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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 3 years ago

Only just learned about students from Singapore’s top girls’ school getting into trouble for praying to the school’s statue of Athena 😂 frankly I’m with the girls, I think it’s a perfectly reasonable thing to do. You put a goddess of wisdom statue & you expect girls not to stan? https://t.co/1AnwlxPtpy

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 3 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

Singapore education system: https://t.co/8ijSwdenIk

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 3 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

If Singapore were to produce a brilliant literary mind, there’s a good chance she would be dancing and worshipping at a statue of Athena https://t.co/7cjbUwFTSW

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvabout 5 years ago

We crush our caterpillars and complain there are no butterflies https://t.co/E1tkXZRhMP https://t.co/WkDiadL42F

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 3 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

Arise, my Athenian sisters 🦉 https://t.co/d5nLYOpW8A

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 3 years ago

"Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people."

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 3 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

hello international twitter, hellenists, etc, since you're here I might as well invite yall on a journey to learn more about Singapore https://t.co/7v3SgLCFFt

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvabout 7 years ago

So tomorrow is the 53rd anniversary of Singapore's independence from Malaysia, and since most of my followers are American, it feels like an appropriate time to maybe do an oral history thread about my city? Let me (badly) sing you the story of my people https://t.co/bXiEqVgao4

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anansi 🌞@s0ulDirect0rover 3 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv +1 for Sonic The Hedgehog comic use

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Prince Vogelfrei 🐦‍⬛@PrinceVogelover 3 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv Singaporean state not encouraging this? Bad sign - she's clearly one of the patron deities of the city

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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanvover 3 years ago
Replying to @PrinceVogel

@PrinceVogel the state is not involved, this is a decision by like a school's middle management

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Prince Vogelfrei 🐦‍⬛@PrinceVogelover 3 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv Sure, sure, I'm saying the state should be actively encouraging this, telling the admin off etc

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🍍 __ 🙀@sharanvkaurover 3 years ago
Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv the students have ✨ reflected ✨https://t.co/AxtqzzzCcK

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