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33 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

Last thing Thailand needs is stroppy teenagers causing a disruption to peoples peaceful daily lifes   

Yeah what it needs is grumpy old guests from a foreign land telling Thailands youth what they should be doing about futures. 

6 hours ago, SomchaiCNX said:

The military allone does not worry me as much. It are mainly the politicians that are de cause of all evil. 

The general did not bad, he cleaned up a lot until he had to call general elections ( ???? ). Now he has to share powers with (corrupt) politicians again. Now he has to listen to them or the government will fall.

You  may wish to read up on Thai history. Since 1932 they have been in charge most of the time via authoritarian regimes or dictatorships. Plenty of filth rich generals with more money than they could earn in 10 lifetimes via their official wages. They sit in the boards of big companies,  plenty of ties and networks with elite business families.  They are part of the elite. The Thai elites don't want to share their power with the common folk. They think commoners should grovel, be obedient. Their governments do not benefit or represent the Thai people. The double standards, the injustice, lack of accountability etc. There us a reason folks are fed up with the current regime that gained power via less than fair democratic ways.

Time for the military junta to step down. 

3 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

Yeah what it needs is grumpy old guests from a foreign land telling Thailands youth what they should be doing about futures. 

I will personally go to Bangkok and pull sad and confused faces at them 

8 hours ago, ezzra said:

you want to change the leadership, do int in the ballot,

Probably unintended, but perhaps the funniest (ironic)  comment on here for quite a long time!

5 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

I will personally go to Bangkok and pull sad and confused faces at them 

You’re kidding, you couldn’t stay out of your armchair long enough. 

10 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The Free Youth group earlier posted on its Facebook homepage demanding that the Prayut Chan-o-cha government dissolve Parliament, as it has failed in its economic management, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

blaming the governement, and not covid, for a temporarely slow economy, started just weeks after the crisis started, by red shirts. It was funny to hear the same regurgitated sentence coming from different ppl.

 

anyway, today these students, many come from Isan and are red shirt sympatizers, are protesting. The last time the red shirts were allowed to protest a decade ago, it was for many many weeks and ended in burning down Central in Bangkok.

2 hours ago, Greenhill said:

ThaiVisa/The Nation taking the Govt. line re the 'hundreds' of students!     Reuters say 2,500!!!!   The official line being to try and down-play any sign of opposition.

The Nation (and BP) are known for their conservatism and not being particularly critical of this government. Prachatai, Thisrupt, Khaosod, ThaiEnquirer etc usually take a different approach. I rather liked this brief Thisrupt report on the protests: https://thisrupt.co/videos/prayut-get-out-demands-protestors-gathered-at-bangkoks-democracy-monument/

2 minutes ago, herwin1234 said:

anyway, today these students, many come from Isan and are red shirt sympatizer

You "conveniently" forget the "Yellow shirt" protesters wanting and achieving with the help of the current usurper the overthrow of a democratically elected government x 2

 

37 minutes ago, Boomer6969 said:

The problem with such protests is that they are mostly unfocussed. If I was them I'd go for the abolition on one specific law, and move on from there. 

They're focusing quite heavily on the lese majeste law. 

11 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The page also called on Parliament to scrap the law deemed as violating freedom of expression and gathering under the Constitution.

the law deemed as violating freedom of expression, oh yeah, could the crime of lèse-majesté be the one?

11 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Youth launch protest against 'deep-rooted Thai dictatorship'

Should read:
Youth scheduled for reeducation training...

 

 

 

3 hours ago, CorpusChristie said:

Thailand beat the Corona virus by having a strong Government  , other Countries failed in the fight against Corona, due to having democracies and the Government scared to act because of not wanting to lose votes in the next elections 

When's the flight back to China ? 

2 hours ago, LukKrueng said:

no other prime minister ever got near the corruption level of taksin, not in amounts and not in methods. 

Thaksin’s not here now.
 

If Prayut wants to show us he’s not corrupt, he should declare his assets. If you got nothing to hide, you got nothing to fear, right? 

3 hours ago, CorpusChristie said:

Is Corvid currently rife in Thailand or has the virus been eliminated ?

 

Good question!

Now...why don't you think for yourself a little bit?

I help you: less than 200.000 tests nationswide, no test on disceased people, big areas with no available tests in local village hospitals, people with no or little money, the risk of being tested negative and having to pay for the test...

Hmmmm...it's difficult....hardly able to figure it out...

There were thousands not hundreds

12 hours ago, johng said:

Well done you brave young poeple.

Spot on. A lot of us speak about quick fixes as if we have the answer. The answer is a hard journey and sacrifice and these kids are doing something to change their world that is risky and brave. Change never comes easily. 

20 minutes ago, The Barmbeker said:

Good question!

Now...why don't you think for yourself a little bit?

I help you: less than 200.000 tests nationswide, no test on disceased people, big areas with no available tests in local village hospitals, people with no or little money, the risk of being tested negative and having to pay for the test...

Hmmmm...it's difficult....hardly able to figure it out...

He will need more help than that.  

29 minutes ago, The Barmbeker said:

Good question!

Now...why don't you think for yourself a little bit?

I help you: less than 200.000 tests nationswide, no test on disceased people, big areas with no available tests in local village hospitals, people with no or little money, the risk of being tested negative and having to pay for the test...

Hmmmm...it's difficult....hardly able to figure it out...

I do think that many people would have noticed had they contracted the deadly virus and would have been hospitalized  .

12 hours ago, johng said:

Well done you brave young poeple.

I wonder how long before 'democracy is returned' at 300 rounds per minute? ????

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11 hours ago, steven100 said:

They must be bored.  disperse them .... 

16k + comments. Wonder who is bored...

Wow, a post that everyone agrees on. First time I've seen this. Yeah!

Whether Thaksin or any PM aspirant is corrupt, or more relevantly corrupt enough to not be elected, is for Thai voters to decide. Let democracy run its course.

 

Thailand has high literacy and pervasive media. Everyone from rice farmers to tycoons is aware of what's going on and what's in their self-interest. Thaksin? Every low to middle income Thai I talked to during his time said, yes, he's a corrupt s.o.b. but he's done a lot for poor people and the rural areas (see health care, loans, etc.). Which is why he kept winning in landslide after landslide in free and fair elections.

 

So the argument that democracy will return leaders like Thaksin is false. If Thaksin or anyone else for that matter got out of hand with nefarious activities then they would be voted out. That's the beauty of democracy. It's self-correcting. Dictatorship on the other hand is self-perpetuating.

5 hours ago, sead said:

You can't be serious. Pm is controlling the politicians, the economy and has absolute power. When on earth did Thaksin even get close to that.... 

2001-2006. Tripled his personal fortune while in office.

27 minutes ago, LukKrueng said:

2001-2006. Tripled his personal fortune while in office.

I don't think many of these students are interested in Thaksin anyway. They're not the redshirts. A lot of them come from middle-class Bangkok backgrounds. They're not looking backwards or interested in the old politics and parties.

14 hours ago, Thailand said:

Good on ya young uns, just be wary as the ptb have the big guns and they have been known to use them.

Speaking of big guns.. I don't remember the year, ( 60's - 70's but the Police and the Military once took care of these demonstrating youth, killed hundred of people.  Be careful what you wish for kids.  

5 hours ago, Airbagwill said:

13 hours ago, Hayduke said:

but the odds are still stacked steeply against them.

Why do people say things like that?

Because it is not a real Democratic country and because there are other underlying causes they support and guard. You ever try to take a bone away from an angry dog?

4 minutes ago, khaowong1 said:

Speaking of big guns.. I don't remember the year, ( 60's - 70's but the Police and the Military once took care of these demonstrating youth, killed hundred of people.  Be careful what you wish for kids.  

Almost the same as Trump is doing in Portland Oregon now. I voted for him for change, but not for lunacy. He needs to get out much like some here.