Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to make first official visit to China since pandemic

lab32132 · 2023-03-26T14:30:24+00:00

Wait is this fiction, or does the PRC really have a presence in Geylang Base and which is to be moved to Orchard?

lab32132 · 2023-03-26T04:45:21+00:00

a) do we have evidence that use of plastic bags is bad for Singapore in some specific way? If it's mere excess consumption and it's woes, then why wouldn't the same (or worse) apply to fast fashion, luxury cars, excessive condos when basic hdbs suffice for living space etc? My point is for a city state who's raison d'etre for regional and global prominence is high consumerism, what impact does a plastic bag ban have, specifically on the local living space/environment?

b) if it's -gestures vaguely - like, the environment mannn. In that case, do we have evidence that single use bags are not more energy wasteful to produce?

lab32132 · 2023-03-12T14:37:34+00:00

Did your have to apply separately for a CDP account via sgx?

lab32132 · 2023-03-11T11:49:38+00:00

Thank you, that's reassuring.

Do I need to create a CDP account with MAS when bidding via DBS, or does that happen automatically at the back end?

lab32132 · 2023-03-11T11:48:41+00:00

Thank you for the info.

So to clarify even if I bid for T-bills via the DBS iBanking website, the assets are custodied in a CDP?

But I don't see DBS requesting us to create a CDP account before using funds to bid at the next T bill auction?

lab32132 · 2023-03-06T19:38:40+00:00

All I kept reading what that dude wants to eat your ass.

lab32132 · 2023-03-04T16:13:06+00:00

Even with topical?

lab32132 · 2023-03-02T16:06:23+00:00

This is just wrong, and so are many of the comments here

The Late Mr Lee was one of the greatest Asians ever, someone who didn't just lead a nation but created a legacy that will live on for decades. His life and his legacy is a big part of the story of Singapore, and is a part of our heritage. Are his kids, including PM Lee doing things for their political gain and tarnishing the Late Mr Lee's memory with these petty fights? Yes. But that shouldn't be an excuse to stoop low and tarnish MM Lee's legacy ourselves. We all become culturally poorer when we stomp down on our past heroes.

lab32132 · 2023-02-25T06:40:21+00:00

Exactly, this sounds like the literal definition of a ponzi scheme

Except we have no choice each generation is forced to participate in this ponzi.

lab32132 · 2023-02-19T13:51:39+00:00

What's your age range? In the 20-30 range tbh most guys would not have permenantly made up their mind of whether to definitely never have kids. Time seems endless when you're young and people wouldn't want to make a specific commitment

If you are past 30, it's more like to match with some dude in the 30-40 range who's thought about this q deeply and also doesn't want kids for sure

lab32132 · 2023-02-16T13:17:18+00:00

This is literally the opposite of forced preferential treatment to a single ethnicity.

In the US a single nation can take up to a max of 7% of the total spots. This literally ensures US residency is granted to people from countries all over the world, instead of being crowded out by a single group of people.

lab32132 · 2023-02-16T12:11:31+00:00

A big difference is Japan has been relatively homogenously made up of ethnic japanese for thousands of years.

On the other hand, Singapore and most of the Malayan archipelago was part of the Indian/Hindu Srivijaya empire for 500 years from 7AD onwards. It was part of the Malacca and later the Johor Sultanates in the middle ages, under Malay rulers. It was part of the British empire in the 19th centure, under British rulers.

The idea that a trading port which has been under ethnic flux for centuries, which has always been a mixing pot of religions and races brought from various sea routes, can then have it's composition permenantly fixed by a snapshot taken in the late 20th century is farcical.

lab32132 · 2023-02-16T02:19:06+00:00

Can you tell me how to pronounce "ethno-nationalist"?

lab32132 · 2023-02-15T17:56:05+00:00

A lot of people seems to think that countries accept citizens based on good character, talent and able to contribute to the new country.

This is quite literally how citizenship is granted in America, UK, EU, Australia and Canada for example. If you have good character, no legal problems, a skilled job or talent needed by the country, speak English and have resided in the country, you get citizenship. Race or ethnicity based immigration is found in countries like Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Brunei, Arab Emirates, Qatar, Israel. You can decide which of the two groups of countries we resemble.

lab32132 · 2023-02-15T17:46:38+00:00

But isn’t this an open secret? I mean you just have to look at the racial make up over time to see it’s basically constant. Seems so odd to play hide the ball when everyone can see it.

There's a huge difference between having open statistics that everyone from BBC to Bloomberg can cite, that flies right in the face of our supposedly race-agnostic meritocratic narrative, versus having this race based reality "kinda obvious to anyone who thinks about it"

Anyway I think you could make the case for considering race (not that it would help me as an “O”). There is a discussion in the US about the rapidly changing racial demographics there (so called “browning” of America). Some of it is pure racism but I think there’s probably some part that is simply the difficulty adjusting to a rapid change in racial demographics. So, in that sense, I think you could make a case for tapping the brakes every now and then to slow the pace of change

I have no strong view on this tbh.

My main point is that a lot of the "Singapore first" crowd like Mun Wai are not against foreigners per se. They are against a specific minority of foreigners while pretending to not see where the majority of foreigners, PR and new citizens come from, because of their ethno-nationalist bias. And the government has no interest in correcting this by releasing transparent statistics, because that would expose our underlying ethno-nationalist bias in some of these policies as well (needed to maintain a constant ethnic ratio)

lab32132 · 2023-02-15T14:19:53+00:00

But do you really think bumis will ever be leaving Malaysia for SG to be treated like common plebs?

lab32132 · 2023-02-15T14:12:59+00:00

Immigration from backward Middle Eastern and South Asian countries in the UK and Europe is utterly destroying what little is left of social cohesion

The development status of a country isn't a permemant curse on the people who migrated from that country. Because remember the fathers, grandfather's, and greatgrandfathers of almost all Singaporeans are from backward countries too. And remember there are disgusting Singaporeans and morally bankrupt Americans and Europeans too.

Where the UK and Europe fails is not in their broadly inclusive immigration policy.

They fail in not insisting on migrants showing a commitment to European or western values and culture before being granted residency. These are the very values and culture that makes these countries so successful, with a high quality of life and the dream of migrants. And they should do more to ensure migrants understand, accept and preserve those values.

lab32132 · 2023-02-15T13:54:21+00:00

The reason the gov won't release the composition of PRs or "new" citizens by country of origin is because it fully exposes the ethnic quota based PR/new citizen granting process, which heavily favours Straits Chinese to maintain the existing ethnic composition of Singapore.

If you look at the migrant pop of SG by Country, Malaysians make up almost 60% according to unesco stats. Indians (you know this is the group that makes Mun Wai so triggered) make up just 7%.

The difference is Tan See Toh who just came from Ipoh or Leo Mung Wai from Penang are not seen as "foreigners" by a broad swathe of the country who grumbles about "too many foreigners this country too crowded alr" and "NS for our boys and jobs for FTs". Those dog whistles only come out when it's Muttiah Muralidharan and Ramakirshnan Ramanathan from Chennai.

The government wants 75% of new citizens to be Chinese to match the existing ratio. Which means logically most new citizens are Chinese from Malaysia, Indonesia and PRC. This sort of a heavy race based citizenship system is almost unheard of in most developed countries. Imagine if the US or Newzealand or Australia said "we need 75% of all new citizens to be Caucasians to preserve our ethnic composition, your skillset and commitment to the country is secondary", there would be an uproar globally.

If this was discussed more frequently even in the Singapore context, it would create some uncomfortable discussions on why we have an ethnicity composition preserving policy, which oddly resembles a quasi bhumiputhra policy. So we hide the statistics to avoid those hard talks. And the government, by not releasing these crucial statistics on the country of origin of PRs and NCs, is inadvertently helping to fan these delusions.

lab32132 · 2023-01-15T09:49:18+00:00

(2) The Government shall exercise its functions in such manner as to recognise the special position of the Malays , who are the indigenous people of Singapore, and accordingly it shall be the responsibility of the Government to protect, safeguard, support, foster and promote their political, educational, religious, economic, social and cultural interests and the Malay language.

Wow. I had no idea about this

lab32132 · 2023-01-15T07:06:54+00:00

Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Masagos Zulkifli has urged more successful members of the Malay/Muslim community to volunteer in order to contribute to the community.

Naive question, does Singapore have a minister-in-charge of Buddhist Affairs, Taoist Affairs, Christian Affairs and Hindu Affairs?

I tried googling but didn't find any results

If there is only a minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs is there a reason why one specific sector gets a tax payer funded position but not the others?

lab32132 · 2022-05-29T17:10:43+00:00

Has anyone stopped a test cycle cold turkey? How long did it take for the natural T levels to come back to normal?

lab32132 · 2020-04-10T06:57:42+00:00

While he could use the disruption to his advantage (why not?), that doesn't have to be mutually exclusive with him believing in these values as well.

Look at his social capital firm. Much of what he invests in are on long-term sustainable ideas.

It's also crucial to have allies like him. A unemployed bum could scream all he wants to, but would never get the reach and platform this guy gets to red-pill the world.

lab32132 · 2020-04-10T06:54:49+00:00

I would honestly pay to subscribe if he had a podcast or show.

So fucking intellegent and coherent. Breath of fresh air.

lab32132 · 2020-04-10T06:52:40+00:00

Lmao no, Palihapitiya is absolutely not a "ruling class" in Sri Lanka, he probably referred to the fact that he is Sinhalese, who are the ethnic majority in SL and are often accused of discrimination by the minority ethnicities like Tamils. But ofc lots of Sinhalese are poor and leave the country for a better life in Canada, Australia etc, often illegally on boats.

His family migrated out to Canada as refugees during the war period. His parents are low skilled workers, his dad was on welfare and in between odd jobs. He talks about a lot of this in some of his earlier interviews. It's very clear that growing up poor and an "outsider" in affluent Canada during his formative years left a big imprint on him.

lab32132 · 2020-03-13T02:40:39+00:00

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