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destroying asses to make a utopian society the whole place is basically the gated community concept applied to a city state
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creates bland police state gated community and wonders why people don't want to gently caress anymore
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Jul 2, 2015 06:06
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Gibson had a nice takedown of the place in a article called Disneyland with a death penalty http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/1.04/gibson.html
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Jul 2, 2015 06:16
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Dubai and saudi arabia are much worse.
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Jul 3, 2015 17:36
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z0glin Warchief posted:lol Yeah lots of libertarian bay area techies fled there after whining about the evil of taxes in the United States.
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Jul 3, 2015 18:09
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TacticalUrbanHomo posted:fascism is good, hth it's no wonder why techies types were attracted to Singapore
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Jul 4, 2015 06:04
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would zizek like Singapore?
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Jul 4, 2015 06:09
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st1LL_51ngl3 posted:e: Hm, then again, he also describes Taiwan as being exactly this sort of 'chaotic', when from everything goons say about Chinese countries, I've always had the impression that Taiwan is top-tier Chinese country. Well in Taiwan they always have badass brawls in their parliament. Similar to South Korea, Taiwan was a military dictatorship for most of its post-WWII history.
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Jul 4, 2015 16:19
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Miltank posted:'Capitalism with Asian values' aka no wonder why their utopia ends up being so organized and boring with even basic vices like smoking being frowned upon.
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Jul 4, 2015 17:51
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Suckthemonkey posted:It's not so great if you're a gay dude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Singapore yeah plus the government categorizes gays by how macho they act.
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Jul 4, 2015 19:19
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it's a great idea since it combines the most bland things about asians aka obsession with conformity/tradition with the obsession over banal material things.
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Jul 4, 2015 19:59
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st1LL_51ngl3 posted:This might be honestly one of the worst criticisms about Singapore. Let's feel good about a regime that keeps the trains running on time while having intense censorship, bans gays from jobs, social engineering on every level and is basically a one party capitalist dictatorship. It's what you get by combining the Hive and Capitalist factions from alpha centauri.
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Jul 5, 2015 00:29
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african dystopia is a bunch of child solders running around with AKs, Asian dystopia is getting caned on the rear end for smoking
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It's basically a socialist police state in which people trade complete deference the government in exchange for free housing, medical care and other benefits. It's using the carrot approach instead of the stick create a completely subservient society. If anything it has lots in common with the pristine clean world of Mirrors Edge.
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