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Reality is a bitch Calvin, the days when a greedy power hungry church could command over the uneducated masses is long gone. I agree that liberalism being decreed by law is wrong but that is no different from the hypocritical tyranny of the church in bygone eras. The pendulum swings left and right but left to its own devices it will settle in the middle.

The OP merely wants dignified representation, in no way can many of the politicians of the GOP qualify, they have become sycophants to a morally corrupt leader who appeals to the low instincts of his admirers. The world is changing rapidly and many Americans can't accept the falling moral, financial and industrial power of their country, Trump's lies and bluster gives the flag wavers a false sense of security, reality can be hard to accept but homelessness, unemployment, debt and violence in society can no longer be ignored, the American dream is dead and they aren't yet ready to mourn.

I can see where you are coming from and no doubt the majority would agree with your views; I however feel detached from such sentiments, the avatar of consciousness is no more, it feels nothing. Yes it may help some to have a gravestone to help with their grief but grieving is a selfish process, it is to do with the personal loss of someone for that person, the dead are relieved of the burden of life. My wife sometimes visits her fathers plaque in the temple wall and brings water and rice even though she never liked him in life, nobody did, not even his wife but it is somehow expected in society, a non negotiable convention, I find it laughable, even someone who was loved is forgotten after a few months while the bill for the bodies repatriation is still being paid off in installments, possibly for years in some cases.

Yes I am aware of that, I consider transgender people to be gay with mental issues.

Why? It's isn't as if you'll be aware of where your ashes are.

I experienced this in a Paris bar 50 years ago, I stood taking a pi$$ in the urinal (there was only one, rather cramped) and next to me stood a woman redoing her make up in the mirror on the wall while waiting for the sit toilet door to open, rather unnerving.

The whole of the west and beyond have the same problem, S. Korea and Japan have the lowest reproduction rates, it's a question of economics, children are expensive.

Yes majority, the natural order of reproduction beats your fantasy.

I don't have a problem with homosexuals marrying, it's a bit pointless in my opinion but whatever, at least they acknowledge their biological gender and don't try to force false gender pronouns on us by law.

A program would mean that the government considers such perversions as desirable which they obviously don't; it's merely an add on to the 'hate crime' list which has got of control.

Yeah, the hub of syphilis.

It's hardly a program, 'woke' has infiltrated into the army, press, and politics, people seem to try and outdo themselves to show how tolerant they are, it doesn't mean they are of course but it only takes a few deluded people in high positions to corrupt the masses who will then pretend to toe the line, the great pretense was shown during the Anheuse Bud light debacle when a Trans person was used in an advert, their sales still haven't recovered. The fantasy world of trans people is rejected by the majority even as they pay lip service to the perversity.

You mean where people accepted their biological gender without having mental problems? where gay people didn't consider having their genitals mutilated to belatedly attempt making a fantasy become real? Where a minority couldn't brow beat the majority into participating in their fantasy world? Reality has the propensity to hit illusionists in the face so I chuckle and ignore the fad.

For a start he should be made to pay restitution for the damage and injury before being prosecuted, after a prison sentence he should be removed from Thailand forever, Thailand has enough nutters of their own, they don't need a foreigner to swell the ranks.

George Orwell warned us of newspeak, we didn't listen and now dystopia is knocking on the door but this too shall pass.

"All the world is mad save thee and me and even thou art a little queer." It's called diversity by the 'woke', insanity by the rest of us, I presume it is thought that if it's rammed down our throats long enough, we too will willingly join the ranks of the mentally compromised, in the UK it's fast becoming illegal not to.

I'm always there for anybody needing help, it's they way I am, all I ask for is a smile now and then to brighten up my day as I have brightened yours.

You mean they weren't crawling sycophants.

I don't go to 7/11

An adventure was promised and the company delivered.

Those services are there with or without me, with every purchase I make I pay taxes, with every visit to the IO I help to keep them employed, I helped keep several builders employed, I bring in foreign currency all year round, I'm already an asset not a loss and when taxation starts (I expect to pay 30k) I want some of the advantages as a Thai who pays no tax.

He is obviously not a gentleman.

At years end we expats will be taxed on our pensions from abroad, I was referring to this unhappy state of affairs. Since we will be taxed without representation I think it only fair that we should have some of the welfare advantages enjoyed by Thais.

That should also include tax paying expats who instead get legally screwed to paying 3 times the amount for hospital treatment than a Thai, we should also be included in the 30 Baht scheme, let us get something out of this instead of being eternally screwed.

Respect has to earned, the poor child was put under intolerable pressure by her alcoholic grandmother and lacked the maturity or opportunity to respond or escape, my sympathy is with the girl, the number of stab wounds relates to helplessness, pent up frustration and anger, she needs help, not punishment