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[–] 38 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Singapore loves to pretend it's a modern country with it's gardens and fancy buildings.

But beneath the surface is an overworked population ruled by a family dictatorship.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    family dictatorship.

    It's effectively a single party state with an elected dictator, but AFAIK their prime ministers and presidents don't come all from the same family.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago*

    You're right it's not a dictatorship like North Korea, but it's elections are also not as clean and fair as other modern democracies.

    The same ruling party has dominated since independence, and maintained structural imbalance suppressing the ability for any meaningful opposition to rise.

    While leadership in Singapore isn't hereditary, the nation has been guided by a very small political elite originating from Lee Kuan Yew.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The dictatorship is how you get the gardens and fancy buildings.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    No, that's from science and engineers and public works. Fascists just like to co-opt that because it LOOKS socialist and try to use that to trick people.

    Giant bronze statues of themselves, castles, starvation, fear, poor decisions, and heavy militarization is what dictatorships ACTUALLY get you.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    No, that’s from science and engineers and public works.

    We have scientists, engineers, and city planners too in America, despite what anyone says. But we don't have the draconian enforcement that these places have.

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