/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Day 6 of the campaign is where things get really personal. SDP tried their best to do damage control with their candidate saying a slur. Their leader and victim made a speech about it. The former even had everyone bowed to the crowd as a mark of penance and apology. Some in the crowd wanted to move on to talk about the real issues while others say the victim's attempt to label this interaction as 'casual' racism isn't exactly casual. Nevertheless i hope they can recover in the polls.

PAP does the usual song and dance every election. Criticize WP for not doing anything, for only saying stuff in Parliament without proposing alternatives. And how the minister they sent over to Punggol is really important and they can't afford to lose him. Boohoohoo, PAP is like a child who got caught murdering his parents and is now begging for lenincy on the account of being an orphan.

WP leadership is trying their to ease voters' concerns that a weakened PAP mandate is not the end of the world and not a serious downgrade to municipal issues. How small minded the populace is that they are struggling over such petty concerns and instead of national policies? Some even think their voting isn't secret! WP leader even asked that if the minister is so important, why send him over? If PAP is really weakened by a WP landslide, who is only contesting 26 out of 97 seats, that it is truly a weak party that doesn't deserve to rule.

Might as well, PAP simply does not have a manifesto worth talking about. It is empty and sparse of details. Clearly written by and for morons. When I first read it, I thought this was the TL DR version of the manifesto. But it turns out the sparsely written manifesto is the actual manifesto. PAP is running out of new ideas, an impotent party relying on its electoral machinery to win votes. I cannot be convinced that anyone would want to vote for PAP is they read its manifesto. But 2015 looms over me like dark clouds have been for these days…

>>2250696
>WP leadership is trying their to ease voters' concerns that a weakened PAP mandate is not the end of the world and not a serious downgrade to municipal issues.
Was at the rally yesterday night at ASJC, or at least tried to be, crowd was so huge rally site was closed, I sorta watched from a backalley overlooking with another group. I feel like they could have done better other than just telling everyone about the need to check the PAP's influence and serve as a devil advocate, but anyway it seemed like everyone else in the crowd liked hearing that. People especially liked when Sylvia Lim started talking, not that I actually remember much of it.

Day 7 of the campaign is where another round of rallies are made. This time WP goes to Punggol to do their rally, in the exact same area as PAP a few days ago. You may start to notice that my posts are becoming shorter and shorter. That is because I am recalling from memory. And also because the next few jabs between PAP and the Opposition are more or the less on the same issues.

PAP usually gripes about 3 main points
>Opposition does nothing coz they only know how to criticize
>Opposition winning more seats would mean PAP and therefore Singapore would be weaken in negotiation
>Opposition eliminating potential ministers (that were parachuted in of course) would mean a severely weakened cabinet

And as always, opposition parties would respond with
>Opposition can only do something when it wins seats and get into committees
>PAP is more or less going to have 51% of the seats in Parliament anyway so Opposition should be voted in to give them a majority
>PAP cannot whine about losing ministers if they move them to hotly contested seats in the first place

That and the PAP's narrative about tariffs and fear of a new world order vs the Opposition's narrative about hope for a better Singapore in the face of a bad economy. The rally speeches for WP is more or less the same. Talk about their lived experiences, pivot to a particular manifesto policy, tell people to vote not out of fear but out of hope. And that Workers Party is a loyal, rational and credible opposition.

When I say Punggol has star power, it is clear in their speeches. They made grand speeches that night, attacking their direct opponents in the area and rebutting the snide comments they have made. They mocked and depict them as out of touch. The WP leader would later touch on that too. Nothing too unusual.

What is unique is the WP's chairperson (basically the 2nd in command), who leaned into her old age last time, leaned into her femininity. She was WP's chairperson for decades, and usually one of the few women running for the party. This time 5 additional women are running with her and she took today to highlight that. A bit idpolish but I guess it is needed. She makes a particular point that this might be the only time Punggol can vote for WP. It is a fresh made GRC, whose parts has been divided up into other areas before. a poignant point of the constant and drastic gerrymandering in Singapore.

But would that be enough for Punggol voters to vote WP? I have heard that many young people want to vote WP but are unable to convince their parents to do so. I can only hope the pure star power, that many inside and outside of the party believe to be the key in winning elections, can carry us here.

Day 8 of the election and there are scandals abound. A WP members contesting against the NTUC chief, has his chat leaked where he constantly berated many aspects of Singapore and whatever he found unhappy. While of coz he said nothing racist or sexist, people seem to be offended, or think others will be that he was so vulgar and crass. A sign of how mindlessly conservative Singaporeans can be. What is worse is that many in PAP spoke out against wokism, yet they indulge in their own brand of purity politics and cancel culture. Bad press for the next few days, but nothing has changed on the ground in terms of sentiments.

This day, WP has its rally in East Coast. A decades long battleground GRC that was always out of reach from WP. Last election, it sent its biggest star into the area, Nicole Seah. A pretty firebrand speaker of her time, she hopped around parties before coming to WP. She was basically our AOC. Alas, the heir apparent of the PAP's prime minister was parachuted into this area at the last moment, giving her an uphill battle. Still she managed to pull the GRC to a 53-47 result, the third closet result of the whole Opposition contesting areas (not including Hougang and Aljuined). The PAP heir apparent was disgraced by the result of the election as a whole and basically retired from politics, leading to the current guy to take over.

A few years ago, she was caught on video having an affair with another WP MP. This forced them both to resign from politics. A huge shame and a massive waste of momentum. Her disappearance and PAP's heir apparent minister makes this area a rather bland and boring fight.

Everyone this side of the ECP already knows who is WP and what it stands for. EC is the non WP-area that has constant house/market/hawker visits for 10 years. The only area that can compare to EC is Marine Parade. This and the addition of Joo Chiat, already an infamous WP stronghold, and Chai Chee to EC does make this area easily contestable. Unfortunately, the line up this year is not particularly eye catching, so much so that most people even forget it exist (last pic attached doesnt have EC in the meme). And they need this rally to really catch eyeballs.

And it was a rough start, already a lighting alert delayed the rally by half an hour. It was very close to being cancelled, potentially causing a riot outside. This meant that some speakers couldn't speak tonight to save time. Still the stadium was as always filled to the brim.

East Coast speakers that night did have some nice speeches. One uses the imagery of blue skies to come to EC. Even those who are not contesting EC talk about EC as an old home. Perhaps the most polarising is Nathaniel Koh. Someone who is like the anti-orator, speaking in a calm and monotone style. Yet he speaks of his struggles and the struggles of others. Many dislike his bland speechmaking, but many like his earnest and sincere approach. Finally, the star of EC, the steward of Joo Chiat, JJ spoke. An old man who spoke until he started coughing, making Nathaniel Koh come up to him to offer him some water. He mocked the gerrymandering his home of Joo Chiat being moved around to dilute its votes. He attacked his PAP counterparts for his foolish comments.

Finally it was the WP leader's turn. He attacked the partisanship of PA, Sparkletots and RC. These institutions were dominated by PAP and used to act as electoral machinery for PAP. The people are infamously insufferable and partisan. It is also a way for people trying to get benefits for their children or citizenship for themselves. When WP wins an area, they are still denied these resources to serve their residents' municipal needs. He also appealed to the youth, telling them that WP has faith in them in whatever they do. He has also appealed to new citizens, saying that a pink IC makes you one of us. The former is a solid source of opposition, while the latter is infamously and stereotypical a source of PAP votes. Indeed many natives have accused PAP of selling pink ICs for votes, breeding a sense of doomerism and nihilism in singapore politics. The narrative of the Great Replacement Theory is very much alive here, for native Chinese and Indians hostile to the mainlanders. It does not help that the new citizens themselves proudly say that they vote for PAP precisely because it gave them their citizenship.

I fear xenophobia rising in Singapore, whose citizens are already outnumbered by foreigners in this country. Only 2.8 million out of 5.8 million on this island are able to vote. Already PSP and SDP are embracing anti-immigrant rhetoric, with WP adopting more moderate positions. Things could get worse and worse for new citizens if they persist in this quid pro quo style of voting. Blue skies ahead for Singapore or stormy thunder? The EC GRC is a battleground for these competing visions for Singapore. No star power, no online or media appearances, just pure ground game and legacy voting.

I apologise but I must blend Day 9 and 10 together. The polling ends in a few hours and the sample polls will come up soon. Suffice to say, nothing major happened in the last 48 hours. An Instagram story of a MOE teacher berating the NTUC chief for his rude comments when he was Minister of Education went viral on social media. But so far nobody IRL commented on it to make it particularly significant. The WP Punggol team made a stance against the overt objectification of one of their candidates.

PAP have had their loyal dog, the NTUC to hold a MayDay rally on Labour Day. Later that evening, PAP brought out all the big guns to hold rallies in all three battleground GRCs for WP. They have effectively abandoned the west and north of Singapore to focus on the east. They are desperate and scared of losing, aiming for a Hail Mary. Will that be enough? I will find out hours from posting this.

WP made their final rally in their home stuff. Hougang and Aljunied. I have never noticed before, but Hougang still looms over WP in terms of producing volunteers and candidates from that area. Many candidates spoke their experiences working in Hougang. They have even made a youtube documentary of Hougang, where the previous leader of WP went to appeal the Chinese educated residents and temples to capture the SMC. He would later tighten his grip on Hougang, visiting residents on regular house visits. He even visited every wake in the area, something that is more or less practiced by all WP MPs in their own respective areas. This entrenched the area to WP, a home fortress to retreat to. Earlier I mentioned an insane gamble made in 2011. The previous WP leader was literally goaded to move out of Hougang to contest Aljunied himself. He handpicked a team, which included the now WP chairperson and leader to contest Aljunied with him, leaving a protege to hold the fort in Hougang. He won both and the two has never slipped WP's fingers since. He retired after 2015, and since kept a low profile. His health is declining too and he feels out of touch of the youth. This is why he gave leadership to someone completely different from him, an indian major who turned into a lawyer. He does do campaigning during the past few days, but doesn't want to talk to the press. Many have asked him to make a rally speech which he is famous for, but it is clear this is a new WP and any sign of interference would make them look weak.

The attendance was of course full af, and the viewerships remains ever high. The same themes and topics were retreaded, so I won't dwell too much on that. WP leader kept his attacks on PAP manifesto and leadership, while claiming that WP is a force for good worthy of more seats in Parliament. As a grand finale, he invited the old leader up on stage for their traditional pledge recital. Interestingly, he asked a new candidate to recite the pledge, while he stood beside the old leader to take the pledge. A sign that he is passing on the torch soon? Time will tell.

All in all, WP made a great campaign with few missteps, an excellent manifesto that is worthy of taking over the government with. Its politics of hope and change shine every brighter than PAP's doom and gloom. Its emphasis on check and balances and policies to combat the cost of living shows it is a proper succdem party with potential of becoming more socialist. I remain optimistic of WP but ever pessmistic and disgusted by the people it is trying to represent and serve. Many leftists make the mistake of thinking if they have just the right rhetoric and policy suggestions, they would win votes. But Singapore's politics has shown time and time again to not be the case, that is all boils down to electoral machinery to try to appeal to the reptilian mindset of the apathetic voters. I dread being disappointed but not surprised at the results that is coming out soon. For better or for worse, Singaporeans will get the government it deserves.

>>2252084
Surprisingly, both PAP AND WP made a lot of gains. Unfortunately, multiple constituencies were very close calls for WP and one for SDP. Remainder of fodder parties (esp. the Playstation Portable) got BTFO REALLY HARD.

I was sitting with a bunch of other officers (we're still on standby) from 2200 - 0100 watching the results roll in on CNA live on the big screen, no one cared most of the time. But surprisingly everyone kind of held their breath for Chee Soon Juan in Sembawang and Jalan Kayu, and then everyone audibly groaned when Ng Chee Meng was confirmed and Chee Soon Juan lost.

Well the results are out and it was indeed gloomy skies but alas my point about being disappointed but never surprised about Singapore still stands. An absolute garbage showing for Opposition. It seems that the fear mongering of the election really did work and Singaporeans gave into the politics of fear. A national swing to PAP despite rising living costs and housing prices. WP did made some gains, but it was muted with the gerrymandering and parachuting of ministers. Maybe even the new citizens? Regardless it was no 2015 and WP did well considering the opposition parties. It seemed like Singapore wants more of the same problems and same bullshit. Vouchers, fear and gerrymandering. What a nation of cowards. The fact that the NTUC chief got in is an indictment to the population.

I cannot in good conscience be pleased with the result. My contempt and disdain for the Singaporean population has only solidified. Whatever terrible thing the government did for the past few years and what they will do now is on their hands. The last time after 2015, they increased GST and had the White Paper about population. I dread to think what is to come soon. Already so many online are coming out of the woodwork to say that actually PAP is handling things well. Yet HDBs is being sold a million in Sengkang, fertility rate drops to all time low of 0.97, and inequality rises. WP appealed to people's better angels and their economic woes, but they gave into fear and uncertainty. 66% voted for what is to come.


>>2252462
Yea, PSP did real bad this time. Not really sure why but their ground game is pretty bad as well. I guess their performance in parliament isn't as good as WP. At least the mosquito parties will recede into the background and more talk time will be given to WP.

>>2252804
>What a nation of cowards. The fact that the NTUC chief got in is an indictment to the population.
Eh, this happens all the time in other places. The majority will not want to move until the situation has really gone FUBAR and drastic change is needed. It's a classic case of the frog being slowly boiled and not moving until its too late. Even when the bad circumstance could have been averted if more had been done before, people just won't care until shit is really bad.

I always think of the circumstances that kicked off the Russian and Chinese civil wars, no hope, no food, mired in brutal conflicts that had devastated the land. A lot of times people need to be forced by really bad times to change, maybe there just is no real alternative.

>>2253048
Yea in a way WP is a real succdem party in a sense that it is actually advocating for policies that is designed precisely to avoid revolution. Failure to meet inroads in parliament is accelerating the conditions of revolution. What I fear is that socialism will not take root but naked nativist extremism not unlike Trump and Reform Party.

>Eh, this happens all the time in other places.
Not to such an extent like in Singapore.

Anti-Laotian gov force had just started theirs move by attacking small Laotian military bases near Thai border on the early of this day. 2 Laotian Soldiers were killed, and government forces still cannot recapture two lost military bases.

Laos got attacked by hmong terrorists 2 soldiers died.
https://www.chiangraitimes.com/news-asia/laos-outpost-attack/
>The first attack on the Lao base happened on May 3rd. Reports say the attackers split into several small groups, using a plan to draw in reinforcements before launching a stronger assault. This led to at least two Lao soldiers being killed. Lao forces captured three suspects during the fighting.
Currently it seems that the attackers have fled across thailand again
>As of midday on May 5th, Lao forces still haven’t regained complete control of the area. They have avoided using heavy weapons for fear that stray shells could land on the Thai side of the border. In a previous clash, a 7.26mm bullet hit the roof of a house in Thailand, leading Thai authorities to warn Bokeo officials.
Seems very sus and probably thai funded
>The three people detained told officials they belonged to an ethnic group with a long history of conflict against the government in Laos. The reason for the attack on the Lao base remains unclear, but it’s suspected to be linked to either the local drug trade or ongoing ethnic tensions.
Definitely hmong nationalists and vang pao remnants

>>2255004
This is kinda overblown, it wasn't a full military base but just an outpost of a few guys, the outpost was captured but the perp ran away and still lurking about.

In other news The Ukroid embassy in Hanoi made a nazi apologia post and it backfired hard.
>The guy who posted it

What could possibly go right or wrong If China manages to control malacca strait?

>>2252804
>The fact that the NTUC chief got in is an indictment to the population.
The fucking NTUC chief is in some kind of scandal now and some PAP voters are trying to wash their hands of voting for a party who put him in in the first place. Such bullshit man.


>>2261933
That is like some Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere type of imperialism all over again…

Vietnam aims for socialism by 2045

>>2264090
No it’s about trade security, China imports a lot of Saudi oil through Malacca and the US could potentially blockade them there if the surrounding nations are US-aligned. Although that may change as they find ways around it with pipelines or Russian arctic icebreakers shipping oil.

>>2266589
Yea but that is one of SEA's bargaining chip when dealing with China. To make sure China doesn't push over SEA's own interests.

>>2266495
IIRC they also already have a higher density of cooperatives in comparison to China so this isn't as unbelievable as it might first seem.
Also they will be / are buoyed by their proximity to the nodes outside of historical US uniploar world dominance, in addition to directly bordering two people's republics.

What NON-armed\military campaigns, actions, militancy, and activity, do (otherwise armed) Maoist groups perform? india, nepal, philippines, i think turkey even(?)? Do they "organize" peasantry? try to do charity, volunteer work, triangulate food and medical aid, etc? Do they fight CELIBATE religious priests (in India- brahmins, for example) or nepalese buddhist-monks?
How bad is life as a landless rural laborer really , In Nepal, Turkey, or even Peru wherein PCP-SL is still mildly active?

>>2266495
It's certainly possible, especially the West being in a general malaise that is being exacerbated by their inability to economically cripple Russia.

>>2266495
>socialism
>free healthcare and education
Not what socialism is.
>>2270011
Not a fan of maoists but it's insanely difficult for maoists to do all that considering they're busy either on the run from the government (philippines and india) or doing sectarian autism (nepal).

India is not a friend.
>Indian Security Forces Massacre Burmese Resistance Functionaries

>The torture and killing of 10 rebels at Chandel near the India-Myanmar border in Manipur has sent shockwaves through Myanmar’s resistance groups.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/05/indian-security-forces-massacre-burmese-resistance-functionaries/

This year Labour Day Rally was rescheduled to 25/05/25, as May 1st was during the campaigning period. So it is somewhat regrettable that there was a significant decrease in participants and media personnel this year. I guess the election tapped out a lot of people's enthusiasm for politics and people are checking out.

Still it is interesting to see members from almost all the opposition parties, even the "siao lang" ones. In fact that fucking meme jokester guy came to the event. At the very least, I know he isn't a clout chaser. I will keep in mind to remember the people who did came since it does show their sincerity.

The succdem party had the most presence here but the real opposition party really invested in this event is the SDP, who lately embraced a huge left wing shift. Their star youth member, who is also the owner of a left wing media platform is one of the speaker that night. SDP youth wing also has their own booth, trying to recuit young people that come to these events and get them to sign their electoral reform petition. Their leader even announce a consumer coop with his cafe as a starting point. Altogether i find this party's moves to be overtly ambitious and grandiose, in stark contrast to the succdem party's more cautious and arduous attempts to build a party machinery designed to win elections.

Already the succdem party members are rather resistant to setting up their own booth, assuming their significant presence here is implicit endorsement. I do suspect divisions within the party and where the fault line lies, but still the party is not as radical in its posturing than its manifesto.

Speaking of which there booths gauging the parties' policies effectiveness. Interestingly it only has PAP and WP, implicitly showing that we are in a two party state lol. I did ask what can WP do better in policy and got some feedback over certain redistribution measures but not any structural changes to fight inequality. Well at least we are the best among the parties.

Last year I mentioned that the sex work organization was agnostic on whether sex work is work. But this time they are advocating overtly that sex work is work. I guess their groundwork is still helping sex workers with welfare and stuff, but now it seems they are truly invested in advocating for it. Artists has also formed a collective too and offered their paintings as decorations.

The speeches this year was rather underwhelming as more 'professional' speakers and activists are speaking this time around. As always, the race and gender makeup of the speakers are lean drastically into minorities and female, just like most of the audience as well. I even lamented to someone I know that chinese singaporean are very classcucked compared to the minorities. Previously there were the poor and workers speaking about their struggles and what now, now they are 'activists' and politicians speaking.

More glossy and showmanship speeches that is very utopian socialist in nature. Amazingly, the last speaker, the SDP guy spoke about workers of all stripes uniting together, including the migrant workers. Perhaps the closest speaker to being a marxist on stage.

Indeed this worker rights org has pivoted to migrant labour and their rights in their organizing for the past year, with 50 migrants workers watching a livestream of the whole event. All the end, the organizers did their own mini march while the migrants sang the Internationale in a rather monotonous tone but they sang it in their native language via the livestream. A spectacular finish to this event, much better than the previous one. I do hope the country just as this event is slowly pivoting to socialism more and more. Perhaps I can advocate for socialism in my own way but that remains to be seen if the succdem party is a viable platform. 英特纳雄耐尔, 斗阵就一定赢!

>>2285465
Sounds like fun, I couldn't be there since I was down with the flu after doing a weekend night shift at my job.
>Their leader even announce a consumer coop with his cafe as a starting point
Pls no, I've had enough with all these tiny, air-conditioned, corner cafes selling their overpriced items that never seem to last more than a few years at a time. Seriously no, if I had to come up with a business idea for workers, it needs to be something on the lower end, I had an idea ages ago for a "Complain King" bar, it's mostly like a normal bar, but there's a stage with a mic where anyone who has had a bad day at work (or some horror boss story) gets to help radicalise everyone else by complaining loudly about what happened. The trouble is that I'm really not a drinking person and after my experiences handling drunk people in the police and social services, I'm really not into alcohol of any sort.

Also, since the little india riots there are a lot of restrictions on the sale of alcohol, so its been a dead end idea since.

Damn it’s popping off in Cambodia and Thailand. Two chinese simp states fighting.

I have extensive research\compilation of info, done on Gonzaloite blogs bashing Prachanda as a "revisionist". Should I dump the images? I'm literally autistic and delve deep unto obscure viewpoints and the subcultures that built them\have been built around them

>>2304273
No. At least go and do it in /siberia/, it's not really relevant to this thread.

>>2304321
hmph? What's that, EH? "not relevant"—is NEPAL not in sea?

https://apnews.com/article/paetongtarn-shinawatra-thaksin-thailand-politics-44c94eec0e932f17d106ba436beef93e
She got toppled lmao
Hun Sen won by complete self sabotage by the thais
>The Constitutional Court’s suspension of Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has raised questions about whether her family’s political comeback last year would end with another downfall.
Lib populism not even once
>Her critics have said Paetongtarn’s government has achieved little. Marriage equality became law but was initiated under her predecessor. Controls on cannabis were retightened after public backlash over decriminalization, but the move and its enforcement were called rushed and confusing.
>Her critics also cited unsatisfactory outcomes in other Pheu Thai party policies, like unequal minimum wage increases, constant changes in a cash handout program and the stalled and controversial legalization of casinos. They also noted the lack of progress in tariffs talks with the United States.
Basically no promises been done at all
>But analysts see the leaked call following border tensions with Cambodia to be the most disastrous event by far.
It’s a cheap trick by hun sen but it works

>>2363700
It was only a matter of time i think.
There has certainly been a vibe shift, people keep telling me they wanted Prayut back, and not just wealthy Bangkok people, actual normal people, some previous red shirts.

>>2363731
Basically the failure of move forward made people completely fell apart. Pheu thai fanboys shat their collective pants and revealed their true reactionary nature. They have never been even close to caring about democracy or welfare. They just want free shit to rain down from an oligarch. Liberals became completely doomed as all avenues to even try to reform the leste majeste laws were closed. Basically the same mentality that led to people voting for a fucking gnome in Argentina.

>>2363794
Same as it ever was. :(
Prayut kind of stole their lunch with people outside of Bangkok, very much understanding this that as you say all people want is their free shit, people had seen some improvements in living standards, roads paved, a free water filter. It takes depressingly little.
Oh well, onwards to the coup i guess. First a tragedy, fourteenth a farce.

>>2363805
Would they even need a coup anymore? It seems like prayut had set it up during his reign mechanisms that have the military maintained a shadow government that can basically do anything and dismiss anyone. The senate is chosen by the junta and stacked with their loyalists. The constitutional is ostensibly a farce only created by the military to not coup but dismiss anything that threatens the junta-monarchy. Like they rule essentially using a fake kangaroo court and a fake senate.

>>2303474
>Damn it’s popping off in Cambodia and Thailand. Two chinese simp states fighting
So how are things? Fizzled out like the rest of the threads, right?

I am not fully well informed on IndoChina politics but my instincts tells me this is some nothingburger bullshit to distract from internal problems.

>>2365328
Instincts? Not very materialists of you anon.

>>2363816
And yet these fuckers still cant manage to win an election, at best barely. Looking forward i'm not so sure that the pretence of democratic rule is something they're invested in enough to uphold by and use the streamlined and formalised not-a-coup™ processes they've created.

vietnam status?

>>2363817
Angkor Wat will be Thai again, and not just a shitty replica in the Royal Palace!!!

>>2365902
Why do you post like this?
If you don't have anything to say why do you not just say nothing?

>>2365902
Poised to take over Cambodia for good this time.

>>2365897
The military just sucked in fucking everything except having an existing support base and guns. They have no policy except the crumbling status quo. They have no plan moving forward. They have nothing to upheld once the inbred monarchy inevitably collapsed due to everyone being infertile or mentally deficient due to inbreeding.
>>2365902
Shitshow rn with the province reorganizations. Wage being stalled for state workers and a lot of reorganizing. I think it's part of a plan by To Lam to shake things up so that any resistance and opposition against him would be in chaos, plus that's half the seats of the province level in the central committee gone (62 to 34 provinces).
The economy meanwhile fared much better with the higher wage and the bribing of Trump to make him STFU finally about the trade deficit.

>>2375665
>the bribing of Trump to make him STFU finally about the trade deficit
Let's hope it'll actually last this time.

>>2375665
how did the thai family get so ugly in one generation.

>>2376488
the son

https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-najib-razak-money-laundering-d25615f8b200c5ccab39b813b7529c0b
Malaysia is so fucked bros
Malaysian court drops money laundering charges against jailed ex-leader Najib Razak
So he got away with all of it, spent no time in jail and paid nothing in return.
>A Malaysian court dropped three money laundering charges against jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak on Friday, in a case linked to the multibillion-dollar looting of a state fund.
>The High Court’s decision to drop the charges alleging Najib received 27 million ringgit ($6.3 million) in illegal proceeds to his bank accounts came after procedural delays by the prosecution, which saw the case dragging on for six years, Najib’s lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah said. Prosecutors could not give the court a timeline for when they will be ready for the trial, he added.

>>2376492
Cousin fucking. Lots of cousin fucking. The dad married his cousin. The son also married his cousin. Hell their great grandpa married his own half sisters.
>King Rama V is credited with the modernization of Siam, now known as Thailand, and for keeping it from becoming colonized by the British. He built public hospitals and a railway and also abolished slavery. With his harem of 153 wives, concubines, and consorts, he fathered 77 children. Many of them were sent to Europe for formal education.
>However, because of the disgrace which he knew would be looked upon him by Western leaders, he only showed one of his wives — Queen Saovabha — in public. The shame, he knew, would be due not so much to the polygamy but rather to the incest, as many of his wives were biologically related to him.
<Because the Thai monarchy is essentially a blood cult, in which people with a supposedly purer royal bloodline have higher status, there was significant inbreeding in the family over successive generations.
>Genetically she was a potential disaster. In a dynasty deeply defined by endogamous marriage and mating, the king and the queen were closely related direct descendants of King Chulalongkorn. So Somsawali had much the same blood as the prince.
Pictured the grandson, apparently mentally deficient due to incest.

DOCUMENTARIES ON THE MARCOS DICTATORSHIP
TLDR
>Cannibalism
>Rape
>Random murders
All to support US and Western mining operations that made islands impossible to live on.