39 Comments on “The Jakarta Post, or Pest”
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Ross says:
November 29th, 2007 at 11:19 amYes, Teng, it is much more insulting to be called a fascist, or indeed a communist, than to have some drunk call me a fag. Reds are the enemy but they don’t always engage in loathsome sexual malpractices. And queers are not innately queer -many see the light and become normal. They need help with their wish to become decent people again, not your kind of ‘tolerance’ which merely encourages them to linger in a moral swamp.
Subrata! If that is a proposal, I spurn your advances. Like many, maybe most, guys who go through the mill of divorce, I emerged bloodied but unbowed, and failed completely to learn from experience. Try, try again -but not with you, Subrata, or anybody else except the delightful ladies of our adopted homeland!
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Subrata says:
November 29th, 2007 at 6:33 pm@Ross,
Sorry old boy, I am taken by a lovely lady. Been married for almost 4 decades, no divorce in sight and still happy and my religion says I can marry 3 more ladies.
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Achmad Sudarsono says:
November 30th, 2007 at 11:30 amRoss,
Let’s indulge you for a second and take your outdated paranoia seriously. (Have you been off your meds again ? I suggest you up the dosage).
Are the reds a menace ?
Well, let’s consider.
The Soviet Union has collapsed; Russia and many of its territories have embraced robber baron capitalism with more gusto than you grope the bar girls at your nightly session at Blok M.
China’s embracing capitalism.
Vietnam’s embracing capitalism.
North Korea is an isolated pariah, and yes, is allowing patches of market-exchange (a building block of capitalism).
Cuba’s ruled by an octogenarian dictator and will probably go fully capitalist once he dies. Even Cuba’s opened the market a little.
In places in Europe where there are card-carrying communists, like Italy, capitalism is embedded into the constitution. The right to own private property and the right to trade. It might not be the kind of capitalism you like.
But Ross, reach with me here. Have a little mental stretch, sunshine. Here’s a big, big leap for you:
There’s a difference between a mixed-capitalist economy with state intervention, (like Australia, Scandinavia or Canada), and outright communism.
There are things that annoy all of us, about the world, Ross, you for example. It doesn’t mean that these little gripes are a great threat to civilization.
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Dragonwall says:
December 1st, 2007 at 3:32 amSorso is a predator on the loose! Touting gays…. hmmm Do I suppose gays developed an inferior complex towards the fe sex? This guy must be brought into Malaysia and we see what Mahatir will get someone to do him so that we know the outcome…..ha…
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Tony says:
May 27th, 2008 at 1:32 amRoss seems to support conservative values–lets take a look at what the Conservative/Republican/Right Wing of America Believes:
1. All races except the white race are inferior. Their standard bearer is Tom Tancredo, who incidentally was named the Ku Klux Klan’s Hero of 2007 (Atlanta Chapter)–he never denounced the award.
2. It is okay to practice corruption (i.e George Bush winning the White House in 2000 because the Supreme Court his father appointed would not allow a re-count of votes) but no one else can practice corruption.
3. Invade Arab nations based on lies (to this date not one weapon or even plans for weapon were ever found in Iraq).
4. Shit all over the US Constitution and move towards a Stalinist approach of stripping the population of its right to privacy and habeas Corpus.
5. Practice class warfare by having the poor/middle class pay high tax than the rich in order to fund corporate welfare.
6. In order to be an effective right wing reverend in Colorado Springs you must be a homosexual, smoke meth and pay gay prostitutes to blow you in the parking lot of your church.
7. They believe in sending other people’s sons to war (primarily the poor–they have no voice and no one will miss them at the country club).
George Soros stands for providing poor children with healthcare and education, he also believes in letting the market work as opposed to bailing out Bear Stearns ( a commie move if there ever was one).
So, George Bush and his friends represent the conservative viewpoint and George Soros represents the liberal viewpoint–hmm I will support Soros. If the JP is liberal–more power to them–it is better than being a repressive Stalinist thug like George Bush and his racist cronies. The right wing has such heroes as Hitler, Mussolini and Reagan/Bush. Long live liberal thought, without out it you would not have freedom of speech, voting rights or the US Constitution.
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Rob says:
May 27th, 2008 at 4:17 amI think Ross has disappeared along with a number of other noteworthy commentators! Maybe they were all the alter egos of one writer?
Oh well!
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Precy Agaton says:
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:35 amHi there,
I am in a dilemma. I have been looking for the essay of Pramoedya Toer’s “Letter to a Friend from the Country”. I would like to discuss it in class. Can anyone provide me a copy of this essay? I have searched every site, to no avail. A million thanks.
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David says:
December 11th, 2009 at 10:00 pmOne of the best JP headlines ever: Entire flipping rotten legislature charged with graft.
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Burung Koel says:
December 12th, 2009 at 10:45 pmSubby having a bad day.
Probably.
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