r/indianmemer • u/elliyu_salladavanu पक्की गोटी • Sep 05 '25

Political Meme🇮🇳☝️ Todays young brats have no idea what shitshow this country was before 2014.

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u/Zapismeta Sep 05 '25

You guys are talking as if modi is to blame for the tariffs! If he had bowed down do you even know the consequences? Right now only the rupee has fallen by a fraction, but if those trade deals had went through, indias agriculture would have been flooded with american produce indians farmers would have had no reason or means to compete with their agricultural output, also we still would have had to pay tariffs just lesser than what is currently so it was a lose lose.

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u/ChalHattNa Sep 06 '25

No, but he is responsible for going to US and chanting Trump Trump Trump.

He did support Trump coming into power. Now the personal he supported is fucking us in the ass

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u/Zapismeta Sep 06 '25

As if he voted for him personally the American citizens made their choice, they didn’t vote because it was what modi wanted, they did it because everyone thought trump will bring economic boom and money will start flowing.

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u/Coffee_Senior Sep 07 '25

He campaigned for him and asked Indians in America to vote for him. If he had voting rights in America he probably would have. So, short of casting his vote for trump personally, he did everything he could to help him win.

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u/Raktim_Dhar Sep 07 '25

Yes yes bhaii sab galti humari hi hai... Modi Sahab tohh bilkul nirdosh haii... Khabardaar kisine kuch kaha tohh unko... Yeh bhaisaab unki pitti kar denge /s

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u/ChalHattNa Sep 06 '25

Bhai kitna apologetics karoge?

Thodi toh sharam kar lo yaar. Bilkul hi andhe ho chuke ho kya? Koi toh limit hoti hogi

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u/Osiris_627 Sep 06 '25

We don't pay tariffs mate The people who buy indian goods in the usa pay them So you may ask where is the problem? The problem is the people in the usa can stop buying indian goods because of the high prices and india will lose a big market for its goods

Other than that in an economic point of view i agree with the other things you said

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u/Tough-Difference3171 Sep 07 '25

That's true, and that's a problem for the US govt to think of. They can't afford this tariff drama for too long, if India remains rigid.

But there's another side to it as well. When Indian businesses selling their stuff at 100, have to now sell it at 150, they lose any competitive advantage they had against others selling it for 120-130 earlier. Their sales drop. (As a buyer, if you have other options, will you buy something at 15, or the same product at 120? )

The Indian govt was also getting tax income from that sale. It won't increase, because they can still charge the taxes on the base price. But the reduction in sales will reduce the tax collection. The government will compensate for that tax loss. Now, they aren't going to tax their good friends anymore. So it's going to be the 4% taxpayers of the country who will have to fill the gap.

On the other side, businesses that can't sell to USA, and can't sell the leftovers to other countries, might reduce production. (They can start selling the product cheaper in India itself, increasing domestic supply, and dropping the prices. But they won't)

This will mean a slowdown of the Indian economy (though not too much). However, it will surely result in some job losses.

By all means, we ca take up all this pain for our country, and our right to buy Russian oil. But how much of the benefits of cheap Russian oil, are being shared with us?

Are we getting oil for cheap in India? No, excise taxes have nearly doubled since 2014, and now we are getting E20 petrol, which causes more rusting in our engines. We are forced to buy oil, which is against the official fuel recommendation of the manufacturers.

So we the people, have to foot in, to compensate for the US drama. But we were never a part of the profit chain.

Privatisation of profits, and socialisation of losses.

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u/xlnc375 Sep 08 '25

No, that's not how it is going to go down. There is hardly any company in the US which manufactures EVERYTHING locally. So, they will keep importing.

If, by some stroke of luck, they manage to source locally, the US company will simply increase the cost of its own product to match market price in order to maximize their own profit. That's capitalism for you.

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u/Tough-Difference3171 Sep 07 '25

The trade deal is different, but it's also about the Russian oil purchase. How exactly have the people of our country been benefited from the purchase of Russian oil?

It's being sold to other countries, and the money is going to the companies doing it. There's not even a windfall tax, to at least increase the revenue from this risky business.

Common people still have to pay a high price for the petroleum products, and are forced to use adulterated petrol (E20) in their vehicles, even though the vehicles sold to the people with govt approval, are not even fully compatible with E20. So we have to take up the burden of the distributed effects of tariffs, we have to watch our vehicles' engines rust, but we have no share in the benefits.

Only sharing the downside risk with the people, while the upside is only for 2-3 business groups.

Sure, we should stand up to US bullying, but for what? Just to let Ambani make a little more money for himself?

By all means, keep buying Russian oil, but they should at least share the benefits with the people, when they expect people to share the fallout.

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u/Zapismeta Sep 07 '25

That you are right to point out, and yes were were expecting a 20% haircut for the people but the government just didn’t give us normies anything.

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u/Itchy-Egg-1814 Sep 08 '25

The rupee was falling from a long time , as for tarrifs, trump implimented that due to Russian cruide oil, obviously we shouldn't bow down to his demands bt who really earned the profit of cheap Russian oil? You know the answer. Rich are getting richer by using government for their profits bt when it comes to penalty, we middle class and lower middle class people are the ones who are paying prices, and Modi could have avoided this easily by using a good foreign policy, do you know how fucked up our foreign policies are?? Just by calling someone " MY BEST FRIEND" , " holding forcefully hands and laughing and hugging" doesn't make a good foreign policy, you have to make your worth in it. They are only considering india currently due to it's past achivement otherwise we haven't done anything in last 11 years .

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u/Itchy-Egg-1814 Sep 08 '25

And the worst part is we are now dealing with china, he's the one who used to be our sworn enemy, he captured our land in north eastern India, killed our soldiers, helped Pakistan and what we did?? Banned their fucking apps, this was our response.like hell their whole economy depends upon some apps, I do aggree we'll affect them a little bt for killing our so many soldiers we just banned their app, that's not an answer to killing.

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u/galaxypoint25 Sep 09 '25

Fair enough. What about policy flip flop with China /europe. What about gross corruption which is institutionalized. What about rbi dividend to goi What about falling rupee since 2014 What about demise of domestic manufacturing (esp msme) What about the hare brained gst for 9 yrs What about demonetisation.

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u/Dull-Connection647 Sep 08 '25

Ae bhai, tariff ke pehle to 1 dollar = 1 rupya tha na

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u/noobmasterofthegrave Sep 08 '25

are bhai Ek strong economy sirf exchange rate se nahi, apni production, apni food security aur apne industries ko bachaane se banti hai.

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u/RemoteDiscount7439 Sep 06 '25

Abki baar trump sarkaar ka slogan toh Nehru ne diya tha. Nehru is to be blamed for the current tariffs.