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A comment on Singapore’s tech-utopia and surveillance state. Parent comment

Re:Singapore’s tech-utopia and surveillance state by coldtea on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:39PM (#29268862)
On the other hand, Taiwan and Korea were dictatorships or semi-dictatorships after the war, and for a long time (until the 80s or so). Even today elections there are charade-ish...
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Re:Singapore’s tech-utopia and surveillance state by another_story on Thursday November 18, 2021 @04:56PM (#29271149)
Taiwan elections are charade-ish? Can you back that up with anything?
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Re:Singapore’s tech-utopia and surveillance state by coldtea on Thursday November 18, 2021 @08:28PM (#29272766)
You mean aside from 70+ years of a dictatorship, mass corruption on both sides, the KMT lording over for most of the country's existence, and having this ex-dictatorship force still being the major political player (with huge amassed wealth to boot), or having local goverment issues being drawn in the pro/anti China partsian noise?
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Re:Singapore’s tech-utopia and surveillance state by another_story on Friday November 19, 2021 @08:54PM (#29284913)
You're ignoring the successful elections since they've become a democracy. Stop living 30+ years in the past.
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