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   sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 22:12:14 JST sj_zero
   The leader of Bangladesh has fled to India.
   
   It took me a while to figure out why there were protests, it seemed like the media really wasn't interested in talking much about it.
   
   Turns out 55% of government jobs were held in a "quota system" that set aside jobs for the descendants of "freedom fighters", women, and minorities. Only a tiny portion of jobs are judged by merit. In 2018 there was a big movement to dramatically reduce these quotas and they won, but recently the changes were rolled back leading to the current protests.
   
   It seems crystal clear why the establishment media isn't taking about the motives behind the riots in detail, it's a riot against something they're all fundamentally in favor of implementing here.
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     BowserNoodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 22:13:33 JST BowserNoodle ☦️

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     @sj_zero >it's a riot against something they're all fundamentally in favor of implementing here.
     Much like ingerland, innit? At some point people are going to realize that journalists are even worse than pigs.