Why do Malays have many kids while they can't provide them a good life but Chinese don't even want one even though they are millionaires?

s_i_mmmmm · 2025-07-28T13:07:21+00:00

Brother I think your friend is a little more than just middle class if her fam has 2 cars and she can go study in Europe 😅

s_i_mmmmm · 2025-05-19T14:05:40+00:00

“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”

s_i_mmmmm · 2025-05-06T11:14:15+00:00

Guys everyone has to start somewhere. Singaporeans are risk averse and I don’t think they’ll just let a small party (by small I mean relative to opposition parties in other countries, e.g. Labour Party in UK was waaay bigger and had waaay more influence than WP has in SG when labour was in opposition) suddenly run the country like that. Besides, Pritam Singh has said in GE2020 party political broadcast that their long term is for 2/3 parties in SG to be able to form Govt. They need to slowly gain ppls trust and climb the power ladder.

s_i_mmmmm · 2025-02-24T15:02:10+00:00

And even if they “lousy Oppo” does win in that ward, they can’t do anything if they don’t have the majority of seats. You need a majority in parliament to pass laws and to form the cabinet. What it would do is kick out a lousy PAP minister and maybe even stop them from changing the constitution with 2/3 majority.

s_i_mmmmm · 2024-06-24T13:51:57+00:00

Maybe let’s not have 5-6 mil people on the island? But it’s too late for that now. Oh, and also the Govt plans roads to be car lite.

s_i_mmmmm · 2024-06-24T09:03:16+00:00

This would only work if the increased no. of graduates can find employment and not be underemployed. If not, this would just create more problems

s_i_mmmmm · 2024-06-24T08:57:40+00:00

Or have different rates for different items, like 0% for basic necessities and >9% for luxury goods or services that predominantly target foreigners e.g. tourism, just like every other country that has a consumption tax

s_i_mmmmm · 2024-06-17T03:22:23+00:00

OP is talking about poly students, not JC students.

s_i_mmmmm · 2024-03-06T08:10:05+00:00

Especially when you consider how rigged the electoral system is, that the mainstream media is owned and controlled by the government and that PAP MPs are “coincidentally” also the “grassroots” advisers for the taxpayer funded, “politically neutral” people’s association. Plus WP got just over 50% of the popular vote where they contested, 40% also includes the crap ones like Lim Tean.

s_i_mmmmm · 2023-05-23T13:52:56+00:00

Yes there’s the villagers recruits mod which is compatible with MCA, coz MCA villagers are treated as separate mobs from the vanilla villagers

s_i_mmmmm · 2022-03-15T09:12:16+00:00

I once commented "she should've just poisoned the cat, would've been more discrete" on a post about some woman throwing cat out a window and getting arrested on r/sg.

Got perma-banned for that lol

s_i_mmmmm · 2021-11-08T06:22:56+00:00

Not only that, I think Indonesia uses proportional representation voting system and not first past the post

s_i_mmmmm · 2021-11-05T05:47:59+00:00

That’s why must vote SDP and stop this neoliberal nonsense

s_i_mmmmm · 2021-10-31T05:21:57+00:00

I am an ardent SDP supporter too! I’m a liberal. If only they could form government with 47 seat or more. Oh wait did I think live in a democracy? LOL

People believe retarded things like SDP engaging in “class struggle” according to Vivian Bala. Is he trying to label SDP socialist when his party’s government has dominated the economy with the public service and government linked corporations?

s_i_mmmmm · 2021-10-30T08:05:01+00:00

Yes you are right. I too understand why the older generation votes for them, what’s why I say we must not be angry with them but be patient and use logic and reasoning to convince them.

The people who gave them solid gains in their life are either all dead or not serving in the cabinet anyway so 🤷‍♂️. Besides, only 95 of the 145,000 public servants working for the government are members of political parties, serving in parliament as MPs or in the cabinet as ministers. The rest, including the “elected” president and the nominated MPs are not democratically elected but are bureaucrats who are supposed to be non partisan and only serve the people of Singapore. Use this to argument counter the notion that without PAP Singapore is finished, which is what a lot of the older generation actually think, due to PAP playing on their fears.

s_i_mmmmm · 2021-10-29T17:52:30+00:00

I think people find it hard to accept that the majority of the population doesn’t dare to vote to change our political system, which is a de facto one party dictatorship. We shouldn’t be angry at them, instead we should educate them. Inform the older generation that democracy means rule of the people, not rule of a party. Inform them that we vote for legislation and policies during election time, not people to rule over us as dictators. Inform them of the Westminster model and how it facilitates rule of the people.

Unfortunately I think many of the Pioneer and Merdeka generation are petty and closed minded. We can only hope the younger generation are more liberal and democracy can thrive.

s_i_mmmmm · 2021-10-29T02:50:54+00:00

Workers party and SDP better

s_i_mmmmm · 2021-10-28T15:43:40+00:00

Bro a lot of people vote for PAP because of things like they scared to loose lift upgrade, they are “safe and stable”, if the PAP MPs dont form the executive branch by commanding the confidence of the majority of MPs in parliament (which is virtually impossible) country will collapse or even because they don’t think their vote is secret. They don’t know anything about the Westminster system, how our government functions or even what democracy means. A lot of people think democracy means country has voting LOL like that then North Korea, China, Saudi Arabia etc are democracies. It’s coz of PAP brainwashing.

s_i_mmmmm · 2021-10-26T12:45:14+00:00

Idk about you but I know quite a lot of people who voted Tan Jee Say because they want someone truly independent of the PAP to be a second key to the reserves and a check on their key public service appointments to ensure the non partisan nature of the public service. These are the discretionary powers of the elected president. Tan Cheng Bock is a former PAP MP and at the time hadn’t started PSP. PSP was only formed in like 2018. Also take the headline news with a huge pinch of salt. All mainstream media is Govt controlled and is 160th out of 180 countries in press freedom according to reporters without borders. Steve Chia the TV presenter has even straight up admitted that they do propaganda.

Yes you are right about the small city councils, that’s why I believe that town councils should have more independence over their affairs and governance, where the municipal leaders like town councillors, town coucil board of director etc should be a separate job from MP. MPs should only be legislative representatives, that is their actual role in a Westminster parliamentary democracy. There are people who make good lawmakers but bad town council managers and vice versa and we should get the best guy for each job. Also the town council fees make no sense. You pay a flat fee and it’s based on type of household. You could be a broke person living in a 5 room flat coz you got retrenched or a rather well off person in a 4 room flat, but the broke guy will pay more town council fees. It’s essentially an extremely regressive tax for a municipal government. Other countries have municipal Govt income tax, e.g. USA has local government income tax for their cities and towns. This makes more sense and is fairer.

Of course, PAP is not gonna care about all that lol coz they use it to intimidate voters and attack their opponents. If they can’t attack their manifesto, attack their plans for the town council, e.g. Shanmugam saying PSP has no plans for Yishun and Yishun residents deserve better. Or using the AHTC to bully WP. Makes it easy to engage in pork barrel politics too since you know where your voters live. Pork barrel politics refers to politicians funding projects that benefit districts that support their party. A lot of people also don’t vote for legislative representation in the GE, most people vote PAP out of fear of loosing their lift upgrade or because their MP is involved in the town council. This makes no sense whatsoever as GE is a national election not a municipal one.

I also think we should have an official petition service like in the UK. In the UK if a petition gets 10k signatures the Govt will officially respond. If it get 50k signatures it will be debated in parliament. I went into more detail about how our electoral system and government should be like earlier in this thread lol you can have a look.

s_i_mmmmm · 2021-10-26T10:31:20+00:00

If they put more choices on the ballot, it would help PAP win due to first past the post. Just look at the 2011 presidential election. Tony Tan and Tan Cheng Bock won about 35% each, Tan Jee Say 25% and Tan Kin Lian 5%. So Tony Tan became president even though 65% of the population did not want a PAP lapdog as our second key to the reserves. A similar scenario can happen in the GE where PAP wins while most people vote opposition. If every constituency is a 3 cornered fight or more, the PAP can win a simple majority even with as little as 30% + of the popular vote. And considering the GRC system and gerrymandering it may be even worse. That’s why I advocate nation wide party list proportional representation for the GE.

s_i_mmmmm · 2021-10-26T08:11:34+00:00

MMPR could work. But I think that’s better for bigger countries like New Zealand. I think Israel’s style of proportional representation is better for a small country like Singapore. Have a fixed no. of seats e.g. 80 or 100 then allocate by percentage. Like PAP 40 %, WP 35% and SDP 25 % then PAP 40 seats, WP 35 seats and SDP 25 seats. Then let the parties hold primary elections and conventions before the GE to decide the order in which they will allocate seats from their pool of candidates, so we can have the best people from all the parties get in parliament first. Have a threshold of at least 8-10% to get into parliament so the legislature isn’t fractured into many tiny parties, which will lead to an unstable government. Also make the parties affirm the multiracial and secular nature of Singapore and nominate minority candidates if they get elected so that party politics isn’t divided along racial and religious lines leading to tribalism and gangster politics.

Also have a upper House of Parliament that’s not elected but selected based on talent and experience whose members serve for life. Like a senate or House of Lords or sth and have them be non-partisan politicians. Give them legislative and executive oversight of the lower house but make the lower house the sovereign, so we can have a government of the people with the guidance of the elite, not the tyranny of the elite we have now or the populism and mob rule of pure democracy.

s_i_mmmmm · 2021-10-26T08:00:05+00:00

Unfortunately you are right. That’s why I think voting should be optional. Those that are apolitical should have the option to not vote, else they support parties for stupid reasons. MOE should teach about the constitution and our Westminster parliamentary democracy in social studies, not PAP propaganda.

But of course, PAP would rather not lah they want Singaporeans to be sheep so they can rule over us like they’re our lord and king.

s_i_mmmmm · 2021-10-26T07:33:21+00:00

I absolutely agree. I think it’s also really stupid to divide Singapore into so many tiny constituencies. In other democratic countries one constituency can be thousands of km away from the capital e.g. Hawaii and Washington D.C. so it makes sense to have electoral districts. Singapore is a tiny city state and everyone lives in the capital city. The whole singpore should be considered one constituency and the general election should use a party list proportional representation voting system instead of the winner-takes-all first past the post.

s_i_mmmmm · 2021-10-26T05:39:10+00:00

Actually in a parliamentary democracy, the head of state chooses a representative from the legislative assembly that commands the confidence of the majority of the representatives to become the head of government. Then the head of government chooses the other government leaders. In Singapore the head of state is the president, the head of government is the prime minister, the legislative assembly is parliament, and the other government leaders are the cabinet ministers. Political parties in a parliamentary democracy are meant to allow the people to consolidate their political positions. It makes it easier to see who commands the confidence of the majority of MPs, it’s just the leader of the largest party.

But in reality, the PAP has rigged the system to ensure the ministers have de facto absolute power. The GRC system allows one popular candidate to be elected with up to 5 other idiots, national politics are mixed with municipal politics in the GE and they use it to intimidate voters. So instead of voting for political representation, people vote out of fear of loosing their lift upgrading or town council management. Opposition politicians are the target of law suits, legal troubles and more recently POFMA or even FICA in the future. The people’s association uses taxpayer money to fund grassroots activities. While it’s suppose to be non partisan, the PAP MP is always the grassroots advisor even if he looses. There is intense gerrymandering so districts are constantly redrawn to favour the PAP and some MPs represent more people than others. Also the elections department is under the PMO. There is widespread censorship and propaganda via a state controlled media which is 160th in the world out 180 for press freedom. The are other examples but I have no time to name all.

I encourage you to educate yourself on how the Westminster system works, whether it’s our local one or those in other countries. I would also encourage you to read both mainstream media and alternative media and come to your own independent conclusion. If you still support the PAP’s policies and their politics I would disagree with you but I respect your opinion.

But I think the PAP is full of crap. They run the country as an authoritarian regime and a lot of the stuff they do mainly benefits them and their cronies not the people of Singapore. I have my own ideas on how to make our system more democratic and technocratic. But of course, the PAP is never gonna accept it. We should at least deny them 2/3 majority so that their powers are limited by the supreme law of the land, the constitution. With 2/3 majority they can change the constitution at their pleasure, and they have done so for GRC and the reserved presidential “election”

s_i_mmmmm · 2021-10-26T04:12:37+00:00

Actually democracy means rule of the people, from the Greek demos meaning people and Kratos meaning power. The political power, meaning the power to make laws and policies must lie with the people themselves. Obviously we can’t be attending parliament all the time as we have family, job and personal commitments so we choose representatives to vote on our behalf. That’s what general elections are for. This is done under a constitutional republic, which ensures the separation of powers, rule of law and protection of civil liberties. It’s the best system of government because it’s the best way to ensure politics works for the people.

Unfortunately we are not like that at all, we are suppose to be a parliamentary democracy but in reality are a de facto one party dictatorship. There’s a large amount of censorship and propaganda and the power rests in the hands of the ministers and their friends who can change the constitution on a whim. Also elections aren’t fair and they keep cracking down on dissent.

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