Here’s the thing yes I’m an anglo so I really don’t care about “respecting” discrimatory elders or non elders for that matter. I understand Singapore is a “fine” city, but people shouldn’t be fined, jailed, discriminated for being queer.

The language thing is a holdover of colonialism, as are the discrimatory laws. Singapore being a major trading hub has people and cultures of like a dozen Asian countries over there. My comment was about queer rights not the langauge. I’d imagine it is convenience having a common language to speak and the nature of the nation being an international trading hub and finance center. Malaysia has it’s own human rights issues. .

Given it was British foriegn colonial laws that are held over past independence there’s a bit of irony. As to my own location’s conservative colonial past, the original nation has moved far ahead in human rights. I don’t care to learn the their language and move because it serves no practical purpose anymore except for reading the scant leftovers of a bygone age - that and languages are difficult for me. That’s myself. I could only speculate as to the convience with local Singaporians and all the diverse nations and cultures with their own languages that exist together.

The link you provided is password locked. I will speak as to Pink Dot and it’s funding and outside NGOs.

Yes NGOs can be used to “disrupt” nations. We’ve seen that many times especially with the US and its regime change goals. As for Russia - I do think the Russian Orthodox Church has too much a grip on politics over there, and Russia should catch up to times so the west can’t use these wedges to cry for regime change and thus result in local crackdowns on minorities due to the spectre of “foreign influence”. At the same time, it is the west’s continued harassment of Russia as a target that Russia then leans on it’s Russian Orthodox Church to justify crackdown on minorities in a Red Scare type of way. It’s always “Putin” or “The Kremlin” from western reports on Russia.

I think queer rights will improve in Russia when the west gives them room to breathe or BRICS becomes more inflential than the west where the west’s petty gripes and sanctions become useless. It seemed like they were getting better until this latest assholery from the west at least.

It sucks that a minority’s treatment is directly related to foriegn policy events. - well you see that here in the west now how there’s a 3rd Red Scare and a 2nd lavender Scare attacks on queers.

A nation under threat or percieved threat will shore up their religous base in nationalist conviction and reduce rights.

A nation not under threat or percieved threat tends to expand rights in relative safety.

Singapore is not under threat or percieved threat and you see less crackdown on minorities and expansion of rights.

For Pink Dot, the compaint about “others disrupting”, a “percieved threat”, seems to stem from the progress made in local opinion in revoking the old discrimatory British colonal laws originated from the 1880s. Namely section 377A which criminalized queer acts. They weren’t aiming to do a regime change, nor was it really highly publicized in international media. You can go look at Pink Dot’s videos and realatively how few views they get. Singapore isn’t on “The West’s” shitlist so to say. The movement as a whole gets some blurbs every now then as case after case made it’s way. But it was nothing like the anti Russia BE OUTRAGED media circus. More “hey this Asian nation might make some progress”. What kind of impact would that be for Asia as a whole if a major economic center in Asia is to progress on this end?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_377A_(Singapore)

It was local backlash to change in public opinion and laws were made to attempt to stop this change in 2017 by banning any foreigner or company that is not majority Singaporeian held from contributing to Pink Dot or even attending Pink Dot. IMO this backlash has had a Streisand effect. The “percieved threat” seemed to be unfounded. As even with all the anti foreign laws in attempt to degrade the movement, Singaporians showed up in support.

In 2018 India decriminalized gay sex. - not saying Singapore’s actions are directly responsible, but it’s realtive closeness with India and the region has some parallel. Maybe conicidence. Maybe it’s maybealine.

Singaapore copanies formed Red Dot for Pink Dot.

https://reddotforpinkdot.sg/

In 2017, 120 local companies stepped forward to support Pink Dot when 13 multinational companies were told they could no longer do so.

Last Pink Dot there were 139 major individuals and corporations that fund it.

In January 2023 section 377A finally fell.

Unfortunately Singapore, in another twist of irony, is responsible for some of the major funding on anti LGBTQ movements inside the United States. Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, the Daily Wire, PragerU, and even Ted Cruz and a cadre of other Christian Nationalists zealots have all been enriched because of Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund giving billions of dollars to Daily Wire’s insane religous fanatical stubborn old bastard founders - the Wilks Brothers.

Also where would we get such wonderful post-Alex Jones YTP material from?

Frac Tech sold to Tamesek

Temasek, is a global investment company owned by the Government of Singapore.

So now we’re having to spend lawsuits, deal with hate crimes, suicides, deaths, state sponsored discrimination, and years having to clean up their mess here in the states unfucking their reckless spending “investing” which has unleashed hell on the queer community in the United States. That’s in addition to all the anti immigrant, anti Russia, anti China, and pro AUKUS imperalism, which Singapore will be effected by (again ironically) as China and BRICS allies counter, also funded and promoted by the knock on effects from their enrichment of these asshole’s meddling in US politics. I’m sure that wasn’t what their thinking was throwing that much cash at fanatical oil tycoons in the US. Even as the president of Singapore had to sign off on the deal, but those were the effects and consequences of their “investments”. They also own 4% of Blackrock. Don’t need to go into length the shitfuckery that company has done to the world.

I still love Singapore, love it’s people, love it’s uniqueness in the world as a central hub for all things Asia.