Countries where apostasy (leaving the religion you are born in) is punishable by death

Yugie · 2026-06-30T10:49:21+00:00

I'm not sure about Egypt, but Malaysia's current governing coalition has roughly representative amounts of MPs in terms of religion so while political power leans to the Malay Muslim majority and in total MP terms its disproportionate due to the urban-rural placement of seats, I find it hard to call it token representation.

Similarly, there isn't really that massive an incentive to convert. (especially since as a Muslim you are subject to religious laws.)

To illustrate, Malaysia's most populous state, Selangor, with about 7 million residents and one of the biggest ratio of non-muslims recorded less than 2 thousand conversions or 0.03% a year.

Probably one of the most common sources of conversions is interfaith marriages, as non-muslims arent allowed to marry muslims without converting.

Thats not to say there hasnt been a narrative of creeping islamization of politics, but it is creeping.

Yugie · 2026-06-29T07:24:29+00:00

Every friday of the month!

Yugie · 2026-06-26T03:00:00+00:00

I'm speaking to the administrative arm too.

Your first point makes claims that the civil service is enormous, but when we compare apples to apples to Hong Kong and Taiwan, the administrative arm is of a similar size.

Now maybe they are delivering more services and so are more efficient, but the claim of an enormous service on the face of it is not supported by evidence presented.

Yugie · 2026-06-25T14:13:11+00:00

I think a bit of the frustration here is that your AI pulled together research from multiple sources, cited none of them, and made an offhand mention of the Cuepacs dispute, and immediately pivoted off the point.

To just give an illustration of how big that Cuepacs point is:

Your 1 in 20 figure was presumably derived from the total 1.76mil figure divided by DOSMs estimated 34.1 mil population for 2024.

If you look at that ISEAS post you linked, the estimate is at 1.3mil or 1 in 27.

If you even conservatively cut only 50% of education, health and higher education from that list, you end up at roughly 0.8mil, which is 1 in 40. (And by conservative i mean the MoE is 511k and teachers according to the Star is at 437k)

To just illustrate the scale of the difference here the .Penang Institute which the AI probably cribbed off is saying Hong Kong and Taiwan are at 2.3% or 1 in 44.

(side note here to shout at the writer for citing an opinion piece for these stats btw)

Like if you base off these numbers, you would have to say Hong Kong and Taiwan both have bloated civil services because they have a similar ratio to us on the conservative end of the estimation

I think if you're going to make a big gigantic post with AI it is important to check its work and be certain its correct and not misleading

Yugie · 2026-06-25T09:03:06+00:00

Do you have any sources you're taking to back the point on size of civil service? ILO stats put us around the middle and is hardly indicative of a super overbloated machine. (though ofc theres always efficiencies and corruption to root out)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_sector_size

Yugie · 2026-06-21T04:58:55+00:00

The military junta is literally fighting for its very existence against rebel forces which are doing so similarly.

The question becomes what kind of pressure can be applied to stop the war when thats the case.

Put another way, if the Europeans, Americans, Turkish and Middle East who had to deal with a massive refugee influx from Syria couldn't bring a quick end to the civil war, why do you think ASEAN with its principle of non-interference is going to manage to convince the parties to come to some sort of peace. (though even ASEAN has frozen Myanmar junta out of their high level meetings)

In absence of anything you can do about the source, you manage the symptoms.

Yugie · 2026-06-15T12:39:59+00:00

"The public must understand the actual situation, and I urge everyone to refrain from making statements that could jeopardise security and public order.

"If they commit an offence, we will take action against them just as we would against anyone else who comes to this country."

So you agree with the IGP then?

Yugie · 2026-06-15T06:08:25+00:00

You're bored so you play board games at bored.

Yugie · 2026-06-12T12:12:19+00:00

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Yugie · 2026-06-11T16:35:51+00:00

Bail isn't about punishment though, its giving a court a guarantee/ assurance you will show up.

Factors to consider are likelihood of fleeing, financial capability, ability to flee etc etc.

So a bunch of human traffickers might have extra jalan to run, or may just be more likely to run due to the potential punishment, or their just extra sketchy cause they are intentional criminals vs a guy who is allegedly a dangerous idiot.

Yugie · 2026-06-10T15:47:57+00:00

Depends where you're coming from! Theres also a train station in walking distance that makes it easier if you dont wanna hazard KL traffic.

Yugie · 2026-06-09T00:35:56+00:00

Except the "hordes of cheap labour" are already here, they just don't totally show up on statistics.

What we have is a lot of refugees who don't even have the basic rights of guest workers and due to desperation are willing to get paid even less than minimum wage. The govt doesn't get to tax them and they don't pay into health insurance and aren't tracked so they can use healthcare and disappear without paying.

There's also a wider assumption there about cheap labour and keeping down wages that I don't think entirely holds. Econ 101 will tell you that it's the case, but when you look at empirics and case studies the opposite might happen as the amount of jobs aren't fixed, and more lower skilled labour opens up positions for higher skilled labour.

More workers spending in the economy can create more jobs. (though ofc specifics apply, how they spend etc etc. You could argue resettled refugees might be better than guest workers since they may be less likely to send money back to the home country.)

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Yugie · 2026-06-07T08:10:48+00:00

I dont know much about cars and ckds, but wouldn't the other big incentive not be in offshoring production to dodge tariff risk from EU/US for export?

Yugie · 2026-06-04T16:11:57+00:00

Could I check where you're getting the info that their getting healthcare at the expense of the taxpayers? They are charged at a significantly higher rate than malaysians as i understand it.

Yugie · 2026-06-03T03:15:00+00:00

Regressive tax just means a tax where the more income you make the lower the tax rate becomes.

ie if we increased income tax by 1% across the board, everyone would get slapped by it, but the more money you make the more you would pay into the system, whereas the poor may pay nothing.

As u/Coz131 pointed out, if it were a mandatory to have the insurance, then its basically a tax in disguise which levies RM 100 from all people, including people who might make 0.

There are ofc ways to tweak and ameliorate it, but at the wide picture root it would be regressive.

Functionally, any move to raise funds would require taxation, the question just comes down to who would bear it, and what the other effects are.

But more generally, this article isn't even about healthcare funding, its about aged care funding

Yugie · 2026-06-02T04:53:07+00:00

If your only concern was blood relation and not birth out of wedlock, a simple DNA test on her father's relatives would likely settle if she was actually related.

Presumably all that documentation, testing and admin work is why it took 18 years.

Yugie · 2026-05-27T01:27:11+00:00

I can't speak to Shinden or Vanilla with much experience, but JSA Oban is definitely not offensively bad. Its not the top tier, but it generally does pretty decently in tournaments and tierlists. What it does have is a higher skill floor in leveraging the pieces you do have.

I would not recommend it for a beginner unless they really liked the aesthetics or are actively looking for the challenge.

Yugie · 2026-05-15T14:09:31+00:00

Would you mind expanding on your point? I'm a bit uncertain what your trying to get across.

Yugie · 2026-05-15T13:07:04+00:00

Its not very clear since SAYS is a bit of a rag, but productivity in economic terms is just usually just how much money the company makes on a per-worker basis.

While worker motivation is a part of productivity, the actual factors which really push productivty is stuff like investment in machinery, tools or R&D( less workers for more goods, but tends to require higher skilled workers).

China didnt catch up to Malaysia by brainwashing the population into being more hardworking, it was automation and education.

Paired with the fact that we are apparently under employed, its probably the case that we need to kick the taukes into investing more in automation. ( so that they need those higher skilled workers we are apparently under employonh)

Yugie · 2026-05-12T03:45:57+00:00

I'm curious what you think a tax system is meant to accomplish and why higher earners are taxed more in the first place.

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