NorthernRyland

Totally. If you mix a predator in with a population it puts them on alert and changes their life strategy to survival mode. There's also an element of being a caged animal in captivity because your society is a form of zoo and animals don't breed in captivity. Multiracial societies have low trust and that's just a recipe for all sorts of problems. Same thing happens in Thailand in the tourist traps like Pattaya and Phuket.

What's funny about that? I only became a racist after moving to Thailand. The real funny thing is that people who are pro-immigration are also the ones who don't mix with immigrants unless it's getting cheap manual labor (remember "who's going to clean your toilet Mr. Trump?" by Kelly Osborne).

Why should they say anything? All they did was close a loop hole but that doesn't mean they going to start taxing random expats now. I don't know who started this panic but it wasn't the government itself. Probably social media or one of the English language newspapers.

Clearly something is wrong with this otherwise I'd recommend US abandon all traffic enforcement and speed limits then make drunk driving legal outside of specified checkpoints. That would reduce traffic deaths by 46% then? The answer is probably due to the amount of distance driven or maybe the overall lower speed and defensive driving in Thailand. In US you can simply drive and expect people to follow the law but try that in Thailand and you will have an accident within minutes.

Show your work and post real numbers per 100k of population. Another factor is the hours driven by Americans. Maybe more accidents but they're spending more hours a day driving and covering more miles. The real test would be how likely you are to die per 100k of population for driving 100 miles of distance, or in other words how many miles do 100k people have to drive before one of them dies in a crash.

and what did the government say on the matter? The media spun this to mean something it isn't. That's the whole point of this thread.

I think that's not true anymore. Same as Canada. Massive housing problems in both countries too.

That's only a problem if you let them in and keep sending them to money for food. They need to learn how to stabilize on their own without constant intervention. Also why be concerned with education in Africa? That's there to problem to solve unless we're planning another colonial era.

This is why Benjamin is making all these videos. Your embassy is operating based on media reports (according to him illegal) and not informed by the law. He's right, the media has caused huge chaos and even influenced embassies now apparently.

People get stuck in a certain phase of life and hold on to it until death. Happens to everyone. I've noticed Boomers are very invested in the narrative of climate change and world resources being depleted through massive population expansion. Not sure where I'll get stuck but I heard about sea levels rising for 30 years now and since nothing even remotely close happened I'm ignoring them now. As for population, birth rates are collapsing and we saw the white population drop for the first time in American history. The same people who are concerned about overpopulation tend to be for more immigration also and have been for decades. None of that makes sense either.

I think it was more about undermining the native population and rendering them helpless politically. I know Liberals well and they really believe through magically education and funding "programs" you can overcome the nature of any person. This experiment has been run for decades now and is a manifest failure but they're too brainwashed to accept the facts. Go to GreatSchools.org and watch literally every school in the country show the same results for different races. Every single time it's asian -> white -> hispanic -> black. I can point this out and they'll just say more funding is needed. It's hopeless and they import over a million new people every year. Sorry US on the whole is finished. You can't recover from this now.

Did everyone see the California fire department ad that got them in hot water? People focus on her one insulating comment but they glossed over the more trouble comment about how she thinks people want the fire department to look like them when coming to help. That's the reality of a multi racial society. Naked tribalism and favoritism. You can't fix this with laws it's built in to peoples DNA.

They would need to and the fact they haven't says volumes and that nothing has changed, loophole or no loophole. Most people aren't even aware of this tax debate and would be shocked if they were audited and told they owe back taxes. Obviously they government knows if they want taxes they need a formal procedure and notify expats, which would happen via immigration as that's their point of contact for us.

I've watch a lot of his videos and despite being a lawyer with Thai citizenship he doesn't seem to understand how the law is generally regarded in Thailand, until now. For anyone that doesn't know the saga, over the last many months he's made a serious of videos where he gets increasingly more livid over media run by foreigners essentially giving tax advice and telling people to get a TIN before a certain deadline etc... and to contact their agency for support. He regards this as infringing on protected occupations reserved for Thais and despite all the uncertainty and fear it's causing the government doesn't seem to be stepping in.

This can't be overstated. If they want revenue well here you go but that haven't even figured that out. They still have me making hand drawn maps for immigration because they can't figure out GPS coordinates apparently.

I think Benjamin said this entire debate arose because of an interagency memo about closing that loophole. The government to my knowledge has been silent on this matter, probably because 1) if they say no expats are implicated then they lose their power to target people if the need to and 2) if they say some expats are implicated they cause mass chaos (much worse than now) All this noise and debate seems to be because "experts" and various people on social media have drawn their own conclusions and stirred everyone up.

Yeah sorry no pity for Thai people. They allow a burning culture for the entire year and only now when it starts to get a little annoying some of them complain madly. IMG_1075.MOV

Trump seems very confused about immigration (which is incredible). He's said he wants the most people ever coming in to America and recently he's getting pulled around on H1-B by Elon and Vivek (a hugely losing issue). Once he sees the pushback he tends to change his mind though and Elon and his Indian friend got destroyed on social media and I bet Trump paid attention.

that's all political squabbling. If you turned off the news you wouldn't know if it was Trump or another other Democrat. things you do notice: millions of illegal immigrants , monetary inflation. If Trump did win the tax cuts he did in 2025 would expire and we'd get a higher taxers too, another thing you notice. Point being besides the government insiders and media freaking out it was smooth sailing in those 4 years).

"I went to my local district office requesting a TIN and they turned me away because they didn't understand why I needed one"

Yes but this is Thailand. They struggle immensely when enforcing laws and implementing systems. Look, anything is possible I'm just saying now is not the time to panic. Just wait until they make actual moves towards implementing a system to collect taxes and they will notify us in advance.

they said that in 2016. What happened over the next 4 years? Not much really.

indeed if they were to enforce any law this would be the one, yet in all these years they haven't. Add this to the long list of laws they don't enforce.