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  1. 1 hour ago, debate101 said:

    Cheating, lying, stealing, abusing, killing--all forgivable if you are loyal to the right people. It's what the system is based on.

     

    There's simply no acknowledgment of the concept of public good nor recognition that individuals who are not already in a social relationship with you have any rights whatsoever. This is why people don't pull over for ambulances or intervene in public instances of abuse.

     

    The leaders embody and define the public good, and you follow their orders. Luckily for you, your bad behavior gets excused if you're obsequious enough to the phu yai of your organization.

    That and the belief in karma - you reap in this life what you have sown in past lives. That's why the peasants cannot be entrusted with voting because they're peasants, therefore they must not have been sufficiently virtuous in their past lives. That's the concept that lies behind the Yellow Shirt/junta narrative of leaving government to "virtuous" people

     

    These two quotes hit the nail on the head, & until these cultural attitudes change nothing will ever change here...

     

     Don't hold your breath waiting.....

  2. 1 hour ago, bangrak said:

    The graffity is written in Turkish language, and as the Turkish language is about only known by people of geographical(!*) Turkish origine...

    Alas, it seems no TV poster reads Turkish, to tell us what the words, really, mean. Knowing what s...t Google can make out of a few words translated from/to Thai...

    The signature (like a capital 'A' enclosed in a circle) at the underside of the graffity rings a bell though, I remember having seen it quite some time on the walls of European cities, but I can't 'situate' it at the time. Would it possibly have something to do with Kurdish movements fighting against Turkish occupation //for an independent Kurdish state...?

    (*) 'geographical', because there are many ethnic minorities living on the territories controled by the Turkish ethnic group and commonly called Turkey, having little or no rights or freedom to live according to their ancestral customs, or to be educated in their original language, only Turkish being allowed...

     

    The sign A in a circle always used to mean Anarchy back in the days of Punk rock at the end of the 70s/ early 80s......

  3. 7 hours ago, debate101 said:

    And how long will this forum remain open? My guess is not much longer, as the owners could be prosecuted for any negative comment deemed arbitrarily damaging to the country's (junta's) image.

     

    I think we should be OK for a while longer anyway, purely because it's in English which the vast majority can't read, were it in Thai it probably would have been shut down years ago......

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