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sharing this essay i wrote on corruption ("Elite Entrenchment and State Capture in Singapore") in Singapore cos i believe that political education is important && i tried to keep this straightforward. goes into Sinicisation & megachurch Christianity too
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don’t let this fly under your radar. this is violent and can be arbitrary cos who decides what “mental disorder” looks like + there is a eugenicist implication that people with “mental disorders” = dangerous. *anyone* can be a threat. radicalisation is about power, not the psyche
Laws proposed to give Singapore police more powers to apprehend those with mental disorders
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i think that moralising Singapore as exceptionally terrible (especially without drawing a distinction between the state and the people) in the entirety of Southeast Asia is dangerous breeding ground for different nationalisms lol
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sg contemporary culture
- nguan photography
- overutilised & fetishised chij uniforms
- kurt tay
- drop drop drop like grapes
- mak kau hijau
- insurance/credit card commercial featuring old grandparent alone n sad during festive season before the entire family suddenly shows up
Culture consists of many aspects of a particular social group:
1) Customs, social behaviours
2) Attitudes, Ideas
3) Aesthetics
Compared to our neighbours, SG has only existed independently for ~60 years. There aren't many traditions we claim as our own because-
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my younger bro almost kena name bartholomew. we're chinese
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Singapore: “both sides!”
Singapore: [fails to back South Africa’s case @ ICJ re: Israel’s genocide]
Singapore: [participates in US-led Op Prosperity Guardian against Houthis, who are pressurising Israel via an ultimatum that they’ll stop if Israel stops committing genocide]
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me when i was much younger asking a civil servant who studied postcolonial literature "isn't it bad/violent that we got colonised" & getting "depends" in response. depends on WHAT
Hundreds have gathered at Jewel Changi Airport, awaiting the arrival of Prince William.
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a lot of people dunking on this thread aren't reading it properly lol the point isn't to deny sinophobia -- it's to highlight the hypocrisy & ignorance of chinese singaporeans coming back 2 singapore thinking racism doesn't happen here *only because it doesn't happen to them/us*
insanely annoyed hot take: i do *not* trust the vast majority of chinese singaporeans complaining about how bad it was to be in america/UK and how unsafe and dangerous it is, *for them*
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Straits Times journalism is thinkpieces on gen z cultural phenomena written by boomers nobody asked
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no fr i think it’s crazy that all it takes is some tape to demarcate how we interact with space. ofc this is backed up by punitive smoking laws, but it’s still interesting the way our bodies are reconditioned & regulated into compliance in such daily & casual ways in Singapore
Whatever Singapore’s been up to over the past 50 years to lead to smokers voluntarily smoking neatly in an invisible box, give me that. All of it.
Cc
@DrDzul
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sg art/music scene has so many abusive & unaccountable ppl who are prominent n celebritised it's wild
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actually Singaporean culture is a string of emo, shoegaze and math rock bands
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y'all know that it's not just Singaporeans who abuse workers right. & all of it is in all measures fucked up. but it's not a specifically Singaporean characteristic. esp domestic labour -- it's gendered & even in trade unions gender-marginalised people are thrown under the bus
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new colleague at work she/her'd me then paused, narrowed her eyes, and said "wait... those aren't your pronouns are they"
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everyone keep tabs on this case cos the "woman" in question is a "digital wellness educator & mental toughness coach" who's been blatantly transphobic, e.g. recommending "Irreversible Damage" by Abigail Shrier to trans youth. it's concerning that she has a wide reach & platform
'Whistleblower' sues Singapore Kindness Movement for revealing his details to woman he lodged complaint against
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i frankly find this day in Singapore every year quite dystopian
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how long is it taking 2023/2024 graduates to find full time jobs in Singapore right now
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here’s a reminder that Singapore purchases spyware from Israel and i don’t particularly see what’s stopping the state from deploying this tech against its own citizenry/civilians or migrants esp as Trace Together x Safe Entry data has already been questionably used before
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it's not just this. social work & psych *as institutions* ultimately rehabilitate individuals into systems of oppression + redirect/disarm collective action precisely thru individualising problems & pathways to "liberation"
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do u all understand why i constantly criticise NGOs (and Singapore’s activism scene) as counter-revolutionary or should i do a proper explainer? i feel like sometimes people assume i just think that NGOs are “inadequate” when in fact i think that NGOs are HOSTILE to liberation
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how can you stop being so afraid of my pet dying? hes fine but sometimes i sob just thinking about it happening, … — this feels like something only richard siken can answer
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i was fr just thinking this… is there any nation with a “culture” that isn’t just a hegemonic state-endorsed choice that erases/oppresses other cultures living on the same land/within the same demarcated national boundaries lol
uniqlo casualwear is a more truthful, authentic, organic expression of SEA (high-income urban) culture than fake "traditional outfits" originating from 20th century state authorities' regularization of "cultural heritage" that no one actually wears
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thinking ab this article from The Business Times:
Japanese syndicate leaders accused of laundering $650 million for criminals lived in S’pore
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acts of violence like this should not be attributed to medical causes cos active internet/social media radicalisation pipelines exist outside of disproportionate islamophobic fearmongering. when is Singapore going to take the alt right as a political terror threat seriously
Teen, 18, pleads guilty to homicide of River Valley High schoolmate
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everything is going insane
Those wearing symbols linked to Israel-Hamas war can be jailed: MHA
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Lee Hsien Loong i dedicate my first child to U 🙏🙏 sun in Aquarius ok i aim for sexy time in April/May
PM Lee urges Singaporeans to have more children, and to do so earlier
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would be really funny if someone tldr; or made an infopack on all of PAP's mistakes and scandals the past 4 years
Slimmer electoral margins will mean less political space for Govt to do the right things: SM Lee
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lol ok i read this article n it’s just sloppy journalism conflating (1) “cancelling” because of prejudice with (2) “cancelling” as a pushback against prejudice
Cancel culture in Singapore: When the internet turns against you and harassment ensues
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fucking Singapore govt infantilising its population for decades but can’t even steer the ship correctly mfing technocratic bullshit. just pissing our neighbours off left right center knn second hand embarrassment Fatal flaw is not just the violence its also the CRINGE
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once again, in Singapore you have customers squabbling with hawkers instead of both realising that their economic issues are connected... rent! taxes! bills! produce prices! etc.
Hawker allegedly screams at customer who asked why S$5.30 nasi lemak was 'so expensive'
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TIL Singapore basically helped prop up apartheid South Africa + possibly resold weapons to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, which eventually gave rise to al-Qaeda & ISIS
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How much racism do Indians and Malays face in the dating scene, primarily from the Chinese? — from my understanding reading n talking to people, lots
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Singaporeans: (1) if mass student protests were to break out at your school campus and (2) you had to outsmart law enforcement trying to shut you down & conduct mass arrests, (3) how would you defend the fort? (4) what architecture/topography would you leverage or be careful of?
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is LKY in the room with us right now to resolve our economic & geopolitical issues when we move into a labour & rental crisis in a world where the balance of powers is shifting & arming up
MCCY reminds public disposing of drinks with Lee Kuan Yew’s image to do so appropriately & responsibly
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the sleight of hand here is that the groups are flipped: in the UK it was white supremacists (dominant group) attacking immigrants (subjugated group), whereas the last “riot” we had in Singapore was the Little India Riot in 2013, arising from migrant workers (subjugated group) /+
Lessons for Singapore from recent riots in UK fuelled by misinformation
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it would do anti-death penalty activists in Singapore good to repivot to interrogating (1) what *really* happens to the drugs that get seized esp since it's a lucrative commodity (2) what *underground* links the ruling class in Singapore has to the global drug trade esp Burmese
🧵
#PopeinAsia
Pope Francis will arrive in
#Singapore
tomorrow. Thousands of volunteers are involved and there's already brisk sales of papal visit souvenirs.
But will anyone in the room—any room that the Pope ends up in—bring up the
#deathpenalty
?
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got called down for a police interview about this. if there’s no news/updates from me by Tuesday please know that it prob means i’m in trouble + contact
@quantumcatgirl
or
@omyhangu
(whether you’re Singaporean or not)
On 31st March 2024,
#TDOV
, I protested in front of the Singapore's Attorney-General's Chambers and State Courts over the unjust treatment of transgender women in remand and prison. I was arrested, held in custody for about 10 hours, and released at around 1am on 1st April.
[1/2]
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Singaporean Chronic Centrism Disease fr
a General Paper teacher:
“It’s also an opportunity to model for them how we can feel strongly about an issue and still respond in a measured manner, being sensitive to those around us. We can acknowledge the atrocities of war without picking a side”
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far right extremism in Singapore
Anti-Palestine writing found at Ang Mo Kio HDB stairwell
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the SG govt enables the Tatmadaw’s killing of peoples of Myanmar, Indo’s dispossession of indigenous folks in Batam, sand mining in Cambodia, labour exploitation of migrant workers from the Philippines, etc.
solidarity with the region & world
#DoMoreSingapore
#MilkTeaAlliance
New Campaign!!
18th Oct (Today!!) till 31st Oct!
@bloodmoney22222
@mtealliance
& many more friends pushing the
#doMoreSingapore
Campaign to demand that the gov't of Singapore take more action to enforce their commitments!
Full campaign pack here:
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hey. so everyone’s been talking about the new Wu Kong game and it made me think of how 无你我的心很空
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we begin Pride Month with fascism! i wish it were just mere conservatives but these are actively hostile transphobes, in trend with the assault on trans existence across multiple countries. i’m tired of trans women & kids getting scapegoated, raped, murdered or driven to suicide
The Science Centre organised a session with a panel discussion to discuss the difference between sex and gender. It was to be held at the Projector Cineleisure, was for 18+ and participants would have to sign up. Unfortunately, conservative loons got to it! FB comments below 1/4
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SG govt damn well knows it’s not a religious matter but a geopolitical one. the Daddy State is just trying to baby everyone into staying in our local bubble by insisting we think in terms of the “domestic” and not analyse foreign policy and SG’s diplomatic relations lol
Singaporeans shouldn’t let tensions elsewhere affect religious harmony: PM Lee
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quit smoking campaign ambassador doing circles around the smoking corner U r god’s most paiseh soldier
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thinking about the time i said "Kuan Yew" conversationally and my teacher stared at me in shock cos he'd never heard anyone refer to LKY like that before
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- film scene of family eating dinner: "爸。妈。吃。"
- cringing at The Noose
- haji lane kena gentrified
- cats at void decks
- bored go LAN
- being able to tell when someone went to an all-girls school, e.g. milotruckdreams
- gurmit singh still culturally relevant after decades
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condemning Singapore w/out linking analysis to present day *imperial struggle for ultimate global hegemony* actually permits a form of self-resignation that *upholds* an imperialist world order favouring states & capital over ppl & land. it is an anti-internationalist position
Police, NParks will reject applications to hold public events relating to Israel-Hamas war
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i haven't seen this on twitter yet but TOC just did an exposé: "Minister K Shanmugam transfers Astrid Hill GCB to UBS Trustees for S$88 Million following Ridout Road controversy"
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every portion of space here is demarcated & designated a function by the govt or capital. i think if indigenous communities like the Orang Laut & Orang Pulau esp had land back (i.e. ownership & determination) things would feel a whole lot less sterile & vacuous
singapore is so suffocating no matter what you do you end up in the same place same routine theres nothing new nothing fresh and nothing ever changes
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Singapore is the only ASEAN country that this joint statement. we need to do better as a key member of ASEAN -- with & for the people of ASEAN + with & for the broader peoples of the world being slaughtered, suppressed &/or exploited by Amerikkka's capitalist imperialist project
S'pore & 12 other countries condemn Houthi rebel attacks after S'pore-flagged ship targeted in Red Sea
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these state sanctioned events legitimise lip service & the world of symbols, stabilising & rewriting the state’s role as something that *appears* to be less violent & more capable of morality than it actually is
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when i was helping out w mutual aid i was rushing essay deadlines while trying to contact a man i’d met for lunch to check on how he & his infant were doing. after several attempts to contact him finally his brother using his phone told me he was in jail probably for $ reasons
once you see everything happening, from gaza to myanmar to even the everyday in singapore... just having a normal, human reaction to loss & violence can make us seem crazy in a world built off of ignoring & committing such violence.
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lol they r playing us for fools. PR or pretence don't even matter anymore. it's just flexing the we-can-get-away-with-it muscle
sorry but tested publishing slides how/where/when?
beyond that the point of publishing slides of ALL levels is so there is transparency + to avoid misinformation from circulating
why wont this “do justice” if by their word teachers are not allowed to deviate from the slides?
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bootlicking Singaporean men the most banal and soggy flavour of Lays potato chips
Lefties can't imagine a world where police officers actually do their job and thus have public trust
@SingaporePolice
keep up the good work.
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are all these mass vape raids/clampdowns in Singapore happening because of the govt's inability to know how to tax (& thus extract $$ from) vapes... due to the vape distribution & supply being more decentralised (versus cigarette industry being more oligopolistic in structure)??
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actually we should all just agree that singapore's housing policy (on which individualistic economic strategy might rely) sucks for most of us working class people, straight & queer, just in different ways. lmao
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this is only gonna worsen as the xtian far right declares "culture wars" against us and the alt-right & populist right join in, blaming their (economic, political, social, emotional, relational, whatever) problems on us as convenient scapegoats
homophobia is still a huge thing in Singapore do not fucking forget that
Even with sufficient evidence the police could not arrest this guy
this is a hate crime
Beat up your local homophobe
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Queers in Singapore need to organise against fascism (which includes being politically educated about trends and tactics + building victim-centred care that deals with harm), instead of solely prioritising event-planning & incremental policy change (tho these have a function too)
i hope more LGBTQIA+ people in Singapore see this as a real act of war, not drama or some so-called usual state of affairs. they have been waging war, using real funding, against our communities in LGBTQIA+ spaces for decades since the 1990s (post-Billy Graham). we need to fight.
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this is a fucked up new law -- if you understand the state to be the institutional patriarch, with its moral monopoly on (1) what "justice" entails & looks like, (2) what is "disruptive" to social order, and (3) what procedural violence the "guilty" are subjected to
New law to allow offenders of serious crimes to be detained indefinitely
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lepak in the park lo watermelon picnic
Singapore rejected 5 bids to use Speakers' Corner for events on Israel-Hamas conflict
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Singapore’s gna regret clinging onto a dying empire. like even liberals hate the US now
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lol the more i notice it the more clear it becomes to me that the SG state is throwing a tantrum. the signals have been chapalang for months, & i’m not just referring to July 2023’s eruption of scandals. it’s the projection of control via exercising a lot of symbolic violence
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u guys 😭😭 was not on my 2024 bingo card
I obtain distinctions in law as a hobby while my main job is posting to Twitter
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this is why we need to abolish not just specific policies & laws but the monopoly on violence as a whole… else the state will just keep doing what it’s designed to do, including in its being arbitrary
Disappointing but not surprising: Singapore police are looking into this to determine if it was an illegal procession under Singapore's extremely broad Public Order Act, which criminalises public cause-related activity w/o a police permit.
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a “US loves SG” friendship bracelet?!!???????!! what rhe fuck
good morning SG swifties 🦁🐟💥
last year, while Biden was sending bombs for Isr*el to drop on Palestinians, the US embassy of Singapore posted a video of them making friendship bracelets
let’s make friendship bracelets for what we ACTUALLY stand for 🇸🇬🇵🇸
#SwiftiesForPalestine
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how r yall getting this unpaywalled i wna read…
Cancel culture in Singapore: When the internet turns against you and harassment ensues
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except “capitalism” isn’t about morality/evil, but about relationships of ownership, distribution and class relations
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copaganda in Singapore fuses terror threats with justifications for increasing the authority & militarisation of the police. why do we outsource safety & security to an institutional body tho, instead of learning sense-making & defence skill sets & practicing it /+
Increase in anti-S’pore sentiments on social media; calls for rocket and bomb attacks: Shanmugam
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Singaporeans newly learning “decolonisation” as a concept pls understand that this has also been weaponised by multiple local ruling elites to concentrate authoritarian power lol
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can it be known to the music/arts scene in Singapore that my ex is literally abusive please lol DM me
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a lot of violence that happens in singapore is banal & quiet but also part of necropolitics. it’s the slow crawl of death: of having your mental & physical health collapse as you’re chronically overworked &/or stressed over how to sustain a livelihood for yourself &/or family
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talking with political correspondents who deal with US/China imperialism i realise i’m correct about how activism in Singapore is an undemocratic & centralised space cos its agendas are set by orgs like TJC/WMP which dictate which causes are worth legitimising/supporting or not
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i going drink stall yall want kopi or anything
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was visibly emotional towards the end of his address, where he announced that he will be passing the baton over to his successor Lawrence Wong before the next general election. "It has been my great fortune and honor to serve the country," Lee said.
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it's the "colonialism helped Singapore progress and the Brits were nice colonial daddies" logic lah. i legitimately feel that Singapore has not processed our colonial traumas at all + historical amnesia is the coping mechanism for our pain & grief, in lieu of self-confrontation
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aimrun is an alt righter and the alt right in the US is associated with neo-Nazism
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why do i sometimes get more misogyny from gay men than straight men
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SimplyGo data ➡️ chart out patterns/habits, generate consumer or (non)citizen profile ➡️ data is used for what, & goes where? we are seeing huge amounts & new types of data being centralised *while* the lines between public & private sectors are blurring. this is a security issue
times like this I’m glad alt pubs like ricemedia exist. they’ve been a lot better at reflecting public sentiment than mainstream publications, which seem to have been saddled with the responsibility of simply conveying the official rationale from gov pov
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when i was 17 a guy from my school said that he'd cut himself if i didn't unblock and reply him within 1 hour and i said ok
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can someone more well-versed in this type of Christianity's belief in Israel & consequent BLOODSHED being crucial to their End Times prophecy, rapture/Revelations &/or the Second Coming of Jesus Christ elaborate on or explain what is going on <3
Muis to issue advisory to guide Muslims on how to deal with overseas conflicts such as the Israel-Hamas war
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log onto instagram and see folks cafe hopping (still) and ootds (still).….. log onto twitter and read about revolt and militarisation……
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Hamas is a *separate* conversation from Israel’s settler-colonialism & genocide + military & financial & ideological support from various governments around the world. hope this helps
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the last weekend was rough but the fog has cleared it appears i have found my match Thanks 4 journeying w me
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im starting a reading club series to read + discuss the military industrial complex in the context of Singapore. i know very little ab the historical n contemporary political economy & (a bit more but still little) geopolitical landscape wrt Singapore’s position in the global MIC
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really refreshing when i meet someone who isn't activismpilled in Singapore independently critique the toxic positivity, coloniality and middle class consciousness of how activism & NGOs (v intertwined here) operate here
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donations via humanitarian aid do not necessarily reach the ppl affected or meet the needs of liberatory struggle btw! aid comes w strings attached (whether that’s for diplomatic/foreign policy or capitalist interests) &/but also makes for good publicity 👍 it’s usually posturing
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mainstream Singapore activists talk shit about my friends dealing with geopolitics yet remain silent & naive about foreign interference, espionage & clampdowns. not a peep from your local death penalty activists about
@HaseenahKoya
’s brother, which points to transnational issues
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"Indonesia is poised to become the new Malaysia, selling off its precious natural resources at the expense of its own citizens’ national bounty [and] their safety. ... while Singapore expands [and] plays and wins according to its own rules ... by no environmental rules at all."
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next Lunar New Year i’m not gna say HUAT AH i’m gna say HUAK TWAH
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this takes cue from US Christofascists (Google Project 2025) && we shouldn’t be surprised that this is a form of imperialism, not just ideologically, but via capital flow & business relations, if you understand evangelical Christian global networks & interests
very recently, Protect Singapore has released a "family values" scorecard for various MPs in Singapore. the domain was registered on 27th May 2024. a workable hypothesis is that they worked on the scorecard in response to
@PinkDotSG
's 14th June scorecard.
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case in point (& also presumptuous LOL)
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Singapore is NOT a privileged space. that’s the “Third World to First World” exceptionalism myth. throw that bullshit out the window. there is no single Singapore or single experience of Singapore
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i think it’s gross when leaders cannot take constructive criticism & worry more over how reputation will be negatively affected than actual accountability, transparency or care. you can tell this is the case when they prioritise keeping things “private” instead of repair work
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most of these can be categorised into the themes of (1) nostalgia as a marketing &/or nationalistic strategy (2) sg as constantly changing thanks to endless (re)construction and thus our relationship with liminality and the land (3) discourses surrounding identity & ownership
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the effect of Harvey being an imperfect victim is that over time people distance/dissociate themselves even as & when she is currently facing a clear-cut case of incredible carceral violence: 9 strokes of the cane for resisting strip searches by male officers
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using 😭😭 emojis with my coworkers to break the tension that comes with professionalism and formality
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