22 minutes ago, Denim said:

Except its not that cheap anymore.  Those days are long gone.

That's true, but back in 2009 when I arrived it was so cheap it seemed a waste to go home alone.

Now I'm too old and too settled with the one I rented for the past 15 years.

 

I'm betting most expats arrived in the 'cheap' era that appeared to finish around 2014.

7 minutes ago, Woof999 said:

 

...and it's that kind of pathetic post which offers nothing but confrontation that makes any thread like this totally pointless.

Says the bloke whose last few posts include :-

 

"I don't hate Trump, but he has no qualities that I respect in a human being and, so, has no place in any position of power."

I guess that means you respect the qualities of Biden and Harris and Clinton/s and all the other corrupted useless Dems?

 

"He's currently too busy questioning whether Harris is Indian or Black to be much use to me right now anyway."

Why would Trump give a rat's rear about being any use to you?

 

"Until you stop believing that the US "right" has the same balance as the "right" anywhere else in the world, you're ALWAYS going to think that anyone that is anywhere near the centre of the political spectrum is left wing."

Below is what Musk said and he is right about the current reality about the Dems.

Mate - your statements are delusional and pathetic.

 

2 hours ago, Mark Nothing said:

I tried to keep an open mind for decades to the liberal ideas the media kept pushing on us.  Now I just wholesale reject all liberal ideas as poison. 

 

One by one my liberal buddies dropped like flies as they could not carry on a pleasant conversation but just wanted to dictate why they were right.  It got old being preached to by know-it-all liberal zombies.  When confronted their face turned red and they started shaking.  

 

Self sufficiency free from tyranny is how I live my life. 

 

 

Perhaps your buddies were just trying to guide you back to the truth.  It's sad that you no longer recognize it.

2 minutes ago, gamb00ler said:

It got old being preached to by know-it-all liberal zombies

 

I assume that is how they felt about you....oh the irony.

2 hours ago, susanlea said:

Hitler was a socialist so most people were to his right.

 

You are totally confused by the term "socialist" in the official name of the Nazi Party which was the National Socialist German Workers' Party .

 

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism, "Nazism is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany". . . and is "a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates a dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, anti-Slavism, anti-Romani sentiment, scientific racism, white supremacy, Nordicism, social Darwinism and the use of eugenics into its creed."

 

I don't think there are any people that could be even further right of that ideology. But I may be wrong.

Maybe Susan it is because AN is a multi cultural forum. Not dominated by think headed cultist. People with a free will and mind of their own. But I doubt you will understand this and will reply with one of your standard dumb post like "Are you drunk" ! And no I'm not drunk but you seem to be on something day and night.

5 minutes ago, Hummin said:

ehm, all of them I have met, I have to say it is a great mix of people with all kind of intelligences and political backgrounds. 

Not according to this thread. The thread says that there is a majority of Progressives.

And it makes sense, a conservative mind is for the most part  not as adventurous. 

    Scientific studies have discovered physical evidence that the Amygdala part of the brain where fear resides is larger in conservatives. If you don't believe me google it. 

So it's no wonder that more progressives would progress to a new country than conservatives whom fear of lose  is greater than the desire for gain. 

2 hours ago, Mark Nothing said:

I tried to keep an open mind for decades to the liberal ideas the media kept pushing on us.  Now I just wholesale reject all liberal ideas as poison. 

 

One by one my liberal buddies dropped like flies as they could not carry on a pleasant conversation but just wanted to dictate why they were right.  It got old being preached to by know-it-all liberal zombies.  When confronted their face turned red and they started shaking.  

 

Self sufficiency free from tyranny is how I live my life. 

 

 

Best not to discuss such matters in person, that's what anonymous forums are for.

2 minutes ago, Lapun said:

 

You are totally confused by the term "socialist" in the official name of the Nazi Party which was the National Socialist German Workers' Party .

 

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism, "Nazism is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany". . . and is "a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates a dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, anti-Slavism, anti-Romani sentiment, scientific racism, white supremacy, Nordicism, social Darwinism and the use of eugenics into its creed."

 

I don't think there are any people that could be even further right of that ideology. But I may be wrong.

Wiki is left wing. 

2 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

I assume that is how they felt about you....oh the irony.

Your reply was actually to something that @Mark Nothing wrote... not what I wrote.

2 minutes ago, bubblegum said:

Maybe Susan it is because AN is a multi cultural forum. Not dominated by think headed cultist. People with a free will and mind of their own. But I doubt you will understand this and will reply with one of your standard dumb post like "Are you drunk" ! And no I'm not drunk but you seem to be on something day and night.

Free will 

The vast majority of socialists want to force vaccines on people. 

14 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

That's true, but back in 2009 when I arrived it was so cheap it seemed a waste to go home alone.

 

Still cheaper than "back home", if I add up all the dinners and foolishness that constituted the chase, then risk weight the odds I'm going to end up in the friend zone forever.

 

I've had free sex that cost me thousands of dollars a throw. And some strikeouts that cost just as much for nothing.

 

3 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Why do you think Thailand is "right-wing"?  I would say it offers a perfect liberal environment for those of us with liberal sensibilities and views.

"liberal environment" ? With confiscatory income tax rates for lower middle class. When it comes to IT France would be twice more liberal than Thailand, AFAIAC. France, where 57.3 cents of GDP get confiscated, being one of the most un-liberal places in the world.

3 hours ago, susanlea said:

There is no link. Just how people are on here. Maybe the righties avoid here more.

Very possible, since much of what is posted by the right leaning, gets reported / deleted.  One of the reasons I don't bother, along with repetitive trolling be the lefties.  Seem to want to argue till you cave in to their thinking, or just leave the conversation.

 

If I don't join, I no longer need to worry about either.

A number of bickering/flame posts have been removed. Can we please discuss the topic, rather that each other and also stop the name calling.

5 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Seem to want to argue till you cave in to their thinking

 

19 minutes ago, sirineou said:

Not according to this thread. The thread says that there is a majority of Progressives.

And it makes sense, a conservative mind is for the most part  not as adventurous. 

    Scientific studies have discovered physical evidence that the Amygdala part of the brain where fear resides is larger in conservatives. If you don't believe me google it. 

So it's no wonder that more progressives would progress to a new country than conservatives whom fear of lose  is greater than the desire for gain. 

Still believes Thailand attracts a great variety of people of different reasons. Never met so many all kinds of trouble, and obviously escaped something back home. Not only people who escape cold seasons back home. 

 

However I do not doubt what you saying about being adventorous and the link to more progressive people, I just find Thailand someway different when it comes to the mix of expats as said from every other countries I have lived or visited. 

7 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Very possible, since much of what is posted by the right leaning, gets reported / deleted.  One of the reasons I don't bother, along with repetitive trolling be the lefties.  Seem to want to argue till you cave in to their thinking, or just leave the conversation.

 

If I don't join, I no longer need to worry about either.

If you can remain both on topic and without calling anyone names your posts will remain.

It's that easy!

 

13 minutes ago, susanlea said:

Free will 

The vast majority of socialists want to force vaccines on people. 

No not only vaccines, don't let them off so easy!

They try to force, rule of law, democratic elections, The bastards even try to force to constitution on us. Freedom to collective bargaining, they are pro choice,End of life personal decisions, the law applies equally to all!! Imagine that?  Brother , the list is too long.   

Socialism, what did socialism ever did for us?? 

Ok Ok, they did give us Social security,  we like that, and Medicare is not too bad, roads a bridges ftr all to use is useful, Children's Health Insurance Program can be said to good . 

Ohh and Unemployment insurance, I like that. 

 

1 hour ago, Gecko123 said:

 

 

https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18283879/nazism-socialism-hitler-gop-brooks-gohmert#

 

Anyone who had done any reading at all about the rise of national socialism would know that some of the first people Hitler rounded up when he came into power were the socialists.

 

 

 

The rise of Hitler and Nazism have to been seen in the light of post WW1

 

The four main features of Nazism are racial purity, territorial expansion, power and militarism. Racial purity advocates the superiority of the Aryan race and the elimination of the undesired races, predominantly Jews. The expansion is the system of the Nazi violent invasion of non-German areas.

 

Hitler and the Nazi party enjoyed the support of the German conservatives, who believed that Hitler could restore the economic and social power of Germany through the conservative revolutionary movement, and therefore endorsed his ideas. Generally, people were convinced that Hitler and his party could improve the situation in Germany after WWI.

 

https://study.com/academy/lesson/nazism-definition-facts-ideology.html

5 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Still believes Thailand attracts a great variety of people of different reasons. Never met so many all kinds of trouble, and obviously escaped something back home. Not only people who escape cold seasons back home. 

 

However I do not doubt what you saying about being adventorous and the link to more progressive people, I just find Thailand someway different when it comes to the mix of expats as said from every other countries I have lived or visited. 

Certainly  many different people , but what is the common thread that unites most ou us?  not all, but a majority of us. 

1 hour ago, Gecko123 said:

 

 

https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18283879/nazism-socialism-hitler-gop-brooks-gohmert#

 

Anyone who had done any reading at all about the rise of national socialism would know that some of the first people Hitler rounded up when he came into power were the socialists.

 

 

 

 

First they came for the socialists......

32 minutes ago, susanlea said:

Free will 

The vast majority of socialists want to force vaccines on people. 

Vaccines is most likely why you are here and post BS 😉

 

You are on the edge to hypomania now Susan. Take it easy

3 minutes ago, sirineou said:

Certainly  many different people , but what is the common thread that unites most ou us?  not all, but a majority of us. 

One thing is clear, without socialism, the world wouldnt have evolved from tribes to larger societies. 

 

socialism, social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources. According to the socialist view, individuals do not live or work in isolation but live in cooperation with one another

24 minutes ago, sirineou said:

Certainly  many different people , but what is the common thread that unites most ou us?  not all, but a majority of us. 

Food, shelter mostly.

23 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Vaccines is most likely why you are here and post BS 😉

 

You are on the edge to hypomania now Susan. Take it easy

No vaccine saved my life.

25 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

 

First they came for the socialists......

Socialists joined him. 

Just now, susanlea said:

No vaccine saved my life.

 

Because your anchestors got vaccines, is likely why you was born, 

Now that the age of individualism had ended, he told Wagener, the task was to "find and travel the road from individualism to socialism without revolution". Marx and Lenin had seen the right goal, but chosen the wrong route - a long and needlessly painful route - and, in destroying the bourgeois and the kulak, Lenin had turned Russia into a grey mass of undifferentiated humanity, a vast anonymous horde of the dispossessed; they had "averaged downwards"; whereas the National Socialist state would raise living standards higher than capitalism had ever known. It is plain that Hitler and his associates meant their claim to socialism to be taken seriously; they took it seriously themselves.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/hitler-and-the-socialist-dream-1186455.html

4 minutes ago, Hummin said:

 

Because your anchestors got vaccines, is likely why you was born, 

Most people in history had no vaccines.