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But I bet it would been totally cool if they flew an israeli flag.
When publicly stating alignment with Israel or Palestine, you have to choose if you want to be hated by the government, or the actual people on the street.
It always amazes me how different people and entities are held to different standards.
It's almost as if they are... different things.
Yeah. one of them are victims.
the other is the people trying to genocide them into nonexistence and getting away with it.
Ok my comment was very poorly phrased.
Different standards are applied to different countries.
Different standards are also applied to different people.
Possibly, but unlikely.
Singapore has a lot of very strict laws, and they apply them rigorously. Famously their drug possession laws have a ton of prison time, and often the death penalty for trafficking.
From the article, it is a very narrow but all encompassing law, originally passed in 1949 and the last update in 2021 predates the most recent conflict...
https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/FNECDA1949
Singapore has strict laws because it's positioned as Switzerland of Asia but without actual country. It's a bland "nothing happens" here haven for billionaires. They get to store their wealth and their kids there exactly because nothing happens in Singapore and if something does happen the surveillance and lawyer state will inform and protect you.
In the grand scale of things maybe one can argue this is good for Asia? But imo it's disgusting and unethical, it's distilling society to it's worst parts of indifference and grifting. The only redeeming thing is academia which in itself managed to grift of this state but that's good, take something good back from these billionaires and their hiden bastards.
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