[GE2025] PAP Discussion Thread

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Senfai said:
Although it’s entirely my fault, a part of me feels like I got left behind by the system.

A singaporean male life is so structured it’s almost like playing a game tutorial. You go through the education system, serve army, find work, get married, BTO, have kids. The script is all written out nicely for you like nicely laid train tracks.

But for someone who fell out of the tracks, it’s super hard to get back on it.

Skipping school, missing classes, flunking exams makes you a “hero” when you’re a teenager and your friends show you respect as they think you’re a gung-ho who doesn’t follow the rules, but when you grow up without the papers, you get isolated from the career progression enjoyed by white collar office job environment.

SkillsFuture is one big initiative that is supposed to give 40s a second chance. But even if the wallet is able, the mind is not that fresh anymore, and the body no longer youthful.

no amount of money can rewind time and give me back to my 20s. I’m now on track to becoming a 50s kopitiam uncle complaining about everything.
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It's not your fault that you struggled in a system designed by PAP that rewards only a tiny subset of cucks. You would have thrived in a Western country.

Ah Seng of Singapore who skipped school to skateboard is branded as a delinquent who deserves to go to ITE and work in McDonalds.

Tony Hawk of USA who skipped school to skateboard is encouraged to pursue his passion and become a multi-millionaire extreme sports star.

In SG if you do not walk the white collar office worker nerd path, you have near-zero opportunities to succeed or at least live a middle class life. But in say Australia, you can work in mining, collect garbage, landscaping, lay bricks, drive large trucks cross-country, etc., and still make 100k+ a year.
 
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runny yolk said:
Same experience at the zoo. Its funny to see that the prc are the civilized ones, at least they move out of the way to let people take pics, while the other kind shamelessly push their way to the front and block others seeing the exhibits, whole family take pics multiple times with the animals 1 by 1 even though there's a queue forming
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i have the same experience. 没比较没伤害
 
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Absolute power corrupts. With no better excuses,
sham claimed his WhatsApp got auto delete, Vivian claimed his Facebook got hacked, mass food poisoning nothing to do with them...
 
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MyWill said:
How about the Geylang tour guide? PAP got ask what he was doing along ulu pavement beside Nicol Highway at 2am? Yes, pavement besides a highway. Yes, 2am.
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got any link or video about this? :oops:
 
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