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So the foreigner had 90 million coming their way, but they accepted 50,000? The scam continues... 🙄

I think it's the above, plus covid. Their self-esteem took a nock when things got really bad simply because tourists weren't allowed in. This didn't lead to them appreciating tourists more, quite the opposite. Post covid, there have been multiple strong anti-foreigner campaigns also.

So not investigate the crime and punish him for that? Check up on him very thoroughly to see if there's any way to deport him?

The crazy thing is, leading up to the debate, the left-wing MSM has being trying to sow seeds of Trump being incoherent in interviews, presumably as some sort of pre-emptive damage control. I saw one comment somewhere that said something like "They both looked like confused old men", so it seems like the narrative might be pushed towards something like, "Oh yeah, they're both so old and unhinged", just to try to take the focus off of Biden's dementia. It will be interesting to see how they try to spin this.

Maybe they meant "spitting feathers", but the AI messed it up?

Seems pretty in line with Thai Buddhism, though.

@Gottfrid @stoner @fredwiggy, you should seriously consider just ignoring MalcomB. He's very clearly trolling to get a rise out of people.

This only happened once, according to the article, and I'm not even sure it fits the definition of a scam.

Trump won. Biden looked like a confused old man. This wasn't about Trump v Biden, it was Biden v rumours of being way past the point of being able to be a president. Trump turned up and did what Trump does, Biden's task was to turn up and to put the rumours to bed. Biden failed.

He looked to be desperately trying to remember what someone had told him to say if the economy comes up. It didn't answer the question, and it didn't make much sense.

Is that what they're blaming all his mistakes on now? "It's not dementia, it's LSD!" I guess some people might buy that. He is pretty incoherent.

Worst scores since records began in Thailand.

Agreed. There's absolutely no need for students to be at school for 6:30am. Start later and be done by 4pm.

Nothing? Probably a blip in the AI.

Loss of one period a day would be five a week. A school with 100 classes would lose 500 lessons per week. If there are ten subjects, that's 50 fewer lessons per subject per week. That's got to be enough to lay off a few teachers per school.

These two are not the same.

Thais are perfectly aware of how Thaksin operates. It's very effective and he has used this "extreme vote buying" tactic before.

Not at all. It's totally relevant to the point I was making and the comment I was responding to.

I think you meant to say "the Thai women that I have access to...".

It's obviously easy to fall for a scam, and these people are probably very professional, but "we need you to send us your money so we can investigate it" just sounds so unbelievable. How would they even "investigate" it? The money doesn't exist physically. This must be the third one of these on here in a couple of weeks. Don't Thais read the press or pass around information about scams currently going on?

Talk about going with what you know... 🙄

I think you're majorly overestimating the number of non-corrupt people available to either desire such a thing or put it into action.

Gee, I wonder where they got the idea for that... 🤔

But you probably know better than to publicly call them out on something.

Tough when it's 10 v 1.