Singapore is notorious for having extreme penalties for relatively minor crimes
"Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?!"
Sound of firing squad loading rifles
"This is democracy manifest!"
firing squad fires
The cannabis seized from Omar is sufficient to feed the addiction of about 144 abusers for a week.
What the hell is up with this bizarre line in the article? "Addiction"? "Abusers"? Is the the article writer fucking serious with this Reefer Madness shit? What a god damn clown.
As someone who has smoked weed for nearly 10 years now, it is addictive and can be abused.
"addiction" used to mean physical withdrawals... now it means weed, television, working out, phones, sex, and more.
Weed withdrawal is milder than caffeine withdrawal for most people.
With 10 being death from withdrawal (like from alcohol), on a scale of 1 to 10 cannabis is a 1.
Yeah, when I had a heroin addiction it kind of used to piss me off when people would talk about addictions to porn and stuff. I'd think they had no idea what addiction really meant. Try going cold turkey from smack. But TBF even though maybe the word addiction doesn't apply in the same way, it's certainly true that any compulsive behaviour that's detrimental to your life is a problem that needs help.
It's an Asian outlet. They never really had much sympathy for them.
Those hopeless addicts are consuming a bit over 3 grams of weed per week. Definite threat to society there.
And of course the guy being executed is not from the Chinese elite, he's a Singaporean Malay.
Singapore - "we straight up kill drug smugglers to death and have done so for 50 years". Drug smuggler - "I'm sure they're exaggerating"
Here I am in Canada, Just finished a perfectly legal grow for my own personal use and got 28 oz from it
784 grams is wiiild :o
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.
It's china with a better passport. There is no freedom of press there.
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.
The dictatorship is how you get the gardens and fancy buildings.
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.
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.
No matter how you spin it thats barbaric
Challenging to criticize Singapore if you're from somewhere with monthly massacres of school children.
the monthly massacres aren't government policy. executing a cannabis trafficker is.
aren’t government policy
That could be debated. They’re certainly at least the standard they walk past and accept.
Not at all. Murder is murder regardless of the country.
How could you possibly think that is challenging? Of course it should be criticized.
I am reading "Singaporean man executed for importing cannibals" and I am thinking "why would anyone import cannibals???"
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