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> > Man, I can't help wishing that if we had to have a dictator why couldn't it be someone (mostly) reasonable like Lee Kwan Yew. > So yeah, Lee Hsien Loong se
by JimDabell 5y ago
> > Man, I can't help wishing that if we had to have a dictator why couldn't it be someone (mostly) reasonable like Lee Kwan Yew.
> So yeah, Lee Hsien Loong seems like a cool guy – wow, a Prime Minister who can write C++.
Javajosh was admiring Lee Kwan Yew, the founding father of Singapore. You are talking about Lee Hsien Loong, the current prime minister.
- skissane 5y agoI wasn't actually confusing them. Javajosh was admiring the father, I mentioned the admiration (expressed by some other comments on this post) some have for his eldest son. "Like father, like son" as they say, and the criticisms I have for the son are regarding matters in which I doubt his father would have done any differently (and indeed, did do very similarly when he was alive and in charge.) I concede that I could have worded my comment better to avoid creating the impression that I was though.