Happy 17776 day!!! I beg of you to read 17776, probably one of the best pieces of fiction exploring the human condition, exploring play, and exploring how exploration & progress are driven by scarcity. This is one of those works that WILL shape your life.
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(tbf, it's perfectly valid if Malaysians want to speak up about issues with SG. We're intertwined in such a way where we can't ignore those links. Like, last I heard, they're building more resource-consuming & water-polluting data centres as we've decided to go all-out on AI)
An awful feature of using immigration decisions to suppress or punish political speech is that it requires essentially no due process -- a terrible precedent, no different from how ICE & CBP are now policing the speech of US visitors & visa holders.
tl;dr: it’s unexceptional historically & across countries — altho what can be said about this particular ban is that *right now* (temporal factor!) the Singapore govt is finding it opportune, and not just important, but useful, to reassert said “sovereignty” “against foreign
Was reading on what MLK said about white moderates and can't help but think it applies to Singaporeans. People who prefer negative peace, which is absence of tension, rather than positive peace, which is the presence of justice
My response to the Singapore government’s malicious, false, & defamatory statement following the denial of entry into Singapore & the subsequent deportation on 22 March 2026.
By persecuting those who oppose imperialist, genocidal violence, who is Singapore protecting?
our foreign minister shook hands + had photo ops with a prime minister who’s actually wanted by ICC for war crimes i think singaporeans need to worry more about the people running this country maintaining good relations with war criminals than someone who advocates for justice
(But also sidenote borders should not exist btw. Probs my most radical take but just think about why they exist for 5 mins (setting boundaries for state's domain of control & violence for a start) and go on from there). But that's all I'll say about it for now.
SG gives off an imagination that organizing against gen0clde, death penalty, or other forms of state violence, can NEVER happen in SG, by painting any form of intl. solidarity as 'foreign interference' pulling the strings. Even if those ppl have been rooted in SG for a long time.
I have many, MANY thoughts about this. The one I'll definitely put out there is that migrants SHOULD be able to organize & build solidarity with others in the states they live in (or used to live in). (This does NOT include infiltration by state powers tho, btw)
I'm Singaporean. I come from a Jewish family. Singaporeans, you have my express permission to shout "Free Palestine!" at me. That would be very pleasing to hear. :-)
they always do this lol. we went from abolish the police to defund the police. everyone couldnt accept that ACAB means ALL, no exceptions. people are too afraid to take it all the way when it needs to be.
When do we accept that world majority opinion doesn't matter? That the ruling class has the POWER to ignore that majority opinion. That we must focus on building POWER to abolish the ruling class and FORCE an end to the genocide rather than continuing to "make our voices heard."
there’s really no need to try to exceptionalise singapore to critique its state violence in fact i think it’s weird af to promote the myth of “bad” vs “good” states because you end up downplaying the violence of other nation-states