Point Arguello

The US should have never been in Afghanistan in the first place outside of some US army rangers to get Osama bin laden. You seem to be misreading placeholders post that waylaid my post with placeholders "irony". My point is that a population on opiates is much preferred to be around than that same drug using population whacked out on (pure) meth-amphetamines. Thailand in this case. So your referring to opiates in error to his quote that was about amphetamines. Of course pure heroine would be better that this fentynal plague.

Another one of these people conflating the good points about a model with the bad points. Sorry better luck next time with this nonsense

Actually the way way back 1950's was the American dream model. That ended November 22, 1963 in Dallas. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and liberal city and state governments followed. Along with the Southern border invasion: gangs like ms 13 , terrorists , million's of illegals overloading medical/social services. It's going to require an authoritarian government to fix this mess

Ok let's call it authoritarian like Singapore. When year after year all this talking until the cows come home regarding the Southern border disaster, the increasing city crime , the wasted billions and lives in Iraq Afghanistan and now Ukraine. Seems it is high time for another model. That would be an authoritarian government that would have selective elements of fascism by construction

Good, Join the to the Right of Trump club

Anyone can cut wire ??? Let's just have a real WALL. Trump wimped out on the wall. I would like to see a DeSantis as president.

Legislation to fix the problem that hasn't worked for 20 years ? Serious?. A WALL from the Pacific to the Gulf manned by border patrol and states national guard will fix this invasion of gangs , terrorists as well as the millions of illegals who are overloading the countries medical/social services. And don't play this "dictator" bs. An excectutive order can direct the Army Corps of Engineers to build it. Putin's bidding - get back from lunch. The only bidding here is to benefit the military industrial complex. And an executive order needs to intervene in the anarchy/looting in US cities that is permitted by these liberal SAPS in city/state governments

Here is the local problem, do I really have to show you examples of the Southern border disaster. And this waste of billions going down this rat hole in Ukraine. Hopefully Trump/DeSantis will take care of this mess.

Fascism isn't all bad: Could be away to get something done with the sorry mess created by these liberal saps in government. Left wing anarchy with stores being raided and looted, and no local enforcement. Here calling in the military is the correct intervention. Then the non borders allowing gangs, terrorists,while overloading social/medical services. Take the stalemate in the US for example. The only way a real WALL could be accomplished to get around these progressive saps blocking it would be for the president to declare the national emergency it is , and order the Army Corps of Engineers to build it from the Pacific to the Gulf. Of course it would be more affordable if the current admin would stop sending Billions and counting to that lost cause in Ukrainian that mostly benefits the military industrial complex from that not such a winding road from Afghanistan and Iraq

And Thailand would be alot better off if the main drug were opiates. Instead of a drug using population whacked out on bad speed.

Maximum high season inconvenience

Could make a freight train take a dirt road

Yes plenty of traffic and this proposal is just going to make all the jammed up roads even worse in places like Pattaya where there will be even more of these happy s*** events along the beach

Care less about the water,feels good on hot days. But this place is too chaotic as is.

They are really thrashing around now on these tourism ideas , every day something including the chinese Are the tourist numbers that bad? Sure does not look like it in Pattaya

19liters/45baht

Yes and a nice natural area - Enjoy it while it lasts: "these people" are coming with their bogus contractor/kicked back parking lots. After they destroyed the nice sandy,shady area at the North end with a bogus parking lot with very few cars at any time. It looks like the area is going to have to be re built. So that is going to be a construction mess for a long time. Including these construction trailers trash

Nothing to do with tides Hoss. The beaches in Na Jomtien have been filled with sand. The beaches farther North not been re filled with sand.

Yes and those poisons evolved there via "natural selection" Those poisons have survival value for the plant. For protection from getting eaten

Ya all can talk about the police non enforcement and the "problems" with pedestrian bridges until the cows come home. While this poor young women lost her life.

That's a no brainer : Pedestrian overpasses. Besides waiting for a gap the pedestrian bridges are the only safe crossing. And spare the "people won't use them " line, that's their problem

Infrastructure??? Denial/delusion. This is not about infrastructure.

They are not on because thais drive through them

And unfortunately I judge people in the way that they drive.