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You are confused. The people who don't care about whether or not he's gay will not also care whether he hides it from them, because they know that it affects absolutely nothing. They will understand why he wants to keep it a secret. And the reason why he wants to keep it a secret are the other...

No, my point was not that Chee Soon Juan deserved "credit" for a culture where more people protest. There are all sorts of reasons why people protest more today. One of them is the social forces unleashed by the internet. Karl Marx said more than 100 years ago that when the factory workers...

Let's not get our dates confused. The first elections of the internet era was 1997. By 2001, this forum was already quite active, in case your memory isn't that long ago. 2006 was the elections of the blog, when the internet started affecting the elections in a big way. Glenda Han made her debut...

Well you've answered your own question. It's not a very high post for somebody her age, who will be 30 when the next election comes. That was around the age when LKY started leading the PAP. Then at 36 he became chief minister and at 42, PM of independent Singapore. Everybody who talks about...

It's safe to say that in March 2011, nobody - from RP or NSP and least of her Nicole herself - knew that Nicole Seah was going to be such a phenomenon. It is very difficult to grow up in public. It's better for you to stand on a smaller platform for a while, and sit and observe how things really...

The way that doctors are these days - you think it's possible for people to do grassroots all the time and still keep up with your doctor work? Maybe Koh Poh Koon can do it, but to do opposition grassroots at a level which is required from an opposition party member, that's going to be tough.

Well we can agree that it is about her choice of words. Meltdown doesn't mean melt down. Literally it means that something has gone wrong with a nuclear power plant. When it is used on a human being it means that a person has a nervous breakdown. She is a popular person. Girls can relate to...

OK, so you got a system which is ostensibly cheap. And then the govt and the ppl like it. Who gets caught in the middle? The healthcare workers, the doctors and the nurses. No wonder there are so many medical doctors in the opposition.

Limpeh wrote all that for the benefit of people who can read. People who know that m-e-l-t-d-o-w-n spells meltdown. It wasn't for you. https://www.facebook.com/nicoleseahnsp/posts/583367735067635 In other news, thank goodness Nicole Seah was the target of a vilification campaign. Now...

I don't agree with so much of what LeongSam wrote, and you know, I know that he doesn't believe it either. But this is the truth. She needs to get her ass kicked. Today a lot of people will be nice to her, asking her to be strong, and everything sounds good now. In 2016, the PAP candidate...

Well in the US the standards for being able to conduct yourself are higher. But the standards for being able to run your govt are lower. If in Singapore you had a health care website operating the way that it operated in the US, the minister of health would have been - well not fired but rotated...

Well guys, the main story here isn't GMS. The main story is Nicole Seah describing her meltdown in public. Why the fuck is she doing that? She is killing her political career. She may be a general in NSP instead of a foot soldier in WP. At the very least she is a colonel. But being a colonel...

The link is not between human rights and bread and butter issues. The link is between knowledge and bread and butter issues. You can give the sinkies the rights and will they figure out themselves how the economy works? Will they figure out why the cost of living is rising so high? Do they...

The extent of Goh Meng Seng's advice would be to do nothing in order to avoid stepping on the toes of the useless old guard. It's a good thing that Nicole didn't heed that. Or rather, she just did what she wants. Tin Pei Ling has not done wonders. All she had to do was to stop being an idiot...

There you go - you said it all. Nicole Seah fails to win a seat - she goes back, redoubles efforts, tries to make herself and her party more electable for 2016. Koh Poh Koon goes back to life as usual. A seat in parliament was just an ECA to him anyway.

In general that's the problem with the run-up to GE 2016. The PAP has to work hard, and the opposition has to work hard. But it is easier to work hard when you're drawing a fat salary at the same time simply because you're in office. In football, newly promoted clubs have this thing called the...

Tin Pei Ling had the whole machinery of the PAP behind her. She probably received plenty of advice and was rightfully told to keep her head down, keep a low profile, shut the fuck up and just walk the ground. During the GE 2011 run up, Tin Pei Ling did not deal with it well at all. She made a...

There are certain things which have changed my mind about how things are. First, I've learnt that Nicole Seah actually wrote a blog post which is even more remarkable than what Goh Meng Seng wrote: https://www.facebook.com/sheerpoultry/posts/413723152087388 That means Goh Meng Seng is...

So this thing about challenging for one good GRC. Does it really work? Why not a straight fight in one of the SMCs where the incumbent is not the strongest?

You have great admiration for his analytical abilities or you have great admiration for the way he just barges into any topic at all and shoot from the hip? If it's the second one I also have great admiration for him.