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Weekly Roundup: Week 43
Posted by singaporedaily on 24th October 2009
“I don’t want the Straits Times to be the New York Times, I just want her to have testicular fortitude.”
isaiahlim
” The only single folks who would be interested in an outfit like SDN are the aesthetically and constipationally challenged. But enough about the PAP Youth Wing.”
groundnotes
“But while that structural analysis [of Singapore's undemocratic electorial process] might be cogent and pertinent, one would also be ignoring the crucial reason why people are still giving [PAP] the legitimacy in the first place.”
Clement Tan
“The applause was the expression of resentment, of jealously, of worry against the influx of foreign immigrants; discontent hitherto misplaced and lacking ground for articulation in light of the compelling establishment rhetoric, that it is an indispensable and necessary economic evil. Only in a political vacuum could such an economically reductionist argument be made, and it was that political vacuum that compelled 500 pairs of hands to clap enthusiastically..”
Khairulanwar Zaini
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