“Just think about what would happen here if Trump suddenly announced that as of midnight tonight, every $10 and $20 bill is worthless,” said Oliver. So, to pay a rent of Rs. It was a disaster, an absolute economic disaster.Unfortunately, media was sold out and nobody really reported much on this issue like it should have been.

“That addressed a major public health hazard, so much so that a few years back, Unicef India started a catchy campaign called Take Your Poo to the Loo.” The song is … catchier than one would expect. Where can I watch this?Press J to jump to the feed. Especially seeing all the blatant and clear injustice happening in India. “They’re basically Marie Kondoing India and it’s only Muslims who don’t seem to spark joy in them,” Oliver explained.The citizenship laws have already had a major impact in India, “with many understandably terrified, especially as the government is now building detention camps for all the illegal immigrants they are creating”, said Oliver. 100 if you give someone Rs. They didn't clap for long and they weren't very loud, but they were there.Absolutely loved this video. Just imagine the amount that wasn't caught.I was in college at that time. Since his election as a populist in 2014, Modi and his government have delivered on some big goals, such as new cooking gas connections for 72 million poor families and the installation of 110 new toilets, “which is a big deal”, said Oliver. Local milk sellers were unable to sell their milk products because people would only buy from supermarkets in card and so so much more. With no source of income and with their stocks rotting and nobody buying it, they went legit broke AF. I arrived the day that or after (somewhere at stupid o'clock) the bills were invalidated. Variety’s ‘Salute to Service’ Presented by National Geographic Celebrates Industry Supporters of Troops, Veterans.

Then, a second bill will add undocumented citizens back on – but only if they’re not Muslim. I remember thinking how much of a biased prick Oliver was in 2014 for criticizing Modi, but fortunately, I understood very early the actual truth of his party(and realized how right John was). His party-appointed head of Uttar Pradesh, for example, said at a recent rally: “If they kill one Hindu then we will also kill 100 of them.”“That is not even dog-whistle Islamophobia,” said Oliver. There is so much more than went wrong that I can legit write an entire 10 page article on simply how much was wrong during that time. So when Trump says Modi is bringing India together, Oliver concluded, “with any luck, the thing that unites them may actually end up being their complete disgust over what he is trying to do”, since India, home of the “symbol of love” Taj Mahal, “frankly deserves much more than this temporary symbol of hate”. 20 bus ticket. Auto rickshaws which ran entirely on cash went broke and business less for a month. All the food these small eateries served went to waste.Rs. Let us hope their voters take less time to realise the error in their ways.Dude didn’t even scratch the surface.

This thread is archived. 2000 note. 92% Upvoted. I wish more people around the world started reporting on this because Indian media won't and India is not too far from a Civil war the way this current government is heading.I personally know people from "well connected" families who later bragged about knowing about demonetisation before it was implemented. Many of these criticisms are not ones that I would make personally, but I feel like these are valid critiques of the work he does, both on Last Week Tonight and his other work: * He isn't funny: This is of course subjective. Weddings were cancelled, some people were unable to pay off to bury or burn thier dead ones.

The Gujarat riots were sparked by a horrific incident- the death of 59 pilgrims trapped in a train returning from Ayodhya in 2002 which was burnt by Muslims at Godhra station. Modi took India and Pakistan to the brink of war, like shit was about to go down. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts Most of this stuff is undocumented and it happened without any opposition and most of the right wing brainwashed supporters even praised it, saying that now corrupt people lost all their cash reserves, etc, when the statistics say otherwise.This government is a serious deadly combination of brainwashed, corrupt and incompetent governance. Anger at the previous party for being corrupt, and choosing him as a reaction. 2000 notes for a Rs. Add pseudo-nationalism, religious hatred against Muslims, Christians and some decades old idealogy and they are literally an ISIS in making. “There is one and only one thing that it’s OK to admire Hitler for, and it’s the fact that he killed Hitler.”Modi doesn’t talk much on his religious-targeting policies, said Oliver, but those close to him do. save hide report. 3 comments. He knew that no matter who won the election, world news and US news would be focusing on that, so this pretty big move of his had a good chance of not getting as much international press as it would have otherwise.Also, over 100 people lost their lives due to the fucked up decision by the so-called supreme leader. “It would be complete mayhem – and then, of course, Republicans would defend it, the supreme court would uphold it, and within two weeks people would be holding up signs denouncing money at Trump rallies, because that’s the fucking world we seem to live in now.”But the cash ban didn’t make Modi less popular, demonstrating “one of his greatest strengths – his charisma is such that he somehow evades public anger sticking to him”, said Oliver, “which is a very dangerous superpower, especially when you consider how extreme one of his defining beliefs is”.That belief would be Modi’s Hindu nationalism – the idea that India is a fundamentally Hindu state, despite the fact that India holds the second-largest Muslim population in the world and the country’s founders preached religious pluralism. 95% or so of all cash money in circulation was no longer valid.