Genocide is killing people for their ethnicity in an effort to wipe all of them out. What Russia and China are doing (to Ukrainians and Uyghurs) is more like colonization with a heavy handed attempt at destroying any independent national identity (especially native language) over one generation, by force yes, but trying to avoid an outright Holocaust because they want these people as loyal workers. What their victims need is more understanding and indeed more advocates and protests from the Russian and Han Chinese populations.

Never said that they aren't. Yes they are under threat but a major trend downwards or upwards isn't gonna happen anytime soon. The general movements are small to either direction. Last year EIU improved India a bit some other decreased if by a bit.

Countries where there are rapid political and economic shifts are the ones where I would say they are under threat like Israel for example or countries under crisis or wars. India is for now stable in these matters so drastic shifts are probably not gonna happen.

When comparing freedom house and V-dem the differences are drastic as countries like India gets 66 on freedom index while Sri Lanka gets 54 and Ukraine gets 50 but on V-dem India is lower than both of them. Even though Sri-lanka went through removal of its president. On the EIU India is above them. Not disregarding the index but just curious. However I agree with you but I think the level of threats isn't as severe as It is in countries which are going through some sort of crisis like Israel , Sri lanka etc. It is closer to eastern side countries like Poland which India tied with in EIU.

I'm pretty sure there's a sizable amount of people in his party that are pushing this reform too

Translation: they’re going to find a more subtle, secretive, means by which to achieve the same end.

Now resign.

Putin got it from a tactic Russia has always been doing.

my point is "A court saying they have jurisdiction over something doesn't give them jurisdiction over something", and "A sovereign nation is sovereign".

It has seen us.

So the democratic values are not under threat ? You may want to let the various organizations know, they are reporting the opposite.

Again (like I have explained to you multiple times) the indexes measure different things. All of them do agree that democratic values are under threat in India. V-Dem is open data set and trusted by numerous organizations such as world bank. At least this time you did not misrepresent the data in effort to invalidate it so I guess that is progress.

Because if they did no doubt it would work as advertising and some idiot would go "so that's how I lose weight quick! Of course the bad stuff won't happen to me..."

No war but class war

Maybe you should not be sticking a toxin that kills people everywhere unsupervised. Mind you, I know it has great results for stuff like TMJ but it shouldn't be something you can get on sale injected by any random person.

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My take is that if he knew what he was doing, he would never have gotten into this position. To my mind, he’s very seriously misjudged the public reception to his grab for power.

I think he’s hoping to buy time, to see if he can salvage his position. I doubt that buying time will work for him, though, as his coalition is likely to fall if he’s seen as weak and vacillating.

This gives me hope that he’s between a rock and a hard place. Though who knows, he’s survived a lot of upheavals before.

Even in theory it would be difficult. With gravity alone I only see it would be possible if either there's a massive object that magically could turn on and off it's gravitational pull in sync with the earth's orbit around the sun, or if an object actually passes through the solar system just past the sun and at that moment is lucky enough to dart the earth into the sun (which would be one extreme unlikely hole-in-one).

I think there's a lot of thinking that's a bit misunderstood here, but the entire universe except for mercury and venus is actually pulling the earth away from it's orbit around the sun. In our local solar system, the sun is massive enough that's it's only a few centimeters per year that we're creeping away, but there's no way anything outside our orbit could pull us into the sun, except maybe for some bizarre theoretical phenomena, assuming gravitation is the only external force (a collision, for instance, is a completely different story!).

If a force was strong enough to do that, it would pull the sun out of that collision course as well and we'd just end up with an even more extreme orbit around our yellow friend, if we would even be able to maintain that as we accelerated towards whatever is creating the massive pull.

Don't be fooled -- he knows what he's doing. He'll figure out the right wording, the right timing, and get what he wants in a way that will minimize challenges to his power. He's an authoritarian and he will never just let go of something he wants.

This is what you get when you have all of the following:

a) a state mandated and funded (in the sense that the funds are not separate from the general budget) pension system

b) a population that is ever living longer, with a static retirement age (as opposed to having the retirement age linked to some percentile of life expectancy, etc. ; France has it more complicated, because it's pension system is not strictly age based but how many units of work one put in, as I understand it); otherwise this could have been happening all along in easily digestible chunks.

c) a birth rate that is lower than replacement (because that means that more and more retirees have to be supported by fewer and fewer working age people).

I guarantee something similar will happen e.g. in the US as soon as enough baby boomers die off to make it not political suicide.

If it isn't pushed back these young people will be paying for Boomer pensions, and by the time they need one, it won't exist.

No slippery slope fallacy required, unlike your "argument."

Even going as far as to exclude all children older than 8 years of age, the Nazi’s planned on Germanizing any polish children with “Aryan-like” racial qualities, assuming them to be descendants of “pure” German settlers in Poland.

This is fucking disgusting.

Not that one. He's in the one on the plane.

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I didn't do that either, learn to read.

Living in germany: While for some people all of the above might by the reason, others simply don't want children.

Ok, I'm better than that, you're not.

Is that what you prefer?

No they dont, its free to choose. Most well off people choose to go private because of the benefits.