Odysseus123

Navalny and Mandela are male-they certainly had/have an interested media following that protected them somewhat.

Aung sang Suu Kyi is a female-

Now just let's see just how many female leaders have been assassinated/driven from power/imprisoned in this (wider) region?

..and how many countries are governed by male authoritarian leaders?

11 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

I don't think they gave her any choice!

Yes..it was a situation that has often been presented in history..

Stay and get overthrown immediately.

Leave and lose all influence.

The Asian male takes dominance over females for granted and often the females are used for what is,actually,late 13th century window dressing.

Not that some occidental males do any better....

My God!

They are not even trying to somewhat disguise the issue any more..

Thailand,Myanmar and Cambodia....

30 minutes ago, Somtamnication said:

No no no. This can't be. Why aren't they taking care of the elderly over there?

Geez...read the OP.

All the best to Captain Moore.

On 1/30/2021 at 3:38 AM, cdemundo said:

Who compared him to Einstein?  You are arguing with someone else.  I only said he was smarter than the average bear.  I stand by that.

And so he is.

"Crazy and evil" as a description of the pandemic conspiracy theories seems pretty appropriate to me as well.

4 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Yes there are some genuinely decent members of the RTP, but then for every one of them there are probably many more that have not earned a position, and therefore end of being the ones you hear about facing an inactive post.

Yours is a very good post.

As you say the concept of a meritocracy is usually lacking in Thailand and you pay for your position and and advancement exactly as the officers in the 19th century British Army did and,of course,exactly as the great empires of India and the East functioned.

History shows that when a class of functionaries such as these get into major and endemic debt then corruption skyrockets and the state is ultimately placed in peril.

The fact that Thailand has never been able to modernize it police forces (or its armed forces for that matter) speaks volumes about a state which yearns to be "upgraded"on the world stage but whose institutions remain firmly fixed in the 3rd world.

So yes-give them far better wages,drop the loans to purchase equipment and abolish the "purchase" system for privileges and positions.

24 minutes ago, elliss said:

 

      Equipment , to buy bullets , for their show piece pistols .? 

     Whatever next ..

Uniforms and equipment and beiing selected on merit and not on how much you have to spend to buy your posting..

In short,a modern police force and not one operating on the franchise system run by the Ottoman and Mughal empires of the 16th century.

All this should be readily apparent to even the dullest observer..

They certainly require decent pay and the wherewithal to acquire uniforms and equipment.

If that is not provided then Thailand will continue to operate along the the lines of the franchise system in Mughal India in about 1600 AD.

2 minutes ago, fakser said:

Why the automatic denial of the fact

Perhaps it is because a few of us here would like to know the facts before one judges or condemns as a universal principle-rather than a parochial one-and would comment appropriately when such facts emerge.

Yes..a very weird selection of poor boundaries,lack of civic culture.little or no political morals and ethics and certainly no major grasp of reality.

 Very bedraggled parrots,indeed.

Proud boys,huh?

21 minutes ago, xtrnuno41 said:

In our world everything is possible and for sure the bad things.

H1N1, SARS , MERS all started in Asia, as well now Covid. How, why? it is questionable.

I red Covid was with animals, but extreme rarely jumps from animal to humans.

So is someone creating those viruses?

8000000 TONS of plastic EVERY YEAR in oceans. Never see or saw a thing about who is doing that, but it is a fact.

Very few people show it happens and not any government is making a fuzz of that. They all focus on the air above us.

Can you imagine the pile of plastic on that amount?

A Chinese virologist had to flee  her country, to USA. She should be there now still?

It was on USA tv, yahoo news, she had prove of creating covid for humans.

She is dead now or they shut her up (with money?)?

When the amount of people were low in the past, we had no much doctors, musicians or what so ever, also less Hitlers.

As the number grows, we have more of everything, including Hitlers. Logical conclusion. They only changed their ways of domination, more hidden.

Everything is possible. 

Why Louis Armstrong ever sung the song "What a wonderful world", I dont know, he must have been high on a line of coke.

Probably i will not make it to see what happens if we reach 10 billion people. Saw the movie of National Geographic.

Could that be a real scenario? Already see now with hospitals making a choice between a young or old one with covid, who to treat first!

Medicines getting way more (only for profit to raise) expensive, just because they can and do.

You cant pay, then die. Of course mostly the older ones, as their income increases in old age and need it more to live

The Hitlers chose it like that.

What a wonderful world, o yeaaaaaah

 

Please refer to Julian Jaynes 'On the Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind' for his interpretation of what actually spews forth from the right side of the brain and the tremendous efforts that the Left side has had to control this over time.

Social media has allowed it to spring forth unfettered once again-as your post so clearly demonstrates..

7 minutes ago, simple1 said:

 

trump was one of the main promoters of conspiracy theories in the USA during his presidency; it's unfortunately that apparently he cannot be impeached for his conspiracy activities, presumably due to Free Speech. IMO USA urgently needs to overhaul legislation concerning conspiracy theories which in effect are hostile and damaging to society for political purposes.

Whilst I agree with your post-I still cleave to the idea that trump was a carefully crafted and constructed puppet put forward and controlled by various media driven "influencers"-he as much reflected the state of mind of the radical-right as led it.

The original "twitter" (social media) idea was quite brilliant but-due to the very nature of the beast-could not really be controlled.One must not forget that up to the last days it was not really clear as to just who was leading who by the nose..

I would conjecture that most Republican politicians live in mortal fear of the radical right media-they did a very bad bargain with the devil on that one.

(but..that might be my very own conspiracy theory????)