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Re:Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore by sam_lynx on Saturday September 05, 2020 @02:24PM (#24385708)
Eh, as they said in the article: "Part of the mythos of Lee Kuan Yew is that he succeeded as an authoritarian where so many others have failed." Singapore is the exception; authoritarian governments are almost always bad for the people otherwise.
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Re:Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore by dv_dt on Saturday September 05, 2020 @07:01PM (#24387544)
Benevolent dictatorship is not just a sarcastic phrase, it is sometimes true for some distributions of benevolence in history. The more interesting question is what happens after he passes away, or cannot continue to make decisions.
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Re:Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore by kingkawn on Saturday September 05, 2020 @06:57PM (#24387522)
Many Singaporeans will tell you that their experience is quite repressive
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Re:Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore by sam_lynx on Sunday September 06, 2020 @08:50PM (#24395862)
True -- after all, it is still authoritarian, the only difference is that this authoritarian government seems to care for the wealth of its citizens (although not much else.)
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