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Miss the opportunity: "Brake Failure"

I'm waiting for the day that 10 Thai "security guards" head in for the kill on a foreigner they plan to gang-beat and find John Wick. "Are you not entertained now!" Well - I've got a long wait methinks.

Another day in paradise. Hence why I live in Nowhereville in rural Northern Thailand. Left that nonsense years ago.

I guess we won't have to worry that their 3 in 1 coffee will disappear from the shelves.

"The Merry Little Minuet" They're rioting in Africa They're starving in Spain There's hurricanes in Florida And Texas needs rain The whole world is festering With unhappy souls The French hate the Germans The Germans hate the Poles Italians hate Yugoslavs South Africans hate the Dutch And I don't like Anybody very much But we can be tranquil And thankful and proud For man's been endowed With a mushroom shaped cloud And we know for certain That some lovely day Someone will set the spark off And we will all be blown away They're rioting in Africa There's strife in Iran What nature doesn't do to us Will be done by our fellow man! ❤️

I live in Thailand. It's institutionalize here if you're a non-Thai. In fact, if you travel the world, you'll find plenty of places where the natives are not white and where racism is alive and well against all non-natives.

If we have a drink in a UK pub with a group of black males plenty of racist stuff will be said, some we will laugh about and some of it will be nasty. Just saying. That particular shoe fits multiple feet.

Interesting 'eh. Wild times we live in now. Whites are the new blacks. Yesteryear's ethnic crimes against blacks are now Ok to do against whites. Palestinians are the new Jews. Yesteryear's ethnic crimes against Jews are now Ok to do against Palestinians. Straights are the new homosexuals. Yesteryear's violence against homosexuals is now Ok to do against straights. Too bad rich folk aren't the new poor folk. I might be able to get behind that. Unlike Bernie's and AOC's Rage Against The Oligarchy - only $700 bucks a ticket. Out of the price range of my particular wants. I could buy a nice guitar for that much instead. Of course we are getting there: Middle class are the new poor. Turning middle class people into poor people seems to be Ok as well.

After AseanNow doesn't receive their daily dosage of immunoglobulin posts to highlight in the right-hand side of the website's pages which are reserved for special posters like bob smith (and all his other aliases) and of course GammaGobulin, they'll probably file a police report reporting him as missing. He'll probably be found within a couple of days.

The reality about post like this? It's the "Irresponsibility Brigade" out to inform "irresponsible guests living in Thailand" to be "responsible citizens like themselves." People die alone all of the time - farang expats and Thais. If they choose not to live up to your own expectations of what constitutes being 'responsible,' well - as I told the OP: "It's their business. Not yours." They are adults - if they choose to make plans, up to them. If they choose not to make plans, up to them. By the way. The embassies have guideline on how they want their citizen's bodies handled, as most Western countries are in fact nanny-states, so the dead body will be taken care of. Everything else goes to probate court, which is why there are probate courts. If the deceased actually has assets, well, "Knives out." The heirs and those who feel they have claim to those assets will fight it out in court. And if the Thai government can get a cut too? I'm sure they are happy to oblige. "That's irresponsible!" And none of your business.

I don't have rug-rats. If I did, they would be limited in their phone exposure. Giving kids phones today is the same as putting your kid in front of a TV set was decades ago. Same same. It's to get them out of your hair and keep them quiet. In my day and age, my parents kicked our butts out the door and told me to play. Then they provide enough things to make it interesting: balls, bats, bows, arrrows, BB-guns, bikes, wagons, and they also taught us games to play - tag, hide and go seek, hop-scotch, jump-rope, stop-light. Or gave us money to go to the Saturday matinee at the theater if we'd been good kids, or sent us off to the pool. Considering I lived my youth on military bases, we always had access to that sort of stuff. If parents weren't so freaking lazy, they could teach their kids these things to. Or do stuff together like going fishing. But they don't. Maybe you can't blame them - they spent their youth in front of a TV set. Now the kids get phones. It's not the kid's fault. But they'll be the one's suffering in the end.

Back to my original question: Why Are You Living Here? It Makes No Sense.

"Invading Taiwan." That's like saying that sending US troops to Texas is "invading Texas." Taiwan IS China.

1. The Chinese will be fighting on their own home turf. So yeah - as defenders, Chinese youth will be willingly volunteering to enlist to repel the invaders. By extension: Russians will be fighting to defend Russia. Iran will be fighting to defend Iran. Yemenis will be fighting to defend Yemen. And whoever else is attacked by the US and the West will be fighting to defend their countries on their own soil. 2. Lessons I learned from Vietnam: The US and the West will conscript the cannon fodder it needs to send to faraway places where it wishes to project power and take want it wants by force. Watch the propaganda: "If we don't stop those Yellow Chinese Devils on their doorstep in China, they'll eventually take over all of Asia, then the Pacific and the Middle East, then Europe - then they'll come for Americans!!! (It's a propaganda technique called "The Domino Effect" and the clones in the West suck it up with gusto. Why not, it works on their weak minds.) Oh and the other propaganda technique that works just as well. "We gotta kill them 'over there' so we don't have to 'kill them over here.'" It's still the domino effect. It will fill Red State recruitment offices. In Blue States? Those kids will be heading for Canada, Mexico, and anywhere they can get away from conscription. Can't blame them actually. Dying "over there" ain't defending your country from invaders no matter how much they tell you it is. It's imperialism. Always has been; still is.

We've already ascertained that you, immunoglobulin, are anti-Chinese so my first question is: "Why are you here in a country that is a stone's throw from the country you so viscerally hate?" Makes no sense to me at all. And yes. China is out-competing the US and the West, they ARE the hub of industry and manufacturing in this world, and the US and the West hates them for it. One thing about studying history, you recognize one theme of human nature - Those who believe they are special and powerful feel it's their manifest destiny to take what they covet by force. And they usually find their casus belli by projecting their own covetousness on those whom they plan to go to war with. So yes - the US has been beating the drums of eventually war with China for some time now - expect it - it's going to happen. Taiwan is part of China, but the US has is going to use that as their excuse to invade, and if that doesn't work, they'll just find another excuse. The excuse doesn't need to be factual, it just needs to be propagandized to the citizen back home until they buy the lie and willingly sign up to "Kill The Yellow Devils In The East" or whatever other propaganda that works to make US and Western citizen hate Chinese like you do. So now that we have that cleared up. You gonna stay? You hate China, you hate Xi, you probably loath Chinese as well as their culture, their religions, they ancient philosophies, and their history. Yet here you are, like all the expats exactly like you, hunkered down in Thailand and throwing shade at the country and the people to your North. Now you feel the winds of war wafting in this direction, and guess what - you're right. War is coming. Soon. Waddaya gonna do? Wait too long to leave and this could be you.

Why do you care?

No he's not.

Yep - which has made China the strongest manufacturing country in the world. And of course, in typical US and Western style, it will be the reason that the US uses to start a hot-war with China. "China is UNFAIR! UNFAIR! They out-compete the West!" "It was the unbridled greed of Western globalists which dismantled manufacturing in the West and sent it to China in the first place." "UNFAIR - It's now WAR!" "ha ha ha - yeah 2.2 million troops, a whole bunch of new ships and planes, and the raw materials and the manufacturing base to crank out weapons in no time flat. fafo, ha ha ha" "We're Number One!!! You out-compete us so now it's WAR!!!" "Come get some sugar baby!" 🙄 Ah the world would be a better place if the greedy ones and war-mongers were all put on a rocket and shot to Mars. The rest of us could trade and attempt to live in harmony.

In the meanwhile, Zelensky is really really quite about Chinese nationals fighting for Ukraine.

I've does AI searches for any disclosures of the damaged building in both Thai and English and to date as far as I can tell, the Thai government doesn't feel it is necessary to inform its citizens and public by providing a publish list of the damage buildings. รายชื่ออาคารที่ปิดทั้งหมดยังไม่เปิดเผยต่อสาธารณะทางออนไลน์ A complete list of closed buildings has not yet been made public online. Source Grok 3 "DeepSearch"

😕 "And the list of those building is where?" "Mai bpen rai. Don't worry about it!"

And let Israel lead the charge. Next new moon is April 27th. Be like Nike: Just Do It!

They'll just ignore him, tell him to foad, and they'll find a judge to stonewall the documents forever. This is called - "Democracy."

I've noticed that myself in the 18 years I've been here. Motorcycles kept to the left. Now they are all over the road - figuratively and in reality. Especially considering that 80% of the death are motorcyclists.

However it shakes out - China will always win. The US is an empire in decline - its manufacturing base is destroyed and its not going to ever be rebuilt. China is an ancient country which is now on a incredible economic rebound. The US is headed down; China is headed up.