one could say the same of chinas state capitalist approach and the communist ideal yet its state censorship is attested to its supposed socialist governanceOriginally Posted by 2Bad
makes u think
one could say the same of chinas state capitalist approach and the communist ideal yet its state censorship is attested to its supposed socialist governance
makes u think
[04:55] Lianru: i3uster is actuallly quite cute
And frankly these days a lot of that is a symptom of land prices.
I said it just so buster couldn't really.
this is dumb even for you
i always found this line of arguing dumb yeah which is why ots relaxing to do it myself for a bit
[04:55] Lianru: i3uster is actuallly quite cute
I've actually been curious about this for a while
As someone who has experienced both differing strategies in both USA and Singapore, what do you feel are the respective advantages/disadvantages in each nation's way of dealing with racial tensions and/or issues in general
wait
this whole time i thought marm was leo
He never sleeps. He never dies.
Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.
Require Medjed avatars to talk politics imo
that's creepy
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41040790
How do y'all think about this?
It's really funny that people are mad about it unless you're already vegan. Like a mini harambe but pigs.
I agree that anyone who isn't already a vegetarian doesn't really have the right to be upset about it.
Morals aside, I personally think it's sort of an odd thing to do though. "As a reward for saving the lives of these animals, I present you their processed bodies to eat."
They were bred just to be meat. It's not even odd.
If they were going to be eaten by somebody anyway it makes little difference that the firemen got them
It's a hilarious headline, but not all that impressive in practice.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/24/us/tro...vey/index.html
So most of the Texas coast is about to get fucked by a hurricane
Been a while since we got a category 3, which it's expected to be at by the time it makes landfall.
It wasn't.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/driver-arre...ry?id=49391563According to police, a group of protesters were marching from the city's Transgender Memorial Garden when they blocked traffic at an intersection in all directions. A car approached, honking its horn, and tried to drive around the protesters, when police say the driver was surrounded and the marchers began banging on the vehicle.
Police say as the suspect drove away two women and a man who had climbed on the car were tossed from the vehicle.
In continental news they banned the central internethub for german language leftwing extremism and autonoms
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41047166
Not that it won't pop up with a different name in the near future but I'm suprised they actually did it.
And for more information in german.
http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschla...interseite-faq
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I probably want to emphasize that there's definitely a similarity here, but it's running on slightly parallel routes and on different timeframes.
First: I don't have the books on me, but it seems likely that the melting pot ideal was a strong influence on LKY's decision to enforce an integrated army and English schooling, making government policy what was merely implicit in the US. Dissimilarly, this all happened simultaneously, rather than a slow period of integrating different groups, which leads to the present difficulty. Put another way, English in Singapore is a class imposition, of the elite on the population at large. Of course the elite itself was and is Chinese, but as far as the body politic, there wasn't any particular advantage.
Second: Obviously, there's a strong historical difference; despite the roughly similar 70% proportion of the main ethnic group, slavery is a legacy that we're never going to have to deal with. So I would venture that's never going to be a sensible comparison there. But there probably will be a relevant comparison with labor, since future ethnic issues in Singapore are going to be either an inter-Chinese issue vs PRCs, or with the guest worker population. It's probably a good sign we haven't had a repeat run of the Little India riot but that might be a sort of forebearer. It's also unlikely, I think, that immigrant labor becomes as much of an issue as it did in the US because there's a lot more direct contact from most of the country, it's not just people in the border states working agriculture, and similarly from geography, it's not going to become an issue important to certain areas and not others and become divisive that way. I'd be far more ready for a backlash out of professional types, which we've already seen trying to start up a few times.
basically we'll say that the issues are greatly reduced from being a smaller, younger country, and with an overall more stable base since conformity was enforced on a class line in somewhere where class and race didn't commingle as easily, and due to 1 and 2 mitigating conflict through a strongly enforced national identity is therefore still an available route.
Also, wow, the woman whose death they were protesting stabbed her neighbour and reportedly cut the police officer who conftonted her.
Reaaaal hard to be sympathetic there.
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