the reason why i, personally, want to hear sylvia's motion in full is because that gives her the space to say things that can help shape our discourse.
for example, in her response to the president's address, she brought up the PQ she asked *13* years ago and got no answer to.
the moment a minister posts some passive aggressive paternalistic bullshit on facebook, these “objective” centrists wanna pretend like they have never had their plates cleared or toilet washed by a bent-back old ah mm before. just say you wanna hold on to your privilege and go.
I mean someone lmk if I'm being reductionist but you can't possibly tell me that the pm of Singapore with a supermajority in parliament can't do more about poverty in this country apart from donating privately.
The rise of colonialism is inextricable from the rise of capitalism. The capitalist world we still live in is not post-colonial, but reformed (or neo-) colonial. As Dr Poh Soo Kai states, being socialist “is a natural extension of being anti-colonial.”