“Over time, our political leaders have become less hard-driving and hard-striving, winning elections through GRC walkovers. That’s why it would be a good thing for the people to welcome more opposition in the Parliament. If the incumbent party is falling behind because of its own complacency, that is its problem.” (We should always learn from [...]
Filed under: Immigration / Foreign Talents | Tagged: Confession, Foreigners, Immigrants, KuanYew, Locals | 6 Comments »
People are just upset that they are screwed.
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Act I: Doomed to be Right Imagine a doomsday cult in which the leader makes a doomsday prediction: most people in the world do not believe the prediction, but the cult has its followers who believe that the prediction is right. The leader and the followers attempt mass suicide on their doomsday while the rest [...]
Filed under: Discursive Circumscription/Resistance | Tagged: Death Penalty, Discourse, Leadership | 8 Comments »
As long as we remain uncritically trapped by prescriptions about what is right speech, we will remain a fully politicized society that fails to be anything but political.
Filed under: Political Positions | Tagged: Balance, Bitchy, Constructuve, Criticism | 3 Comments »
Remember the 24 hours. Remember during the 24 hours.
Filed under: Elections | Tagged: 24 hours, Fredric Fanthome, Memory, p65 | 14 Comments »
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