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It's very simple, and I expect any politician to know this. There is a simple test. Before you write an open letter, ask yourself, will the guy reading this think I'm more or less of an asshole for writing this? If the answer is "more" then just shaddap and make it a private letter.

Just to clarify, in case there's a misunderstanding: I meant that there's a possibility that all those people who GMS says that Nicole Seah stepped on their toes - all those people are full of shit. I don't think that Nicole Seah is full of shit. At least not yet.

The point is that Goh Meng Seng or the guys he's describing or both are full of shit.

OK, a study about whether the HDB quotas are racist: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/17/5-insights-on-the-racial-tolerance-and-ethnicity-maps-from-an-ethnic-conflict-professor/ "The one consistent finding for ethnic conflict is not about fractionalization but...

Well that brings up that age old question that I've been asking again and again. What do we want? Do we want WP to rule Singapore one day? Or do we just want the PAP to "change"? And in any case, do we actually have any idea on how we want Singapore to be run, over and above "kick the fucker...

Why? There are two things: 1. The US spies on other peoples' nations. This is basically none of the business of Singaporeans because it concerns foreigners and a foreign government. And furthermore, since we're all Singaporeans, we have been spied on by the ISD for many many years. If we...

No! They are great fun! Especially when you can see that half of Singapore is tripping over each other to suck PAP balls, and the other is tripping over each other to establish who has the best "fuck PAP" credentials. Even though no government is perfect the PAP is distinctly less perfect than...

Yeh like being in the middle of nowhere. I love your strategy of trolling people in order to get them more interested and having more interesting discussions on your forum.

Maybe he quit SDP so that he doesn't have to hold his tongue anymore.

Talking about DNA - let's think about China. There was the Yuan dynasty, where China was ruled by the Mongols. But it turned out that they governed China like it was China. And there was the Qing dynasty, where China was ruled by Mongols. It was still a lot like China. So you can have takeovers...

So which part of "I haven't seen anything that convinces me that the high pay either helps or hurts the level of corruption in Singapore." do you not agree with?

Which part of what I said are you disagreeing with? The three cases within a year is something you need to take with a pinch of salt. There is a time for everything. Stuff had been going on for years, and they had been tracking these things for years. Isn't it a coincidence that right after...

It's true that nobody who gives a shit about the rest of civilisation would ever move to NZ. But considering the amount that you have to pay for a decent sized house, or a car, or decent living conditions, and you'd understand why "economic progress" is not so important to NZ. As long as you're...

I don't really know if you can make a comparison like that. And after all the civil service is larger than it was 20 years ago when our population was still under 3 million. We haven't had any ministers committing suicide after being accused for graft in the last 20 years? What we are looking...

I'll tell you what's a very bad neighbourhood. South Korea is in a very bad neighbourhood. Taiwan is in a very bad neighbourhood. Finland is in a very bad neighbourhood. But none of them have a per GDP defence budget as large as ours. Singapore could cut the defence down by 50% and you wouldn't...

Welfare in Singapore takes all forms. You put up a tax haven for the super duper rich, that is also a form of welfare for them. You say that some males have to defend our island and others don't, that's another form of welfare. You have a select group of corporations, and owing to their cosy...

There is a rationale behind paying the executive branch of government well. There is a lot of corruption that goes on in America because you have senior government officials, they meet lobbyists from rich corporations. The rich corporations say to them, "make this statute into law for me", and...

To be fair: when I said that taxes are made really low for people coming to Singapore, I mean for direct investors or big multinational companies. Obviously foreigners as individuals pay the same income taxes and same COEs as the rest of us.

Yeah. I'm not one of those assholes who absolutely has to have a merc. I've driven a merc, I've driven a nissan. It's not as big a difference as one might think. The only difference is with a merc more people want to suck your dick. I might hold on to that merc if I got it fair and square. But...

Most of the rich people here are second or third generation wealth. They had parents or grandparents who were wealthy, and got them where they were. They're sitting on monopolies and they don't always have to work hard to keep the money flowing in. (Of course there are exceptions.) They're just...