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Playing devil's advocate, what about another Monty Python scene, from Life of Brian? - "What did the Romans ever do for us?" Well, CPF, safe streets, low unemployment, booming economy... and rising cost of living, crushing of dissent, suppression of creativity, triple digit low press freedom and happiness ratings...
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Monty Python classic.
The men behind knocking the coconut shells are so obviously made out of people like Bhavani and Vivian Balakrishnan.
"We are the knights that say Ni'!"
Hahahaha... Very relevant... how very relevant.... "did you see him repressing me?"
When the puppet speaks to the master by Yawningbread
http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2006/yax-625.htm
Playing devil's advocate, what about another Monty Python scene, from Life of Brian? - "What did the Romans ever do for us?" Well, CPF, safe streets, low unemployment, booming economy... and rising cost of living, crushing of dissent, suppression of creativity, triple digit low press freedom and happiness ratings...
"The Roman Empire crumbled to dust because it lacked the spirit of liberalism and free enterprise."- Ludwig von Mises
Exactly. The Roman Empire was a massive socialist state.
I have a theory—that Singapore will go the same way.
Hence my nick :-)
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