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If you believe it is not, why have I not seen you on a different subforum complaining about a different country invading another country? You know the country I'm talking about.

Indeed there are, such as negotiations, which Zelensky refused to do.

The US public likely isn't going to tolerate any more "invasions" by US forces without a real reason. Far as I know Belarus doesn't have any resources that would interest the US anyway, unlike Ukraine.

You overlook that the only alternative to Trump was Harris, and most of us know why she was defeated by Trump. If you want to moan about it, blame the Dems for putting up the worst possible candidate.

I doubt you know what a real racist is, nor why it was a politically motivated case. You certainly know nothing about me. Ashamed? Nice try but no cigar.

Agree about Phuket ( Patong ). It was quite good in the 90s and I went there a few times, but it went downhill and Pattaya was way better.

Rubbish. I spent a lot of time over many years in girly bar areas and never saw such.

Cancel culture on the basis of being a "racist" doesn't work any more. Nobody with a brain cell takes any notice of something that has been overdone to the point of being a bad joke.

and there we have the reason for it- politically motivated.

Won't be a problem once AI robotics makes 70 to 90% of manual workers redundant. One of the few jobs requiring a human will be in hospital and specifically in aged care. Nothing new about majority of patients being older. That was the case in the 80s when I started nursing.

Seems reasonable. Get something useful instead of something that will require large financial support, and often with no benefit to the parents once the offspring depart the home.

Thailand is not a poor country. It is a rich country with lots of poor people.

Disagree. As a proportion of the population those involved with tourists would be minimal, IMO. It's good news. The sooner the rest of the planet joins Thailand and Japan in reducing birth rates the better. IMO it's the only hope for the survival of the species.

On that I agree. I'm happy to see that I now have an opinion and I'm no longer "ranting on rubbish".

On that I agree. IMO wokeness isn't the cause of the downfall of the west, it's a symptom. While some will disagree, IMO the end began when the west retreated from empire building and became nations without a purpose, and have been circling the downpipe ever since. It's a genetic imperative for humans to conquer, and when we stopped doing that we were going against our genetic nature. China is in the expansion phase and is ruled by a ruthless dictatorship, which is what humans do as a genetic imperative. The strong survive, and the weak go to the wall.

Couple of days later and and answer is still no.

There is a far simpler way. Open a post from the poster one wants to ignore, hover the mouse pointer over the user name ( don't click on it ), the profile page is opened , go to bottom right and click on "ignore" and do what the instructions say.

I chose the better path so I didn't have any children to grow as adults. I didn't waste any of my life apart from the lost years in my 2 relationships with toxic women. Luckily it wasn't a great deal of my life, just a couple of extended interludes between better things I admit that now I am just wasting time waiting to pass over the great divide, but the body isn't up to much any more. Being insulted on AN is about as exciting as my life gets now.

Happily you do not dictate what other posters write, though you do express a certain disdain for any that do not conform to your desired dictats. I like Thais as much as you, but unlike you I like them the way they are, not as some version of western sheeple. You should stick to telling your Thai family and friends how to live their lives. Thailand is as I wish western countries were, where people take responsibility for their own actions and the nanny state is not dictating everything they can and can not do. Happily, unless your lot succeed in changing the culture, Thais give the finger salute to western culture and live lives as THEY want to, not as moaning farangs want them to.

It astounds me that so many posters on here that apparently like living in LOS want to change the fundamentals of the culture and replace it with some version of <deleted> hole western culture. If they love western culture so much they should go live in one. Thankfully, Thais have as much respect for farangs opinions as they do for soi dog's poop.

If you can't see that imposing western fear based regulations on Thailand will not stop at helmets you are apparently not intellectually prepared for a discussion on the subject. It begins with helmets and ends with just another western type fear based over regulated <deleted> hole like the ones some of us wanted to leave behind. You should take your helmet wearing crusade to the US and lecture the state legislators of the following states, or is it only Thailand that deserves your dictatorship desires concern? Illinois Iowa New Hampshire https://www.riders-share.com/blog/article/helmet-laws-by-state

Ah, is that the sound of mega profits for the 1% I hear? This new frontier is not something Captain Kirk ever envisaged.

Excellent news.

Not a fan of free speech then.

Sorry if I gave you that impression. I was just interested that the interview showed a different side to her from the annoying little hussy that lectured the grown ups at the UN. I guess some good can be found in everyone if one looks hard enough, though in some cases one has no interest in looking at all.