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There is ZERO evidence of Joe Biden's involvement in his son's shenanigans. But go ahead silly republicans.

Since when have policy differences been grounds for impeachment?

I've noticed that the IDF soldiers have taken heavy losses. So much for the BS argument that it's Israel fighting against rock throwers. Also note that Israel separates civilian from military casualty stats. The Palestinian Arabs don't (for obvious propaganda reasons).

I thought it was a Barbie world. Just because fascism is polling well now doesn't mean that it should be accepted passively. We don't even know yet who the nominees will be at this point. People assume Trump vs. Biden, but it could easily be a race with neither of them.

Historically it's a thing that happens that people democratically decide to elect dictators. That's what's happening now and it will happen unless the trump train wreck can somehow be stopped. But democracy once lost is incredibly difficult to ever restore. They still have elections in Russia but they aren't real. If that's what Americans want, by heck, that's what they're gonna get.

Hmm. Well I've been there and have followed their pattern of insane financial crises over many decades. It's a tragically unique country that should have been at a much higher level by now. I'm not usually a fan of that style of politician but in this case, I'm with the voters in the sense that they clearly feel like taking a massive gamble to finally clean up this pervasive mess. I predict very very rough times for Argentina and no idea if these radical measures will work, but at least they have a chance now and business as usual offered no chance. Also las malvinas son argentinas innit?

I won't watch it because based on research it's not coming from an objective POV. But here it is for anyone interested:

It's obvious a Palestinian state would accept NO Jews. Well, appropriately named Norman Finkelstein maybe (the grand Wizard of self hating Jews). It's incorrect to call Israel an apartheid state as you've explained. But that's about Israeli citizens. There isn't really any good defense for the west bank settlement movement. For there to be any hope of any kind of transition to a two state solution, at least some of those settlements are going to need to be dismantled.

That is total B.S. to suggest that was the core motivation of Zionism. I have no grounds for discussion with any person with such a narrow twisted view of the history of that political ideology and of the ANCIENT history of the relation between the land of Israel and the Jewish people (INDIGINOUS to Israel). It's just one ignorant insult after another from such people. It's funny. The same people are for a national liberation movement for Palestinian Arabs (an identity that didn't even exist until Yassar Arafat invented it). The hypocrisy and clear anti-Jewish sentiment is galling.

It's not only Hamas.

They can say what they like, but it doesn't actually. The Hamas charter "Kill all Jews" does clearly indicate genocidal intentions. The intention of Israel is to stop Hamas -- and why wouldn't it be?

Israel goal is to go after Hamas active participants, not everyone that supports them. Obviously not everyone in Gaza supports Hamas. It's an absurd question.

How many Palestinians would settle for a two state solution?

Russians will tell you that they invaded Russia because of the Nazis there. It can be challenging for Russian propaganda repeaters to keep up.

It's not over yet.

No! Washington offered Zelinsky to go into exile. The Ukrainians led this. The US infected by a minority of vile Putin loving isolationist republican extremists that weirdly have seized much more power than the people they represent are on the verge of gifting Putin a victory. In any case if Ukraine makes it to the US elections, then there is great hope that Trump will lose.

The US is apparently the only country not in favor of helping Hamas win.

It's disgusting that you are clearly demonizing the word Zionist. I assume you're for a Palestinian political liberation movement that leads to a state of their own, right? So why would you deride the Zionist movement which is about the same thing for the Jewish people? Perhaps you only opposed the extremist right wing faction of Zionism, as do I.

Do you really think that kind of inflammatory bait is helpful in any way?

I want to add that I think there are some things we can do now to be defensive about this. For example, I am transferring large amounts of money before the end of this year that will mean no transfers needed in 2024. Also I think it would be crazy to buy a condo here starting next year until much more is known. Cheers.

Could be a thyroid disorder.

I do agree there is no need to panic or to begin the process of leaving Thailand because of tax, but there is no way that you or even "experts" know how this is going to shake out yet. We'll need to wait. As far as how Thailand Revenue is going to deal with US or UK taxation specifics, keep in mind if they start going after expat foreign sourced "income" they'll need to be dealing with taxation peculiarities of every nation in the world that has tax resident expats here. How will they cope? My guess is that they won't even try to have the bandwidth for that. Which might mean they'll leave us alone OR it might mean they'll interpret income without any regard to home country details and force us to try to prove differently. Or something in between. I definitely wouldn't go for a Thai tax ID number yet unless or until they demand that we do.

That's one example that is simple. A thornier example. Withdrawals from US traditional IRA accounts are fully taxed as income in the US. I determined they are not seen that way in Colombia. I have no idea how Thailand would view that. As I said US social security is not fully taxed. It's based on a formula which can reduce the tax to zero. Will Thailand respect that formula? Again this is not simple.

It can actually be complicated to define what is income.

Only over a certain level in a formula mixed with any other income if any. In my case not at all.