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What’s your point? Rihanna has 108 million followers. Taylor Swift has over 500 million followers on 5 social media platforms. I’m not saying I like it (on the contrary), but these people are very influential, no matter how you slice it.

Among other things, she has over 14 million followers (and that number grows by almost 47,000 a month) on X. That makes her somewhat to reasonably influential.

Bit of a strange argument. Women have been wearing pants for almost 175 years already, so it’s a little old fashioned of you to call pants men’s clothing. And it’s usually the more intolerant types who feel the need to label everyone/everything that doesn’t fit in their small and safe world as different/strange/weird/threatening.

Passive aggressive much? So videos on YouTube of concerned parents arguing with teachers and school boards about pornography in school libraries to you means that there is definitely 100% certain pornography in school libraries. Wow. There are also loads of vids on YouTube of people claiming the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. Does that make it true to you?There are also loads of vids on YouTube of people claiming the earth is flat. Does that make it true to you? I could go on. Anyway, good luck winding up the lefties!

Again: show us some evidence that there is pornography in school children’s libraries. Something seriously wrong with people who keep posting unsubstantiated claims.

Most people have seen the videos of scantily clad drag queens performing for school children. Seriously? If most people have seen it, why don’t you provide a link to one of those videos then? I’m quite sure most people actually haven’t seen the videos of drag queens performing for school children. That’s why I asked for evidence of that claim. Something you didn’t provide either. There are some pesky little rules on this forum, in case you haven’t noticed. Nothing major, but one of them is that when you make outlandish claims, you provide a link from a credible source. But apparently you can’t be bothered. Hmm, what to make of that…

You seem jealous….

Can you provide evidence of pornography in school libraries? Or of drag queens showing their junk to 7-year-olds in school? Or are you just regurgitating popular right wing talking points?

I’m always amazed at how conservatives are able to twist their brain into a pretzel over issues like this. On the one hand they advocate freedom, free speech, being able to live your life like you want with minimal state or government interference. But on the other hand they seem obsessed with what people have in their pants, what they do in their bedrooms, who they have intimate relationships with, what kind of books they read, and they have no qualms whatsoever to go out of their way to pass all kinds of oppressive laws and regulations to forbid any kind of behavior that they consider to be ‘deviant’ or ‘morally compromising’ or whatever.

Define commies. I’m asking because Trump and his cronies (and the entire MAGA cult) seem to think that Biden, the Dems, the liberals, are ‘radical left’, or socialists, or even communists. Which is ridiculous and insane.

“Right-Wing Christian Men” I can guarantee you that these men are (extremely) right-wing, but they are anything but Christian. They claim to be Christian, but are Christian in name only. Just like all those MAGA folk who claim to be patriots and defenders of the constitution. Don’t make me laugh.

One (racist) does not necessarily exclude the other (idiot). I would say that pretty much all racists are idiots, actually.

Jeez dude, get off your high horse. Calling someone self righteous while acting all self righteous yourself. A fine example of the pot calling the kettle black. Calling someone an Uncle Tom is not necessarily racist. Uncle Tom: “a person regarded as betraying their cultural and social allegiance”. How is that racist?

If your attempt at whitewashing (no pun intended) Mark Robinson’s horrible points of view were meant as satire or irony, then yes, apparently I am that dim. If you were implying that Mark Robinson’s remarks were ironic or satirical, then yes, apparently I am that dim. The thing is, though, that neither your own remarks, nor Mark Robinson’s, come anywhere near irony or satire.

Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion. I just refuse to take anyone serious who ignores facts and/or suffers from some deep unfounded prejudice, i.e. holocaust deniers, climate deniers, Q Anon believers, conspiracy theorists, homophobes, xenophobes, misogynists. Most MAGA cult members fit this bill. It’s not for nothing that some of those phobias, if acted upon or said out loud, are prosecutable/punishable. Denying the holocaust certainly is.

He’s a holocaust denier and anti-Semite. He quoted Hitler. He called LGBTQ ‘filth’. He wants to ban abortion. He’s a conspiracy theorist. In short, he’s a total loon. So all in all, I’d say he’s pretty much a mainstream member of the GOP/MAGA cult. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/north-carolina-governor-mike-robinson-b2507965.html

And the plot thickens…. This guy is now well and truly screwed. I’m betting he has serious regrets kicking and verbally abusing that Thai doctor now.

He belongs in a padded cell, wearing a straight jacket.

It’s not just the farmers, everybody and their uncle just burns everything. They really don’t care that when they burn their waste, all their neighbors will be choking on their smoke. I was in Hua Hin for six weeks and the neighbor of the apartment building I was in burned their waste almost every morning. Which sucked, because sitting by the pool in the morning, when it was still relatively cool, meant breathing in all that smoke. And they were burning plastics and everything as well, I could clearly smell that. So the whole selfish ‘I don’t give a rat’s @ss’ mindset here needs to change before things can get better.

Agreed. I spent a winter in Chiang Mai in 1988/89, the weather was great, not too hot, very cool nights, no smog. It’s a beautiful area, I fell in love with it and wanted to retire there. Came back a couple of winters, last time in 2011, got bronchitis twice, the smog seems to be getting worse every year and the hot season seems to be starting earlier and earlier, and getting hotter and hotter as well. So no retirement for me in CM. I didn’t expect such a huge number, though, of people who got sick from air pollution. I mean, 10 million people, that’s insane. But I don’t expect the authorities to suddenly jump into high gear to fix it.

Does it really matter? The guy was an absolute a-hole for beating her up and putting her in the hospital. Let the court decide what he needs to pay in damages. And if the woman does get money out of this, her relatives are very probably going to get some of that as well anyway, that’s just the way things work in Thailand.

How would you feel if your mother/aunt/loved one was beaten up by a POS farang coward and had to spend a month in the hospital as a result of that? Would you not want compensation for her?

This has been pointed out several times already in this thread: the water bottle was thrown after he had already beaten her up and she was on the ground. Just saying….

Wow, you must be an expert in Thai law and penal code, and have all the relevant facts and information of both those cases to have come up with those sentences. Is it speculation? Is it it jumping to conclusions? You seem to be the expert on that, but I’d say you’re definitely jumping the gun there.

Judging by many of your posts, pedantic obnoxiousness seems to be your go-to reaction. And no, English is not my first language, it’s Dutch. Is your Dutch good enough to post on a Dutch language forum?