Besides being very clear, having a dictator, and rich

besides being very clear, having a dictator, and rich
what exactly goes on in Singapore? how did they get so rich by just being an island in SEAsia. what do they even do?

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transit hub to trade with SE asia and by extension China. same with HK before the hand over.

Also somewhat of a tax haven

i've heard that
but what does that actually mean? how does that help the country
i'm not Jow Forums. sorry

An fake democracy isn't a dictatorship. We have free and open elections but the ruling party controls the mainstream media, sues the opposition and gerrymanders. There are a few opposition strongholds.

>Flawed democracy

>this triggers the singaporean
Is anal sex still illegal?

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i didn't mean any disrespect

nobody cares if you eat gum here desu

typically it means a place with low taxes that guarantee a certain amount of privacy. so you incorporate a company there and pay your taxes in a low tax country instead of your actual country which you would have to pay a higher amount.

Minimal taxes, strong rule of law, low perceived corruption, perceived stability relative to other countries, good infrastructure, relatively well educated workforce. These attract foreign businesses to set up regional hqs for the region in Singapore.

Basically, the rest of the region is comically incompetent and corrupt.

Anal sex will remain illegal but unenforced for the foreseeable future thanks to Christian and Muslim conservatives. PAP can't afford to lose votes.

>Basically, the rest of the region is comically incompetent and corrupt
it's much easier to rule a single city though

>trade routes and maritime traffic go trough straights of Johor since the 15. century
>British and Dutch traders used it for centuries
>half the Chinese export goods pass trough the straight in modern times

can you teach overseas there? as someone mixed himself i've had a bit of a fascination with the country

Singapore is an English speaking country though.

>can you teach overseas there?
Teach what? English? That's an english speaking country and you're probably need to have at least a master's degree and some experience.
Why do amerimutts think they can go anywhere teaching english

it seemed more of a case where some of the city-state speaks english but not all of it
since it seems they have 4 official language
i wasn't sure what was dominate

Sound likes Russia, but Russia is frozen mordor and Singapore is tropical paradise.

We speak English user and the language of instruction here is English

It’s English because singaporeans get upset and rightfully so when chinks go there to work but can’t speak it.

lot of demographics i see show that Mandarin and English are pretty tied

>That's an english speaking country
I wish. Singaporeans speak their ridiculous dialect, and refuse to Speak Good English.

Hanging druggies

>country with a large chinese population
Yea it's pretty tied

Singapore is unironically a democracy. The PAP just happens to win every election.

it really sounds like russia kek

and even after that other dialects seemed to be common to an extent as well
[spoiler] so was i really that stupid in asking my question

fun fact about the dialect thing
Lee Kuan Yew had a campaign to standardize mandarin as the main chinese language in Singapore to ensure that everyone understands each other when speaking in Chinese

Singlish is based lah and you can't deny that

It's literally finlandssvenska of asia. It's hideous

no culture
will execute you for small quantities of drugs
no chewing gum
commercialist shithole
will cane you for chewing gum

No, it's shit desu

Colonial port city.

Old european empires needed a base of operations to pillage and invade asia. So they set up port cities.
These ports funelled people and materials in and out. That alone makes them rich.
Coupled with protection of current european states and US, and tax havens, they've become filthy rich.

New York, Hong Kong, Singapore...

>chewing gum being mentioned twice

What are your thoughts on Lee Kuan Yew. Seems like a pretty cool guy based on stuff I read about him but it would be neat to have an actual Singaporean opinion about the guy.

sorry, should have said no being a fag or no being naked in your house

Nothing is fucking worse than people speaking broken English and thinking it’s okay.

t. butthurt druggie

>Nothing is fucking worse than people speaking broken English and thinking it’s okay.
's roy't, mate

Singapore was just a backwater fishing village unlike Malaya (or at least the couple Bong settlements) which was built up like pre-WW2 Hong Kong until they let the Malays take over a bit in the 20s.

He had to do what he had to do to make Singapore to what it is now.He was just a pragmatic man who had to navigate through politics.

Why do Singaporeans even bother training an army and spending so much on it? Don't the realise that they have no strategic depth at all, and in any actual war, an artillery barrage would flatten their skyscrapers within minutes?

t. homosexual

no you

Good question

lol

That's why you get your own superior artillery and attack your enemies first.

>Why do Singaporeans even bother training an army and spending so much on it?

I'd raise an army too if I'm surrounded by Muslims

there's a reason why so much of their military hardware is actually stored in australia instead of singapore

Moar liek SingaPOOR lol

they still paid annual tribute to the master, so I guess they're good boy with a bit of arrogance especially the 2nd and so forth gen.

>control over one of the most important commercial waterways in the world
>land approach nearly infeasible as long as you both to setup a definsive perimeter (which stupid bongs completely fubared in WW2).
pretty much any large city is gonna be missile bait. doesn't mean you don't set up ABMs, SAMs and flak

singapore is at least more defensible than israel, and can afford to buy the weaponry instead of getting (((subsidized))).

both (sp) --> bother

t. clueless spic with their imaginary backstory.

And what will that achieve?

Just walk fast towards the city lmao Singapore cant do anything against you

Russian style democracy that is
Opponents just keep getting bashed by official papers, get fired for no reason if they work for others, and sometimes go missing for a short vacation if they're really going to win
Either way all opponents are shit anyways so no sane Singaporeans care enough though

That's not democracy though but Russian style is the only way to protect your own country from american termites.

You think the USN 7th fleet in Tokyo will just sit back and watch their logistics base razed?
All they need to do is last long enough for the cavalry to arrive.

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Also the strategic bombers in Diego Garcia will be carpet bombing the attackers.

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Sadly it is. It allows people to vote freely, allows people to stand up… and pap will die under votes if people actually didn't like pap
They're basically Chinese, so I'm sure they're okay with authoritarian government like their mainland brothers as long as they don't hate their own government

>singapore is more homogeneous than america

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Singapore might have no strategic depth, but Malaysia is the land of incompetents who can't even get a dozen fighter jets to fly.

>Anal sex will remain illegal but unenforced for the foreseeable future thanks to Christian and Muslim conservatives. PAP can't afford to lose votes.
So the conservatives are content with getting cucked by blue laws? XD

See the map here: ?

Plenty of spots just in the visible part of Malaysia you can fire artillery from.

But I'll guess that Malaysia and Indonesia needs Singapore for money laundry etc.

1. its not

2. you're a chink

Conservatives love laws regulating everything.

Also they have to move the artillery in range first. Our neighbors don't exactly have enough artillery and bombers to recreate Verdun or Dresden.