>Be the leader of a city state situated at the busiest shipping lane in the world>City state becomes rich and prosperous simply by being a tax haven with said geography >”From third world to first”>Be praised as a uniquely skilled “statesman” for some reason>Armchair policy wonks use you as an example to browbeat developing brown shitholes whose only possible export is AIDS When will the Lee Kuan Yew meme end?
@grok is this true?
The fascinating thing about Lee Kuan Yew is he took three important decisions right at the beginning for Singapore. Each one of them now seems obvious. Each one, at the time, was deeply contested.Number one, he said, "Everyone's going to speak English in Singapore."Now, there were lots of people who said to him at the time, "No, no. We need to have our own local language. We need to be true to our roots," and everything.He said, "No. English is the language of the world. We're all going to speak English."Secondly, he said, "We're going to get the best intellectual capital from whatever exists in the world, and we're going to bring it to Singapore."Again, people said, "No. We should stand on our own two feet. You're also bringing in the British. We've got all these disputes with them."He said, "No. I'm going to bring in the best from wherever they are, and they're going to come to Singapore."The third thing he did was he said, "There's going to be no corruption."One of the ways we're going to do that is we're going to make sure our political leaders are well paid, which they are. Singapore's political leaders are the best paid in the world. And there's going to be zero tolerance for corruption.Those are the three decisions that were instrumental in building Singapore today.
>>538203926Theyre importing scamming poos
>>538204699These three precepts are very easy to do as a port city state positioned at the busiest shipping lane in the world and in an excellent position to cater to international finance, but virtually nowhere else
They all love him because its illegal to post negative things about the Singaporean government. He literally silenced all opposition, while autistically building train tunnels and reclaiming land and also building towers. These 'educated' elite never had to suffer through this petty dictator's reign. Plus its really not that impressive what he did, like sure he could've failed and made things much worse, but you can comfortably pop over the border into Malaysia and see that Kuala Lumpur is pretty much on par with Singapore despite having to deal with all the batshit Islamic beliefs.
>>538203926>Be capital of a global spanning empire>run to the ground in 50 years importing shitskin and niggersThe fact that he could hold a city together filled with pajeets and mudslime was already a testament to his skills
>>538203926>dictator>didn't use the position of absolute power to just enrich himself and his friendsthis is so much rarer than you'd think of course it's worthy of admiration you fucking retard usually the best thing you can hope for is eternal stagnation (e.g. >flag, but even we are regressing a lot on many things)we're never ever gonna have someone like LKY here are we? fucking hell
>>538203926it wont work if the population is majority Pajeet instead of Chinese
>>538205439eternal stagnation is what we suffer right now and it aint so great
>>538205439>the best thing you can hope for is eternal stagnationYeah because most of us don’t live in a tax haven city state situated at the busiest shipping lane in the world
I don't know if it's this video or some other from Asianometry, but it's worth listening about the subject.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBS3fAqY0lwYoutube search is so bad at finding old video essays.
He’s proof dictatorships work best when you want to transform a country. We should’ve had one too.
>>538205439ThisNations don't develop if their leadership are corrupt. He could have easily pocketed the money, empowered his party to act as his personal shield, and treated Singaporeans as free port labor.But he didn't. He worked to build and develop the infrastructure because it'd bring economic prosperity.If anything the lesson that can be learned from him is the same as for China. Building infrastucture and connecting a nation's vital economic arteries with it enables fast economic growth and development.
Democracy only works after the populace has been enlightened. The path to achieving enlightenment includes rigorous education, promotion of critical thinking, and atheistic valuesIf I ever got the chance to be a leader, I’d enforce them and make it a motto. I’d overhaul culture entirely. It’ll be highly meritocratic under me overseeing progress.
>>538205845>He could have easily pocketed the money, empowered his party to act as his personal shield, and treated Singaporeans as free port labor.He was already dealing with race riots, if he tried to play that game without a loyalist demographic he'd have stolen a couple of million dollars them be forced to flee the country.
>>538203926tldr>OP is an Amerimutt who hates that he hates PoosExplains everything
Also Singapore literally makes racism illegal and you can be fined and jailed for insulting Jeets, don’t forget that.
>>538205822we had many dictatoships but they are all self serving retard that ignore industry and educationif we at least got one dictator with a brain we would already been a developed nation decades ago because all other countries back then are too busy rebuilding from ww2 and decolonization period
>>538205822You had your chance in '92. Should have kept Anand.Also yes, dictatorships are unironically fine when they have a national plan for the nation. Libya's Gaddafi for instance gets a lot of flak, but if you follow his actions, he truly believed in Libya can lead to greatness in having a bloc against western influence. Under him, Libya went from one of the poorest to one of the wealthier countries in north africa
>>538203926From Singapoor ti SingarichBased as fuck.
>>538205675Post hand.
>>538203926Yeah I know this guy. His from Mortal Kombat isn't he. Has one of the best fatalities in the game.
>>538204699Headcanon.The first thing LKY did was wanting to merge with Malayasia or Malaya at the time to be stable.Due to him not wanting to give up his power to the latter's government, we got kicked out.Ironically, it helps us be independent and rich but we got some help from the Jews which is a bad thing now.Ever since he died and his new useless leaders took over, this country has been going downhill.
>>538203926>rich and prosperousSingapore is a shithole lol
>>538205439>didn't use the position of absolute power to just enrich himself and his friendsLKY didn't do it but... don't check what happened recently with his party...
>>538206804how's the CECA jeets?having retarded dictatorship kinda suck innit?
>>538206413Not being colonized or destroyed in ww2 is actually why we failed hard. Europeans put pressure on independent Thailand and capped their import and export duties so that they never get meaningful revenue. Also because of being independent, they never built trains or anything. It all came late after. As for WW2, due to not facing total destruction, nobody gave it any foundational aid so it remained stuck. In fact this country would’ve been stuck with nothing if it wasn’t for the communist uprisings on the borders and the Plaza accord that fucked over Japan later.>>538206415Its over dude, lowest birth rate (0.76), lowest GDP growth rate (1.6%) but yeah sure keep building condos and skyscrapers for… I don’t even know who at this point. Maybe its for the best everyone goes extinct in the next 100 years here, maybe China can then enjoy these empty lands after its done.
>>538206921Everyone is sick of them.One of them ran over and killed a tourist and there's a video of her shouting and blaming them.
>>538205822You've been in once your whole life. An endless parade of fat useless shits demanding respect from the people while being puppeteered by the royal family who dindu nuthin' but are worshiped as gods because the king once went round thailand taking photos of poor people as a hobby, but the retarded peasants interpreted it as him showing care.Thailand has already hit the demographic cliff too. born as a poor country, live as a poor country, die as a poor country. The only question is which country will take over thailand
>>538207050>The only question is which country will take over thailandThat's seems to be Japan.
>>538203926>City state becomes rich and prosperous simply by being a tax havenIt's funny how this is literally all you need to do to create an economic miracle. And yet most gov's won't do this. Funny how that works huh
>>538206087Then all the more argument for why you should credit the population for their success as well, right? A complacent population doesn't motivate a nation to improve.
>>538207121nah its china now japan is so 1990s
>>538207050They already are replacing the previous thais by importing millions of burmese, laotians, and cambodians to form a new serf class who they will rule over.
>>538207050>The only question is which country will take over thailandDibs on south thailand. Just give us narathiwat, pattani and yala. Greater Malaya here we come
>>538207287>>538207121Royal family and fat military shits love China, but the people love Japan.So its probably gonna be China.Why are their generals so fat and ugly? Why do they frown so much? Yingluck was hot af and you guys sacked her for some fat ugly retard. The absolute state of retardation of Thais.
>>538203926The fact of the matter is Great Britain created Singapore, AND Hong Kong... AND the US for that matter... they also created Australia and Canada... When you think about it almost good nation in the world is because of the British Empire.
>>538207349I pray for Malaysia to prosper so much that they start bullying the Thai elitesEven VietnamI want them to make them suffer and piss their pants
>>538206871>LKY didn't do it butbut??? LKY didn't do it. that's the end of that I think.>don't check what happened recently with his party...>recentlyRECENTLY? what's recently fucking matter? for us corruption is not recent it is basically eternal.the only thing remotely recent is that it is rapidly getting worse because of the concentrated effort of ONE MAN with no true improvements in sight. procedure is a joke in govt now, for what its worth the procedures and laws are incredibly fucking gay EU bullshit will not but the procedure to avoid them is even gayer because it's literally decided by party clout how much you have to care about procedures and laws and it is absolutely beyond me to pretend that faggot vučić is some kind of ultimate patriot.we literally cannot fix this with a faggy european democracy which ON PAPER, THE TOILET PAPER CONSTITUTION, is what we should be. it even starts with a faggy spiel about european values.picrel is vučić described perfectly
At least he's unlike western leaders who are trapped by political correctness. Singapore and China are doing a good job on not letting the mudslimes overrun their country.
>>538205376Is simple, you just need to punish the crimes
He only did that through national socialism Should have sterilised or straight up pogromed the jeets tho
>>538206953>colonized You country most probably ended as vietnam or chink influenced commieland and would have become a global manufacturing sweat shops for the chinks.youre country could have become the next rising tiger only if had american aligned dictators who actually cared for their country like park chung lee
