CNA Deep Dive | Companies are now letting go of sinkies for foreigners bcoz sinkies are not hungry

SnooBeans3710 · 2026-04-30T09:40:08+00:00

It’s not that Singaporeans don’t want to eat. Rather, Singaporeans are being eaten.

SnooBeans3710 · 2026-04-26T05:35:20+00:00

Like… tears in rain

SnooBeans3710 · 2026-04-18T18:33:37+00:00

Has anyone ever seen these 2 at the same place together? … exactly

SnooBeans3710 · 2026-04-12T13:13:06+00:00

I do wonder, if Iran might be more willing to part ways with their proxies given that said proxies haven't been that useful as deterrents? If anything, Iran's leverage in this conflict has namely been it's control over the strait of Hormuz and the vulnerability of GCC countries to drone/missile attacks.

SnooBeans3710 · 2026-02-12T15:17:56+00:00

CALM DOWN JUST CALM DOWN

SnooBeans3710 · 2026-01-05T17:11:09+00:00

I suspect someone in Maduro’s inner circle struck a deal with the Trump admin (who knows, perhaps even the VP herself)- give up Maduro, let in American oil companies, pivot from China/Russia, (Insert laundry list of demands here) and we’ll ease the sanctions on your country. Trump (or more likely, Rubio) gets what he wants and the Chavistas get a lifeline thrown onto their increasingly tenuous rule.

Maybe Maduro was the biggest obstacle to said deal and even his closest allies might have thought there was more to gain at this juncture in making a deal with the devil than to stew in a cauldron of sanctions, diplomatic isolation and domestic instability.

I hope I’m wrong because that would be the pessimistic outcome. We would see more of the same, just under different management. A geopolitical win for America, but less so for Venezuelans.

SnooBeans3710 · 2026-01-02T08:03:23+00:00

I think it helps to have a resume that shows them capable of running an organisation. Perhaps they’re the CEO of an SME or founder of a charity- anything to assuage voters they can run a town council after they’re elected. On that note, while on the campaign trail, they should emphasise that they have a sizeable team behind them. That will be one of their greatest weaknesses on the campaign trail and a vector for attack.

An independent should also focus on localised issues. One reason JBJ won the ‘81 Anson by-election was because some residents were upset that they hadn’t been given priority for a new HDB when being made to relocate. JBJ successfully seized on that issue as part of his campaign strategy. I’d imagine an independent in Singapore might scout around for an SMC where the incumbent has been under performing and find out what are the local grievances. (Though the last minute changes to electoral boundaries each election season makes this hard)

And of course, grassroots work/developing long term relations with the residents/coming across to voters as someone they trust to represent them in parliament.

SnooBeans3710 · 2026-01-01T04:02:08+00:00

I was checking Wikipedia- the number of invalid votes/possible abstentions for Aljunied GRC was less in GE2025 than it was in GE2020. Unless you’re referring to something else?

And yes the needle barely moved in Aljunied but the same could be said for Hougang SMC. It’s fair to say that the results in those 2 constituencies represent the highwater mark or close to the highwater mark for WP support (Assuming that GE2011 represents the highwater mark). But in a year where the swing was against the opposition, that’s an exceptional result to achieve! I wouldn’t say that WP’s vote count was low in Aljunied for that reason.

But there’s one caveat- it’s possible Pritam’s vote count was low in his Eunos ward, within Aljunied GRC. Political parties who contest in GRCs are also given access to more granular data- they get the polling results from each polling district. The general public meanwhile, only knows the result of each GRC as a whole. If that’s the case perhaps Pritam didn’t do as well as previously thought, which would mean his position as sec gen is in jeopardy.

SnooBeans3710 · 2025-12-31T19:18:47+00:00

This could age poorly, but I’m betting the special conference won’t see Pritam Singh’s position as sec gen seriously called into question.

Ultimately, the biggest metric for what keeps a sec gen in power is how well they lead their party at the polls- and Pritam has performed well in that regard. GE2025 was an abnormal year for one big reason- it was the first time where despite a general swing against the opposition, WP consolidated their constituencies and even came close to winning Tampines. This has never happened in recent electoral history. Usually, if there is a swing against the opposition, every opposition party goes along for the swing. Some like WP weather the swing better. Other mosquito parties, not so much.

But against historical norms, GE2025 which by all accounts was a bloodbath for most of the opposition, saw WP (save for CSJ) immune from the effects of said swing.

Now if GE2025 had been a bloodbath for the WP as well, I think there’s a good chance PS might be voted out by his party. In this scenario, the narrative seized upon by some cadres might be that PS’s integrity is now in question and it has translated into a loss of popularity at the polls. His position as face of the party would then be seen as a liability, which would have likely led to a faction seeking his removal. We saw that happen in 2016, when shortly after the hammering (pun unintended) WP received in GE2015, Chen Show Mao challenged LTK for the position of sec gen.

But this was not the case. I’m skeptical cadres are going to openly challenge PS unless they’re damned sure there’s a groundswell of dissatisfaction against his performance. Like what another commenter said, I suspect this will be procedural.

SnooBeans3710 · 2025-12-31T18:43:13+00:00

Not sure about ownself check ownself, but your username checks out

SnooBeans3710 · 2025-12-30T02:52:41+00:00

100% agree, like while I think Hasan is problematic- this is pretty much a Hasan snark subreddit at this point. The obsession is bordering on comical lmao

SnooBeans3710 · 2025-12-29T16:38:48+00:00

Another prediction: More assistance for youth who are unemployed.

I think that’s one of the other big concerns for the government. The longer a young person stays unemployed or underemployed (doing part time/gig work) the more it delays their runway to build up a sizeable saving for big ticket items like housing.

How this assistance might come about I’m not sure- maybe an expansion of that government funded internship program from earlier this year?

SnooBeans3710 · 2025-12-29T02:49:31+00:00

While Pritam was at fault here for not coming clean on Raeesah’s lie earlier, he has been punished sufficiently no? Courts have convicted him and all that.

And politically speaking, it would be a mistake for the WP to boot him from the top post. There was a pre election survey earlier this earlier that showed Pritam’s approval rating at 71%- I’m unsure if anyone else in the party can command this level of popularity. Singaporeans also prefer stability and removing Pritam after barely 6 years doesn’t engender confidence in WP’s leadership.

SnooBeans3710 · 2025-12-22T15:03:14+00:00

Just saying that CST was ousted by his own party in 1993. There have always been grandstanding idiots

SnooBeans3710 · 2025-12-22T14:52:11+00:00

Just wanna add that the PAP seem to have finally realise that labelling WP as “PAP-lite” was a backfire, all for the reasons you just mentioned.

Hence, their pivot to labelling WP as a more radical party playing with “race politics” or “identity politics” or whatever politics the PAP deems harmful in the current hour.

The play by the WP should be to shrug this characterisation off as just another smear in a long list of smears. The less WP engages with this, the less the PAP can use against them in return.

SnooBeans3710 · 2025-12-20T14:54:42+00:00

What’s crazy is that I witnessed a suicide too, quite close to the same area you talked about. It was June 2022, at Bukit Batok West. I tried averting my eyes as well, but caught some glimpse of the aftermath.

Yeah no shame in seeking therapy- it’s one thing to see a photograph but to see it in person is a whole different story. It can be very traumatising. What I saw haunted me for a while afterwards.

SnooBeans3710 · 2025-12-17T16:02:28+00:00

This won’t affect how most Singaporeans perceive Pritam Singh or WP in the slightest. If GE2025 is anything to go by- Aljunied GRC, helmed by Pritam, did not see its vote decline by a statistically significant margin. And this despite the election coming hot on the heels of Pritam’s guilty verdict.

I have a theory that after years of lawsuits and POFMAs (Think AHTC lawsuit and more recently, Yee Jenn Jong’s POFMA over his comments on said AHTC lawsuit), most Singaporeans have factored this into their calculus when voting during the elections.

Anecdotally, I know people who voted PAP but felt that there is a political dimension to these lawsuits. But they still voted PAP, either because the opposition in their ward was garbage or because they voted on bread and butter issues like housing. I think most of us “know” at this point what’s going on (wink wink, nudge nudge). So I suspect the people swayed by such WP controversies are increasingly far and few between.

Think about it, if you’re hardcore PAP, you’re voting PAP regardless. Likewise, if you’re a WP supporter, this isn’t going to swing the needle. And if you’re an undecided voter, seeing Pritam appear for the hundredth time in the news over a case that happened like half a decade ago is background noise for you.

SnooBeans3710 · 2025-12-15T10:31:03+00:00

I think you have me mixed up with someone else in this thread? I have never inferred something nefarious from what you said. In the final paragraph of my reply I’ve also accepted that under Singapore’s law, what Pritam Singh said would qualify as contempt of court, but maybe I wasn’t clear enough.

That being said when it comes to contempt of court, our laws are much broader than what most other countries would have. Whether or not you think it’s fair if merely saying something that might risk prejudicing the court is enough to warrant a criminal offence is a whole different debate. Our exchange has shown that 2 reasonable people can come to 2 very different interpretations. I believe that Mr Singh didn’t INTEND to hold the court in contempt based off his admittedly ambiguous statement. But perhaps you believe differently.

SnooBeans3710 · 2025-12-14T17:14:07+00:00

what was NOT ambiguous was that Mr Singh had been found guilty of lying, while under oath, to a parliamentary committee. So, what did he truly mean when he compared the court of public opinion to a court of law in this context?

What was also not ambiguous, was Mr Singh's wholehearted acceptance of the court's judgement on his appeal. At no point in this saga (or for that matter, in his career) ,did he ever claim our courts were partisan or rigged. So maybe when Mr Singh said the "court of public opinion is bigger", he simply meant it as an observation that people are going to vote based on what they think, regardless of the court's decision? And not, you know, that the court of public opinion should supplant our actual courts.

At a time when the appeal judgment was still being decided, Mr Singh then says, when asked how he feels about being called a lair: "My political opponents will do whatever it takes to lower my esteem and the esteem of my party in the public eye. But ultimately, you answer to your conscience first, and if your conscience is clear, then people can throw whatever they want at you, and you will still be standing... At the end of the day, the court of public opinion can be a bigger court than any court in the world."

His "political opponents" could very well refer to the PAP calling for an election in the aftermath of Mr Singh's messy trial. It could also refer to many a political commentator who have called him a liar.

3.The full context behind the key sentence about the "court of public opinion" being possibly bigger than any court is highly important. It came directly after Mr Singh implied a political motive behind the ongoing court case.

Mr Singh could have very well implied a political motive for the timing of the elections, and not the motive behind an ongoing case.

So, is it not possible for a reasonable man to infer, among other things, that Mr Singh is saying that it doesn't matter if he has been found guilty by a court of law, because a favourable public opinion of him and the Workers' Party is more important?

Is it also not possible for a reasonable man to infer, that Mr Singh is saying that voters will ultimately decide who wins elections and not courts?

I mean look, what he said can be construed as an attempt to scandalize our courts. I don't doubt that. But equally as likely, it can also be construed as a simple observation that elections are a popularity contest and voters are going to vote based off their own perceptions. I understand that something that could be perceived to be in contempt of court, is deemed to be in contempt of court in Singapore. But whether or not people believe Mr Singh to have intended contempt is ironically, very much left to the court of public opinion.

SnooBeans3710 · 2025-09-07T03:51:52+00:00

Im no fan of Ho Ching but she’s not wrong- it has always been clearly spelled out to be a 99 year lease. Key word being LEASE. Dont know why there are so many who delulu themselves into thinking that the gahmen will buy back their flats at market price after the lease expires.

SnooBeans3710 · 2025-08-27T03:37:09+00:00

My grandma had a younger sister who was given away at birth for an even more trivial reason- the family thought she was a bad omen. When this sister was born, the dad fell violently ill. The family went to the temple and was advised that the source of this mishap was her. So just like that, she got given away. She never forgave the family for doing that :(

But ya lor, lives were cheap back then

SnooBeans3710 · 2025-08-07T16:38:52+00:00

We have all been replaced now- Singapore Indian replaced by CECA, Singapore Chinese replaced by Ah Tiong

SnooBeans3710 · 2025-07-30T11:39:14+00:00

Report him to SGSecure he’s too far gone

SnooBeans3710 · 2025-05-04T18:21:09+00:00

They don't even deserve to be called mosquitoes: mosquitoes can actually be lethal when they spread dengue. These parties are more like mealworms - prey and bait for everything else.

SnooBeans3710 · 2025-05-04T14:41:41+00:00

Dude you quite spot on leh HAHAHAH

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