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“Disneyland with the death penalty” [1]

—William Gibson

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_with_the_Death_Pena...

> "Perhaps", he speculated, "Singapore's destiny will be to become nothing more than a smug, neo-Swiss enclave of order and prosperity, amid a sea of unthinkable ... weirdness."

I think, reading this today, it probably describes what people like about the place.

Yes, still spot on - there's a reason that description lives on so many years later.

Barbaric city states like Singapore should be abolished or taken over and reformed.

I love how you're opposed to the death penalty for provably societally damaging criminal activites, but violent imperialism on those that don't agree with you (which would almost certainly entail many deaths)? Completely OK.

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