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fudgy_brownies t1_iue1go1 wrote
70 dead and around 100 still trapped in the water. There's no electricity in the area which is making rescue operations difficult (it's night in India). A clearer picture will probably emerge in the morning.
The bridge was hurriedly renovated and re-opened 4 days ago without proper checks/fitness certificate because elections are coming up.
doofleton t1_iuefvsd wrote
A few years ago when a flyover collapsed in another poll bound state in India, killing several people, our current Prime Minister said, to applause, it was "a message from God" not to vote for his rivals in their govt.Today it is his own party that was in power when this bridge collapsed and their supporters here will.tell you "not to politicise" the incident. Only they are allowed to politicise the deaths of citizens.
Watch him say it here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NWRyEy1jzWE
kekentyl t1_iuf3bnl wrote
I guess that's a pretty universal phenomenon, huh.
Skellum t1_iugt2u7 wrote
Fascists gonna fasc
mynameismy111 t1_iuf7agx wrote
Us Gop approves
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adamjm t1_iugxzjg wrote
They really work hard to keep their country miserable over there. Group effort.
Ameisen t1_iuiqrkt wrote
They also corrupt schools. There is an entire Hindu Nationalist movement in history and linguistics, pushing that Indo-Europeans came from India, and that Sanskrit is the root language.
Despite the massive amounts of evidence and research to the contrary, if you disagree with them they just call you racist.
TerriblyDroll t1_iuhzyhr wrote
Gotta love Indian Trump.
JayCroghan t1_iugxfye wrote
Mohdi is a fucking nazi.
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Important-Owl1661 t1_iufe3fi wrote
I'm not defending the colonial era but I have to say they built good shit back in the day... most of those British Railways are still being patched together, too
These days it looks like India is suffering from the same privatizing/profitizing that the US and others are suffering from.
Arndt3002 t1_iufhfzv wrote
Are you implying that the entire British empire wasn't a system of privatization and profiting? That's a wild take.
The problem is corruption and, in this case, politics coming before safety.
Kronis1 t1_iufs98h wrote
The problem is unchecked capitalism.
gritty_badger t1_iugr2b9 wrote
There are bridges that don't even exist in the real world in the communist states in India.
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SnooGiraffes460 t1_iuh58o5 wrote
It was a British era bridge.
Eric1491625 t1_iugtnfk wrote
>I'm not defending the colonial era but I have to say they built good shit back in the day... most of those British Railways are still being patched together, too
Imagine thinking the stuff in the colonial era was safe and good. 19th century construction was so extremely dangerous that even people in Britain were dying by the thousands to crappy safety designs.
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