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Yeah I have full confidence that you know how you will feel if you're still in Thailand twenty years from now.

Understood.

Liking the clean sheets and aircon ...

The payment is for them to leave, innit.

The entire night? Seems excessive.

I want to amplify on a point I made before. The problem of Thailand having no path to permanent residence for expats on retirement status. In my opinion, this is a super big deal. If you're moving here with the plan of having some fun for a few years before moving on to somewhere else or back home, not a problem. But if you're looking for a new home, a place to live in for the rest of your life -- BIG PROBLEM. There's something called time and the human condition. People get older and older and inevitably there are health issues. If you've lived in a place for decades as an older person moving country becomes more momentous. So you're settled. You don't want to move at all. Yet as you get older and older in Thailand, fully settled with no desire to ever leave, you STILL must always be on top of both real and potential visa changes that could potentially uproot with devastating effect. For the rest of your life. If you had chosen a country offering permanent residence or citizenship in the first place, you wouldn't have that burden. People in earlier stages of retirement probably can't imagine the significance of this. But it's very real. This is why I don't recommend retiring in Thailand or to any other country where you can't get permanent residence. Of course there are strong pros and cons to retiring to any country. But I'm suggesting the lack of a path to residence security SHOULD be a deal killer for many more people than it is (because they lack the imagination of what that really means over time).

To be clear, I don't really care if people paint rainbows on crossings or not. It is rather an international trend though. As far as removing this one as evidence seems to show it is a safety hazard, if it really is a safety hazard, and that's not just some kind of excuse because some Thai Karens complained about it being too gay, I don't see a problem with that either. Actually this isn't my country anyway, so never mind.

Could be worse!

Define woke?

Proceed gayly.

He'll probably just give them to Putin so that Putin loves him even more.

A message of hope that democrats can beat the dark forces of maga fascism regardless of the candidate. I sure hope he's right.

Yeah you're definitely quite the expert on American black people.

No chance of Article 25 but he is a stubborn old coot. He's always been stubborn so thats him. He ran for president for decades with little success before finally making it in old age. In my view that explains his hard resistance to letting it go. I estimate the odds of him withdrawing at about 65 percent. I sure hope that he does.

Any jail sentence will be paused until after the election. If Trump wins as America's first fascist dictator he'll make all his legal problems dissapear.

Exactly! Anyone shocked has simply not been paying attention. Barbaric war crimes are par for the course of Putin's state terror

That's good news. Hispanics and Latinos will be a tougher Brazil nut to crack. Culturally many of them have too much respect for strong man dictator types like Trump.

Nobody in their right mind will ever regret stopping the death march of maga fascism/ Project 2025.

That's easy. Lick my wounds Avoid police. Avoid the oress.

Who cares what she looks like?

Kick them off the UN security council.

A shout out to readers of this topic. I'm wondering why there haven't been any contributors other than me to this topic. Do you watch any LGBTQ video content? If you do, why not share it with others here? Do you object to this being in a separate category here in the gay forum? If that was the case, we would be seeing lots of sharing of LGBTQ video content in the similar thread on the general forum and we don't.

They're really ahead on fascism. Have you looked into Project 2025?

There is something called the vice presidency. That's become important numberous times in American history. If Biden who you falsely call a corpse is to actually die, he has a Vice President ready to take over in minutes. So your choosing Trump (the worst president in American history among a strong consensus of historians) over the Biden-Harris ticket lacks rationality.

Saying Trump will bring civility back? How can anyone believe such an absurdity?