[ChrisMarshallNY]

William Gibson got a lot of hate for his "Disneyland With the Death Penalty" essay (in Wired), about 30 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_with_the_Death_Pena...

[janalsncm]

The United States has the death penalty and it’s certainly not Disneyland.

In the other hand calling it “Disneyland” probably oversells how fun Singapore is. It is a fairly boring place in my experience.

[shakes_mcjunkie]

"Disneyland" in this context is more about it being a highly managed place with no sense of local history.

[lupire]

USA's local history is genocide and slavery.

[mynameisvlad]

This is just straight up Whataboutism now.

Two countries can be bad. It’s not a competition.