BangkokReady

What are the chances that it's reducing the Christian festivals while maintaining or increasing the non-Christian ones? Sounds like it's the old, "Diversity means non-White and non-Christian, and the less White Christians, the more diversity". Seems like diversity doesn't quite mean what they say it does.

They aren't university students. That explains why they are so different to university students in the West. They're vocational students, so not really proper students. It happens all the time. Probably low-status, so need the boost from violence.

You asked me to explain something, so I did. I'm not sure what else I can do to make you understand. To be honest, you sound a little unhinged. You really haven't made a very clear point. It's very rambling and you're quoting one thing that was said in response to another, as though there was a direct connection. You're asking one thing, and then pretending like I responded to something else retroactively. It's pretty incoherent, even for you. Maybe have a rest, come back and re-read what you wrote, and see if you can understand/explain your point a little clearer. 🤷‍♂️

The use of "could" and "might" actually suggest the opposite of assumption. If your brain wasn't crippled by your ideology, you might know this. More irrelevant nonsense spewed from your ideology hole. Nothing to do with what I wrote.

What I have said is perfectly factual. You not liking it does not change that, nor do your bizarre attempts at disagreement. 🤷‍♂️ Quite the assumption on your part to suggest that I enjoy your outrage. It's actually quite tiring. Those of us with functioning brains simply acknowledge the risk things like this create and move on.

Of course. Trump is a smart and shrewd business man. He's not going to do anything stupid, and if one of his policies becomes clearly negative, he's obviously going to adjust. I'm glad you're finally posting more positive news about Trump. Good for you.

There's no way this person is ignored where they go if they're wearing a dress. If they said "man", they would have gone on to say that the person dresses/identifies as a woman.

OK. Fairly simple. I'm sure you know all of this, but just don't want to be honest about it. 1. Only giving the assumed name, when the person could be using their real name. 2. Referring to the suspect as a women, when "she" clearly has the appearance of a man makes identification harder (I know you think the "but the mugshot" argument is a get out, but people don't see a mugshot walking down the street, please learn to think critically). 3. Describing the person as a woman means that someone could believe that they have female physiology and are less dangerous than they really are, leading to someone being put in danger. 4. If police staff believe her to be a woman, then, once caught, she might be secured somewhere with women, putting them in danger. 5. If police officers believe her to be a woman, then officers might use less force when making an arrest, believing her to have the strength of a woman, rather than an adult man. The list could go on, as there are so many scenarios where it could cause harm. But I think that's plenty to support my point and prove you wrong (as usual). It's pretty clear how correct I am. I'd love to see you back up your points like this now and then, but we both know you don't because you can't.

Why not?

I figured you'd be along soon to defend the undefendable. Don't you ever get tired of being awful to people just because your warped ideology says it's OK?

Ridiculous. This is literally a case of endangering everyone just to not offend a very tiny minority. A perfect microcosm of the whole trans debate.

Why wouldn't they want Joe's support???

Diversity?

I hate to tell you this, but the Native Americans are also illegal aliens. 🤷‍♂️

Au Bon Pain and Café Amazon.

That's fairly typical in chain cafes in Thailand. I see Thais doing this all the time. Often you see meetings or classes where they buy one drink and sit for hours. I even often see Thais take up a multiple table with their bags, then half disappear for a while and come back later.

My suggesting was that two aggressive rottweilers in the area would make it very difficult for a group to grab the guy, kill him, then make it look like a suicide.

I watched this the other day. Amazing the level of debt people were willing to go into just so they could create the façade of living a good life. That one guy was like, "I wanted to have a successful life, a house and a car, so I borrowed the money to have those things, even though I cannot afford to pay it back." He wanted to have the appearance of success, even though he hadn't actually achieved it.

What happens when rates go into negatives? Do they start taking money from depositors and paying money to borrowers?

Adult stuff: yes Emotionally: probably not

Inequality is obviously an issue in Thailand, but why single out 7-11 workers as your point of reference? They may be low paid, but they're hardly living in poverty. Of course they aren't resentful, they live fairly comfortable lives and don't really care about foreigners anyway. They have many benefits that foreigners don't, even if you have a little more money than them. Why would you not reference genuinely poor Thais living in actual poverty? Homeless children, people living in shacks under bridges, disabled or sick people crawling around on the floor begging. They are the ones living in real need, and probably the only ones that you should really feel guilty around.

In his imagination, perhaps. There's no way Thai staff in the 7-11 give him this kind of feedback, even if he speaks Thai flawlessly. He's a Thai apologist and foreigner-hater. He has literally stated that foreigners are bad for doing something, but when Thais do the same, it's OK. I wouldn't trust most of what he says or thinks. I doubt his thought reflect any kind of reality.

I think, if you look at GDP by year, most of what people say about the junta is false. Things are worse now, but the figures don't correlate with the presence of the junta. It's a lot more recent. You can understand that people might be annoyed with what happened in the last election, but I'm not sure that it can be blamed entirely for how people are feeling in Thailand. It's a lot more likely that covid's effect on tourism and the global economy are to blame for how people are feeling now. Income is down, prices are up, everyone's in a ton of bad debt, foreigners are constantly painted in a bad way, and things that Thai people were able to be proud of before (perhaps falsely) are no longer as true as they were previously.

It's pretty disgusting. You can imagine these people chanting "four more years" claiming that Biden (who clearly has little idea what is going on) simply has a speech impediment, then go on to say how bad Trump is because he lies and how unfit he is to serve. But their lies are OK because they're the "good guys".

It's insane. Literally the President of the United States of America was suffering from dementia, making him not fit to rule, but the administration supressed it, and his supporters repeated the ridiculous and unbelievable lie. Even worse, when it came out, everyone who pedalled the lie was like, "So?", and just got on with lying to try to get Harris in power. These people should be ashamed of themselves.