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Pheu Thai Party unveils its three prime ministerial candidates
sidneybear replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Absolutely I don't hold Thais in contempt. What's better: a stable government that respects and promotes traditional Thai values, or; a bunch of thieves who are conning the public, causing endless riots of the kind we've seen in recent years? If you reflect on that, it's you who needs to question why you support the imposition of vile and degenerate western culture onto Thailand, simply because you believe what you see on CNN. -
Pheu Thai Party unveils its three prime ministerial candidates
sidneybear replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Socrates said that democracies inevitably decay from within and fall over into tyrannies, just as they are doing in the west. In fact, the west resembles more of a kakistocracy than a democracy, which is paving the way for its own demise. Read Plato's Republic if you have time. It's quite revealing on how states evolve and decline. -
Pheu Thai Party unveils its three prime ministerial candidates
sidneybear replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Wise words. Thaksin is a businessman and is skillful at PR and marketing. Other than that, he has nothing to offer Thailand, because like most businessmen all he's looking for is a return on investment. He isn't a socialist, indeed he has no political ideology beyond enriching himself. Thaksin's party screams nepotism, all his sisters get put up for elections, such is his disinterest in varied opinions or excellence in the job. -
Pheu Thai Party unveils its three prime ministerial candidates
sidneybear replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Democracy doesn't seem to be working too well in the West. Whomever you vote for, you get marginally different flavours of the same thing, despite politicians presenting as polar opposites and getting people all worked up. Generations of the same family running for president and being supported by one or the other of two insuperable main parties. The list goes on: the West isn't qualified to lecture Thailand on democratic principles. Vote buying is common in Thailand. Village head men dishing out Thaksin's cash is more of a plutocracy than anything else. One of Thaksin's stooges or siblings will get 'elected', then sensible people will intervene and chuck them out, just like the last several times. -
Pheu Thai Party unveils its three prime ministerial candidates
sidneybear replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Oh dear. Another one who goes ad hominem because he's unable to join the debate. -
Pheu Thai Party unveils its three prime ministerial candidates
sidneybear replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Your wife's family and mates do not a country make. -
Pheu Thai Party unveils its three prime ministerial candidates
sidneybear replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
They might buy more votes, but they won't be allowed to stay in office for long before the conservatives that guard Thailand's delightful culture chuck them out. You'll see them scuttling back to the airport with bags of loot before long. Either that or they'll be thrown in prison. -
Pheu Thai Party unveils its three prime ministerial candidates
sidneybear replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Many thinking Thais would say that about progressivism. They're smart enough to see that the west has progressed into a soulless, degenerate and bankrupt dump, where all people do is slavishly follow this or that meaningless woke fad, discarding all that made the west great. Thais don't want to follow the west anymore. -
Pheu Thai Party unveils its three prime ministerial candidates
sidneybear replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Opinion surveys are there to shape public opinion, rather than measure it. They predicted that Brexit wouldn't happen, and that Hillary Clinton would win. -
Pheu Thai Party unveils its three prime ministerial candidates
sidneybear replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Right wing nationalist nonsense? "Spouted" by me? Do try to keep things civil old chap, we're having a debate here and we both have a right to our respective opinions. Anyway, you sound just like me back in 2005, before the coup is 2006, and again in 2013, before the coup in 2014. I was just like you are now. All this western cultural poison won't work in Thailand, thankfully. The west is a spent force - senile, confused and losing its poisonous influence. A bit like Biden, its metaphor. -
Pheu Thai Party unveils its three prime ministerial candidates
sidneybear replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
How do you know that most don't support the status quo, including coups and the like? Have you conducted a survey? And no, bought votes don't count. -
Pheu Thai Party unveils its three prime ministerial candidates
sidneybear replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Yes, yes, I know full well what a coup is. The West has sponsored lots of them, as well as destabilising elected governments it doesn't like, ignoring legalities when it suits its Liberal (and fast going out of fashion) worldview. Thaksin's lot, or another lot sponsored by the west, may well buy votes to get back in, but they won't last long. Grass roots Thais are conservative, which isn't a bad thing because Thailand in nice just the way it is. -
Pheu Thai Party unveils its three prime ministerial candidates
sidneybear replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
I'm Thai. Read my earlier post. And you obviously don't know how Thai politics works. Coups are a fact of life and are sometimes necessary to rein in malign western influences that would otherwise spoil Thailand. -
Paying National Insurance from Thailand
sidneybear replied to Barnet's topic in UK & Europe Topics and Events
Seems the rules might have changed. I started paying in 2012, but could only pay six years back at that time. I've been paying class 3 ever since, and worked a few years in the UK prior to emigrating. I'll get 32/35ths of a full pension at 67 years old, so I might give them a call to see if it's possible to top up the missing 3 years. -
No, I don't collect paperwork from friends who were ripped off by insurance companies in the past, just to give to anonymous people like you on Internet forums. Nor am I prepared to allow you to peruse private correspondence of my own, for a reasonable claim that I had to fight for payment of, simply because the company was trying to avoid payment. I really hope that this kind of thing doesn't happen to you, but it might. Since I'm reluctant to post private correspondence, I think we'll have to agree to disagree, and I don't care what you think anyway "Big Star".... Wow. *giggle*
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Pheu Thai Party unveils its three prime ministerial candidates
sidneybear replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
I'm Thai mate, so your post is a tad off piste - the correct possessive pronoun in your post should be 'your' rather than 'their'. I've never felt like dust under anyone's feet either, but I appreciate your concern. Human rights in the dump that's the West? Poverty, depression and repression more like. You've been watching too much CNN. -
Feeling Insecure about dating ladyboys
sidneybear replied to Sparky Barry's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Hmmm.... you'd need to be a fan of outdoor action to make that work. -
Feeling Insecure about dating ladyboys
sidneybear replied to Sparky Barry's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Do they have back seats? -
Thailand, Laos and Myanmar Discuss Transboundary Haze Pollution
sidneybear replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
That's the most likely outcome. -
Songkran Under Consideration as Intangible Cultural Heritage
sidneybear replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Traditional Songran is rather charming and definitely cultural. Modern songkran is nothing more than a moronic water fight.