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spidermike007

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  1. You take an absolute incompetent with no talent in the field of leadership, you make him an unelected  prime minister of Thailand, you then add in the task of foreign minister of which he has zero talent and zero experience, and then you consider adding in the task of Defense Minister of which the man knows nothing, and what would the result be?

     

    Just a cauldron of confusion and conflicting interests, corruption and a horrific outcome. Anything this man touches turns to crap, he's shown that already as a failed PM. Why on earth would he be given an additional appointment? 

     

    More filthy politics. More backward, regressive movement. Thailand is really losing its place in the world. 

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  2. 3 hours ago, billd766 said:

    Nothing like provoking your enemy, and (deleted) off your few friends that you have left in the world.

     

    Especially as you attacked Iran in the first place.

     

    They retaliated in a minor way and said as far as they were concerned, that was the end of it. So now you attack them a second time.

     

    To all those Israeli and IDF supporters on here.

     

    I know and understand that you will find a rational excuse for Israel. But there is no rational excuse at all.

     

    Does this look like the action of a sane and rational leader, or that of a homicidal maniac?

     

     

    Israel is at great risk of becoming completely isolated from the rest of the world. Their remaining support seems to be waning by the day and for Nations like the US it's becoming harder and harder to support them, and more and more costly politically.

     

    Netanyahu's fealty to homicidal extremists (the utra orthodox) is not helping on any level. 

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  3. I believe the Italian-Thai Development (ITD) Plc. is currently building the Rama 2 project leading out of Bangkok southbound. This overhead highway seems to have been under construction already for the last 10 or 15 years and considering that they're only a kilometer 36 it looks like they might have 10 to 30 years to go.

     

    So this company obviously needs help, they are moving very slowly, the project is a disaster with constant construction going on, both in and out of Bangkok.

     

    It's actually quite an abomination. 

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  4. Xi is a modern day Mao, though at least he is not murdering his people by the millions, nor causing massive famines. The man is very dangerous, Chinese politics are super toxic and the last thing Thailand wants to do is being indebted to these guys, who appear to want to take over the entire Pacific region if not the world.

     

    The irony is that Thailand desperately needs help with its railways, as it's making very little progress and what progress it is making is taking forever. They spent 70 years ignoring the fact that the nation desperately needed rail transport for cargo and it has resulted in some of the most choked highways in Southeast Asia, with trucks of all sizes constantly clogging both lanes. Getting on the highway here is just no fun at all. 

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  5. In most countries neither begging nor wanting to buy drugs is a criminal offense. Would they arrest a Thai for begging? This is pretty over the top. I can understand them maybe trying to clear him out, trying to find him a place to stay, but arresting him for begging this is just so inane, so silly, and such an overreaction.

     

    I wonder what's going on here right now, there really seems to be a a frenzy that's driving a lot of nonsense. 

     

    The real truth of the matter is that Thailand no longer attracts the affluent nor the wealthy tourists, so you're getting more and more dregs in exchange for those wealthy tourists that used to come.

     

    They have a dozen different reasons to not come anymore. 

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  6. I use my bright lights and my horn on trucks, when they are hogging the fast lane on a major highway at 50kph. Usually it works. Sometimes they just ignore it and I have to use the slow lane to go around them.

     

    Using your horn with cars can be dangerous here. I do it rarely. Only when someone does something incredibly dumb and dangerous. 

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  7. 2 hours ago, charleskerins said:

    Yes we can not have an intelligent woman as President fragile male egos will not allow it.

    I love the idea of an intelligent woman as president but not Harris. she's a terrible VP and she would be an even worse president. I say that as a lifelong Democrat, there are a dozen things about her that are beyond horrific. Have you looked at her record as district attorney in San Francisco or as Attorney General in California? Have you studied what she's done and who she is? 

     

    I would vote for Biden again, but he's losing millions of votes by maintaining Harris on the ticket. There are millions of women and millions of black folks who do not like her, for a very good reasons.

     

    Hopefully Trump will continue to lose his momentum, as another term under him would be quite horrific. I consider him to be perhaps the most dangerous man in the world. I also considered him to be the 44th worst president in history behind Buchanan, and not deserving of another term. The man cannot negotiate his way out of a paper bag and was bested by nearly everybody he negotiated with as President. 

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  8. My wife always warns me not to honk the horn. These days the reality is that this could happen anywhere in the world. Anytime you honk your horn, make a gesture to another driver, or show aggression of any sort all bets are off.

     

    I still believe that as a foreigner here in Thailand we are considerably safer than in most parts of the world, and in a major city in the US you would have a much greater chance of a violent confrontation than here. 

     

    But mankind is getting increasingly more insane by the day and it reinforces my notion that civilization is not moving forward at this point in time. I think as a society and as a civilization we are moving backwards. 

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