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Sigh. De-Nile. The river is called the "Nile River". It's one of the largest rivers in the world and played a major part in the Judeo-Christian religion along with the Tigris and Euphrates. I shudder to think of how you might spell "Euphrates". Just a helpful hint - your misspelled rants and "whataboutism" going all the way back to Ted Kennedy (LOL! FYI, he dead) aren't exactly demonstrating your mental acuity.

"If you're innocent, why are you taking the fifth?" Donald J. Trump

There we go! Looks like they listened to my comment and put the "family friendly" back in Pattaya! That sentence being the only location it will ever be found...

The video shows the Thai security guys walking away, not the victims. The quotation on the first page of the thread appears to quote the Webfact that provided the initial story. Perhaps it was written originally then edited out after not being confirmed?

And you might perhaps be under the impression that this would thereby provide the lubricant for the wheels of justice to turn? Afraid we're in Thailand - the wheels have been welded in place. The only possible outcome that would cause police to do anything about this would be for the person in the ICU to recover, make the charges, and then the men would be reluctantly arrested and charged. They would be subsequently released on bail, with an eventual notification that they should show up quietly at court. Unless the ICU fella decides he loves it here so much that he's willing to stay indefinitely and assign someone to sit daily inside the Pattaya courts, they'll whisk the lads out the back door with the case dismissed before it's even brought in front of a judge, with brown paper envelopes passing from bar to plod and all happy about the outcome. Oh, other than the poor fella in the ICU. But then again, stupid to argue bills in girly bars, only one likely result and this is it.

The usual climate change denial by the armchair scientists of ASEAN Now. If only their love of beer and poxy ho's hadn't gotten in the way of their ground-breaking research, then they'd have disproven in long ago...

And how do you know he would not be convicted in another state? He's already on trial in other states. The case is clear, the criminal conduct obvious, the evidence compelling. If you are going to disparage judges for their political affiliation, then remove the politics from the appointment of judges. In Canada the judges are appointed by the legal system based on jurisprudence and knowledge of the law, there is no political interference and judges, public prosecutors, district attorneys and the like are not elected, they're career professionals assessed by their peers as being worthy of elevation to judge. Americans love to lecture us about their "freedoms" - having lived there on a couple of occasions, I would say in many respects Canada is a much better place in terms of basic freedom. Much of what Americans tout as being "free" is anything but.

"Although the two victims have yet to file an official complaint, the incident has raised serious concerns about tourist safety in Pattaya. Local authorities are now under pressure to ensure such incidents do not recur, aiming to maintain Pattaya’s image as a tourist-friendly destination." What? No mention of "family-friendly" any more?

Perhaps she's god-bothering her former friends and they got fed up?

I don't know you, you don't know me, all we have is your statement, hence it is self-proclaimed as it is with myself. Can't be any other way, nor would I expect anyone to demand proof, nor would I supply it if asked. We define who we are on anonymous internet fora. I don't believe that having been the victims of anti-semitism for millenia and the particular horror of the Shoah imposes upon us an additional obligation that others do not have. That's actually part of the EU definition of anti-semitism that I have posted on other threads. The lesson of the Shoah for many Jews, including myself, was "Never Again". Part of that means you respond to violence with even more violence, because we observed what happened when we didn't. I do not support Netanyahu and his idiots on the Right who are culpable for any actions that happened under their watch that step over boundaries. I agree they made a mess of the response, as Hamas and Putin were expecting and hoping that they would. But once you start singing harmony on the Hamas chorus, you might as well turn in your Jewish ID and join the death cult because that's what happens to the passive Jews.

Genocide? Even if we accept Hamas casualty figures (and why you would do that for an organization who have been found to lie repeatedly and habitually and who are actively spamming misinformation worldwide in an operation supported by the Russians and Chinese) of around 35,000 people killed, there were approximately 2,000,000 people in Gaza. So that's around 1.75% of the population. Jews in WWII? There were 6,000,000 out of a pre-war Jewish population in Europe of around 9,000,000 so around 2/3 of the people. Armenia? Anywhere from 660,000 to 1,200,000 out of around 1.5 million total. Rwanda's massacre of the Tutsi took out around 75% of the population and was about 500,000 to 800,000 people. Cambodia's Khmer Rouge killed around 2,000,000 out of 6,000,000. You see where I'm going with this. I find it astonishing that this is even considered as a marginal case of genocide. The IDF have protocols in place that go well beyond most armies in terms of avoiding civilian casualties, they're not gathering up survivors and shooting them dead, there are no death camps, incidences of soldiers behaving badly are investigated. The emphasis on "genocide" is simply a part of the propaganda and is designed not only to give people the impression of things being far worse than they are, but also serves to minimize the impact of the previous genocides, pretty much every one of which exceeds what is happening to the Palestinian people by several orders of magnitude and in practically every other aspect. This is not to say that Netanyahu and the Israeli Right don't have a lot to answer for, and I'm all for they and the Hamas leadership being strung up. But to downplay the deliberate brutality of 7 July which was specifically done to ensure a particularly violent response from the Israelis is downright bizarre. You're really going to do whataboutism with Hamas, who don't act in any way like an army in a direct comparison with national militaries? How far down the rabbit hole did you have to go to get to that place as a self-proclaimed Jew?

So, where are all the Hamas dupes to recant their numerous previous statements that there was no proof of sexual violence, that the events of 7 July were exaggerated or a false flag, that this was a justifiable act of resistance? Come on, show us your integrity and how you're actually NOT anti-semites who actively are promoting the propaganda of the death cultists.

Yes, indeed. And there's the rub - Thaksin was popular because of his policies which basically spread the money from the public purse around via the Tambon Councils and other means. This is why he was a threat to the powers-that-be and had to be turned into the Thai Beelzebub and exiled so that things could return to business as usual. Now, after his exile, he's returned to become just another one of the dinosaurs, and the fact that he's joined with his persecutors leaves nobody in doubt as to where his fealty lies and what his objectives are. Purely tawdry. They always knew he was a liar - but who cares when he was doing things that were wildly popular to the majority of the people who happen to live in the Northeast and North of the country. Now he's just another piggy at the trough. On top of that, the Thai people have found a couple of much younger politicians who appear to be much more serious about change. It's no wonder they both won the election and were both subsequently dispossessed of power through dubious means and the entrenched senate and other old power structures. There's only one way this system ends, and that's with fresh young blood in the streets, but this time none of that country plonk, let's get some fine Bangkok claret if we wish to see real change.

How about the current mob of unelected power-hungry elite who spent much of their time in power blaming everything on the evil one right up until they welcomed him back in the country to "serve his time", if by serving his time you mean lounging in luxury outside of the purview of the commoners. He's now free and clear, and if you don't think he's joined up with the current elite who now realize there's a much larger threat on the horizon - young people who aren't tied to or interested in perpetuating the old system whereby the same dinosaurs pass the public purse around to pilfer. This is just a more subtle version of Trumpism - don't mind me, BUT LOOK OVER THERE!!!! THERE'S THE BAD GUY!!! NO NOT THAT ONE, THAT WAS LAST YEARS' BAD GUY!!!

This was in response to Ultrathai's claim that "Biden is sick 😫 with dementia and can't put two sentences together. Is that the idiot that you are talking about?" Check out this link in comparison - https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/trumps-35-second-long-freeze-during-speech-sparks-concerns-rebuke-netizens-debate-long-glitch-or-unfit-to-serve-101716200059982.html Trump has a brain freeze that lasts 35 seconds! Now it's probably just that the teleprompter broke or the guy operating it fell asleep or something, but regardless, Trump couldn't ad-lib a word, just stood there staring and waiting for whatever he was supposed to say. Remember when he always claimed Obama would be lost without his teleprompter? Every accusation is a confession. Every. Single. One.

First sensible thing I've seen you post. Although of course your basic anti-semitism shines through eventually, as if Israel has a greater voice in world media than the USA...

This is an excellent example. You castigated another poster for a spelling error, and IN THAT ACTUAL POST, there's a spelling error ("thats"). Every accusation is a confession. You literally can't even correctly spell a riposte about another person's poor spelling! Now you come back and tell me that you misspelled "ecocholic" and expected me to accept your misspelling since "echocholic" is a real word and to hit up Google. So I did. I presume you were meaning "echolalia"? That means "the uncontrollable and immediate repetition of words spoken by another person". This is too easy. Are you day-drinking? Do send us the link to the definition of "echocholic" won't you? LOLOLOL!

Did you spell "ecocholic" correctly in your last post? How about "that's" in this post? The hypocrisy is mind-boggling! LOL!

How about making up words from thin air? Like "ecocholic", or "stollen" or "smocking" or "hamberders" or "covfefe". How about calling your wife Melania "Melanie" (I mean I may have to give Incontinent Don a break on that one, I only have to remember one not three). Every accusation a confession, every post a demonstration. I would start researching ways to slow dementia if I were you guys, seems quite advanced.

So did you watch the State of the Union? That was a powerful speech and it lasted one hour and seven minutes! That sure is a long time to drag out two sentences. Here's the link so you can observe within seconds that he's got quite the ability to speechify. https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2024/ As with the drug testing, every accusation is a confession with you people. You are seriously trying to make a cognitive impairment argument with the guy who bicycles around and gives polished hours-long speeches with detailed policy and nuanced understanding and the guy who wears diapers and falls asleep at his own trial and who STILL keeps referring to Barack Obama when he means his actual political opponent who beat him in the last election and who has been president these last four years. Why do you have to lie and state obvious mistruths? Just because your hero does it and you accept it doesn't mean that you can emulate him and have us slavering over your blatant untruths.

Every accusation is a confession. Ever wonder why Diaper Donnie is the Incontinent Imbecile that he is? A LOT of it has to do with a lifetime of cocaine and adderall use. Addiction is not just a bad thing for one's mind, but it really messes with the body.

You could post with more brevity by eliminating the part from "who" to "issue".

I believe that to protect the herd, you put the cattle in squeeze cages and drench them or inject them with the vaccines needed to protect both them and the other cattle from the known dangerous diseases that are killing them. I'm okay with that for other outbreaks when the herd members are already showing signs of mental deterioration similar to "Mad Cow" disease that prevents them from understanding the importance. It's the same reason you were vaccinated when you were young. I also note that there is a Venn diagram that shows people who don't believe the COVID-19 vaccines were needed or efficacious and the people who have zero problems with taking complete body autonomy from women when it comes to their pregnancies. That Venn diagram is a circle.

It may damage the population in the future although despite hundreds of millions of vaccines being given to a very diverse set of populations there haven't been any evidence of such occurrence. What IS known is that there were, in the USA, over one million excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is not under dispute and the evidence is overwhelming. And it's likely grossly under-estimated as well. https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2024/new-analysis-reveals-many-excess-deaths-attributed-to-natural-causes-are-actually-uncounted-covid-19-deaths/ What is also understood is that the poor leadership of President Trump with the disinformation, promotion of quackery and refusal to fund the mitigation efforts when needed, that there were likely 40% of those deaths that DIDN'T NEED TO OCCUR! That individual directly contributed to the deaths of approximately 500,000 Americans or more. That the same group of people who have no issues screaming in women's faces that "abortion is murder" also slavishly worship the man who directly caused the deaths of so many of their compatriots, but specifically among those, their fellow travelers, is something that future generations will look upon with astonishment. SAD! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-policy-failures-have-exacted-a-heavy-toll-on-public-health1/ https://www.npr.org/2023/07/25/1189939229/covid-deaths-democrats-republicans-gap-study

Well, as a seeker of truth and justice you already know what to do! Time for you to pack up your beach clothes and send 'em off to Goodwill, won't be needing those in Vladivostok! Be a true man showing the courage of your convictions and get thee to Mother Russia's warm embrace. I'm sure you'll find it exactly to your liking, very religious and anti-woke beyond compare, very limited diversity of people and certainly of opinion.