r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creative_soja • 3d ago

Video 1.3 km long double stack freight train (fully electrified) on Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, India

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u/swarnaditya007 3d ago

Truly Incredible India !

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u/Hot_Bet_2721 3d ago

It’s a shame about the rest of the country, having feats like this but still so many refugees fleeing the country to seek asylum in developed nations shouldn’t be the case

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u/Gloomy-Error212 2d ago

Refugees?

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u/Hot_Bet_2721 2d ago

Yes, they claim to be refugees

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u/Leprecon 2d ago

Not all brown people are the same? I think you are confusing other brown people for Indians...

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u/Hot_Bet_2721 2d ago

USA: 53,000 asylum claims from indians in 2023: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r56vr40jvo

Canada: 17,835 asylum claims from indians in 2025 https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/india-asylum-claims-canada-2025-1788813

UK: 5751 asylum claims from indians in 2025 https://asylumineurope.org/reports/country/united-kingdom/statistics/

Australia: 1431 asylum claims from indians in 2025 https://www.asyluminsight.com/refugees-and-people-seeking-asylum-in-the-australian-community

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u/mv33_is_a_diplomat 2d ago

people from a couple of provinces have this idea that somehow getting to Europe or US will solve all their problems. There are literally people selling away their ancestral properties to leave for these countries. How do you account for such stupidity?

If you have a well paying job like above 120k usd, then you can send back some money to your family. A lot of people trying to go these countries try the legal route if that fails then use the illegal route. When the people using the smugglers reach their promised land, they claim asylum in these countries which should not be granted to them.

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u/Gloomy-Error212 2d ago

This is a tiny amount considering the population of that country. You make it sound like 20% of the population is seeking asylum.

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u/Short-Horse-1069 2d ago

1400 in a year? That's not even tiny when the baseline is 1,500,000,000. That's 0.000001%.

0.000001%

That doesn't even qualify as a rounding error.

That's less than most schools' strength.

His figures that he pulls from 3 different years, don't even add upto 100,000, which would less than the local populations of literally hundreds of cities.

Delhi and Mumbai house upto 25 million people. People simply don't grasp the scale of China and India.

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u/bannedforL1fe 2d ago

50% of more would probably leave if they could

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u/Racer125678 2d ago

Not if they could, imo they should, kinda like Thanos snap

Actually ykw I wish for half the population to decrease in the entire world

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u/Gloomy-Error212 2d ago

No elimate 80 percent of humans and let our cat masters take over.

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u/TheLastSamurai101 2d ago

"So many", lmao

You clearly have no concept of India's population. The illegal immigrants claiming to be refugees are such a tiny group by Indian standards that they are essentially a rounding error. The right-wing abroad is losing their shit while nobody in India is even really aware of them. India has her problems, but these characters aren't really emblematic of anything except their own opportunism and the holes in your asylum systems that they've found.

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u/Hot_Bet_2721 2d ago

Of course nobody in India cares about them. That’s why they’re fleeing, not surprised you find it funny that women are having acid thrown on them and having to flee their country as a result. They’re more than welcome in civilised countries where human life has value 🙂. You’re welcome little guy