that threaten business as usual. Korean media is being fairly silent about it, too, though I expect that the left-leading weekly I subscribe to will cover it.

@WanderingBeekeeper @InvaderXan you wouldn't have to follow India just because you know people there. Urban India itself doesn't see this as a mass movement (party in power has them convinced it is mobilized, by anybody from the local goon to Soros), and doesn't know workers are involved at all, only farmers are visible.

What are the chances the globalists let these measures get rolled back?
@InvaderXan indeed, I didn't notice stories about that being promoted to any of my feeds.

@InvaderXan

I am actually genuinely shocked by this. I mean yah I guess I shouldnt be but I generally keep a loose eye on the news, and not just the big news being repeated ad naseum (aka whatever drumpf is saying) and I had not a single shred of awareness of this (I am in US btw)

@InvaderXan our masters don't want us getting any ideas

@InvaderXan same here in germany. regarding the general strike in january, some leftist journalists checked in with the german news agency (dpa) why they didn't report on the topic. reason: they claimed they couldn't verify the number of participants and since there weren't any confrontations or deaths, the strike was deemed unimportant.
(the article (in german) for reference: neues-deutschland.de/amp/artik )

www.neues-deutschland.deStreik in Indien: Stell dir vor, es ist Streik ...

@InvaderXan I’m hardly seeing any mention of it from the anti-fast fashion accounts on insta despite many of the people on strike being farmers and textile workers