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A breast surgeon commenting on a fighter jet? I rest my case.

Guys, for those who didn't know, this Sinkie is a prime example of the stupidity, apathy and self-centeredness of the 70% that we keep talking about in this forum. They are the despair of the remaining 30% and the only reason that this forum continues to exist. It also strengthens my conviction...

For all their neo-liberal policies in the years since Reaganomics and the resultant lack of social programs and safety nets (singular among all Western developed nations), the Americans instinctively understand that the purpose of government is in running the country and regulating the economy...

'Stifled' is not too strong a strong a word. I've used stronger words. Many renowned economists have over the years commented on the stunted SME sector in Singapore compared with the other emerging economies in the region. Of the four Asian dragons – Singapore, HK, Taiwan & S. Korea – Singapore...

You're right. The incidence of anorexa & bulimia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder in Singapore (other parts of developed East Asia) has skyrocketed since the '80s, in part owing to exposure to Western fashion trends and in part to the increasingly anorexic models being used on the runways...

Alamak ... assimilate means conform to majority culture, not first people culture. Otherwise every American will have to speak Navajo. But oops, Malay is our national language....

As early as 2015, there was an internal paper that suggested raising GST stepwise to an eventual 12%. Every time the electorate gives the PAP a 70% mandate, you can be sure we'll move faster towards that target. Any idiot knows that raising a broad-based regressive tax such as GST burdens the...

LOL. Good one, considering the number of folks falling through the cracks these days.

You have to give it to the Swiss. They've always been doing things their way, from not pandering to both right-wing populists and left-wing radicals to maintaining their strict neutrality, whether it's opting out of NATO or EU or choosing not get involved in the mess that's the Middle East. And...

This blind, total, unquestioning faith in the PAP by the 70% has gone beyond religion; it is the highest form of state superstition. At the least PRC got two things right: get religion out of the political equation, and remove the familial dynastic politics of China's feudalistic past. You...

Yes. But Singapore was never a signatory to the UDHR or ICERD or any UN conventions touching on gender and racial discrimination. So ...

Ditch the Women's Charter for a start. It is a dinosaur, discriminates egregiously against 50% of the population, and has no place in a modern society aspiring to gender equality where female emancipation is growing apace.

'Complete failure' is a wonderfully apt description. Good to see some honesty in their internal evaluation. For starters, criminalizing drug addiction was a pig-headed move. It is an economic expedient, like many policies on this island state, and it bears the blueprint of the founding party's...

Dictators and despots come in all stripes and persuasions; religion or the lack thereof is a moot point. Hitler was raised a devout Catholic, as were Mugabe and Mussolini. Stalin was a self-professed atheist although his parents observed the Orthodox customs. LKY was an agnostic, though like...

That you find 'yellowarse' insulting is more an affirmation of your own perverse conditioning and self-loathing than of a lack of self-esteem on my part: Yellow is inferior to white in your internalized racist worldview; and arse refers to a part of your anatomy you find disgusting. Ergo...

Old fart was a Nazi, literally, in orientation and deed. He was also the only post-war politician to formulate national policies based on discredited eugenics. Compare the PAP flag: And the 'flash and circle' symbol used by the British Union of Fascists founded by Oswald Mosley in 1932:

You could have fooled me. We obviously don't use the same dictionary. I find it hard to reconcile the notion of happiness with a person who's so consumed with so much venom and hate for his birthplace and its people that he continues to bash them long after he's upped and left to the point of...

He has an intellectual grasp of social norms and the backlash that comes with defying the most uncontroversial, universal ones. But there's a failure to grasp the moral or emotional implications of his radical views re paedophilia that goes beyond mere self-centredness or narcissism (which he...

No quarrel there. The state is run on secular laws; but individual leaders have the freedom to – or not to – associate with any religion. Insofar as religion is a part of your value system, your political ideals and principles will also be influenced by your religion.

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