Singapore does not deserves this.
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We probably do after trying to take a big dump on democracy in our last presidential elections (BUT HEY FEMALE MUSLIM PRESIDENT!!)
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In other southeast Asian news, for the first time since ever, an opposition party has taken the simple majority in Malaysia's 14th General Election.
Former prime minister Tun Dr. Mahathir, 4th prime minister of Malaysia and representing the Pakatan Harapan (Coalition of Hope) at age 93, has been sworn in as Malaysia's 7th prime minister on 10th May 2018.People all over local social media are celebrating his victory, but mostly, we're just happy that Najib's rule and his corrupt practices have finally come to an end. The Malaysian community, especially young adults born in the 80s and 90s, feel more empowered now than ever before.
I'm cautiously optimistic for what the future holds.
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Shit, I wished it would happen in Mar-A lAOGO.
At first I was hyped by the Kim.Trump meeting. But after noticing the difference of height between the two douchebags, I figured that Kim wouldn't allow pictures. wata let down.
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@Bond:
In other southeast Asian news, for the first time since ever, an opposition party has taken the simple majority in Malaysia's 14th General Election.
Former prime minister Tun Dr. Mahathir, 4th prime minister of Malaysia and representing the Pakatan Harapan (Coalition of Hope) at age 93, has been sworn in as Malaysia's 7th prime minister on 10th May 2018.Mahathir's had his own brand of controversy, no, what with his own authoritarian practices eventually setting up some shady shit later administrations would do? To say nothing of his rocky relationship with our own head honcho LKY.
Also I still can't get over the whole opposition coalition being akin to what is basically 'Emperor Palpatine allying with the Rebels to take down Darth Vader'
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Historic Trump-Kim summit set for Jun 12 in Singapore
Can't think of a reaction to this other than a big fat ':|'
Gee I sure hope Trump doesn't fuck something up especially on this date.
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Mahathir's had his own brand of controversy, no, what with his own authoritarian practices eventually setting up some shady shit later administrations would do? To say nothing of his rocky relationship with our own head honcho LKY.
Also I still can't get over the whole opposition coalition being akin to what is basically 'Emperor Palpatine allying with the Rebels to take down Darth Vader'
Certainly true, and I'm no big fan of Mahathir myself (hence my cautious optimism. I have noticed his entire platform is mostly berating Najib's government with little information about what he plans to do next), but what's important here is the people realising just how much power they hold.
If Mahathir or his party decides to do something that doesn't agree with the general populace, the people know they can elect someone else.I like to think of it as less a victory for Mahathir and more a victory for the democratic process in Malaysia.
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I can't wait for 45th's patented gorilla aggression handshake lol.
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Poor uneducated racist snowflake.
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Poor uneducated racist snowflake.
How does this guy move two feet in Manhattan without hearing something other than English.
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Poor uneducated racist snowflake.
@Monkey:
How does this guy move two feet in Manhattan without hearing something other than English.
Oh I'm sure he does hear other languages. Catch is that he thinks it means they don't belong in America, =
“Your staff is speaking Spanish to customers when they should be speaking English,” the man says.
This idiot thinks that coming to America means they must speak English from then on and if they don't then they don't belong.
Worse is the assumptions he makes due to someone speaking another language.“My guess is, they’re not documented, so my next call is to ICE to have each one of them kicked out of my country,” he says. “They have the balls to come here and live off of my money? I pay for their welfare, I pay for their ability to be here. The least they could do, the least they could do is speak English.”
Now this part really pisses me off. I had Latina friends who were bilingual. They were not immigrants, nor grandchildren of immigrants. Nor did they live on welfare. And she wasn't a unique person, esp. for being in Texas, as there were Hispanics fighting for the Republic of Texas and have been citizens as long as their white brothers-in-arms.
This asshole thinks that just because they speak Spanish means they can't afford to support themselves while ignoring the fact that a) some of the Spanish speakers are employees so they are working, b)others are customers paying for their coffee, c) unless NY is different, I don't know about coffee houses accepting food stamps so they would be paying cash, not using govt funds that is in SNAP aka 'food stamps'. -
Oh I'm sure he does hear other languages. Catch is that he thinks it means they don't belong in America, =
This idiot thinks that coming to America means they must speak English from then on and if they don't then they don't belong.
Worse is the assumptions he makes due to someone speaking another language.Now this part really pisses me off. I had Latina friends who were bilingual. They were not immigrants, nor grandchildren of immigrants. Nor did they live on welfare. And she wasn't a unique person, esp. for being in Texas, as there were Hispanics fighting for the Republic of Texas and have been citizens as long as their white brothers-in-arms.
This asshole thinks that just because they speak Spanish means they can't afford to support themselves while ignoring the fact that a) some of the Spanish speakers are employees so they are working, b)others are customers paying for their coffee, c) unless NY is different, I don't know about coffee houses accepting food stamps so they would be paying cash, not using govt funds that is in SNAP aka 'food stamps'.As someone from Texas what you don't get is that all of this is extra racist/stupid in a NY context. Odds are very good that they were Puerto Rican.
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@Monkey:
How does this guy move two feet in Manhattan without hearing something other than English.
It makes you wonder what kind of bubble these people live in.
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Between this guy and Trump I have to wonder if horrible assholes in NYC have some secret sky tube they avoid the streets with.
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Amazing how this lawyer's hatred of hearing Spanish being spoken doesn't interfere with him touting his ability to speak it on his website.
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Full disclousure, My aunt is an illegal migrant in New York. She could be legally in europe, and her family is in chile, but no, she'd rather clean toilets in new york.
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Seriously, did this guy just get momentarily possessed by the spirit of a vengeful redneck?
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The welfare stuff racists like to spout at brown people is one of those things that makes me and and want to laugh. White people are the main users of welfare. But this guy is getting destroyed and it's wonderful.
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The welfare stuff racists like to spout at brown people is one of those things that makes me and and want to laugh. White people are the main users of welfare. But this guy is getting destroyed and it's wonderful.
"He's fucked up."
"He's an ignorant asshole."
"Maybe you should get hit by a car you piece of shit."Makes you smile, doesn't it?
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Poor uneducated racist snowflake.
How common is this in the US? I know that there aren't very many languages in the US to cause such outrage everywhere but just wondering. I guess NY and other diversity intense states bear the brunt often?
Linguistic chauvinism is something very common in my country so curious to see how it holds up elsewhere too. It isn't classified as racism though in our case since the outrage mainly rises due to the inability to speak the same tongue rather than stemming from the race of the person. People feel that their language should be imposed so that communication can be more easier. It's a different debate altogether anyway
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Poor uneducated racist snowflake.
Captain melodramatic has lost his job after word got out about his public tantrum. He's even being investigated.
The news came as Congressman Adriano Espaillat and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. filed their complaint against Schlossberg to the New York State Unified Court System’s Departmental Disciplinary Committee — calling on the panel to investigate the attorney and possibly revoke his license.
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Another school shooting. This is actually America.
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Huh, he had a AR-15. Shocking.
At least they caught the dirty little motherfucker.
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@Mr.:
Another school shooting. This is actually America.
I take solace only in that, last I'd heard, they captured the shooter alive.
Given how much these things are often elaborate suicides by the shooters, I'm always glad to hear they didn't get what they want.
It's a small comfort, but it beats Thoughts and Prayers
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@xan:
How common is this in the US? I know that there aren't very many languages in the US to cause such outrage everywhere but just wondering. I guess NY and other diversity intense states bear the brunt often?
It's extremely rare and bizarre in NYC to have something like that happened, walk five minutes down a Manhattan street and you'll hear non-English.
It's more something that would happened in suburbs close enough to cities for diversity, and far enough that the people are provincial xenophobes. When two worlds meet. -
A shame about all the incoming discrimination and hate toward Greek Americans after this.
Oh word? No one is doing that? Strange!
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@Monkey:
A shame about all the incoming discrimination and hate toward Greek Americans after this.
Oh word? No one is doing that? Strange!
I've been seeing people on the alt-right claiming that Greeks aren't white.
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I've been seeing people on the alt-right claiming that Greeks aren't white.
The alt-right will do that until they've narrowed it down to a beach shack in Holland.
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Ah, yes, the stupid, old belief of "dirty white".
….You know, despite two of the civilizations that are considered that, the Greeks and Italians built the blueprint for modern Western society, but whatever, right?
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@S.C.:
Ah, yes, the stupid, old belief of "dirty white".
….You know, despite two of the civilizations that are considered that, the Greeks and Italians built the blueprint for modern Western society, but whatever, right?
They are prepared for this issue though, they have some sort of theory about Ancient Greeks and Romans being pure Aryan supermen, and in the times since their bloodlines have been sullied by foul Turks and Arabs. Or something like that.
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@Monkey:
They are prepared for this issue though, they have some sort of theory about Ancient Greeks and Romans being pure Aryan supermen, and in the times since their bloodlines have been sullied by foul Turks and Arabs. Or something like that.
On that note, it is intriguing to look at the Ottomans, and find out quite a few Grand Vizers and Kapudan Pashas were actually converters from places like Southern Europe.
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The funniest dumb inter-Europe racism is that Albanians in spite of being generally more white looking than Greeks, will almost always without fail be regarded as non-white.
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@Monkey:
The funniest dumb inter-Europe racism is that Albanians in spite of being generally more white looking than Greeks, will almost always without fail be regarded as non-white.
Because Muslim.They even use the Dual-Headed Eagle as their flag, too. Ay yi yi.
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I'm so pissed off right now
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Some stupid FUCK had the fucking nerve to show up protesting by with a trump hat, a flag and a gun on his hip right after the shooting took place. Eat asshole you garbage piece of shit
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How many fucking school shootings do we have to have before people realize that guns are bad?
This kid didn't get the guns himself, even. He stole his dad's. Who apparently wasn't taking care of them well enough.
@Monkey:
They are prepared for this issue though, they have some sort of theory about Ancient Greeks and Romans being pure Aryan supermen, and in the times since their bloodlines have been sullied by foul Turks and Arabs. Or something like that.
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How many fucking school shootings do we have to have before people realize that guns are bad?
It's not necessarily that, it's just the people in power don't give a shit about children's lives, only money.
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Argh.
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Texas lt gov blames shooting on there being too many entrances and exits to the school.
Setting aside the obvious, does this idiot even know about building fires.
The mental gymnastics these politicians go through to keep their NRA blood money.
They rather have that money than keep the laws & OSHA requirements of safety. After all, why worry about enough exits in case of fire when its far more likely for school kids to die by gunfire
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I've been seeing people on the alt-right claiming that Greeks aren't white.
If white skin doesn't equal being white then how a person considered white
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If white skin doesn't equal being white then how a person considered white
Nationality, which is how you wound up with things like discrimination against the Irish and Scandinavians.
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Former inmate at Chinese detention camp used for Muslims says that re-education involved being forced to eat pork and drink wine.
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Former inmate at Chinese detention camp used for Muslims says that re-education involved being forced to eat pork and drink wine.
Note, this is all during Ramadan.Well shit why don't they just go full hog and make them burn a Quran too.
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Ugh. Reading stuff like this makes me so ashamed being Chinese descent. Like, what would our ancestors think of this shit? (and I don't mean Mao, the guy was a psycho)
Makes you wonder what poor German-Americans thought during WWII seeing their country doing all this horrible stuff.
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I always thought not eating pork was a Jewish-only tradition.
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I always thought not eating pork was a Jewish-only tradition.
Nope, it's Jewish and Muslim. It must be hard to keep pork in the Middle East.
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I'm actually surprised he won't face the death penalty given how much Texas prides itself on executing people whether they're innocent or not.
Though I don't expect him to get paroled either.