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Does Fahmi Fadzil represent my voice?
It is quite exciting times now, much unlike when Khairy first ran, where he was one person swallowed up by a party that never listened to our generation anyway.
Wednesday polling day? That’s fine
We live in Malaysia and we should be under no impression that things are going to be easy.
Don’t disregard Dr M just because of his age
I am not really a big supporter of Mahathir being the next prime minister, or should I say, I am quite indifferent to it.
We need to create a democracy that allows dissent
Even if Pakatan Harapan were to win the election, we will still have to oppose them. Absolute rule is never good and we need a check-and-balance system.
The iffy existence of freedom of speech
These are cases that gives a very confusing perception of the freedom of speech in Malaysia
Malaysian politicians say the darndest things
If you think that this is an isolated case of one politician saying something stupid, think again. Pay close attention as campaigning starts to heat up. More and more politicians are going to say more ludicrous things.
Doing away with policies that create entitled Malaysians
A deep resentment among community members has been created by such affirmative policies and it looks more racist and discriminatory than anything else.
Curbing fake news an attempt to further stifle free speech?
So how can we actually be confident that this new attempt at creating laws will curb fake news instead of curbing freedom of speech?
#UndiRosak movement will further hurt Malaysian democracy
The real objective is to have the politicians from both divides think about why such a movement has come about in the first place.
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