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5 hours ago, madmitch said:

Totally disagree with you.

 

Foreign tourism is necessary to boost the economy. What's tthe point if most of the money is going elsewhere?

Right, unless you invest in education and welfare for your citizens, which I guess is just pie in the sky in capitalistic societies.  Everything has to be greedy companies raking in maximum profit all the time, with government skimming whatever leftovers the oligarchy throws its way.  If you just levy a tax on the wealthy and make high quality education cheap and easy to get in Thailand, it will benefit far more than opening up to Chinese tourists who will destroy your landscape with ugly hotels and trash. 

These guys are whitewashing harder than Tom Sawyer

5 minutes ago, wazzupnow said:

case no 3 he does what he is best at " nothing at all"

As a guest in this country, I will not try to predict his actions nor is it my right to criticize them if he does take any, but I suspect you are correct.  

2 minutes ago, wazzupnow said:

i think he was cheated out off his cut

The thing is, it does not say he actually is disappointed with the decision.  It makes a difference.  In one case, he cracks down on protesters.  On the other, he reopens the case.  

17 hours ago, webfact said:

Prayut Chan-o-cha is reported to be uncomfortable with the widespread public criticism of the decision

Interesting how the title is "PM Prayut uncomfortable with the prosecutor’s decision to drop Red Bull heir case."  Which is it, is he uncomfortable with the obviously corrupt decision, or is he just uncomfortable with the criticism?  Gee, I wonder.  LOL

On 7/25/2020 at 5:25 AM, rooster59 said:

“jails are only for the poor”.

Brilliantly said

10 hours ago, Odysseus123 said:

...and that's how you get away with it in Thailand.

You think this is somehow unique to Thailand?  I can name several instances of wealthy people skating on crimes in America for example.  And have you ever heard of Jeffrey Epstein?  

7 hours ago, webfact said:

reprimand but delay further punishment for the man in charge of the transferred officers for failing to deal with possible illegal activity taking place under their command

The buck always stops at the most lowly and vulnerable!  

16 hours ago, smedly said:

China needs to confirm this

Oh great, when China and Thai governments disagree on a matter of fact involving national honor, whom do we believe?  LOL 

6 hours ago, bert bloggs said:

Please tell me how ,tried many times but no joy .as i only live 10 minutes away from Jomtien office its quicker to drive there do 90 day and come home . than waste time trying it online .

try with different browsers.  

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand should overcome concern of a second wave of Covid-19 and instead relax restrictions on foreign investors and tourists

These are a direct contradiction of each other.  

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He stressed that it is everyone’s responsibility to prevent the spread of coronavirus,

Except VIPs and the Health Minister of course.  

30 minutes ago, lensta said:

There is no "New Normal" Something is either normal or it's not. End of.

Nothing is more productive than arguing about definitions on the internet.  LOL

10 hours ago, JackThompson said:

By "independent" - you mean, they are all self-made millionaries who "do science" because they love it?  Or more like media-writers and "climate scientists" - who have to support themselves and their families, and are black-balled from work, if they "say the wrong thing"??

 

The world-wide deaths from "socialism" is unsurpassed by any other form of government.  The "free health care" is just the bait on the hook.  Nothing is "free." - is the thinking of spoiled 13 year olds.

 

I do support non-profit hospitals and insurance, though - via govt regulations.  That worked really well in the USA, before it was destroyed, to create the $12 aspirin tablet and unpayable insurance-premiums - hence the "need" for "socialist medicine" to "save" us.

 

It's a tag-team operation.  Guess who "runs thing" under socialism?  The same ones who ripped you off under capitalism untethered to nationalist interests.  Hence, Bill Gates and the Vaccine industry, pushing for a Trillion-dollar covid-payoff - peas in a pod.

Your point at the end about who runs thing is really the big big issue, and you are echoing Karl Marx's big concern, which is the issue of a ruling class struggling to suppress the worker class. I totally agree with this being a problem.  The trouble is that the oligarchs run things in the world, always have, and if people like you keep up your misguided fight for the interests of the oligarchy and resign yourself to having to "win" and accepting their table scraps, they always will rule you and you'll never see the strings that move you.  

You don't understand some words I used I think, intentionally or not.  Maybe I can help.  By "independent" I mean people who study the problem seriously and formulate their ideas based on scientific evidence and peer review.  Maybe I should have used another word.  

 I'm arguing we make medicine free.  You pretend not to understand what I mean by "free."  I think you are being dishonest in your confusion.  I mean "free" like it was free for you to go to grade school.  Like your local parks and roads are free.  Like that.  it's not complicated, unless you try to make it that way to confuse the issue.  That is called "sophistry" I think.  

As a proponent of socialism, I ask you to just think of it this way:  Socialism is about cooperation and society, and capitalism is about competition and the individual.  So public parks and schools and fire departments are socialism.  They are free.  Other countries look at our medical system and think of it like we would if a country charged its citizen for police protection.  It's outrageous.  No, you don't pay for the fire department to put out the fire.  No, you don't pay your doctor to treat your cancer.  Come on!  

Note that individualist competition is what has made our politics into the game show, horse race, for-profit horror show we see on display today in both parties.  Imagine if we gave people a day off to vote, made it easy to vote, and stopped using our government to prop up the two corporate parties.  I would call that an improvement.  Under socialism, corporations would not run the debate commissions like they do now.  

You make a common straw man argument against socialism, that Stalin was socialist, he killed people, therefore socialism is bad.  Stalin was not a socialist, he used the word like Hitler did to fool the working class into thinking he was helping them.  North Korea calls itself the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea if I'm not mistaken.  Would you say that makes it a democracy?  No.  

There, I made my effort today.  If you are still confused, it's because you want to be.  You like licking the boots of those billionaires?  No?  Then come join the fight against them.  Call it whatever you want, but how about if we start by reforming our democracy?  Non-partisan, non-ideological solution here:  https://represent.us  

6 hours ago, Trillian said:

To put that into perspective: 

https://www.statista.com/chart/21961/oecd-gdp-growth-projections-2020-on-2019/

To add further perspective, that table and these projections are based on very shaky "one-hit" scenarios that seem overly optimistic to me.  

On 7/3/2020 at 11:42 AM, YetAnother said:

never about health ,fairness or greater good; only about money

Sounds like any capitalist "free market" based system to me.  Justice and health and education are not for the poor, sorry. 

On 6/24/2020 at 10:13 PM, GAZZPA said:

Not just religion my friend, I hate it and believe it's immoral, degrading to women and plagued with crime. However it's here, it's not going away, I don't like it but that doesn't mean that changes anything. If someone has views against prostitution you should learn to respect their views, you will find a lot of people who don't like it see the logic in legalising it as well. This is not a topic for you to start attacking people of faith.

I'm sorry you think that a criticism of religion is a criticism of people of faith.  In my view, this demonstrates another reason to condemn religion:  it causes division and anger.   Religions often teach people that their religious ideas are somehow precious and special and above fair and honest criticism.  Religion to me is just another set of beliefs, many of them false.  When I say you believe in a falsehood, this does not mean I think you are a bad person. I just think you hold a false belief.  

23 hours ago, webfact said:

Doing so would bring sex workers into the system, afford them better protection from crime and allow them to seek state benefits.

 

Taxing them on their earnings would be a bonanza for state coffers. 

 

It is time Thailand faced up to the facts - prostitution is everywhere and has been completely widespread since the days of Ayuthaya 700 years ago. 

I can't think of any downsides for anyone for legalization.  This is an example where religion across the world works against the interests of women by treating this as a moral crime.  

9 hours ago, webfact said:

t was hard to pin down the perps and make arrests. 

Really?  The solution to broken sidewalks is to put people in jail?  Sick thinking.  

21 hours ago, YetAnother said:

face it, the WHO is incompetent

This strikes me as hilariously arrogant.  Please share your credentials with us so that we can assess your competence.  ????

3 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

The J model the scientists were using just didn't take the economic consequences causing deaths into account, it's like only using half a formula to find the answer

It's a very valid concern for sure.  But I think that you are wrong that scientists are ignorant or not taking it into consideration.  The fact that you know it means that the CDC knows it too.  Unless you are going to make some Trumpian claim of mental superiority, LOL

23 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

The problem with these medical and scientific experts is they tend to be single minded on the virus, the models used didn't take account of the economic consequences of lockdowns and restrictions, i.e. job losses, deaths from not going to hospital for cancer, strokes, heart attacks etc, deaths by the future under funded hospital services because governments have spaffed the money up the wall on lockdowns

I disagree with your assertion that the cost of the lockdown was not discussed or considered before implementing them.  They were simply found to be less important than the millions of lives put at risk.