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“But if you ever bring her back damaged again — and I don’t care whose fault it is; I don’t care if she merely trips, or if a meteor falls out of the sky and hits her in the head — if you return her to me in less than the perfect condition that I left her in, you will be running with three legs. Do you understand that, mongrel?”
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"HELLO EVERYPARTY TANKS for bothering to read this note. In the spirit of speaking dialects and shouting one-liners in Malay just to act yi ge grassroots, I shall try to keep my language simple. There may be some points that I mention that may seem clearly one-sided, but that's deliberately done, you know, just to have an alternative voice heard; an Opposition to the ruling consensus on the Opposition on the net. I must also make clear that I am not advocating for any party here - this is definitely not one of those "Us versus Them", lame 'WHY I AM GOING TO VOTE FOR XXXX PARTY" notes floating around. If anything, it is best if EVERYBODY considers EVERYPARTY before voting - sometimes the loudest, most popular parties suck the most (like Countdown Parties). This point is for the retarded few, those loudest and most extreme about their anti-PAP views and how they suck and should be brought down at all costs. When people look for flaws, all they see are flaws. Opposition parties pick up these flaws and coat them with honeyed words, AKA candy flaws. Beautiful curvaceous legs are a good thing to look at, but sometimes all people see are the holes in between. Our country's growth has truly been phenomenal - let's for now put aside those arguments about the equality of distribution of this GDP - we, this small dot, have a GDP that surpasses some jealous neighboring giants - TRULY an ASIA outperformer. Now some see the holes in this - "AHA stop being lame. It is universally known that income inequality is yi ge bad in SG. What's the point of high GDP?" Now, equality is a term more complex than Katong Shopping Complex. A pregnant woman who gets the priority seat? A populist protestor trying to win applause from the rest of the tired, standing commuters can shout (with Malay one-liners) that the woman may need the seat more based on her physical needs, but what about mental needs? "I am stressed when I am standing on the train - some guy in the crowd is max volume on his Angry Birds, and the guy behind me keeps pushing and saying excuse me when I myself want to get out also"; or , "Whose money was used to build this train? OUR MONEY. Your unborn son doesn't pay tax, so please give priority to taxpayers, for the sake of equality". The key point here is equality is an Utopian concept - and Utopia is an online game involving dragons, elves and farming. Given the constraint of finite time and finite money and finite manpower, we have to PRIORITISE. Pinker's Trilemma: that a society cannot be simultaneously fair, free and equal. If it is fair, individuals who work harder will accumulate more wealth; if it is free, parents will leave the bulk of their inheritance to their children; but then it will not be equal, as people will begin life with different fortunes. So - populist cries for taxing the rich and giving to the poor - do you think that is meritocratic? What about chronic gamblers and bums who suddenly get welfare allowances just because for being in the lower income bracket? Is that equal? Income inequality is a sad fact of life - we can allieviate it, but not remove it. People comparing extents of freedom of speech between Singapore and US should be more "equal", and also apply the comparison to income inequality - have you ever seen beggars grovelling at Raffles Place Station? I have seen them grovelling a couple steps away from Tiffany & Co. at Wall Street. What about the foreigner gang rape occuring here right now? Perhaps Nicole Seah should take her passport and leave the train and visit more developed countries. The influx of foreigners is everywhere. Globalisation has been happening since millenia ago and is only happening faster and more inexorably. There are probably more Chinese per square foot in Toronto's Eaton Centre than Tanglin Mall. It does indeed take time to adapt - we can ease this process by laughing at loud tiongs and making Leticia jokes at nearly every fast food joint counter - or be xenophobic to the point of Russians attacking random foreigners (youtube if interested) all because Russians are unemployed and the bloody Indians in Russia must be the cause of that. Please bear in mind that all our ancestors were immigrants - if Raffles was some populist nationlistic jerk Raffles Place would have been a country and not a MRT station. Isolationist protests exclaiming how the government is allowing the free market and Adam Smith to gang rape poor private shop owners and family stores are lame. Let's protect the kampongs in 18th century Singapura by sinking Sang Nila Utama's and Raffles's ships then. When China was super isolationist, people complained about the protectionist, stifling governance. When it opened its doors to the world and income inequality came in, they turned around and criticised the deluge of free market forces. A more accurate extension of the popular maid analogy would be that we are all palace dwellers hiring a platoon of maids from the same maid agency - they were trained by the same trainer and follow the same rules, but amongst them, abilities at managing the palace differ - from passionate workers to those who splurge their pay on Spate Kade bags and marry old rich Roti Prata stall owners with lots of strings and teh to tarik. When your dog runs away, do you blame the entire team and strive to sack them and burn the entire agency down and hire a new team of Japanese maids in kinky uniforms who happen to shout Malay one-liners and speak GrassRootian language? Some people on the Internet seem to want to do so. Ability comes from the candidate, and not the party. Failure in one candiate does not apply across the board; the same applies for stellar candidates. Be wary of the empty can rolling around and waking up the neighborhood but containing nothing when finally picked up; it is not a question of whether to have a co driver or not, but whether the co driver will make the driving better in the first place; opposing for the sake of opposing is bringing out the posing in opposing. Using funny analogies does not mean one can manage an entire country. Speaking GrassRootian language gives not much indication one can manage an entire country. Having a glib tongue does not show one can manage an entire country. Hounding nonstop on flaws and mistakes but not giving constructive solutions does not equal to good management of a country. But decades of stability and growth does give a pretty good, though not complete, indication that one can indeed manage a country. Yes, nobody is perfect - by phonetic extension, noparty is perfect. But not perfect does not mean not good. Not good does not mean other party good. Also, yes, having an alternate voice is important - but that's assuming that voice is making sense in the first place. Yes, I feel that ministerial income is lofty to the max- but bringing good leaders down in an attempt to bring salaries down is pure Down's Syndrome. So, after all these, what party am I going to vote for? Maybe PAP, maybe some opposition party, but there is no need to announce it like others."
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"HELLO EVERYPARTY TANKS for bothering to read this note. In the spirit of speaking dialects and shouting one-liners in Malay just to act yi ge grassroots, I shall try to keep my language simple. There may be some points that I mention that may seem clearly one-sided, but that's deliberately done, you know, just to have an alternative voice heard; an Opposition to the ruling consensus on the Opposition on the net. I must also make clear that I am not advocating for any party here - this is definitely not one of those "Us versus Them", lame 'WHY I AM GOING TO VOTE FOR XXXX PARTY" notes floating around. If anything, it is best if EVERYBODY considers EVERYPARTY before voting - sometimes the loudest, most popular parties suck the most (like Countdown Parties). This point is for the retarded few, those loudest and most extreme about their anti-PAP views and how they suck and should be brought down at all costs. When people look for flaws, all they see are flaws. Opposition parties pick up these flaws and coat them with honeyed words, AKA candy flaws. Beautiful curvaceous legs are a good thing to look at, but sometimes all people see are the holes in between. Our country's growth has truly been phenomenal - let's for now put aside those arguments about the equality of distribution of this GDP - we, this small dot, have a GDP that surpasses some jealous neighboring giants - TRULY an ASIA outperformer. Now some see the holes in this - "AHA stop being lame. It is universally known that income inequality is yi ge bad in SG. What's the point of high GDP?" Now, equality is a term more complex than Katong Shopping Complex. A pregnant woman who gets the priority seat? A populist protestor trying to win applause from the rest of the tired, standing commuters can shout (with Malay one-liners) that the woman may need the seat more based on her physical needs, but what about mental needs? "I am stressed when I am standing on the train - some guy in the crowd is max volume on his Angry Birds, and the guy behind me keeps pushing and saying excuse me when I myself want to get out also"; or , "Whose money was used to build this train? OUR MONEY. Your unborn son doesn't pay tax, so please give priority to taxpayers, for the sake of equality". The key point here is equality is an Utopian concept - and Utopia is an online game involving dragons, elves and farming. Given the constraint of finite time and finite money and finite manpower, we have to PRIORITISE. Pinker's Trilemma: that a society cannot be simultaneously fair, free and equal. If it is fair, individuals who work harder will accumulate more wealth; if it is free, parents will leave the bulk of their inheritance to their children; but then it will not be equal, as people will begin life with different fortunes. So - populist cries for taxing the rich and giving to the poor - do you think that is meritocratic? What about chronic gamblers and bums who suddenly get welfare allowances just because for being in the lower income bracket? Is that equal? Income inequality is a sad fact of life - we can allieviate it, but not remove it. People comparing extents of freedom of speech between Singapore and US should be more "equal", and also apply the comparison to income inequality - have you ever seen beggars grovelling at Raffles Place Station? I have seen them grovelling a couple steps away from Tiffany & Co. at Wall Street. What about the foreigner gang rape occuring here right now? Perhaps Nicole Seah should take her passport and leave the train and visit more developed countries. The influx of foreigners is everywhere. Globalisation has been happening since millenia ago and is only happening faster and more inexorably. There are probably more Chinese per square foot in Toronto's Eaton Centre than Tanglin Mall. It does indeed take time to adapt - we can ease this process by laughing at loud tiongs and making Leticia jokes at nearly every fast food joint counter - or be xenophobic to the point of Russians attacking random foreigners (youtube if interested) all because Russians are unemployed and the bloody Indians in Russia must be the cause of that. Please bear in mind that all our ancestors were immigrants - if Raffles was some populist nationlistic jerk Raffles Place would have been a country and not a MRT station. Isolationist protests exclaiming how the government is allowing the free market and Adam Smith to gang rape poor private shop owners and family stores are lame. Let's protect the kampongs in 18th century Singapura by sinking Sang Nila Utama's and Raffles's ships then. When China was super isolationist, people complained about the protectionist, stifling governance. When it opened its doors to the world and income inequality came in, they turned around and criticised the deluge of free market forces. A more accurate extension of the popular maid analogy would be that we are all palace dwellers hiring a platoon of maids from the same maid agency - they were trained by the same trainer and follow the same rules, but amongst them, abilities at managing the palace differ - from passionate workers to those who splurge their pay on Spate Kade bags and marry old rich Roti Prata stall owners with lots of strings and teh to tarik. When your dog runs away, do you blame the entire team and strive to sack them and burn the entire agency down and hire a new team of Japanese maids in kinky uniforms who happen to shout Malay one-liners and speak GrassRootian language? Some people on the Internet seem to want to do so. Ability comes from the candidate, and not the party. Failure in one candiate does not apply across the board; the same applies for stellar candidates. Be wary of the empty can rolling around and waking up the neighborhood but containing nothing when finally picked up; it is not a question of whether to have a co driver or not, but whether the co driver will make the driving better in the first place; opposing for the sake of opposing is bringing out the posing in opposing. Using funny analogies does not mean one can manage an entire country. Speaking GrassRootian language gives not much indication one can manage an entire country. Having a glib tongue does not show one can manage an entire country. Hounding nonstop on flaws and mistakes but not giving constructive solutions does not equal to good management of a country. But decades of stability and growth does give a pretty good, though not complete, indication that one can indeed manage a country. Yes, nobody is perfect - by phonetic extension, noparty is perfect. But not perfect does not mean not good. Not good does not mean other party good. Also, yes, having an alternate voice is important - but that's assuming that voice is making sense in the first place. Yes, I feel that ministerial income is lofty to the max- but bringing good leaders down in an attempt to bring salaries down is pure Down's Syndrome. So, after all these, what party am I going to vote for? Maybe PAP, maybe some opposition party, but there is no need to announce it like others."
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