• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    FYI, The Straits Times is basically a step down from a state mouthpiece. If you don’t believe me, just read the article:

    The cannabis seized from Omar is sufficient to feed the addiction of about 144 abusers for a week.

    Here’s a Human Rights Watch article from five days ago not flagrantly trying to justify the state-sanctioned murder of a man convicted of an entirely harmless crime. Fuck TST for this journalistic swill.

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      3 days ago

      144 abusers for a week

      By my calculations, that’s about 18 ounces (144/8, assuming an eighth per person per week).

      That’s not that much, as far as international smuggling goes.

      Still, it’s a bullshit reason to execute someone over.

      If you wanna smoke weed, Singapore isn’t the place for you…

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        2 days ago

        You think I think I care what Singapore thinks.

        I think Tharman Shanmugaratnam should be tied, blindfolded, and walked into the Port of Singapore over a plank covered in faced-up used heroin needles.

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        Yeah, thats about 6g per “addict”, this will not be enough for 2 days if they are heavy smokers…

        In other words, a kg is like nothing. And getting killed for it is the real crime.