Brickbat: Up in Smoke

Singapore has some of the world's strictest vaping laws, banning the use, possession, and sale of e-cigarettes since 2018. Despite those laws, vaping has become more popular, especially among young people. As a result, the government is cracking down with tougher penalties, including fines starting at $500 ($388 U.S.), jail time, and even caning for those caught with drug-laced vapes, while foreigners risk deportation. The government is also launching anti-vaping campaigns in schools and public spaces, and adding vape disposal bins at places like Changi Airport.

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[Chumby]

Imagine how bad it could be if Singapore had a substantial Democratic Party. Instead of vaping, they’d be dealing with millions of worthless illegal alien pieces of shit that steal welfare resources, commit thousands of rapes annually, and commit thousands of murders annually. The garbage that allowed that would be subject to a caning of biblical proportions.

[SQRLSY]

The native-born are ALSO threats to the Sacred Pubic Welfare! Some of them DO cummit murders!!! Send them ALL, these DIRTY invaders, back UP the birth canals that they came from!!!

Shit never ceases to amaze me, how the "logic" of the brutal cave-dwellers justifies just about ANYTHING that they want to do! Hey... Timmy McVeigh was a mass murderer and A WHITE DUDE!!! Therefore, let us send to El Salvador, without trial, for duly deserved TORTUROUS PUNISHMENT, all of the white dudes!!!

Chumpy-Humpy-Dumpy Simp-Chimp-Chump is an Anti-Christian who opposes benevolence and common sense... Shit can SNOT see that Jesus was a rapefugee!

ALL of the Jesus-killers, Gandhi-killers, MLK-Jr,-killers, and conscience-killers LOVE to BRAG about how they silence, or at least (supposedly) totally ignore the people and ideas that are morally-ethically superior (better attuned listeners to their consciences) than those who imagine themselves to be of the RIGHT Tribe, and therefor infallible. Yet their still, small, internal voices just MIGHT overcome their vices one of these days! There is always hope!
Did y'all know that Jesus was a rapefugee? He took refuge in his conscience, which obliviously does SNOT protect you from the rapists, but it DOES protect you from personally engaging in wrong-doing! I see people here on these pages saying that they admire and-or follow Jesus and-or Christianity, then immediately thereafter promoting HATRED of those who are from the WRONG sides of the railroad tracks, rivers, and lines in the sand!

I'd rather be right (and dead if that is the price of being right) than being a hate-spewing right-wing, left-wing, up-wing, or down-wing extremist nut-job! Jesus was a rapefugee, and I might have to become one too!

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

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[Wizzle Bizzle]

Grey Box is always unread. But that doesn't keep Grey Box from posting. Typically with OdD spellingzzzz and CaPIT-al-iZAtioN.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Well now that just wouldn't be Singapore; among the safest cities in the world because they won't let you get away with anything.

And they utilize public caning "of biblical proportions."

That's the trade off.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...while foreigners risk deportation.

Do they not even have lower court judges???

[diver64]

Sure but they only get to rule against the government once.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

What about DuE pRoCeSs?

[diver64]

So? Know the countries laws before you go and if you don't like them avoid the place.

[Longtobefree]

Good advice.
That is one of the reasons I do not travel to blue states.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Pretty sure I'd be arrested at the border of New Jersey; probably CT and MA too.

[AT]

Bench warrants?

[Wizzle Bizzle]

You molest one dead horse, and suddenly you're unwelcome in the northeast. Fucking puritans.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Those were my ancestors; dead horses notwithstanding.

[NoVaNick]

Molesters of animals and humans are welcome in Mass. But show up there with vapes, cigarettes, or fireworks and you’ll be in deep shit.

[Medulla Oblongata]

If only the millions of illegal aliens who came here took that advice.

[Wizzle Bizzle]

I know this makes me a bad libertarian. (Drink) But I would absolutely support canings for vapers.

[Zeb]

Would you rather they were blowing smoke at you?

[Wizzle Bizzle]

I would rather they put the douche-flute away and stop getting high in public / behind the wheel / at school / etc. But like I said, I'm a bad libertarian.

[Bloodaxe]

This law is mostly about tobacco. Marijuana is very illegal in Singapore.

[Wizzle Bizzle]

"jail time, and even caning for those caught with drug-laced vapes"

I'm not saying I trust Reason to get facts straight, but seems to be explicitly about drugs.

[jimc5499]

Spent a few days in Singapore when I was in the Navy. I've never seen a cleaner City and the people were so polite. Before going ashore we were warned about a few things. Believe it or not at the time one of the main warnings was not to chew gum or even have gum in your possession. It was illegal.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

Well some people can't chew gum and walk, which leads to the crime of chew-walking.