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Wonder if you have FoxNews or a similar variant in Singapore? Do they characterize the Prime Minister as a professorial egg-head elitist out of touch with the
by jwiley 11y ago
Wonder if you have FoxNews or a similar variant in Singapore? Do they characterize the Prime Minister as a professorial egg-head elitist out of touch with the common man?
If not you have something to look forward to, in the early days of our republic, we generally appreciated educated statesmen. Now we prefer our elected officials to be fun-loving guys next door who see the internet as a system of tubes.
- l10nf15h 11y agoSingapore is a one party state with a terrible human rights record. If anyone criticized the government, they would be thrown in prison and/or fined.
- visakanv 11y agoSingaporean here, have criticized the govt multiple times, protested govt policy, am doing perfectly fine, thanks!
- hdhdhshw 11y agoWhat is with your political rant? Singapore's prime minister is a free market conservative.
- jwiley 11y agoMy rant was about a cultural trend in the US of demonizing politicians for being educated and/or intellectual. FoxNews has worked hard to become a mouth-piece for this viewpoint. I wasn't commenting on his political views, party, or human rights background, which I know nothing about.
- Locnil 11y agoNot really, not in the same way - most of our anti-government "media" is on the fringe. And even if we did, Fox News would glorify our PM, not criticise him - by American standards, he's a hardline Tea Party Republican, except without the same regard for civil liberties.