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Freak show. <laughs> You boy is as sharp as a tack. Too bad he's not running for another term. IMG_3740.MP4

Yep. The Thai government will become the exact conduit for expropriating "Thai" land from Thai commoners. Once the government "owns" the land, the original owners will never get it back. Imho, they are paving the way to the privatization of Thai lands and the transfer of those lands to large multinational corporations like Blackrock. Then there is no coming back. Once a significant proportion of those lands are leased to foreign corporate interests, they'll be pressure from those ฿฿฿ Stakeholders ฿฿฿ to make those leases permanent. Who benefits? Large multinationals and the likes of HiSo Thais such a Thaksin. Buy up the lands from Thai peasants promising them 99 years of fixed income (inflation will eat that in less than a decade as the price of the physical land skyrockets), then kick the peasants into cities and then apply the economic thumbscrews. Don't fall for it.

Here comes Blackrock.

Yep!

Where's Soros?

It's called inflation 👈 (a phenomenon that our collective governments assure us is only a figment of our imaginations)

BYD are affordable unlike most of those listed above. EVs only become accepted if an average Thai can afford one without going deeply in debt. The costs of some of these cars are the price of a townhouse in a gate community.

Yes - it is as "healthy" as any food from brick&mortar restaurants. Same food, same ingredients, just cooked in a street stall.

Is street food good for you? Old rancid oil. Cheap oil. Food dripping with oil. What I see here is Westerner cultural superiority. Westerners are freaking clean freaks. In 17 years here I have seen all the tropes, exaggerations, and outright falsehoods about "Thai street food." This is reflective of Westerners who come here already prejudging something that isn't part and parcel of their own culture - well, outside of perhaps food stalls you can find a fairs. Ultra-clean Farang Fred: "Unlike Thailand we have whole branches of our excessively large, nanny-state government dedicated to inspecting food establishments, especially "ify" food stalls at fairs." Exactly! One of the things I like about Thailand is that it doesn't have a nanny-state government monstrosity getting into everyone's business. Kids can't even open a freaking lemonade stand in the West. I've lived in Bangkok, Korat, and Chiang Mai and have often eaten Thai street food as well as getting to know the vendors who prepare the food. Yeah - that does require you to have immersed into both the culture and the language of Thailand 👈 something most Westerners who lock themselves in gated communities and who associate primarily with their fellow farangs can never grasp. I personally have lived IN Thai communities since I got here in 2007 and made an effort to learn the language and to assimilate the best I can into the culture. So I find that the topic of "Thai street food" just brings out the worst of Western Cultural Chauvinism. "It's dirty! "It's greasy, cockroach laden trash!!" "You'll get food poisoning!!!" Hate to burst ya'll's ethnocentric bubbles, but the street food I've eaten is fresh, delicious, and generally prepared one order at a time right in front of you if you take the time to watch the process and interact with the staff. Like any brick&mortar establishment (where you can't see the staff prepare the food), on occasion you'll find a place where the food sucks. But those are the exceptions and not the rule. And, oh! I have had food poisoning in Thailand twice!!! 👉 Both times after eating at international fast food restaurants (I avoid those place like the plague now - can't name them due to Thai defamation laws). Denigrating "Thai street food" is just more Thai-bashing by Westerners who come to Thailand with bad case of Ethnic Egotism: Western food clean; Thai street food dirty. Most probably don't eat Thai street food because they already harbor the preconceived notion that it's unfit for human consumption. That's ok, go back to your clean gated communities and eat clean food from Michelin 5 star restaurants and wallow in your Western ethnic snobbery. Eating "Thai street food" is obviously beneath your social status. "Dirty food for dirty people! Grrrrr!"

Wait until the 10,000 THB freebee handout to Thai voters gets priced in. That 1/2 Trillion THB giveaway is going to devalue the THB.

You Thai wife wants to return to Thailand. I'd say you have about a 100% chance of a divorce in your future. And considering you live in the West. If you didn't have a prenup, she'll get half of what you own. Best of luck.

What's your point OP? I don't know about you, but I'm living in Thailand surrounded by a bunch of extremely nationalistic people who believe that "Thainess" is the most important aspect of there lives and they loath allowing all non-Thai into their "Thai" country lest it dilute that "Thainess", so in response they maintain some of the most draconian immigration laws in the world to keep all other ethnicities from settling in the country. Do you see any African or Middle Eastern refugees being welcomed with open arms here in Thailand? Nope. The only meaning "Whiteness" has here is that "whiter" skin tends to convey social status (more to do with the fact that darker skinned Thais historically work outside while "white skinned" Thais need not labor in the sun at all), and white "farang" make good ATM machines. If you have an issue with ethnic superiority, try addressing Thainess right here in your own backyard (if you actually live here - you may not for all I know). Most "white" people I know in the US are normal people trying to live a good life, although I'll admit that a tiny F'ed-up minority of "whites" in the US are "white supremacists." With that said, here in Thailand virtually all Thai consider their "Thainess" to be superior to other ethnicities and most are "Thai supremacists," yet those exact same people who will criticize those of European descent of being "white supremacists" for no other reason than they lack melanin in their skin, will completely give overt "Thai supremacists" a pass - in fact they'll defend Thai supremacy. I'm going to be blunt: Skin color does not determine a human being's sense of humanity, empathy, and compassion for other human beings. Racism and ethnic superiority are learned behaviors and are perpetuated through societal norms. Racism against all non-Thais is the institutional norm in Thailand. We live in one of the most ethnically superior countries in the world. Try addressing the problem in our own backyard instead of dragging this nonsense about "white privilege" 14000 miles across the Pacific and South China Sea. We farang are marshmallows in a boiling sea of Jasmin tea.

Nothing screams "Infidelity" like a case of MonkeyPox.

I've know Thai gals who "worked" 2 or 3 farangs at the same time. It's a lot more common than you may think and that GF you have who, "would never cheat on me, she is very friggin' honest and loves me to death," may be stringing along other farang who thinks, "would never cheat on me, she is very friggin' honest and loves me to death." Best of luck. Btw, you've been here two years and just found AN? 🤔 Hummm?

Probably 90% of Democrats are on the verge of mental breakdowns because they believe the conspiracy theory that the actual "reincarnation of Hitler" is going to throw them into concentration camps in 2025 if he becomes the US president. Therefore "he must be stopped my all means possible" because "you can't let Hitler come to power." Well, it may become a self-fulfilling prophesy in that case maybe. 🤔

It just means that the Democratic Party has become the war party. I remember it when it was the anti-war party. Not anymore. All this also shows is that the Republican and Democrat parties ARE the US Uni-party. Same party, same ideals. All the public show of so-called "differences" is just 🐂💩 buffalo excrement and kabuki theater.

And the Democratic candidate wasn't even elected in a primary. Nobody voted to have her run for the presidency. But then, all presidential elections are kabuki theater where two establishment clones are placed in front of the populace who are then given the illusion of voting for president. Democracy. <laughs>

I've never heard of any state offering "online voting." It would require some form of digital id.

Ohhh, you read me wrong. Go back and read what I wrote again. Trust me - I don't fit into anyone's black&white, binary worldview. I'm pretty well read, well read enough that other people will be telling you that I bow to the TV each time Alex Jones or Trump is mentioned, or they'll refer to me as a <gasp> Conspiracy Theorist <cue Twilight Zone theme song>. Me bowing to freaking Herr Aldolf Klaus Schwab. That's rich. The world will be a better place when he and Soros, and a rash of other globalists and neo-cons joins Zbigniew Brzezinski and Madeleine Albright in whatever circle of Hell they inhabit. No, I practice what I preach - I read the thesis's and writings of people (corporations, governments, NGOs) I neither like or respect because I want to understand how their minds work. You don't grasp that by living in a bubble and having your information "fact-checked." However I've been known to read the Epoch Times (wink wink) especially their health section (which by the way you can't post on this site, in fact you can't post any links by the Epoch Times here). <laughs>

That doesn't mean, "Don't read them," it means, "Understand the bias as you read them." You'll have a better understanding of how the world as a whole works if you expose yourself to published works that you know are biased, and you then perceive and understand that bias. "But I only trust 'fact-checked' information!!!" Then you live in an echo-chamber with your brain shut off as you are too lazy to think on your own. Yep - you'll get a single view of the world and you'll own that view too. Then you just become an ideologue. That doesn't make you knowledgeable, it make you brainwashed. You're more knowledgeable if you attempt to understand why the other sources are biased - you may not like it or agree with them, but you can better understand what drives the worldviews of others. There is a lot to learn there.

You met bob smith? I though he left for Spain?

There is always The Onion and The Babylon Bee!

"Name your news, but it has to be written at a high level and have good fact-checking." More like, "Name your propaganda..." "Fact-Checking" (in the context you're referring to) is the act of making sure that all information conforms to one and only one "accepted narrative" that falls in line with whatever the Western elites (e.g., The World Economic Forum, Western governments, Western leaders, etc.) states is the accepted narrative. Which makes your average Western consumer of "news" some of the most information-illiterate people on the planet, especially considering that what most Westerner's call "news" is pablum written at a six-grade level and written short enough to keep someone with the attention span of a gnat entertained. If you want to really understand reality, you use multiple sources of information and then use your God-given analytical abilities to discern facts from fictions while understanding that all purveyors of information spin their publications to support their own corporate, nationalistic, and individual interests. But with that said, let me throw one in that meets your criteria but is a periodical and not a "newspaper." Foreign Affairs Magazine

Name your favorite newspapers from around the globe. All languages They still have newspapers in this day and age? Really? Wow!