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Okay, "bourgeois Christian values" maybe for some, but all of them are not Christian, and very few of them act on their "bourgeois Christian values." And, since you evidently did not know, "bourgeois" is a construct of Karl Marx, but his (and the Christian) utopia has not yet happened. It's been undercut by selfish capitalism. I think girls do not want to shower with biological men because they have been taught that is not the correct thing to do. I do not want to compel girls or anyone else to do anything. What I don't want to do is limit the opportunities for anyone in our society based on discrimination (think "DEI") 😉

I give up, why? Bourgeois Christian values that have to be crushed to make way for your Marxist utopia? So, you have no answer to that. Although I am not a proponent of any religion, why would you say it is associated with Christian values? The snake in the tree?

Okay, and why should the girls not be willing to shower with "biological men that believe they are women"?

My experience with the new tax laws is exemplified by an informal survey I took among the ex-pat members of my golf club. 14 out of 15 of them said they were going to ignore them.

This is just unbelievable! I can understand why Biden's reputation may wax and wane over the years, but anyone who has a favorable opinion of Trump, especially after he has assumed the position of president, is just crazy!

There are plenty of reasons to criticize Israel in its 70-year-long effort to take over all of Palestine, but doctors and nurses should not let that affect their medical services.

Just another autocratic, despicable action by Trump. There will be many, many more...

I rotate when I sleep at night.

I favor a two-state solution based on the territorial divisions of the UN Partition of Palestine in 1948.

I am "woke," so I am concerned with the interests of all my fellow citizens, not just the majority.

Cow's milk.

Trump is despicable, and the final score of the Superbowl was 40-22, not 40-14

I must admit I was very surprised at the results of the Superbowl. I thought Kansas City would win easily, but that obviously did not happen. As far as the halftime show, I watched the first couple minutes and then ignored it until the game restarted.

Sounds like they need to increase the size of the Pattaya Sports Center and hire more attendants to care for the dogs.

Thanks! That's what I thought, but I was not sure. I was afraid since my SS payments are not taxed in the US, when I transferred those funds here, they would be eligible to be taxed in Thailand.

I have only one question: Are transfer deposits of US Social Security retirement funds subject to Thai taxes? In other words, are US Social Security retirement payments considered "foreign income"?

I vehemently disagree with you. Israel will keep killing Palestinians until they force all of them out of Palestine because Israel wants that entire area for themselves. In current history, this has been going on since 1948.

Israelis have killed Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank for well over 70 years, and they have been funded to do so.

I don't recall saying I thought the number of men wanting to shower with girls is tiny, but it is probably much larger than the percentage of trans women. I'm sure there are a significant number of men who would enjoy showering with girls, but most of these are not trans women. According to the figures I quoted in my post above, trans people make up about 1-2% of the US population. Assuming these are split half and half (trans men and trans women), trans women would only be .5-1% of the population. I'm sure there is a more significant percentage of heterosexual men who would enjoy showering with girls. I'd guess as many as 50%, but that's, as I said, just a guess.

Lock him up! 😠

According to the latest figures on the Internet: - 891 Israelis have been killed in Gaza... After a year of fighting: IDF reports 891 Israeli soldiers have died during war, including 390 in Gaza & 50 in Lebanon | All Israel News - 46,600 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza... Gaza death toll: how many Palestinians has Israel's offensive killed? | Reuters I'd say the "Pay to Slay" is working more for the Israelis than the Palestinians.

Trump is despicable! 😠

Correction, its an abnormality Ns .00001 of the world population I don't know where you got your figures, and I don't know what "Ns" stands for, but I assume you think that's some sort of mathematical symbol for a decimal. Anyway, here are the figures I see online with the source: "Being transgender isn’t that uncommon anymore. 1.6 million people (1–2%) in the U.S. identify as transgender. Worldwide current numbers range between 0.6–3%. Reported numbers are proportionally higher in young people and may continue to grow in the years to come." www.healthline.com/health/transgender/how-common-is-transgender

I am sure I am not the only "woke" person on AseanNow Forums. I've exchanged messages with many of them. Allowing men in women's toilets is not the issue here, at least from my "woke" point of view. The issue here is that some, like you, probably, are so closed-minded that you believe there are only two distinct genders and that everyone has to be classified as one or the other. This classification is made primarily on the type of genitals the person is born with, which, as we all (I assume) know are sometimes abnormal. Another determining factor are hormones, which, as with genitals, can be abnormal, which may not become evident until puberty. Also, the abnormality in these two factors, genitals and hormones, can occur together or separately. Long story short, although the vast majority of us do have the physical and hormonal characteristics that we associate with either a male or female, some of us don't. That percentage is hard to pin down, but it appears to be about 1%. So, for me, a "woke" individual, the problem isn't how to keep men out of women's toilets or sports leagues; it's creating a rule or method to determine which one of the two accepted genders a person is that can be applied to everyone, not just the 99%.

No, I am "woke." And, yes, that is equivalent to moving forward at a "warp factor 6" when Trump and his supporters are still trudging along on impulse power, and worse than that, they are going backward.