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Maybe because they require all traffic to give way to the left and move in the same direction. I imagine a roundabout where people are constable traveling the wrong way round and never give way would be pretty dangerous. Unfortunately, Thais simply won't follow road rules.

Yes. If either the concrete truck wasn't driving too fast and didn't fail to give way, or, if the woman had been driving defensively and anticipated the threat the track would potentially pose, the accident probably would not have occurred as it did. I'm glad that we can agree about that.

By this logic, any store with CCTV "considers their customers to be thieves".

The purpose of a tax is to disincentivise someone from doing something. They want you buying Thai food, not foreign food.

Hardly unprecedented in Thailand...

Did I get it wrong? If she had followed the common sense approach of slowing down at junctions and looking out for traffic that is emerging into the road you are travelling on, would she not be more likely to have survived?

You're meant to slow down when you come to a junction and look out for traffic that's about to pull out. If she did this, she would probably still be alive. Although he probably appeared to come out of nowhere, it's very likely that she would have seen the mixer coming from a fair distance. If you watch the video, and imagine she started to slow down as soon as you could see that the mixer was coming into the U-turn (and doing so way too fast), her car would have been at a different point on the road when the mixer entered.

And probably everyone in the local area knew he was a violent psychopath who owned a load of guns... 🙄 That's waaaay to proactive for Thailand. It would be too much work for the police and cause too many people to lose face

They spotted the gun and the guy was detained. What's to be concerned about?

It would also be the same as sweeping up gold and diamond waste from the floor of a jewellery factory. Meaning: Homeless are highly valuable.

Indeed. The cement mixer driver is at fault but, as is so common in road collisions, the victim could have done something to probably prevent it if she was driving with a little more care.

Nobody is saying that car crashes don't happen in Western countries. The point is that they are a lot worse and often completely preventable, while people are rarely held properly accountable. In the example you showed here, was the driver driving dangerously and did the police fail to hold him properly responsible? If not then it has little relevance.

Yeah, I think they basically see using the road the same as we do walking. Not requiring any great levels safety, care or attention, not really having to follow any rules or worry about where you are on the road, and if you have an accident - bumping into someone else or falling over - you just kind of think "Oh well, these things happen". I imagine that changing Thai people's minds about driving, would be like if we in the West were suddenly expected to wear safety gear and start using speedometers and rear-view mirrors when we go for a walk. We just wouldn't see the need for it and would find it mildly ridiculous.

The post was about conspiracies, and those are two things labelled "right-wing conspiracies" which turned out to be true, which counter the opinions given in the original post. Things that you don't like about Donald Trump don't affect that fact (as much as you wished they did).

"Please cherry-pick things that support my argument and don't mention things that prove me wrong." Suuure... 🙄

Also Hunter Biden's laptop and Joe Bidens mental health. Both of which were covered up via conspiracy, and no one even talks about them now. They've been conveniently forgotten about, while both issues should make the American public angry. They get forgotten because the left has the power and these are left-wing conspiracies. Someone who hates Trump doesn't care if the country was lied to, because they got what they wanted. Anyone complaining will be labelled as right-wing and silenced. The issue is, the left have control, so they are able to perpetrate conspiracies and keep them quiet. Of course, when people talk about them, they label them as whack-job conspiracies precisely because they don't want people talking about them.

I think it's just the fact that when an idea comes from the left, it has mainstream acceptance and the left-wing press repeat it, rather than trying to cover it up. For the right, it is the opposite. At the same time, conservatives tend to be lumped together, while progressives are treated as being more individual. For example, any right-wing nutjob (like Alex Jones) is held up as a model of how conservatives think, while left-wing nutjobs (such as antifa or BLM) either have their crimes ignored or they just kind of fade from memory. Basically, we passed a tipping point/narrative change, where left-wing talking points are reported as being correct in the press, while right-wing talking points are reported as being conspiracy theories. People even go as far as to say that anything that the right brings up should be ignored by the very nature of the right being the ones concerned about it. Whomever controls the narrative (the press and internet) decides who is talking about "conspiracy theories" and who is talking about "real things that we should all be worried about". And the press and the internet, are, of course, controlled predominantly by the left. So they aren't more susceptible, it's just not being reported honestly.

Not a war. Just a gradual change in people's attitudes and ideas about what is normal/accetable behaviour. Even though we consider Western societies to be more advanced when it comes to safety, transparency and accountability, it wasn't always like that. This is challenging for Thais, however, as non-accountability and non-criticism form such a central part of their customs and culture. As I said in another comment, there would need to be a huge shift in the idea of what it means to be Thai and to live in Thailand for things like this to become a thing of the past.

Aren't most relationships between Thais women and froeingers age-gap ones? Isn't that kind of the point? I'm not sure I agree with your assessment here. How would you know what anyone is saying behind your back? Even if you understand their language, the point of "behind your back" is that you cannot hear it.

Imagine if her hubby accidentally kicks a doctor, Phuket authorities inspect the build and find it illegal in some way, then they get deported minus their $1.2M AUD. Why would anyone take such a risk, shouldn't they have at least rented for a few years? A two week holiday is all that is needed to know how honest, kind and friendly Thai people are (or so it appears)... 🤭

Thai society would need to fundamentally change it's attitude towards accountability for anything like this to improve. Thai people simply don't like to hold people/be held accountable for any wrong doing. The standard is to not criticise anyone or point out wrong doing, quite the opposite in fact. Until the culture of "not wanting to upset anyone in case something bad happens to you" changes, these things will keep happening.

The issue is not one of grammar but of semantics. What the previous commenter was referring to, I believe, is that you cannot point out a sneeze that no longer exists as it occurred in the past. It is not there to be pointed out. To point someone out is to direct someone's attention to it. You cannot really do that to something that was in the past. The sneeze was neither located nor present anywhere.

You make it sound like painting them red actually did anything!

Lucky, considering that probably none of them were wearing seatbelts. What an absolute nightmare for a parent. First you witness the bus fire horror on the news and wonder whether it could have been your kids, then you get the news that something has happened to them.