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Trump wants his own parade - literally
The live dear leader statue phase has already started. So many maga people in denial (or they like it). Bronze Trump statueunveiled ahead of inauguration -
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MSM-Purveyors of Misinformation/Disinformation
Ooops! Sorry, I confused the fact that the quotes are different with skipping out a paragraph. That's what you posted in the OP. "In one case, a mother was deported with her 2-year-old, while the other involves another mother deported with her 4- and 7-year-olds," It's not the same as what you just posted: "In one case, a mother was deported and took her 2-year-old child with her, while the other involves another mother deported and her 4- and 7-year-old children went with her," The actual quote shows more clearly that the mother chose to take her kids with her. The article was likely updated. -
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Thailand is done.
I was at the temple today with my mate Pun and there was a bunch of foreigners sitting in the shade while the Thai family did the prayers and made a merit. Pun went on to say that This is a Buddhist country and why should they try and convert us to their Christian ways? Longer wait times at hospitals, increased crime rate. And I feel nervous when they speak English. This is Thailand. Speak Thai. Anyone else fed up with all these foreigners coming in? -
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Tourism Thailand Vows to End Dual Pricing Amid Growing Tourist Backlash
You're trying mighty hard to get that square peg to fit into the round hole. Residency in a country is a completely separate issue but you keep trying to make it relevant to dual pricing for non-residents and non-citizens, when it absolutely is not. Western dual pricing gets a pass in your book because there's a possibility, however remote if not impossible, for the tourists to become local residents. As I said before, ludicrous. You continue to ignore basic reality--non-Euro citizens--say an American and a Thai--going on a short trip to Paris are not going to establish local residency in order to get the same local resident admission price to the Louvre. So, both the American and the Thai will pay a higher price, not because they are American and Thai, but, rather, because they are not citizens of the EU. It's not dual pricing aimed at any specific country, rather, it is one price for citizens and another price for all non-citizens, whatever country they are from. That is, plain and simple, dual pricing based solely on nationality, in this case neither of them being of EU nationality. And, of course, being short-term tourists, not residents. I think you are incorrect when you say western dual pricing is never based on nationality alone. The example I gave on college tuition is certainly based on nationality alone. You're a non-citizen from a foreign country, you pay a higher price at some US colleges--that's based on nationality alone. Not American nationality? You pay the foreign rate. Cut and dried. It's true that there's the possibility of establishing residency--but that's a totally separate issue from the initial dual pricing by nationality alone--and if a foreign student doesn't establish residency or is unable to, the dual pricing remains by nationality alone.
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