All you need is to completely disregard human rights and Singapore is pretty decent.
Other than the gross attitude toward people from weaker country and their treament of maid as if they’re dog, what other human right issue they have?
They love executing people and long prison sentences like it’s medieval era.
marijuana? DEATH
I’ve left my bike like this for 50 seconds total in the 25 years I’ve had it - and I had to chase it down to get it back.
look guys! I can leave my unguarded outside in a dictatorial police state!
Eh, sure? Great?
Singapore is not the dream. It’s a police state and dictatorship
Came here to say this. People don’t realize how backwards that place is. Just being gay is illegal as fuck over there. Fuck Singapore.
The law hadn’t been applied decades, male homosexual sex was decriminalised in 2007 and legalised in 2022.
The legal situation before that was inherited from the British Empire, a 1871 law which made all kinds of “sodomy” (oral, anal) illegal for everyone. By now you also have protections against discrimination, hate speech, etc. There’s a gazillion things to criticise about Singapore you don’t need to make shit up. Other things on the list of “don’t criticise about Singapore” include public transit, public housing (though they could ease on the mandatory ethnic mixing a bit), and the food. Oh gods the food.
Dictatorship is also kind of a misnomer… Singapore is one of a kind. Certainly paternalistic as fuck, authoritarian it depends, the PAP is actually listening to people and considers electoral results <70% an issue that must be addressed by fixing shit – and no they don’t mess with the ballot: They mess with media and election timing, as is British tradition.
Two particular things that stand out is the lack of corruption and actual respect for the law, otherwise the whole system would long since have collapsed. That is: All the authoritarianism is actually codified, there’s laws you can read, rights that you have, you’re not going to prison because some big-wig doesn’t like your face or your business idea is interfering with their kleptocracy but because you broke the law, and there’s no easily abused laws like Thailand’s lese-majeste, either. All that is highly untypical for your usual run-off-the-mill dictatorship where favours and loyalty are the only legal currency.
Things to criticise that aren’t caning for littering or insanely hardcore drug laws? Things like the abysmal status of foreign workers. Or, from a more Confucian perspective actually: The failure of the grand daddy PAP to properly see discontent coming, and address them proactively. Lack of connection to younger people who don’t happen to be PAP members.
$1,500 bike blocking access to the coffee shop window and the beer kegs.
Edit: I have been corrected, the bike is $15K. Thanks u/pacoboyd!
How TF is that bike (or any) $15k?!? Does it come with a bike path concierge on every trip?
It’s called midlife crisis excessive spending
Was in a bike shop the other day and they were selling a wheel for €1.2k. Didn’t even come with the axle or the tyre
at that point it really just feels like being expensive for the sake of being expensive, so that rich twats can show off how rich they are
I’m pretty sure it’s because Singapore has security cameras pointing everywhere. Also, caning is a big deterrent to theft.
Yeah, we just need less privacy, more fascism, and more brutal cops.
I don’t understand how you’ve equated security cameras in a PUBLIC PLACE as “less privacy”.
What do you want privacy for in a public place?
ah yes, you have “Nothing to hide” i presume?
3 years jail time for theft.
5 years for being gay.
I’m more wondering why someone would spend that much on a damn bike. I bought my car for 15k of course that was in 2010 but I’m still driving it to this day. Toyota Corolla before anyone asks.
Edit: I just realized this was posted under fuck cars and now I feel like a dick comparing it to the price of my car. It wasn’t intentional but still holy shit that’s still a stupid amount of money to spend on a bike. Like how can you even justify that price? It has to be a completely insane amount of markup.
Because they can afford it and want to have top end carbon, dura-ace, etc.
Do you need it ? No! Does it feel good to ride? Hell yeah!
