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>Would you rather live in an effectively single-party state like Singapore where everything is shiny but you get caned for spitting gum on the street (MacOS)

This sounds like a good place to live for me, because I don't spit gum on streets and wouldn't want to live around people who do. What kind of disgusting person would do such a thing? And who chews gum these days?

Personally, I think this is a terrible analogy.

As an outsider, the Netherlands seems a lot more stable than many other democracies, including Germany and the US.



Also, Singapore doesn't cane people anymore. However, they still don't have true freedom of speech like in many Western countries.


Yeah, they just restrict you from doing stuff; like browsing large swaths of the Internet, for instance.


The Dutch government literally collapsed a couple of days ago.


So there's anarchy in the streets in Amsterdam now?




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