Lolololol not Harakah Daily PROUDLY comparing Sanusi to Trump, Putin, Xi Jinping, Duterte and Viktor Orban 🤣🤣🤣🤣
https://harakahdaily.net/index.php/2023/08/16/sanusi-kebangkitan-dan-perubahan-ke-atas-politik/
It’s actually pretty mainstream thinking for that era. We Malaysian Chinese school students studied Lu Xun’s True Story of Ah Q in Chinese literature class which was pretty much a book about all the racial faults of the Chinese people. The Japanese who invaded Malaya during Mahathir’s youth were even trying to “rise above” their shameful Asian heritage. Mahathir’s thinking was pretty normal for the era he was born in but the problem is he managed to stay in power & remained influential well into the modern era 🤣
Edit: and this kind of mindset is still present, though somewhat toned down & now with a lot more pride, in the Chinese community (both in China and elsewhere) who still believe in this race-based social Darwinism. This is coming from me having just read a China science fiction novel that’s really about how the Chinese people need to learn to be tough and manly again or risk being wiped out by western foes 😌
Ooh, I know all these as I used to work under one of those papers 😆
I’ve been fully into ebooks for about 10 years too. Paper books have mostly lost their appeal for me since they can’t beat the convenience of having my whole library with me all the time.
My wife, though, LOVES bookstores and buying paper books even though she reads lots of ebooks, though many of the paper books she bought are left untouched on the bookshelf lol. It’s more for the sentimental value of owning the physical copy.
Seems like a lot of the ppl still active now are the “we don’t need Nazi mods” types haha
Got a lot of iOS Lemmy apps in beta right now:
I posted on Reddit once in a while & stalk quite a few subreddits but wasn’t a “regular” user. I’ve been pretty active on Mastodon since the twitter-to-fediverse exodus though (before that I was mostly a lurker on Twitter). The fediverse has been a lot more fun than mainstream social media for me because of the smaller & more tight-knit communities.
I’m not a picky person so I like it a lot. For RM15 it might not exactly be cheap but worth it more than getting a whole durian IMO
It can be done, I don’t think a local bank account is needed. In fact ppl often exchange bank notes for new ones before festive seasons.
SUV drivers be like: 
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joined 2 years ago
Shh… don’t tell Fahmi fadzil.