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I like how the article and several poster omit the context of the fact that the Democrats were only in power because the military had ousted the democratically elected government in a coup. When the military violates your democratic rights with violence, you should respond with violence. 

48 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

That conspiracy theory charge that democrats are for "open borders" (which they aren't) in order to grow the democratic party voting base is currently a very mainstream republican party talking point. 

The joke is that South and Central American communities tend to be socially conservative and Christian. So if the Republican party were less racist they'd probably vote for them anyway.

1 hour ago, herwin1234 said:

it seems all the farangs like to do is trash their host country, expressing extreme cynical views about Thailand and Thai society. Very unfair.

 

Not a big fan of Prayut but we must remember the whole story. Without the Thai military stepping in the Red Shirt agitators would have pushed Thailand in acivil war. After weeks of disrupting Bangkok they start with burning down Central. Military did what it had to do. If anythong, it were the Red Shirts who forced what came next.

Besides that, Prayut did not a bad job all these years. As an environmentalist myself, i noticed he did some pretty good stuff with regards to the environment.

 

Even if you oppose so strongly, we live here voluntarely, we are guests. Why get involved in politics in such a negative way? Funny song for the farang but it m9ght be denigrating for at least some Thai. Dont like it here? Move to Vietnam. 

 

Anyway, thx to this farang sucker, life has just become a bit more dificult for the farang. 

The red shirts were protesting because the elected government had been removed by the military. What would you do if the military in your country kicked out the government you voted for and replaced it with one more friendly to them?

The threat of communism, incarnated in the form of billionaire business men Thanathorn and Thaksin.

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The abbot asked the press to leave it at that as going on about this incident further was not in the best interests of the temple or its clergy and religious teachers. 

lol

Respect to that dude.

This is why the Democrat vote collapsed. People know where they stand, and the people who wanted to vote for the military just voted directly for the military.

Pure hype. They're selling, but who's buying?

9 hours ago, Mavideol said:

Chinese universities are not much better than the ones in Thailand, same sh.. lived there, know that, Chinese are not smart nor clever as many westerners are, Chinese are much better at cheating/copying then anybody else I met

There are some really strong universities in China, and there are none in Thailand, but most people aren't going to get into those, and the better Thai places are around about as good as the mid tier Chinese places, at least as far as I can tell. 

How is the 'traditional approach to education' not relevant to becoming a data scientist? To work in data science you need to have skills in some combination of statistics and programming, depending on exactly what role you have.

As for blockchains, the only reason people are interested in blockchains is because the price of Bitcoin went up, and the only thing the price of Bitcoin going up proved about blockchains was that they don't scale up well. It's a neat solution to a theoretical problem that doesn't have a wide scope of practical application. It's 99.99% hype. Just people trying to sell FOMO to tech illiterate CEOs.

I don't see how an inefficient database is going to help Thailand's corruption problem.

11 hours ago, PremiumLane said:

There is a middle ground, the use of heard guards for young fighters and they can only compete in amateur fights. 

Brain damage in boxing is caused by sudden rotational accelerations of the head, so head guards don't actually help.  

Of course the military will not instigate a coup. However, if a political situation not to their liking should come about, and if, purely by coincidence, violent protests should occur because of this, and if the military were to allow this violence to escalate, arguing that the right to protest is very important, and that supporting the elected government would compromise their 'neutrality', and if the situation were to reach a point where protesters were able to 'shut down' major cities, then...  

Whatever it takes to defend the State against the menace of smiling young ladies protesting non-violently. 

Very sad. I'm very glad my wife doesn't have to ride a motorcycle to work. 

4 hours ago, daoyai said:

did you see any numbers???

Only number 2.

Justice only happens in Thailand by accident.

31 minutes ago, hhinhh said:

Macron is right, we will never achieve a constant climate because this never happened since the earth existed and never will be. Who on earth has the idea to keep the climate constant is an ideological idiot or an organization which wants to collect donations and government funds from taxpayers.

Climate change is natural and inevitable. The problem is that we're headed for 10,000 years or so of natural climate change in the space of around 100 years. The planet will survive, and no doubt there will still be life on it, maybe even human life, but if you don't appreciate how dangerous this is for human civilization as we know it then you obviously haven't understood the situation at all.