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And how many of the people who saw how to get free food in Thailand will do the same? He's just encouraging freeloaders......full stop! He does it to get viewers, without considering the knock on effect. Being a narcissist he doesn't give a ****. What's your excuse?

It was to be expected......it is SOP. Everybody opposing the Old Order knew that before they commenced operations. The only question of any import is "How far will the New Movement go to counter what they knew would be the response of the Old Order?" THAT is the only question that should be troubling you.......because the intensity of the resistance/pushback, by the New Movement, is what is going to determine how unpleasant life gets for people living in Thailand. Do you think they have not planned? If you are living in Thailand, that is what should concern you. Or do you suppose the the New Movement is just going to accept the ruling/judgement of a "nexus" which now, in the eyes of the majority, is considered to totally illegitimate and unworthy? Why would they bother to tread the path if they were/are going to fold at such a level.? I think many contributors are living in denial.......because the potential reality is too terrible for them to contemplate. They like to comfort themselves that Thailand is a special case among the surrounding countries.......but it isn't. People anywhere will do the worst if you push the right button. (Also true if you keep pushing the wrong button(s) for long enough...... and it's been more than long enough.) Once again.......do you feel lucky?

Remove any options for "apologies" and payoffs to avoid/mitigate prosecutions/sentences?

If ever there was a time, when any Thai you spoke to couldn't give a **** about what "farangs" said to each other on an online forum, it's right.....*******.........NOW!

It could indeed.........or other things could happen. If I was in Thailand now, I would be asking myself if I wanted to stick around and try to live there through the next 6.....days? weeks? months? I'm usually booked to travel there, in October, by this time of the year.......but not this year. I will be reviewing my situation in a months time. The whistle has blown, the ball is in play ........there's nothing more to speculate on. Keep aware and be ready to move. Good luck.

Nobody need bother arguing with you. The "deals" are there........but the "numbers" do not equate to anything like the "gain" that was foretold........nothing like it. And everybody knows it.......you know it. No problem for me..........I expected it to be ****, and I am not, in any way, now taken aback at the dire results. In fact I am cheered by the fact that the ***** that voted for are now feeling the pain.........silly *******! Cheer up Remainers, after a respectable pause.........we'll be back in!

No, this isn't a new dawn........it's a sunset. Next comes a stormy, dark, night. After that comes the dawn. What it will bring is as yet unknown........but we do know what is hoped for it by the majority of the people of Thailand.

They didn't do that during the tenure of the last governing coalition. They made absolutely no attempt to represent the citizens of Thailand who, for example, voted PTP or FF in the election of 2019. In fact they did exactly the opposite.......they stood resolutely against the people who did not vote for the post 2019 government. So your suggestion that the Senate should be allowed to "double up" the opposition parties now is..........******* ludicrous!

If the Senate is now determined to neutralise the elected representatives of the people, the Senate must itself be neutralised, by excision from the political process. There is no political process that can do that. This is the turning point. The storm has arrived.

The senators aren't working for Prayuth. They, like Prayuth, are just guard dogs. The system was never designed to cope with the massive collapse in support for the Old Order. Previously the "favoured" Parliamentary governing bloc (with a comfortable or narrow majority) would always prevail because it had the senate securely behind it. Those "Old Order" parties are now so depleted that, effectively, the will of Parliament will be permanently at odds with the Senate.......because the Senate was only set up to bolster the ideology of it's proxies in Parliament.......who are now thoroughly enfeebled. It must be understood that the Senate has absolutely no interest in a functioning Parliament, unless it is able to manage it as an instrument of the will that is not that of the people. That was the core aim of the Constitution. The sides in the coming conflict will be Senate vs Parliament. It cannot be settled by negotiation, because they are contradictions of each other. There is no civil solution.

It's itinerary takes it from Singapore to Dubai. So plenty of ocean to come. I guess you know that the typical "cruise experience" involves making a series of short voyages between individual ports, which, collectively, add up to a longish overall total distance for the passengers? It's a great way to fill the ports of call with 1000's of tourists, who do most of their eating and all of their sleeping on the ship.

They are people who were brought up to really enjoy the "sensuality" of the meat experience and don't want to abandon it....but they've decided they don't like the killing and/or the environmental damage of meat production and/or the health consequences they might suffer as a result of consuming it.....so they go for the fake stuff. A bit like people wearing fake fur. Pretty simple really. I think it "somehow funny", and somewhat revealing about you, that you totally failed to get that.

Your response to the laughing emoji poster made me laugh. (I thought I had better type that and tell you....things would have got really out of hand if I had posted a laughing emoji to convey my amusement at your reaction to the laughing emoji poster)

I presume that the Imam and mosque are part of his community, so there seems to be no problem there: "Despite the potential for discrimination, he praised his family and community in Kuan Prab Village, Phatthalung, for offering unwavering support" I hope that puts your mind at rest.

Prepare to be disappointed or to get the hell out. Because, in all likelihood, the Nexus of Power you have detailed will take whatever measures it deems necessary, to arrest any development and progress in the direction that the people have chosen (as indicated by their votes). That direction is firmly away from that which the Nexus considers essential. It is inconceivable to it at any other direction to that which it has enshrined is possible, desirable or attainable. What runs through its mind is not what is "best for the nation". It is a matter of Absolute Ideology ......there is no compromise. Ultimately it will stop at nothing. That has been demonstrated before. The unknown is, as you have alluded to, the willingness of the New Movement to also do the same. If it has, or rapidly acquires, the necessary "willingness", then the implications are.......get the hell out. Make no mistake, it is, quite definitely, a "New Movement" for a new state of consciousness among the population. It is not the population of 2016, it is not the population of the......"Golden Age" Who feels lucky?

They are pathologically unable to "get the message". This is only the beginning. There is a long, hard, way to go: "Oh! pleasant exercise of hope and joy! For mighty were the auxiliars which then stood Upon our side, we who were strong in love! Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!—Oh! times, In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance! When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights" The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement, By William Wordsworth

So if he had been banged up for shoplifting his treatment while under lock and key would have been wrong? Or what? Why does the fact of it being a (very minor) drugs offence make his atrocious treatment "satisfactory" in your eyes. Is there a schedule in Thai law that demands that sort of treatment for drug offenders?

I doubt that any will waste their time arguing with you.......it is only my prejudice against the use of sad/confused emojis that led me to waste mine replying textually.......????

The gathering storm..........

The fact that you are hoping for a "factional shift" is an indication of how primitive, tribal, brutal......"undeveloped"........ the machinery and outlook of the Thai State remains. Such a state will not, cannot, be remade......"developed".......peacefully. Everything you see in its tragi-farcical political process is nothing but "Overture" and "Prologue". There is no civil solution. Sooner or later the storm will break.

So you are content that he was treated appropriately while under lock and key? Are you content that anyone found guilty of any crime in Thailand might well be treated in a similar way? Or are you just responding with your usual "Pavlovian" sophistication?

You are reading local news (Phuket News) on a parochial (Western, predominately white, anglophone) outlet....AN. The item is firmly targeted at it's core readership......item being dispute between Thai and "falang".......in Phuket. No doubt Thai on Thai mayhem is, at this very moment, rife........but Whitey vs Thai, inevitably makes the headline. That is how this specific outlet maintains it's core of devotees......that is how the Media Machine (MSN & "Indie") works, it all "plays" you........Media Studies 1.1 OK?

Bright side of National Service is that it is a great way of spreading seditious ideas (by committed, covert activists who have been drafted in) among a broad cross section of youth, AND the draftees get weapons training for when the time comes to put those seditious ideas into practice. Revolution and insurrection also more likely to get support from sections of citizen armies than from professional ones. This space reserved for image of your favourite revolutionary fighting group:

You mean those countries might then be as free of drug problems and criminal activity as Thailand is? Yeah......sure.........that would be a great leap forward for them.

No, just the usual picture editing by a 7 year old child. Or maybe someone thought that showing a Thai one might damage the reputation of Thai elephants?