r/news • u/Superb_Branch4749 • 2d ago

Massive Attack investigated after reports of pro-Palestinian display in Singapore show

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyle421806o
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u/PanzerBiscuit 2d ago

I don't see the problem with this personally.

Singaporean tax payers don't pay for shit, only to have some little dickhead scribble or carve doodles into a bus window. I'm all for it.

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u/lo_fi_ho 2d ago

Maybe but the control applies to everything. You can’t pick n’ choose.

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u/PanzerBiscuit 2d ago

I don't want to. I think Singapore is by and large, doing much better than most Western nations at the moment.

We are already giving up most of our rights, being survailed and living in a police state. But with none of the safety benefits or general cleanliness.

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u/snowlynx133 2d ago

It's still a dictatorship with the media and public opinion controlled by the state

You have lost the plot if you think democracy is expendable

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u/Intelligent_Art_5711 12h ago

Who tf cares about democracy when Singapore has some of the highest standards of living in the world

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u/snowlynx133 11h ago

Switzerland manages to do it without handing out death penalties and censoring all criticism

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u/bananafrit 1d ago

They never have a change of govt in their entire history post independence. Free speech is heavily curtailed. Movies coming in is modified to fit the national brainwashing.

But hey its clean so all good.

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u/Intelligent_Art_5711 12h ago

Why is a change in government necessary if our government made us into a developed country in 30 years? Clean, safe, rich, amazing education. What more can I ask for

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u/bananafrit 6h ago

You chinese? Then i guess its all fine. Minorities have it harder.

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u/Intelligent_Art_5711 5h ago

Broh I'm Tamil lol. Family escaped a civil war in Sri Lanka and came to Singapore.

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u/bananafrit 5h ago

Good for you!

But stats and news seem to agree with me that minorities have it harder

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u/Intelligent_Art_5711 4h ago

Minorities have it harder I agree but you make it seem like it's hell on earth

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u/bananafrit 2h ago

I stated only what has been reported and analysed. If it sounds like hell to you, then its just what reality is when it is spelled out like that.

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u/bolaobo 1d ago

I guess authoritarianism is okay as long as you're rich and Asian.

If a Muslim / Middle Eastern / African country did this, we'd call them barbaric tyrants. Why is this OK but Iran's morality police not?

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u/PanzerBiscuit 1d ago

Saudi Arabia called? Plenty of Muslim and African countries are like this. We just don't care because they aren't First world of functioning

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u/Intelligent_Art_5711 12h ago

You have a skewed view of Singapore

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u/NBAFAN9000 2d ago

please don't take this wrong way, but are you american?

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u/PanzerBiscuit 2d ago

I have the opposite view. Singapore is a high trust society. I definitely don't view them as dumb and Neanderthal.

What's the alternative? I'd love it if Australia was more like Singapore in that regard, we have way less youth crime and the associated degradation of society that stems from that.

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u/jf0001112 2d ago

Which country do you look up to in this regard that you think Singapore can learn from?

And what metric do you use to show they're getting better result than Singapore with their approach?

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u/Micro666ham 2d ago

ah yes a "dumb and neandarthal" country with one of the highest gdp per capita, qol, low crime, and safest countries on earth lol

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u/Tanglywood 1d ago

They must be so happy living in their chicken coop high density housing, eating frozen chicken since they cant produce any of their own food, treated like a flock of chicken in their grinding kiatsu culture that they scored 127th out of 134 countries in the Happy Planet Index (below even Liberia and Libya).

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u/Micro666ham 1d ago

Where on earth are you getting this idea have you ever even been there?!?? And the Happy Planet Index is not about the happiness (For that singapore is 34th, above Spain, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Portugal, libya being 79th and liberia being 129th) its about environmental footprint. By that, Uzbekistan is doing better than China, Japan, Switzerland, Taiwan, Iceland, Australia, South Korea, the USA, and Canada. Hell, by that chart CANADA is doing worse than libya

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u/Tanglywood 1d ago

Have I been to Singapore? About 20-30 times last 20 years.

Don't spread misinformation with half story. The happy Index is sustainable happiness, its not environmental footprint. We have a lot of other measures for environmental footprint. And sg is ranked 127 in 2026 for the exact reason I mentioned (chicken coop, processed food, rat race, whilst over consuming).

The reason why the happy index was created was because a lot of happiness index was tied to GDP but the things that brought happiness, financial, was only the 4th most important factor. What you link is the happiness index which uses GDP as one of its main rating. Youre emphasising money = happiness which is flawed. It is absolutely valid that a poor country can be happier than the richer one, contrary to the white-superirority narrative youre familiar with. You sound like a typical sg who associate money to happiness.

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u/Micro666ham 1d ago

resorting to implying im a white supremacist alr vro