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double/triple overcharging on state parks A lot more than triple. Foreigners pay 10 times the amount Thais pay .

There are Thai restaurants run by Thais in Iceland? That is the most amazing part in this story.

Thais are racist towards farangs as well, and not only on Phuket. Southern Thais tend to be slightly more short-tempered .

Have been looking at South and Central America myself, but it looks like even the cheapest countries over there are at least 50% more expensive.

Wow, almost 50000 temper tantrums on Thaivisa.com. You obviously have major issues Instead of ranting and venting on this forum all day, wouldn't it be better to occasionally read a book.

Not, if you want to be a Tiktok star and influencer.

I assume you are a fan of the grifting clown. And while many of his supporters are undereducated (there is an inverse relationship between education and support for the ????,just like there is with Thaksin), not all of his fans are halfwits/fascist..It is an almost inexplicable phenomenon that tens of millions of Americans can support such lying, cheating, all round hideous specimen of homo sapiens Part of it is the bubbles created by modern media. Part of it is the result of 40 years of neoliberalism and hyper capitalism, that has left the working class in the dust, has let to a lot of resentment and anger at the establishment. So they voted first for a black guy ,who presented himself as anti establishment, and when he did not deliver on his promises, switched to the opposite, a white supremacist . Part of it can be explained by research done by the Frankfurt school, a group of German Jewish intellectual ,that fled Nazi Germany, and tried to explain how the land of Beethoven,Kant, and Goethe could descend so fast into the barbarism of the Nazi. They found that there was a streak of authoritarianism in the German social character, that made them susceptible to fascist propaganda ,without actually being fascists. Milgram studies replicated many of their results in his social experiments on obedience to authority, and showed that these tendencies were present in the American social character too. So IMO,it's not about Trump being too much in the head of never Trumpers ,it's about mobilization of people around the world against an increasing trend towards authoritarianism or as the psychologist Eric Fromm called it, an escape from freedom.

They weren't much different till Gingrichwho initiated a sharp turn to the right. Now Rep aren't a real political party anymore. They are a cult in the thralls of an egomaniac. It's a cuckoo 's nest.

Yeah, go figure. Unfortunately for you, you do not seem to figure out much. The balancing of the budget is only a slogan for the GOP to attack the Democrats when the Dems are in power .When the corporate fascists are in power they proceed to break all records in deficit spending by massive tax cuts for the super rich.Reagan ,Bush and at the very top of the pile, the orange one. Common sense might work in your household, but not in science. Several Nobel laureates in economics have shown that deficit spending is often necessary to spur on a sluggish economy, as long as the spending is done at the grassroot level, and not at the top. Trickle down does not work in developed economies. And now to the most foolish ,most naive, and in a way most dangerous assumptions in your 'common sense treatise". Why are we still here after 4 years of Trump?? 1)Trump is a moron. 2)It takes time for wannabe autocrats to dismantle the check and balances of democracies. Hitler tried several times(beer putsch in 1923),took him over 12 years to absolute power, and America of today is a stronger democracy than the Weimar Republic. 3)If Trump gets back into the WH,he will put totally incompetent lackeys in all offices, will bring back 'clean coal ' and other fossil fuels, will disassemble all windmills, because they kill the birds and mess up his beautiful hairdo, inject bleach into Covid patients..... Unfortunately there are millions of Halfwits like you ,who believe the common sense propaganda of the fascists and might put this total clown back into the WH..,which shows that ignorance is not bliss. We live in very dangerous times because of fools like you.

It really looks like the only way to stop the orange fascist is to do an JFK on him. He has to be stopped before he totally wrecks not just the US, but the whole planet. The most dangerous person in human history i,leading the most dangerous organization in human history, the GOP.

Yes, I forgot about this very important Thai core value.

Yep, the word "core " cracks me up. The facade is Dharma, the core is greed and corruption.

Very little cannabis tourism, lots of sex tourism though, which goes much more against so-called Thai cultural values. The world-wide trend is towards legalization, so really no clarion call whatsoever needed. Thank God that stick in the mud people like you are in the minority. May I suggest a move to Afghanistan or Iran. No clarion calls there.

Priorities, that's doesn't seem to be a concepts Thais make much use of.Thousands of young people Thai die every year in the killing fields of Thai roads, and they worry about minor side effects of ganja.

5555 neither actually. Are you projecting? How do you get from my semi tongue in cheek remarks to queerness and lack of funds? I hope it's not some Floridian Ron De Sanctimonious paranoid pseudo masculinity reasoning.

I kind of agree. But if the Shinawatras start another great plunder of the nation, it could happen again. If they keep their corruption to the "normal " level, the military will probably stay in their barracks. I hope Square face takes guidance from his religion, and stays on the middle path of corruption, not too little, and too much.

Yes, it is. Bad Karma maybe.

Well. more and more countries are drifting towards a MAGA like, dumbed down version of fascism. Maybe smart people should start a colony on the moon or Mars. Or collective suicide of all smart people, and leave planet Earth to the Trumpian/Thaksinian/Boris Johnsonian morons .????????????????

Time for another coup.Get the tanks rolling.

Yes, myself included. My IQ probably dropped by 10 points during my time in LOS.It has slightly recovered since I left.

Easy. First time visitors are exempt. You come for the first time, you realize what a huge clown show LOS is, and you are smart and don't want your brain to shrink, you never come back. Granted, maybe you are smart, but you are also an unattractive sex addict. Then it's possible that your Libido wins out over your brain, and since you don't get laid much in farangland dueto a lack of sex appeal, the clownshow is your only option, and you are willing to put up with some shrinkage of the thinking organ in order to keep the other organ from shrinking It's a question of priorities.

Yes, it is.Most visitors to Thailand, especially repeat visitors, aren't too bright.

Well,it looks like Vietnamese immigration has gone back to the old website. Probably gotten too many complaints .I applied during the couple of weeks when you had to use the long and complicated new system which was one big pain in the behind.

That is the old one. And that one still works? When did you apply?

Did you apply on the old or the new website?If on the new one, that took effect on Aug 15,and you managed to get through it in 10 minutes, you are a genius, your PhD is well deserved. The Facebook Vietnam group forums are chock-full with comments and enquiries of people despairing over the application process .A lot of them threw up their hands and gave up.I persevered ,and after trying over and over and over again, I finally succeeded. 10 minutes, for a first time applicant, no way in the mortal realm. There are, of course, other immortal dimensions.