https://aseannow.com/rss/44-thailand-news.xml/National and regional news from all around ThailandenNice rant. You actually sound disturbed. None of your posts are about the topic!Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:59:27 +0000BanditsThu, 11 Jun 2026 12:58:44 +0000TimeThu, 11 Jun 2026 12:58:33 +0000I don't disagree that you can work on multiple problems at once. The question is where the line gets drawn. Using your seatbelt analogy, we require seatbelts because they don't fundamentally change what a car is or prevent ordinary people from using one. (FYI: I looked at a 26 chevy last week, they now have it that the seatbelt must be plugged in to be able to put the truck in drive or reverse) But let's take the logic a step further. Cars kill tens of thousands of Americans every year. If reducing deaths is the primary goal, we could mandate speed limiters on every vehicle and cap them at 30 mph. We'd almost certainly save a lot of lives. The reason we don't do that isn't because we don't care about safety. It's because we balance safety against practicality, freedom and the legitimate uses of the thing being regulated. That's the part that often gets skipped in gun debates. Nobody disputes that fewer guns might reduce some firearm deaths. The question is what restrictions are justified, what rights are affected, whether criminals will follow those restrictions and what unintended consequences come with them.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:58:16 +0000Good grief! Are you suggesting you're politically slap bang in the middle? A frustrated moderate rather than a card-carrying leftie or a flag waving rightie?Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:57:46 +0000All I want to know is whether you wear these commando or not.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:57:28 +0000Is buying a job corruption ?Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:56:50 +0000Follow by deporting straight from prison on completion of sentence.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:56:41 +0000Again I sit back and watch the forum's biggest trolls discussing another member, and in a little while, they'll again be at each other's throats, trying to one up each other's high school taunts. They continue to answer for other members, all the while not understanding how hated they both are. One with the highest negative count in forum history, and the other, supposedly happy in life, coming back to insult every member who disagrees with him, with the same deflections, assumptions and false statements he's used for many years in 10 different usernames (personalities?) Using the same ones with every member, attacking their character without knowing one personally. Mommy and daddy to blame. not teaching boundaries nor respect for his superiors. This is like Psychology 100, where the psychiatry students watch the goings on at a mental institute, seeing the Jekyll and Hyde personalities attack each other, then sitting down to play checkers. This is also why I won't interact with them any longer, as their fragile state cannot take much more in the way of evidence against them, as they might implode, and sadly, might take their anger out on innocent women. This is from AI, to describe where it originates...............People who habitually put others down generally do so to regulate their own fragile self-esteem. By diminishing others, they attempt to elevate their own social standing, mask deep-seated insecurities, or project their unresolved frustrations outward. Psychologically, this behavior often stems from a few key areas: Low Self-Esteem: A need to compensate for feelings of inadequacy by making others appear "smaller." Lack of Empathy: Difficulty connecting with others emotionally, often associated with narcissistic traits or a focus on self-gratification. Projection: Attributing their own flaws, failures, or insecurities onto someone else to avoid self-reflection. Learned Behavior: Mimicking communication styles they grew up with or using dominance to feel in control of their environment.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:55:42 +0000Let’s start with the blaming shall we. Just like you would had this violent criminal been let into the UK during the Labour Government’s term of office.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:53:36 +0000It's actually quite funny how instead of replying directly to me, he writes about me in the third person to someone else.😊 Like a disturbed child ...yet he sees himself as the adult in the room 😊 Birds of a feather, supporting each other in their delusions.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:52:22 +0000Proof !!!!! where is Your PROOF !! just total B/S without proof all your posts are the same Total rubbish !!Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:52:10 +0000They require your Entry Stamp, and an address verification - I live in a private home, not a hotel, so maybe that was a problem, there is no paperwork ‘cept what I made out at local police advertising my arrival (hotels do this for you)😀Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:48:52 +0000I don't think anyone is dismissing the correlation. The U.S. has more guns and more firearm deaths than most developed countries. That's obvious. What I'm questioning is whether that automatically means gun availability is the primary cause of the violence, or whether it's one factor among several. You say every country has gangs, drugs, mental illness, social dysfunction and violent offenders, that's true. But not every country has them to the same degree, in the same places or with the same cultural influences. America also has some unique problems. We have cities where gang culture is glorified, where kids grow up around violence, where repeat offenders cycle through the system and where social media turns killers into celebrities overnight. When I was growing up, guns were common. What wasn't common was kids wanting to shoot up schools, livestream attacks or become famous for committing murder. Something changed, and I don't think the answer is simply that there are more guns. To me, saying "America has more guns and more gun deaths" is the starting point of the discussion, not the end of it. The question I'm interested in is why America seems to be producing more people willing to commit these acts in the first place. Because if the root problem is cultural decay, gangs, mental health, broken families, drugs and the glorification of violence, then focusing primarily on the gun may reduce some outcomes without ever addressing the reason those outcomes are happening. That's why I keep coming back to the people and the culture. Guns may affect the severity of violence, but they don't explain why someone decided to commit violence in the first place.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:48:52 +0000I would think after 11 years in Thai prison, their Thai must be almost fluent. And they don't know Mandarin?Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:48:51 +0000I don't need to link this. If you don't realise the unions have been hijacked by the 'progressive' leftist movement the same way the Democratic Party in the US has been (and for that matter all politically left parties in the western world have been) then you're either in denial or embrace the 'progressive' leftist movement. The pendulum is swinging back but sadly it's swinging back too far to the right with a nationalist/Christian backlash. I hate the woke left but I also have no time for right wing nationalist/Christian lunatics.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:48:47 +0000A large fixed load like a data center doesn't just consume energy it consumes flexibility. This is why I said lets wait and see how its handled here in Thailand. A lot of discussions around EVs assume the grid has periods of spare capacity that EVs can exploit. If a substantial amount of the 24/7 demand is added those spare-capacity periods become smaller.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:46:40 +0000SpendingThu, 11 Jun 2026 12:46:38 +0000Rather than blaming everyone and his dog...a fierce parliamentary debate needs to be had on the damage of the unlimited mass flooding of immigrantsThu, 11 Jun 2026 12:46:37 +0000How do you stop things going down the toilet? You become the solution. Better get your happy arse back home, put on your hoodie, grab a can of beer and go out and trash and burn the place.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:44:53 +0000The supply isn’t endless. Iran will respond with their ‘totally destroyed military’. LolThu, 11 Jun 2026 12:43:34 +0000Wasn't there a more recent second group of Uyghurs sent back to China to be tortured and imprisoned. How silly of me, I meant to live peacefully in China. Weren't they sent back under a civilian Government?Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:42:54 +0000Passport show it 21 SEP 2035 I must have fat fingered it, there was no way to print it out that I saw, so cannot verify. All I can do now is re-apply, or enter on Visa Exempt I guess I applied for a 6 month Multi. Thanx to all You have been a big help. CheersThu, 11 Jun 2026 12:42:26 +0000Most do. We quote him more than most. Topic is single retired men in Patts. His posts are all me me me regardless of the topic. His self awareness is zero.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:41:30 +0000I have a 38 - who said that guns are essential?? now you're getting emotional, thought we were have a discussion about guns in the US.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:41:16 +0000