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You're normally a sensible poster so it's disconcerting to observe you carrying water for the CP group while simultaneously casting all the blame upon the poor villagers who are simply trying to make a living. To suggest it's mushroom picking that is causing the fires to this extent is absurd. You want to change the climate via rain-seeding airplanes? Might as well invest in Aboriginal raindancers to come and have a jump about for all the good that will do. Drones, police and rangers to observe the fires that any idiot could simply go to a website showing the latest satellite imagery to observe? Why? What's the point? They know where they are, I could list the ones for yesterday if you like. There is only one reason for such large-scale burning and that is cropping for commodities including corn, cassava, sugar cane, watermelon and other crops for the agro-industries in Thailand, China and Vietnam. These commodities are mostly grown via contract farming with small-scale middlemen who contract farmers to clear and plant the land then buy the crop. The crop is eventually sold to larger agro-industrial conglomerates such as the CP Group. CP Group doesn't contract farmers directly, since they're too huge, and it provides them with a degree of separation. Chinese industry and agriculture companies are not easily identified, controlled and boycotted. Everyone along this chain is making money including the authorities from village and district level upwards. So you tell me how you're going to stop that. Except put away the fantasy solutions that haven't the slightest chance of occurring or doing anything about the actual problem. And stop blaming the villagers. You should understand by now who has the power and who makes the real money from this, and it ain't them.

Ah yes, the Right Wing solution to most everything, get the cops to start busting heads! What could go wrong?

Oh sure, blame the poor boy. That horse was asking for it! He was nuzzling him provocatively first. And the boy gave him a carrot, nothing wrong with something consensual between two fully mature adults. Or maybe he was a veterinarian-in-training and wanted to see how the pregnancy was going?

Are there really that many travelers like this? Would they really choose their airports based on whether they're likely to be able to toss down a quick guzzle of Dom Perignon on their way to the gate? Classic Thai response to the unpleasant truth, let's put some lipstick on it and tell 'em it's a beauty queen!

Sure, take away the agency responsible for security at airports and that will fix everything! The Guv'ment shouldn't be involved at all! They shouldn't build the airports, hire and regulate the Air Traffic Controllers, set safety standards for airplanes and airplane components, make sure the pilots are well-trained and up on their certifications, enable the international transfer of passengers and luggage, undertake immigration and customs duties... Because it's the marvelous private sector that can do all these things much more effectively and efficiently, amirite? Such as has been done successfully numerous times, including in....oh, problem. It's never been done successfully. But we can point to some things where for example we can compare the Public Sector approach to the Private, such as Health Care. There's one country that seems fixated on private sector health care, that is the USA. As it is also the world's main proponent of a capitalism-beats-all approach, then they would surely be able to show the rest of the "commie" world how good ol' fashioned American know-how and get-it-doneness can overcome the sluggish creep of socialism. And the results prove it conclusively! The costs for health care per capita are ranked: https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm Guess who's number one? But of course, you'll point out, this is because they get the best health outcomes with their far more high-tech and efficient approach: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/05/us-healthcare-system-ranks-last-11-wealthiest-countries Hmmmmm. So the private sector approach is the MOST expensive of the different ones taken by the most developed countries in the world and also doesn't even appear within the lists of the best health outcome countries in the world. In my opinion, the private sector approach works well for much of the economy but absolutely and utterly fails when it comes to provision of necessary services. These include health care, environmental and safety regulation, law enforcement, education and the military. Those are clearly best left to government to manage as demonstrated by numerous studies and the US' valiant efforts to prove the social democracies pre-eminence in the modern age.

Oh you think that's being subtle, do you? You'll need to get a bit more vague to get to the point of it being a dog whistle which appears to be your objective. A noble one to be sure.

Or could it be you're a pontificating anti-semitic liar like Ozimoron? You're the one who asserted that you're the noble fighter against injustice (except against the Jews obviously) who never shirks a battle. So I went to observe you jousting with your enemies but found you not even on the battlefield. Unless of course it had to do with Israel, there's always an exception to every rule. And that exception, remarkably, always seems to be Israel for some folks. I don't think you're likely to be a pleasant person in real life, it's why I'm quite Left Wing but don't hang out much with those people. Wet, boring and generally unhygienic in my experience.

Well, I see you've taken the time since this thread started to gain a PhD in Political Science. With wisdom like that, what's the point of debate? The Jewish Communists who founded the "Labor Zionism" or "Social Zionism" movement sure would have been surprised to discover they're Far Right...

You're correct that I don't know you, and doubt I ever would have - self-righteous narcissists aren't my cup of tea. Look at you proudly marching yourself to the camps with the Jews you hate! How precious, I can already see you making your noble last speech to the evil Nazis as you condemn everyone you're supposedly dying for. You're a threat to nobody of consequence. And yeah, there's your proof, your "progressive Jewish friends" have told you about the Right-Wing scumbag lawyer Trump named as Ambassador who thinks Liberal Jews are "kapos"? LOL. That's one instance by the sort of person who knows Donnie Diapers well enough to be named Ambassador to Israel and nothing at all like you said in your original post. Just to check your statement, I put your name as the author in the search function and checked whether there had been any posts about Sudan, Myanmar, Nagorno-Karabakh, Eritrea, Syria, Nigeria. Nope! Israel though gets 34 posts. Save your BS for your lentil-weaving "friends". Ever wonder why they're all so temporary? It's because you eventually find something incriminating from their background and that's it, they're off the list.

Says the guy who thinks Zionism is a Far Right movement. Surprised you're still here after the whooping you've been getting on this thread for your fact- and logic-free assertions of racism.

BTW, if you want to understand why people keep insulting you and calling you out, one of the reasons is that you make assertions, we challenge them with well-referenced posts that carefully point out the facts of the matter and how you're wrong, and you then IGNORE EVERYTHING THAT IS WRITTEN AND POST SOME OTHER STUFF THAT IS COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT TO THE DISCUSSION. I notice that you complain about the same things to the Right-wing posters on other threads, but can't stop yourself from doing it. Just a reminder - I called you a liar, and specifically pointed out 3 lies to you. You responded by attempting to claim one of the lies as truth. I pointed out that this was not a rebuttal and was incorrect, and that you had just made yet another assertion that was a lie. Your response to that is "yeah, I despise zionists and Zionism is not a religious sect". Who was talking about that? Nobody. And it by the way contains YET ANOTHER LIE! Zionism was NOT a far right political movement, it was apolitical and included Jews who were Right, Left and everywhere in-between. Can you not write a single sentence that is correct? Why don't you read some factual references before you splatter your nonsense all over TV? My response to you is that you are a liar, as proven by the three lies you wrote that you have not refuted, and you are continuing to do so.

It's always heartwarming to observe non-Jews telling us what we think about our fellow Jews. You thought maybe we were all waking up to our morning coffee and instructions from Big Zion about what we were supposed to think and do today? GFY with your "kapos". I refer to my previous posts about the clear anti-semitism that is displayed by the egregious conflation of Jews and Nazis. Congrats, you're joining some fine company on this site. You know nothing about what we think. Perhaps you're surprised that I too despise Netanyahu and his Far Right minions? Religious nuts like Hamas. And I wouldn't put anything past those people in terms of doing illegal things or committing war crimes. And I'm all for there being a process by which they and Sinwar and his minions all go up for trial and face the consequences including hanging. Hell, I'll pull the lever. But that doesn't mean that Israel doesn't have the right to defend their country and people from the attempts of their neighbours to kill them. Israel IS a democracy unlike most of their neighbours and unlike the Palestinians. There are many Israelis opposed to what's happening in Gaza and if a different government had been voted in, I don't think this would have happened at all. I also know that if Russia and Ukraine weren't in a war, this also wouldn't have happened. Probably the thing that frustrates me the most about this conflict is that there's so so much stooopid going on in the commentary that it's maddening to even begin discussing it. And of course, it brings all the blatant and many of the casual anti-semites out of the woodwork. If I had observed a similar fervor for justice from so many of these anti-Israeli keyboard warriors when it came to the dozens of coincident other international conflicts and inter-religious/inter-cultural wars and violence I might have more sympathy. But they only care about Israel for some reason. Just can't put my finger on what it is about Israel that makes them so different.

You're correct, my calling you a racist is simply the opinion of one person. The EC on the other hand making official statements on its website about what constitutes anti-semitism is the opinion of a large body of serious people including lawyers from a number of different countries and backgrounds and who take these things very seriously. THEY are the ones who think what you wrote is Anti-Semitic and have published explicitly on their website why that's the case. That you have read it and continue to hold that opinion tells everyone that you, in fact, are an Anti-Semite. So if you sleep happily with that, it just tells us that you're deeply flawed and should seek therapy. I do hope that one day you and your ilk are exposed for your hate and that you experience a reasonably degree of personal discomfort and consequence as a result.

You wish to debate that you wrote "refusing to recognize or be held accountable by a world court"? If that was so, why did they send a team to the World Court to testify in the case? Would you send a team to present a case to a court you don't recognize? Have you presented any evidence that "Israel does not accept that the court has jurisdiction over its control of the West Bank." I didn't see it. As far as I can tell, the ICJ is NOT deciding whether Israel can have control over the West Bank. So how could Israel "not accept that"? You don't seem to understand that when you write things down and present them as fact, that people will check those statements out and if they were simply made up on the spot by you making a reference-free assertion, we're going to find that out and point out that you're lying. As I did. As you've once again FAILED to provide any evidence against. If you're not a liar, then why have you only provided an attempt to explain one of the three lies I pointed out? Do you think that only having 2 lies in a 3-sentence post makes you something less of a liar? And your attempt to rebut the lie was a failure too. You're just spouting hate while pounding the keyboard angrily. You still are conflating non-Israeli Jews with Israelis. None of the people in this news story were identified as an Israeli.

You can't write a single post without errors or lies. The person putting up the hostage posters was not an Israeli. Israel attended the World Court hearing and made their case. The case has not been decided yet. Israel have never declared that they don't recognize the World Court. These are lies. You can't even write a 3 sentence post without 3 lies. You are unsurprised that a woman stapling posters to a wall about innocents being kidnapped is assaulted by a man for that and that others find this to be, well, assault, and anti-semitic?

Are you able to comprehend English? Did you click on the EC link? Do you understand whom the EC represents? To be perfectly clear, you can declare whatever belief you wish to, within the confines of the Forum rules. This obviously includes making racist or anti-semitic statements, although sometimes they're also removed by the moderators if they're considered too over-the-top. As to you being called out for it, when you make reprehensible statements that are racist, you should always be called out on it. It doesn't matter whether you're being offensive to Jews, Muslims, women, or whomever else you are trying to beat down. So fill your boots! You must be very proud to hold such antediluvian opinions, there's clearly a cabal of other like-minded individuals here for you to make congress with. Y'all should go to a Beer Hall together.

So when someone points out that the EC specifically defines comparisons of Israel and Nazi Germany as anti-semitic, and you then make a post afterwards on the same page that makes that comparison, what does that make you? No need to respond, I personally like it when racists out themselves as the internet is a marvelous thing when it comes to recording regretful commentary. I think anonymity may not be guaranteed forever, so it's always my hope that these things come back to bite the people who write them.

Yes, when multi-lateral organizations who carefully consider these issues and officially and explicitly state what constitutes racism, it DOES TAKE AWAY FROM YOUR POINT. It essentially says "RuamRudy, you're actually saying reprehensible stuff that is racist and so common amongst racists that we had to publish this sort of thing just so that you would be able to see that what you're saying is racist and unacceptable." So okay, you accept that you're a racist. Perhaps you should dress accordingly as per this discussion, I'd suggest Hugo Boss as your design beacon.

Who was carrying out overtly activist Zionist activities? The ones putting up posters about innocent kidnapped civilians? Those people? You're not allowed to do that? I can't wait to hear your opinion about the hostages. They're guilty I guess of being both Israelis AND Jews. So they're not really hostages, they're prisoners of war, amirite? Even the kids. Now tell me again about the people on the train. They were Jewish in a foreign country? They weren't JEWISH BRITS? They were "overtly activist zioniist (sic)"? You are just itching to get excuses so that you can go and dish out some violence on them horrible Jews, aren't you? What a despicable individual you are.

Oh, I see, you expected that there would have been witnesses to the London train incident here on ThaiVisa and were just asking for clarification since this was such an implausible event? Oh, well, silly me! I thought you were just spouting made-up stories that happened to be anti-semitic like pretty much any post of yours that mentions anything to do with Israel.

Here's another one - if you're Jewish, you're partially responsible for Israel and therefore anything Israel does means it's fair game to go after Jews. This is a definition of racism. By the way, refer to my post above which has a link to the definitions of what constitutes Anti-Semtism. You'll be interested to see that you have achieved it in your post! Must be a very proud day for you.

https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/combatting-discrimination/racism-and-xenophobia/combating-antisemitism/definition-antisemitism_en It's actually a recognized definition of anti-semitism according to the European Commission.

Read what people are writing and get your head out of your dog-eared copy of Mein Kampf. You made a post of complete conjecture about what happened on the train because you couldn't imagine how someone would be able to spot a Jew. I posted two different ways in which one could easily spot someone as a Jew - they could have been wearing a yarmulke or a Star of David. There's lots of other signs if you know them. You now post "my question to that poster about how the person knew his victim was a Jew remained unanswered." I answered it. Your entire hypothetical rested on this idea that Jews are invisible and indistinguishable. This is obviously not true. The other part of your hypothetical rests on your odd idea that Jews who aren't Israeli have some sort of responsibility or shadow-citizenship to Israel and therefore can be directly confronted about what "they" have done by supporting Israel. This is utter nonsense. You still keep arguing as if it is an established fact despite several posts pointing out how this is completely wrong. You're not debating, you're simply spouting hatred against Jews because you're a raving Anti-Semite.

You really are a piece of work. You failed utterly to answer a single point of my post except to attempt to paint yourself as some wonderful anti-nationalist who therefore hates Zionism. What a crock. Answer the point - is there a reason that non-Israeli Jews should be accosted on the street in the UK because they have been identified as Jews? Do they have some sort of guilt that has earned them this behaviour simply by virtue of their religion? Is this something that only applies to Jews, or does this apply to every person? Do you as a Christian/Atheist/Muslim/Hindu person or whatever other religion or culture you were raised in have an in-built obligation to address something that others of your religious persuasion or culture do? If you do, then you best let us know what team you're on and what you do to combat the horrors that YOU PERSONALLY are responsible for, wherever they may be. Do you understand yet how mind-bogglingly dumb what you say is? Or are you just what you appear, simply a hateful anti-semite?

Here we have someone who is PUTTING UP POSTERS OF KIDNAPPING VICTIMS and gets attacked for it, beaten and their phone taken and smashed, and here's the resident Anti-Semite saying in essence, she deserved it for being an activist because she TRIGGERED SOMEONE BY PUTTING UP POSTERS OF KIDNAPPING VICTIMS. You need therapy.