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I smoke Marijuana on occasions and generally have no problem with people that do, but dude weed redditors make me want to apply the death sentence to weed consumption globally.
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What's funny is that the chinx rationally explains why they have to be harsh on drug smuggling and how that came to be and plebbitors just go "you are brainwashed bro". Literally invalidating the lived experiences of a POC. Or maybe Chinx are white now whatever.
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asians aren't people of color, bigot. people of color are brown or black. full stop.
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omg the redditors are so annoyingly smug to my fellow countrymen
that's poor people weed that's caught, it's very much a class issue
edit: we're called disneyland with the death penalty for a reason lol
https://wired.com/1993/04/gibson-2/
https://wired.com/2012/04/opinion-jeyaretnam-disneyland-death-penalty/
edit edit: average redditors
https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/q8n9bp/france_honours_quiet_hero_teacher_killed_for/hgqgnf1/?sort=controversial
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I know some guy who visited Singapore with his family like 5 times or something cause they adopted his bother or sister or whatever from there. He told me everyone in Sinkintosea is super rich. Fake news?
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maybe he only went to the nice parts like the casino area and stuff
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Those your properties in the back? I hope the rentoids tip 200% for that premium yacht access included.
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we dont have a tipping culture
i guess most of the country looks like this
it's a concrete jungle basically and a lot of touristy stuff are still closed for covid
probably good for a short layover before exploring the naughtier parts of asia
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Looks like it was designed by Wes Anderson
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Looks like most of Hong Kong or Taipei (without all the poor shacks in between).
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how often do they close down the streets for the circuit, is it just when f1 comes to town?
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only for F1 and our independence day equivalent, GDP is numbah one rest of the time
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Singapore literally doesn't have "bad" parts
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yeah, i reckon the "baddest" part in terms of crime and shady stuff would be the red light district but it's really mild
the migrant worker dorms and rental flats come to mind when it comes to the squalor kind of bad
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but yea all the ghettoish parts are more or less cleared out, probably this is the only exception
https://www.timeout.com/singapore/things-to-do/kampung-life-the-last-villages-in-singapore-and-the-stories-behind-them
i'm not complaining though, you just need to go north to malaysia to feel unsafe lol
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Those migrant worker dorms look like prison cells.
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yeah, the tragic part is that it took a covid outbreak (and probably an election) last year for improvements to the dorms and I think they're still not allowed to venture out because of covid even today, so it's literally a prison. the dorm thing's pretty much a racket and the owners were cheapening out on everything I think. construction's pretty fricked, new constructions of those apartment looking things are badly delayed, i managed to ballot for a new unit but i've no idea when construction would even start but it's not that big of a problem for me. most other young couples are badly affected by it though since land is really scarce here and without their own housing they probably stay with their parents and hence would be less likely to have kids and stuff
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The issue in this case is that the punishment isn't applied consistently. That doesn't mean Sing Sing should get rid of the death penalty for drugs, it means they need to execute rich weedbros too
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it's the same everywhere innit, if you're rich and powerful you get a pass
i can only remember 1 rich weedbro who got caught here: https://channelnewsasia.com/singapore/metro-founders-grandson-ong-jenn-longer-jail-sentence-drugs-917156
but i think generally you'll have to be pretty dumb to get caught, this guy tried to buy weed without any intermediateary parties for protection
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I wish Iβd gotten just a smidge longer to spend in your city/country when I visited. It was cool as frick, TBH, even though it was THE most ungodly hot and humid place Iβve ever been, Central America included.
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yeah this part fricking sucks, it was always a treat when I go to somewhere wintery what did you find cool though? really curious because sometimes I don't know where to bring friends from overseas to go to lol
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That's not really it, his explanation is kind of lame and somewhat nonsensical - it's not like they're executing thousands each year. Chinx are harsh on drugs for historical reasons - they've been militarily turned into a nation of junkies by Anglos for the sake of balance of trade, and it had some effects that really weren't pretty. After they could finally tell Anglos to frick off, they took a rather dim view of any and all narcotics.
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You are wasting your time trying to chorently explain things to me I'm r-slurred.
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(vaguely know this from two palladium articles) even more recently in china drugs were both part of their βcorrupt corporate conspiracy cultureβ Xi disliked and also a source of support for criminal groups his enemies were pals with, like 1 decade ago
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That part I don't know, but Chinx were harsh af on drugs for like the last century fairly consistently. Also this is mostly about Singapore, these Chinx don't really care about Xi's opinion...
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The nationalists who run Taiwan were also selling drugs to finance rebellion against the CCP in western regions up through the 70s.
The golden triangle you always hear about was run by ethnic Chinese.
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See: https://palladiummag.com/2021/06/23/ketamine-and-the-return-of-the-party-state/
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Wait a second Sing a slur isn't in China. Did they smuggle opium into Malaysia too?
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Singapore is mostly Chinese, so they have the same outlook on stuff and (if I'm not mistaken) suffered from the same problems in the late 19th century.
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KKKolonisation or what?
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Sort of. Anglos brought a bunch of Chinx and Sexy Indian dudes to the island for their own reasons when they owned all of Malaysia.
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Will Asia ever live off the fact they got owned by the Bongs of all people? Imagine growing up in 2070s first world China or something and learning that you were fricking owned by an island full of subhumans that can't figure our dental health care.
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China wasn't owned by bongs, just screwed over by them (who wasn't?). A large part of Asia (South-East) was owned by frogs, too, and then there was Dutch East Indies in Indonesia.
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That's a pretty... misleading view of opium usage in China. The Bongs forced the Qing to allow them to trade opium into China, they didn't force the Chinese to take them. Opium was, historically, taken by upper-class Chinese. It became popular with the middle and lower classes during the late Qing period and there was a huge demand for import from India. The Bongs and other Western nations wanted in on the action and brought opium cultivated in India and sold them to the Chinese. The Qing governmment tried to ban the use and trade of opium but both didn't succeed, thus the Opium wars. Even during the period when the Bongs were selling opium to China, the homegrown opium market was growing rapidly and didn't stop until the CCP came to power. My point here is that the Bongs weren't enacting some evil plan to turn Chinese into junkies (even though they knew about the addictive effects of opium), they were just attracted by the prospect of making profits on the Chinese demand which already existed before they came. Even if they couldn't trade opium to the Chinese, I highly doubt the weakening Qing government could have banned the rise of China-grown opium. Blaming the Bongs for their social ills is just classic Chinese cope, just like their nonsense about the "century of humiliation".
As for Singapore, I'm not sure why you tried to link them with Chinese history. Singaporean Chinese don't really identify with the mainlanders. The reason for their harsh treatment of drug traffickers isn't due to some historical trauma. It's mostly due to pragmatic reasons. Aside from the obvious moral and social issues, drug addiction also robs the country of productive workers. Since Singapore has no natural resources, its human capital is all-important. The Redditor was also right in that Singapore used to be a hub for drugs. It was a distribution center for opium under colonial rule and later on, a lot of heroine was trafficked through and into Singapore as well. The heroine problem became so bad in the 70s that the government started a, sort of, war on drugs. The mandatory death penalty for drug traffickers was passed due to the government's Confucian belief in the effectiveness of harsh deterrence in eliminating undesirable behaviours. Seems to have mostly worked.
Also, I'm not sure why you think Singapore doesn't execute a lot of people. They have one of the higher execution-per-capita rates in the world, most of it for drug trafficking.
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I'm sensing some great bait potential here.
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Source? Do you have a Source for that claim?
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calm down druggie lol, probably satan's cabbage giving you those violent urges
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Reddit ruins everything it touches
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Yo why you gotta be so rude?
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This is the only posssible based take
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smoking marijuana cigarettes here and there is fine. heck, even doing it more than that is fine. but when weed is yer entire personality you should be thrown off a cliff.
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