I know this is random. I live in these two countries moving bw them so I wondered.

Mostly I know what people think of each, but I did wonder if there was a difference in opinion here in a more leftist space.

Qatar as the labour exploiting oil nation?

Pakistan the third world country culturally like India with Islamic fundamentalists and terrorists etc?

PS. If you have any question about either, happy to answer.

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    Qatar as a labor exploiting oil nation, yep.

    Pakistan I don’t associate with those things. I mostly associate them as the good guys in the culture war with India that causes Indians to come on to America social media and post the most deranged broken English shit you’ve ever heard about Muslims.

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        As far as I’ve seen, they’re not matching Modi’s Hitler vibes, but you likely know more than an ignorant outsider. I mostly just hate fascists and see India as incredibly problematic.

        Maybe just the power dynamic. India is far more powerful, although they both have nukes.

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          You could say there is no central figure as modi is in India. Imran Khan was the closest but Pakistani politics is fractured.

          Plus the actual political power lies with the military here. So they chose who they want as president. They wanted Khan and they bought him in, he became a threat and they kicked him out.

          Right now khan would dominate the public vote but where is he? In prison.

          The people here are very culty and rage plus hate fueled. Its less visible bc it’s not that big online.

          Infact we keep banning social media sites since literally every government is a religious fascist anyways. Twitter was big here and they banned it. YouTube was banned years ago.

          The people in power are genuinely a combination of vile and stupid. The media … just as bad

          I agree India is a problem. The culture is rotten to the core. Modi is one of the most disgusting modern figures and yet flies under the radar

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        As someone who always does critique Pakistan I wanna say Pakistan is a massive victim of terrorism itself.

        Whether it was us funded, pak funded or India funded. All are too blame. The same goes for Afghanistan. So many innocent people have died in these wars and issues that were forced upon us, the people.

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          That can be said for almost every country out there. By your logic we would never be able to blame any country for anything.

          Everything that happens within a country’s border is the responsibility of no one else but the country itself. Whether intentional or not, they need to take accountability for it.

          I’m not saying 100% of the people there are guilty, it’s just that if not for the country and their government who do we hold responsible?