The original (fairly small) cockroach protests were about the Supreme Court Chief Justice calling unemployed people 'cockroaches'. He apologised, but it led to the formation of a satirical group called 'Cockroach Janata Party' (Janata = People, and a reference to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party).
The first big protest the CJP was involved in was about the National Testing Agency (which conducts many university entrance tests) f***ing up repeatedly and leaking question papers. Following those protests the union Education Minister resigned.
The current protests are against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar removing millions of voters from the electoral rolls. At first he was doing it 'legally', by arguing that these records had insufficient documentation / spelling mistakes / mismatches (more likely to happen for poorer / rural people, who are also less likely to vote for the BJP) but then it was revealed that he was doing this behind the backs of the two other election commissioners (so against the legally binding majority opinion) and that he had requested a popular civil servant to contest for the BJP (that guy refused).
That was over exam fraud. The education minister resigned which was the goal so that protest ended. This protest was started by both the federal opposition party and the roach protestors on Sept 24.
Israel is doing America’s bidding, not the other way around. They are entirely dependent on US aid for their security and economy, how could they not be a puppet?
Tail wagging the dog situation. Netanyahu has pitched decapitation strikes and and a bombing campaign to every president since Bush 2, and they all turned him down. Trump fired his military advisors from his first term so there was no one left to explain why that was a bad idea.
What has the fuel price done about cost of living so far? UK here and I haven't really noticed anything changing. My mortgage continues to get cheaper relative to inflation, electricity has increased by so little it's also dropped relative to inflation. Not really noticed much change in the price of food either, we still spend less than £30 a week between the 2 of us.
Almost all of the cost of living is housing with everything else pretty much being pocket change in comparison. Just after I bought house prices appear to have started stagnating which is a bit annoying for the timing of it but should help bring the relative cost down for new buyers if it continues.
Sure, but its a tiny fraction of the total cost and diesel has only gone up a little bit. So maybe my oats cost a single penny more now? Oh no, they barely cost anything anyway.
Wew lad. It was 3.70 one year ago. Now it's averaging 6.20 in the US. That's a 60% increase.
maybe my oats cost a single penny more now?
My guy, you are in for the worst shock of your life within the next 6 months, lol. You are so blissfully unaware I honestly don't want to pop that bubble. I hope you have a good week.
you are in for the worst shock of your life within the next 6 months,
Heard that one before. Diesel has only gone up 40% here in the UK. Even if diesel was 100% of the cost (it isn't), that's a 40% increase in my oats? I mean realistically I would notice it in the shop and then continue to not care. Still doesn't really sound like that big of a problem compared to the cost of housing tbh.
Quick edit: mentioned before about house pricing potentially dropping/stagnating here, is that happening elsewhere or is it still rising uncontrollably? Still short term but I hope it spreads into a longer term trend everywhere as that seems like it would help people a lot.
Maybe your just really really really bad at noticing things. maybe "but it's not happening to me personally" is a terrible and inaccurate assessment of the global economy. Just food for thought.
Oil has an outsized impact on how inflation is measured, so prices not growing faster than inflation when oil prices are high still leaves lots of room for them to grow rapidly. As well as that, for most people, things going up in price is already a problem whether or not inflation is higher, especially when inflation's so far above the target rate of 2%. If it was just a short blip of inflation being above 2%, then it wouldn't be so bad, but because it was really high for a while, lots of people already burned through any buffer they had.
Even in absolute terms I don't really see much difference in things I buy. Mortgage is much more than everything else combined and its a fair bit lower than it was 3 years ago in absolute and relative to inflation value.
The only stuff I kinda want that is going way up is stuff like GPUs or memory. Which let's be honest, you can live without just fine.
France is very indebted. It needs to either raise taxes or cut spending. Debt gets more expensive because its refinancing at higher rates. We have higher rates because of higher inflation. And inflation is driven by the oil shock.
I will explain how speculation works here: they bought million of houses during the 2008 crisis, they keep some closed to reduce the offer and increase the pricing. meanwhile they sell housing for vacational rent or other investors and the price continue increasing.
is not just a lack of "offer" or "constrained supply". they bought the houses and keep a lot of them closed to increase their earnings artificially.
and the right wing setup rules to "free" social houses in a lot of regions and allow them to be sold to speculators after that time finished (Madrid is an example). plus a lot of the houses were sold to private investors by the right wing during the crisis to the cheapest pricing possible.
a lot of people living in those houses are at the edge of eviction because those investors want to resell them or increase the rent as rich foreigners offer them more, or just resell them to other investors.
i need to add that the right wing spreads misinfo about inmigrants occupying the houses of people (big lie) to fearmonger those who want to rent, pay for occupation insurance and offer seasonal rents (vacational rents renamed in a different way) only.
recent laws for housing regulation (declaration of stressed zones to limit the maximum pricing as example) are not being applied in a lot of municipalities (governed by right wing) and «owners» skip them by dividing a flat in rooms, they rent you a room which is not legally a flat/house so the law does not apply to them.
the solution is not just building, that solution takes time and people need a house today, also there is little availability of that for places where space is limited (Canary Islands). expropiation is the solution.
hundred of thousands of housed are kept empty in the Canary Islands alone and has been denounced since years ago.
They only have the funds to do that because of wealth inequality. This is downstream of the massive growth in inequality.
Needs a wealth tax. Make holding more than 10m euros worth of property a yearly expense and the foreign speculators will invest elsewhere, and prices will come down.
The shortage of teachers was the start, then more and more people joined the protests and it became a more global statement. Now, they are protests against the cost of living crisis and the erosion of the socialist state
and india as well as argentina, and to some degree even spain is neutral, I think they are speaking in a perspective of "we versus the world", which is a bit nonsensical because the world isnt just the western world (who have been the ones mostly sanctioning Iran in the last decades), and more recently a subset of that western world that is still willing to support USA's non sensical 3rd (I might be missing one) war in the middle east
Italy has had problems with oil since russia and ukraine war, it just became worse due to what happened in Iran and our population had enough
Also, the protests about gas prices are mostly done in south Italy (but are not the only ones!), in north Italy the protests are done for more things like low salaries, shit ass public schools etc.
Yup, the global energy shock from the closure of Hormuz has absolutely nothing to do with the spike in cost of living in Europe. Just like the proxy war in Ukraine hasn't had any effect on European economy.
The issues people protest on all have their roots way before the US began to bomb Iran.
And there already have been protests like this in the past about similar issues.
Yeah, some prices got way up but still the root cause f the protests isn't Iran
In Brazil it's a concern about democracy if fascist gets into power and in India there it's also not wanting fascist Modi in power Who's meddling with democracy
In France and Belgium it's wanting better education
In Albania, it's the protest against corruption and Trump wanting to build hotels and stuff.
In Spain it's the housing crisis that sparked the protests but still it's been an issue long before Trump bombed Iran.
What you say is mostly true for Italy, but in conclusion I would say like it's just Iranian propaganda.
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Protest in India is against the election commission for manipulation of the voter roll. I've seen Western media get this wrong as well.
What happened with the roach protests?
The original (fairly small) cockroach protests were about the Supreme Court Chief Justice calling unemployed people 'cockroaches'. He apologised, but it led to the formation of a satirical group called 'Cockroach Janata Party' (Janata = People, and a reference to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party).
The first big protest the CJP was involved in was about the National Testing Agency (which conducts many university entrance tests) f***ing up repeatedly and leaking question papers. Following those protests the union Education Minister resigned.
The current protests are against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar removing millions of voters from the electoral rolls. At first he was doing it 'legally', by arguing that these records had insufficient documentation / spelling mistakes / mismatches (more likely to happen for poorer / rural people, who are also less likely to vote for the BJP) but then it was revealed that he was doing this behind the backs of the two other election commissioners (so against the legally binding majority opinion) and that he had requested a popular civil servant to contest for the BJP (that guy refused).
That was over exam fraud. The education minister resigned which was the goal so that protest ended. This protest was started by both the federal opposition party and the roach protestors on Sept 24.
I don't think that is what they are protesting but it is amusing
a big part of the protest is the spike in cost of living, which has spiked due to fuel prices.
it isn't 100% on Iran, but they had a part to play.
that is what happens when you let a rouge terrorist state start wars with US backing only to lose them.
Idk what to tell you, but the US has been a rogue terrorist state for decades now as well
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when you have three out of four of the largest air forces on the planet, it's not terrorism, it's colonialism.
Israel is doing America’s bidding, not the other way around. They are entirely dependent on US aid for their security and economy, how could they not be a puppet?
Tail wagging the dog situation. Netanyahu has pitched decapitation strikes and and a bombing campaign to every president since Bush 2, and they all turned him down. Trump fired his military advisors from his first term so there was no one left to explain why that was a bad idea.
What has the fuel price done about cost of living so far? UK here and I haven't really noticed anything changing. My mortgage continues to get cheaper relative to inflation, electricity has increased by so little it's also dropped relative to inflation. Not really noticed much change in the price of food either, we still spend less than £30 a week between the 2 of us.
Almost all of the cost of living is housing with everything else pretty much being pocket change in comparison. Just after I bought house prices appear to have started stagnating which is a bit annoying for the timing of it but should help bring the relative cost down for new buyers if it continues.
Literally every single thing that consumers use on a daily basis needs diesel to get to them. Oil goes up, diesel goes up, everything goes up.
Sure, but its a tiny fraction of the total cost and diesel has only gone up a little bit. So maybe my oats cost a single penny more now? Oh no, they barely cost anything anyway.
No, it is a large portion of the total cost.
Wew lad. It was 3.70 one year ago. Now it's averaging 6.20 in the US. That's a 60% increase.
My guy, you are in for the worst shock of your life within the next 6 months, lol. You are so blissfully unaware I honestly don't want to pop that bubble. I hope you have a good week.
Heard that one before. Diesel has only gone up 40% here in the UK. Even if diesel was 100% of the cost (it isn't), that's a 40% increase in my oats? I mean realistically I would notice it in the shop and then continue to not care. Still doesn't really sound like that big of a problem compared to the cost of housing tbh.
Quick edit: mentioned before about house pricing potentially dropping/stagnating here, is that happening elsewhere or is it still rising uncontrollably? Still short term but I hope it spreads into a longer term trend everywhere as that seems like it would help people a lot.
Maybe your just really really really bad at noticing things. maybe "but it's not happening to me personally" is a terrible and inaccurate assessment of the global economy. Just food for thought.
Right, it's only a 40% increase in the price of every good that requires transportation
Before you factor in corporations taking advantage of the demand to gouge prices, which as surely as the sun rises, they will.
No, it's a 3.5% increase cost in your oats based on inflation numbers.
It's not a lot, but for some people that's the difference between having oats today or having hunger for breakfast.
You're really out of touch with how precarious people's lives are.
I dunno if this will put things in perspective, but this is by far the worst oil shock in history, lol.
Oil has an outsized impact on how inflation is measured, so prices not growing faster than inflation when oil prices are high still leaves lots of room for them to grow rapidly. As well as that, for most people, things going up in price is already a problem whether or not inflation is higher, especially when inflation's so far above the target rate of 2%. If it was just a short blip of inflation being above 2%, then it wouldn't be so bad, but because it was really high for a while, lots of people already burned through any buffer they had.
Even in absolute terms I don't really see much difference in things I buy. Mortgage is much more than everything else combined and its a fair bit lower than it was 3 years ago in absolute and relative to inflation value.
The only stuff I kinda want that is going way up is stuff like GPUs or memory. Which let's be honest, you can live without just fine.
Yeah what modern person needs a computer anyway?
Exactly. Its clearly a luxury that you can manage without or getting a cheaper lower spec one
Like stoves, right? Just use the microwave
inflation is trending up it's nowhere near peak 2022 levels, but 2022 also had increases in wages to offset it.
Maybe 100% not, but current fuel prices sure have a role in it.
France is very indebted. It needs to either raise taxes or cut spending. Debt gets more expensive because its refinancing at higher rates. We have higher rates because of higher inflation. And inflation is driven by the oil shock.
That’s a really, really loose correlation.
True but first and foremost it's funny af
So jot that down
in Spain is the housing crisis caused by foreigner rich people and speculation.
in the canary islands, agravated by tourism
Housing crisis is because of constrained supply. Foreign rich speculators bet it will stay this way. Not the dumbest bet.
I will explain how speculation works here: they bought million of houses during the 2008 crisis, they keep some closed to reduce the offer and increase the pricing. meanwhile they sell housing for vacational rent or other investors and the price continue increasing.
is not just a lack of "offer" or "constrained supply". they bought the houses and keep a lot of them closed to increase their earnings artificially.
and the right wing setup rules to "free" social houses in a lot of regions and allow them to be sold to speculators after that time finished (Madrid is an example). plus a lot of the houses were sold to private investors by the right wing during the crisis to the cheapest pricing possible.
a lot of people living in those houses are at the edge of eviction because those investors want to resell them or increase the rent as rich foreigners offer them more, or just resell them to other investors.
i need to add that the right wing spreads misinfo about inmigrants occupying the houses of people (big lie) to fearmonger those who want to rent, pay for occupation insurance and offer seasonal rents (vacational rents renamed in a different way) only.
recent laws for housing regulation (declaration of stressed zones to limit the maximum pricing as example) are not being applied in a lot of municipalities (governed by right wing) and «owners» skip them by dividing a flat in rooms, they rent you a room which is not legally a flat/house so the law does not apply to them.
Buildout and taxation would surely fix this. Everyone is doing everything else rather than building housing....sigh
the solution is not just building, that solution takes time and people need a house today, also there is little availability of that for places where space is limited (Canary Islands). expropiation is the solution.
hundred of thousands of housed are kept empty in the Canary Islands alone and has been denounced since years ago.
https://cadenaser.com/canarias/2025/09/25/el-mapa-de-las-211000-casas-vacias-de-canarias-el-35-estan-en-zonas-turisticas-radio-club-tenerife/
They only have the funds to do that because of wealth inequality. This is downstream of the massive growth in inequality.
Needs a wealth tax. Make holding more than 10m euros worth of property a yearly expense and the foreign speculators will invest elsewhere, and prices will come down.
Also the spanish budget will get a break.
https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/50256a95-ca1d-5da0-904c-2c4988198019
i think this is the best graphical summary x3
~~Rightwingers want to build more houses.
Leftwingers want to expropiate houses used to speculate.
Choose your side.~~
It's these vague generalizations that really cut to the throat of politics.
The guy below detailed it better so I'm striking my comment above.
which guy? i don't see anyone more posting and i am not a "guy"
Sorry but I don't see your pronouns on my app and I didn't realise you were from blahaj.
literally are in my nickname :/
is your app only showing the username of the user?
I wasn’t aware Iran was the cause of the shortage of teachers in France.
A large section of the ongoing French protests is motivated by the steep increase in fuel costs.
The Iran war didn't cause the teacher shortage, but it is one of the many reasons for this protest.
The shortage of teachers was the start, then more and more people joined the protests and it became a more global statement. Now, they are protests against the cost of living crisis and the erosion of the socialist state
The teacher shortage isn't new.
No but we're just pissed as usual 🤷🏻 fuck facists Fuck the rich
It started that way but became a cost of living protest.
Somebody needs to give this a name like arab spring -> european winter?
Riotober
Western winter if you're into alliteration
Brazil?
and india as well as argentina, and to some degree even spain is neutral, I think they are speaking in a perspective of "we versus the world", which is a bit nonsensical because the world isnt just the western world (who have been the ones mostly sanctioning Iran in the last decades), and more recently a subset of that western world that is still willing to support USA's non sensical 3rd (I might be missing one) war in the middle east
Ikr
Because Iran has never experienced large scale protests
Italy has had problems with oil since russia and ukraine war, it just became worse due to what happened in Iran and our population had enough
Also, the protests about gas prices are mostly done in south Italy (but are not the only ones!), in north Italy the protests are done for more things like low salaries, shit ass public schools etc.
This post sucks
Bullshit propaganda. Iran isnt related to any of these protests.
Yup, the global energy shock from the closure of Hormuz has absolutely nothing to do with the spike in cost of living in Europe. Just like the proxy war in Ukraine hasn't had any effect on European economy.
The issues people protest on all have their roots way before the US began to bomb Iran. And there already have been protests like this in the past about similar issues. Yeah, some prices got way up but still the root cause f the protests isn't Iran
In Brazil it's a concern about democracy if fascist gets into power and in India there it's also not wanting fascist Modi in power Who's meddling with democracy In France and Belgium it's wanting better education In Albania, it's the protest against corruption and Trump wanting to build hotels and stuff.
In Spain it's the housing crisis that sparked the protests but still it's been an issue long before Trump bombed Iran. What you say is mostly true for Italy, but in conclusion I would say like it's just Iranian propaganda.
go read up on what the word catalyst means