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Kulak is somewhat hyperbolic in the film, it's most likely sikh or Pakistani propoganda by some diaspora dweller, any non subcontinent person knowing this much about disgusting Indian videos has to have some major issues. The movie also singles out Hindus which confirms my suspicions.
The one good point he made was about India, castes and class
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This was astute, you have people use words like waiters, drivers, servant as slurs openly here and the contempt they have towards them is very real. Society here has been running on fumes since forever. What is funny is that kulak got these talking points from Jayant Bhandari on twitter who left India after he saw how decayed everything was.
The movie is extremely gory and exists as agit prop, it's not meant to be enjoyed and is not surprise to anyone frankly. The only people who will watch it are 4chan freauenters.
Most of the world is completely aware of how bad, dirty, scammy the subcontinent is. The movie is not that deep, kulak just read too much into it since he's aware of India and Jayant Bhandari.
I'm an Indian living in India for context, people live in enclaves, you have zero hygiene, open natural spaces, clean air, water or even morals in most parts here besides the lack of iq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh are even worse.
The movie exists to facilitate dunking on Hindu far right users more than to be a real work of art or a thought out commentary. Skirmishes between pajeets of various kinds are a daily occurrence online. All sides picked up internet lingo and try to make themselves look better than their neighbors, you're better off just turning it on for 5 minutes and never thinking about it again, ever.
Why Sikh? Do they not have the same issues as Hindu Indians?
The Sikhs are generally quite unhappy towards both Hindus and the concept of India as a nation. I've met diaspora Sikhs in Australia and a complaint that regularly comes up is that at partition, the British gave the Hindus a nation, and they gave the Muslims a nation, but the Sikhs were screwed out of one, and Sikhs view themselves as just as important and respectable as Hindus or Muslims.
As such, Sikh separatism has been ongoing since before independence, and has at times led to insurgent or terrorist movements. The Sikhs have a strong internal feeling that they are not the same as Hindus or Muslims, and the more that Indian nationalism comes to be identified with Hindu nationalism, as it is at the moment, the alienated the Sikhs feel.
I would be entirely unsurprised to find some diaspora Sikh on the internet engaged in vicious anti-Indian ranting.
The word pajeet was coined for them, they pretend that they are some Scythian race living among who they think are pajeets whilst being the same as every other person around them minus basic values like self-respect which is why people from my clan and region do not abuse migration systems in the west.
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Not at all, they have a perennial little brother syndrome. Sikhism went from a separate Hindu faction to more OBC or shudra nationalism instantaneously, they got sanskritized and took up Rajput names, customs and even words. Later on the demands grew, they were taken in and wanted out, they led terrorist coups that were incompetent and got beat to a pulpy which led to pajeet violation of Canadian migration act. They get to act smug because of bio leninism, these are the same people who deserted the Kashmir kingdoms army yin their trek to Tibet.
Sikhs hate Hindus a lot and most Sikhs outside of India are middle castes who want ya mythical new nation, some LARPers roam around the internet too. They are so close to Hindus that they fight really hard to stand out, very peter thiel pilled.
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I was hoping to get your feedback @mrvanillasky as I was aware you live in India and have criticisms thereof.
My sense, and I think something Kulak tries to say in his review is that the film is aggressively agit-prop, the AI prompt-maker "Thames" is actively trying to make something racist. Yet another reason I will avoid the film. Still...sometimes there's signal in the noise.
American far-right dunking on Indian far-right? to what end? "We're the true Aryan race!" kind of stuff? I would agree that this would appeal only to 4-chan-types--I can't imagine anyone I know on the Left watching this, let alone even hearing about it. The problem is that as much as everyone wants to put 4-chan in the garbage, it's got lasting power and some of the stuff on there become common knowledge 10 years later. As a "normie" it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.
One thing I'm really interested in is the 'big picture.' It's been pretty clear to me since the 90's that American culture and IQ have been dropping like a stone in the Mariana Trench. At 50 I have the perspective to see how much worse things are at a baseline level. Is India just the destination for any human culture that doesn't have perpetual warfare, slavery, famine, etc.? Is there any solution that doesn't require a "Final Solution", i.e. genocide? Do Indians have any sense that the situation can be repaired? I presume a leftist POV would be that education and female empowerment will reduce birth rates and boost the lower caste. The right..I don't know, they seem fine with dehumanizing the low-caste/class and forcibly sterilizing them. One can have empathy but what's the right amount necessary to fix the problem of human devolution?
Thanks, I also understand it better than everyone I know since I went from trying to seek cooperation on the internet to seeking just truth
No, pajeet far right, sikhs or muslims, both hold a seething resentment against Hindus, upper castes like me in particular for hbd and historical factors. No one who is boilogically a real anglo would ever care ebough.
Indians, the subcontinent is not aryan anymore, has not been aryan for a while and sikhs and muslims especially are even less aryan as they are mostly from middle castes, you still find traces of aryan character and changes in physiognomy in some members of the upper castes but it is closer to 1 in 100 or 1000 or maybe more. Consider this, I am paler than almost every single girl I have met here, skin and hair wise despite being a guy and I am not really pale lol. Stuff like this is very trivial but unfortunately people really care way too much about it.
Pajeet twitter jokes about a pajeetocide regularly and the place is beyond fixing, you have lost the smart people and put people shown in the documentary in charge who are the majority here.
No, and they have a massive inferiority complex about the world, so you cannot give them a real answer. You had people from India making claims about calculus being stolen or the Brits stealing more money than there are atoms in the solar system from the nation to avoid accepting that this is a high civilization that fell, where the fall coincides with the decimation of human capital.
And the Indian TFR is below 2 now, the people with the most kids are lower castes, muslims and middle castes. Upper castes have given up, the impotent rage they display by calling whites name is projection since people here cannot deport their problems away.
No one is forcibly sterilizing them, you just have worse people and institutions here. There is not much that can be done now, go spend half an hour on caste twitter and then half an hour on Nick Lands account, whilst he was working on xenosystems, caste twitter was still stuck in pretending that their race is "European" because 2 guys won a noble prize, whilst italians and Spaniards have not, hence they now outwit the Japanese and Scandinavians on a per capita basis, statements so stupid that it would not surprise you to know that these are the same people who got kicked out of Punjab by khalistanis. Some from my caste are no better, claiming that top 1 percent of upper castes is smarter than any in the rest of the world, the level of dishonesty here makes you question ones sanity, self-identification being made a factor of hbd means people fucked up and have to find rationalisations forhaving basic human sentiments but the inherent identity that they had was depedent on being slightly better than village dwellers of India.
There is no saving from terminal cancer, so why should anyone want to save people where the upper end is busy indulging in mental masturbation of the kind where their worldview is composed a glaring inferiority complex they can never let go of?
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