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Feb 27 2025 06:27am

Quote (Goomshill @ 27 Feb 2025 19:51)

I enjoyed it much more than japan or korea to be honest, mostly because of the hawkers. Became very evident how surface level some stuff was, like the luxury shops at the marina bay were all conspicuously staffed by multiple people doing nothing and not a single person shopping at peak hours. But I've been using it as an example of the ups and downs of a government restricting liberties and heavily regulating society, divorced from tyranny and being murder happy. People enjoy having no crime and no drugs, sure, but then you realize there's no benches anywhere because 'people should keep moving' and I can heartily recommend against old people retiring there

Yup.... which is why I went to Hong Kong. Singapore is extremely repressed and conformist , safe to a fault.
You will be surprised that of all the people here or on the internet saying that Hong Kong is stripped of her " freedoms " by the CCP which is absolutely untrue. Hong Kong is still a 100 times " freer" than Singapore in almost every category. I lived in both societies.

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Feb 27 2025 11:15am

The economic and wealth growth in places like China or India would have caused them to develop their own entertainment industry and cultural production anyway, so even in a world in which US culture hadn't been infected by wokism, their cultural influence would have declined throughout the 2010s and 20s. The US adopting, and trying to export, an increasingly cancerous culture did clearly accelerate the decline of their cultural hegemony, though. Europe, Canada and multinational corporations are pretty much the only places outside of the US in which wokism/DEI have truly caught on.

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Feb 27 2025 02:35pm

Disregarding culture wokeness focus, is there an argument to be made on how much DEI initiatives have been a gross benefit for society. Surely these programs don't run on deficits, else USAID would not be openly bragging on official platforms.

Can someone convincingly argue these initiatives are not helping the people they say they help? (both nationally and foreign)

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Feb 27 2025 03:27pm

Quote (WiziLiCe @ Feb 27 2025 12:35pm)

I don't think there is, but there is a massive argument to be made on how DEI initiatives have been a gross detriment

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Feb 27 2025 03:33pm

I think it was more like an intact institution was in place to control public opinion, finance diversion in other countries etc. with real professionals from the cold war era. Graduates from the woke universities arrived there and saw it as a tool "to shape" the world "the right" way. Of course, with total disregard to the local culture and traditions. Corrupt people saw an opportunity to syphon money in the name of good as always then you saw the result. They tried to influence the elections in their host country like parasytes.
The analogy would be to let a 7y old kid drive a Porsche.

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