S Thayaparan

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Harapan's feebleness enabling Umno's relevance

COMMENT | Umno finds support in Malays burdened by the failure of Harapan's policies.

2019-12-11 10:29:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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While New Malaysia burns, PKR squabbles

COMMENT | Azmin and gang are doing a better job of destabilizing Harapan then anything anyone else has done or will do.

2019-12-09 08:10:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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What in God’s name is a hyper-liberal?

COMMENT | 'I suppose to Mat Sabu, it is perfectly acceptable to be an 'ethno-nationalist'...'

2019-12-07 08:57:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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Harapan and the deep Islamic state

COMMENT | Politicians are using the idea of a “deep state” as a justification for inaction or inefficiency.

2019-12-04 08:49:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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New Malaysia: If you build it, people will come

COMMENT | Harapan partisans are not pissed off by manufactured outrages, but by the backtracking and supine nature of Harapan parties.

2019-12-02 07:12:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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Nazi-salute, Chin Peng’s ashes, reap what you sow

COMMENT | The complex non-Malay narrative is simplified for political purposes.

2019-11-30 07:15:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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Were Harapan supporters promised the impossible?

COMMENT | 'I have no idea if Malaysians would appreciate being reminded that the election manifesto is worthless.'

2019-11-27 08:34:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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PKR should expel Azmin Ali

COMMENT | The longer he remains in PKR, the more trouble he will cause.

2019-11-25 06:52:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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Harapan is too pusillanimous to sack Mahathir

COMMENT | Cowardice sold as pragmatism is what the Harapan government is all about.

2019-11-23 09:27:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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Better Harapan fails as one-term reformist government

COMMENT | This rather than being a one-term neo-BN government.

2019-11-20 07:33:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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Finally, Anwar comes out swinging

COMMENT | The PKR president is demonstrating that he has the cajones to take on political operatives.

2019-11-18 07:20:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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It's either a win for Papagomo or Perak MB

COMMENT | A vote for Bersatu and a vote for MCA is more or less the same thing.

2019-11-16 08:12:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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Harapan is mainlining apathy into its base

COMMENT | Keep in mind that it took the citizens of this country decades to remove the BN regime.

2019-11-13 07:12:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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DAP, Bersatu is just not into you

COMMENT | DAP should stop swooning over Bersatu.

2019-11-11 07:24:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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The hysteria over 'basikal lajak'

COMMENT | People are talking about safety issues without realising there are deeper issues at play.

2019-11-09 09:22:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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Zakir Naik would consider 'Bible sessions' pornographic

COMMENT | 'In his 2016 'lecture' held at UiTM, Zakir Naik claimed that the Bible contained pornographic passages.'

2019-11-06 09:00:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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Tanjung Piai is not a credible bellwether for non-Malay dissatisfaction

COMMENT | A test of resolve for dissatisfied non-Malay voters will happen only when a PKR or DAP candidate is on the firing line.

2019-11-04 07:49:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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The LTTE farce - extremist state actors target DAP

COMMENT | With five LTTE-linked suspects alleging torture, it's another step by Harapan to destroy whatever remains of their New Malaysia.

2019-11-02 09:57:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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Fear and loathing in 'New Malaysia'

COMMENT | Harapan morphing into a neo-BN has reinvigorated the discourse that non-Malays do not have a place under the Malaysian sun.

2019-10-30 07:50:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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The 'Don't spook the Malays' narrative

COMMENT | The main point of this narrative? Malay patience has its limits, especially when they have tolerated so much.

2019-10-28 07:54:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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Ronnie Liu’s 'paper tiger' is only half the problem

COMMENT | When will the DAP ever spend the political capital it has got right now?

2019-10-26 10:02:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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Syed Saddiq should thank 'Superman' Hew

COMMENT | The comic is a good way to show good faith to China after all the badmouthing and xenophobic campaign propaganda.

2019-10-23 06:40:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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UM hack - feckless activism is not justified

COMMENT | If you are angry with the vice chancellor who made racists remarks, why treat the staff as collateral damage?

2019-10-21 06:15:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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To extremists, all roads lead to DAP

COMMENT | The sustained attacks against DAP is going to have repercussions on the future of Malaysia.

2019-10-19 09:05:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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LTTE dragnet - a strategy to create a Hindu phobia counternarrative

COMMENT | This is a manufactured outrage against a defunct terror group, aiming to mobilise public sentiment against an imaginary existential threat.

2019-10-16 08:21:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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Lim Guan Eng’s bullyboy tactics using TAR-UC

COMMENT | The MCA/DAP TAR UC squabble is politics at its pettiest

2019-10-14 09:03:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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LTTE dragnet - they got the bogeyman they wanted

COMMENT | The "they" in the title refers to the far-right political operatives, academics etc - and the deep Islamic state.

2019-10-12 07:24:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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Mahathir's undignified strategy of using non-Malays to demean Malays

COMMENT | The Malay Dignity Congess was an event that resulted in food poisoning, an apt metaphor for the kind of leadership on display.

2019-10-09 08:02:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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Disrespecting the Negaraku

COMMENT | Enforcing 'respect' towards a symbol has always seemed fascist to me.

2019-10-07 08:54:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan
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Dr M has telegraphed that Harapan cannot be trusted

COMMENT | The Harapan manifesto is not worth the paper it is printed on.

2019-10-05 08:36:00+08:00 by S Thayaparan