Today is Diwali, the biggest Hindu Festival and modern day Hindu Fascists have brainwashed people into killing themselves by burning billions of crackers in a single night.
The air is quite literally unbreathable and looks white. Yet people won’t stop burning crackers. No one wears a mask btw.
Hinduism is easily the most destructive religion on Earth right now, the pollution generated from rituals and festivals is unimaginable. As an ex-Hindu, this casteist piece of shit religion is a bane on Indian society actively working against the betterment of the Indian people. I wish the Communists in India actually had the balls to do a revolution in the 1950s and we wouldn’t be in this mess.
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burning billions of crackers
you know damn well how I read this initially
I wanted context and now I want you to have it too
New pride flag just dropped
No coughs at pride
The West coast smoke from 2020 was peaking around 700 iirc, and east coast last year was like 600
Am I reading this right? 300 is considered the worst and 1100 is what it is right now? O.o
It’s probably beyond 2000 at this point. Higher capacity meters have also maxed out.
Hearing that they’re burning crackers but not in a good way
And this is how it is after a mild crackdown. I remember about five or so years ago I was on the rooftop with a friend on a late Diwali night and the air was so thick with smoke we couldn’t see 10 metres ahead. This was entirely because of firecrackers.
We got some fuljharis (sparkles) for our toddler nephew this year. The quantity of smoke just one of them emits is baffling. Of course you first need to know to look for it.
There is no crackdown lol. The entire NCR is run by the BJP who promotes this shit.
And yes I can’t see too far rn. The air is too white.
You are right in that there isn’t a crackdown. What I meant what was that back when I was a kid there were firecracker vendors everywhere when diwali came around. Now it seems they are can set up shop in certain areas only. I don’t know what the actual laws and such are for this. But it seems to have zero meaningful effect in terms of not poisoning the air.
Hinduism is easily the most destructive religion on Earth right now
idk not to get theological and not my area but I think the first two main Abrahamic religions are doing worse atm, not to downplay the BJP/RSS weaponization of it tho
I don’t think that people understand what Hindutva actually is. It’s basically people taking every single bad thing about Christianity/Islam and implementing it in their own religion plus the extra oppression from the caste system and other Hindu practices.
Hindu Fascists outright recycle right wing points from across the world. Homophobia, Transphobia have become very common eventhough it was not really a thing in India culture.
Are all fireworks called “firecrackers” in India?
Yeah. Although most of them are bombs basically.
My local community has a lot of Indian immigrants, and let me tell you, Diwali celebrations get crazy outside of India too. And the city won’t do anything about it here, either. Oh, sure, unsanctioned fireworks are illegal, and the cultural center are allowed to set them off on their property but it’s not allowed in private backyards or city parks, but none of these people care. They light them up anyway, and the city won’t do anything about it. They post signs all autumn reminding people that fireworks are illegal without proper permits, and then do zero enforcement when there’s inevitably fireworks all over the neighborhood.
I don’t have a problem with people practicing their religion and celebrating a holiday. What I have a problem with, is polluting the air and causing fire hazards. Not to mention loud noise late into the evening, which is just plain disruptive to the public peace and disrespectful to your neighbours.
Civic sense is non existent in India. Noise is basically used for Dick measuring contests and people LOVE being as loud and disruptive as possible.
You know, that explains a lot about my neighbours.
If they fix it they’ll just get blamed for global warming the same way China was when they fixed their smog
Blamed By who? India is already at odds with NATO.
And Modi will never be able to achieve what Xi achieved with the war on pollution. Modi is instead busy on promoting it.
Blamed By who
The same “at what cost” dipshits writing articles about China
But yeah you’re right, India CAN’T do anything about pollution without communism. The GDP/pollution in India is imo the biggest piece of “capitalism sucks, communism rules” evidence there is. Both countries were at similar levels of development relatively recently, hell India might have even been better off briefly post- WWII (I don’t know this, I just mean i could believe that state of affairs) and yet it’s China that’s made impossibly huge gains against poverty, pollution, etc., while India continues to languish
A million hands must explode, it’s the only way
(I saw a video detailing the post Diwali surgeons work in India, apparently they have some of the best hand reconstruction surgeons in the world thanks to Diwali and bootleg fireworks)
Here in Germany we also have every idiot doing their own fireworks at New Year’s. Granted there’s some regulations as to what fireworks are allowed and we don’t have anywhere near the population density of India, but it’s still obnoxious pollution for extremely mediocre fireworks. Luckily more and more people here are in favor of banning this practice. Extremely rare case of Germans learning.
Here in the states we have those same jackasses setting off fireworks not just at new years (for the entire week) but also Christmas, 4th of July, Thanksgiving, and also whenever they feel like it.
It’s even illegal where I am but no one cares
I already hate fireworks because they terrify my little cat like i don’t know what I would do if this shit were going on here. I would probably be fighting my fucking neighbors
Yeah you’ll get killed in India for opposing religious people.
as a resident of the imperial core, is this the kind of cracker you mean? i think they’re more of a thing in bri*ain than the states, just wanted to confirm i have the correct mental picture here.
No, I mean heavily unregulated and polluting fireworks that put vast quantities of heavy metals into the air for months.
Is there a specific religious significance to the fireworks or is it just a thing people have made a (catastrophic) tradition out of?
The original tradition was to light these things (called deepaks)
But now it has been turned into madness, because … Idk. And people refuse to change their habits because how dare you tell a dehlite what to do?
Not really. Fireworks were imported to India from China by Muslim rulers. It eventually morphed into this shitshow of a festival.
ok that makes a lot more sense to me, thanks. i was trying to figure out how the kind i posted could possibly do that kind of damage. yeah fireworks are fucking ass, absolutely annihilating the air quality.
No we call these christmas crackers not fire crackers (cummingwealth country)
That’s awful. I remember when forest fires were rampant and my city was in the red (for the AQI index), it was difficult to breathe without a KN95/KF94 mask. At that point I’m pretty sure it’ll be difficult to breathe even with a mask.
Hinduism is easily the most destructive religion on Earth right now
Really? I mean Christianity merged with economics to give rise to the protestant ethic And Islam has been used as an effective tool by the imperial powers to sow discord in oil rich Arab regions as well as justify the mass murder of Muslims (seems ironic but the biggest victims of any religious beliefs are the religious people themselves) including the Palestinians. Isis bad therefore all Muslims bad therefore Zionist entity can do genocide. Literally how it works in the minds of white liberals although that seems to be changing with the next generation
I want to add this in. But I don’t know where Judaism fits in, as a religion. Because Zionism is an utterly deranged and disgusting ideology and elements of it do have religious origins. Easily the most intensely evil ideology in the world. But also it’s destruction is restricted to the Arab world and by the fact that there just aren’t that many Jewish Zionists in the world. Id lump the damage caused by Christian Zionists under Christianity.
I was speaking more from an environmental context since Hindu festivals and rituals are polluting af. I don’t think Christians or Muslims have anything this close.
But to add to your point, I definitely agree with you. Hinduism is not THAT type of destructive. Christianity will easily take the cake if we factor in colonialism.
Zionism is actually pretty similar to Hindutva. Both ideologies are about establishing racial supremacy in some ancient homeland by killing or displacing people you don’t like. Modi did commit a pogrom against Muslims in 2002 but has not tried something similar after that. They mostly focus on letting their “Paramilitary” and street gangs do their bidding nowadays with smaller scale riots and mob lynchings.
FYI, Hindutva is an Extremist Hindu ideology which is dominant right now. Much like Zionism in Judaism. A huge number of Sane people do exist in both religions who oppose these ideologies.
Yeah I see what you’re saying and agree. Also I think it’s fair to say India as geographicql region especially cannot be subjected to more pollution and environmental destruction. It’s in such bad shape I see India as being one of the regions of the world that will experience the most destructive environmental driven collapse and that’s before you factor in the complete catastrophe that is climate change
