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Posted
30 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Is there a great business opportunity in designing and marketing some kind of dignified accessory or pin indicating being a pro-democracy, anti-maga American while traveling abroad?

 

Why do you want a pin with a lie on it?  I thought the whole point was for people to know your political beliefs?

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14 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Normally, I just refer to myself as...The Omega...

 

Or, I also call myself:  The Alpha and the Omega.

 

 

 

 

I call you something else but won't mentioned here or I would be banned.

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Posted
4 minutes ago, still kicking said:

I call you something else but won't mentioned here or I would be banned.

 

Actually...

No matter what you might call me......

 

I, personally, would never, EVER, agree to having you banned.

 

I enjoy your comments....as....

I am sure that you know...

By now.

 

Posted
16 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Yeah I would respect hearing that.

But you're not everyone.

I recall being on a bus tour in Turkiye with mostly Australians during a heated U.S. election season. They were very cool educated Aussies but a few of them made it very clear to me that they were angry that they had to hear this American political stuff constantly even on their own media. So I didn't talk about it.

 

Of course they had a point. What percentage of Americans can even name the Australian PM. I reckon much less than one percent.

Is listening to media now compulsory in Australia now?

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Posted
Just now, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Actually...

No matter what you might call me......

 

I, personally, would never, EVER, agree to having you banned.

 

I enjoy your comments....as....

I am sure that you know...

By now.

 

You not a moderator are you?

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I'm not concerned about Thailand, or in CM. However imagine I will have to deal with it next year in Euroland. On the plus side, lots of non MAGA Americans will have been there before me, and with me. So that should ease things up a bit. Easily three quarters if not more, of US tourists to Europe are non MAGA. 

Dej Vu all over again. Traveling in Greece right after Trump betrayed the Kurds to Erdogan and Turkey in 2019. As expected the Greek's were hot about it. Person to person, it was not a problem. I have traveled to Greece a lot,  so in ways easier to deal with there. No way to avoid it and never good to over compensate. If it comes up I tell them the truth, otherwise keep it to myself. I'm not on a trip to talk about ugly things. Now I did get blowback from border and security people. Not much you can do about that. 

Posted
10 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

 

Why do you want a pin with a lie on it?  I thought the whole point was for people to know your political beliefs?

I think he’s afraid he’s going to meet some nice, intelligent people that he befriends, only to have to start hating them when he finds out they voted for Trump.

 

It’s nice that prior to the election, MAGA fascist was a small extreme group, but since the election, more than half of the country is MAGA fascist. 

 

He, i want a MAGA fascist garbage hat. 

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Posted
59 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Is there a great business opportunity in designing and marketing some kind of dignified accessory or pin indicating being a pro-democracy, a

 

   What would you say if they asked that  if you are so pro democracy , then why did you stay in Thailand for 8 years when the military took over in a coup ?

   Why did you stay in non democracy Thailand when you could have gone to Obama's democratic  USA ?

   What would you say to them ?

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10 minutes ago, mogandave said:

I think he’s afraid he’s going to meet some nice, intelligent people that he befriends, only to have to start hating them when he finds out they voted for Trump.

 

 

    I have met some American Dems in Thailand and the first question that ask people is "What do you think about Trump"

    And if you say anything positive they will just say Goodbye and walk away , potential friendship over .

   Ends up that everyone he speaks too agrees with what he says 

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Posted
6 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

    I have met some American Dems in Thailand and the first question that ask people is "What do you think about Trump"

    And if you say anything positive they will just say Goodbye and walk away , potential friendship over .

   Ends up that everyone he speaks too agrees with what he says 

I'd have to answer ... Who ? 

Posted
35 minutes ago, still kicking said:

You not a moderator are you?

 

No.

Not smart enough.

Do not have the stamina.

Do not have the inclination for it.

And, above all, I lack enough empathy for others.

 

Posted
52 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

The first European I met here in Thailand was very aware of the situation. So I think an awful lot. Certainly Europeans and Russians often would.  Maybe the MAGA thing has you confused. Pro Trump or anti Trump.

You seem to assume that's all anyone thinks about.  Really?  

 

Last weekend, I was in Bangkok for a few days and watched some of the cabe channels in my hotel.  On one of the European channels, someone was interviewing Putin.  And according to Putin, Trump is just another Deep State character.  

 

No one with any sense cares. 

Posted
21 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

Paranoia is a dangerous health issue. Please seek professional help before it's too late, though I think you're clearly past that stadium already

Are you paying?

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1 hour ago, jas007 said:

You seem to assume that's all anyone thinks about.  Really?  

 

Last weekend, I was in Bangkok for a few days and watched some of the cabe channels in my hotel.  On one of the European channels, someone was interviewing Putin.  And according to Putin, Trump is just another Deep State character.  

 

No one with any sense cares. 

No one with any sense doesn't care.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Patong2021 said:

Time to give the labelling a rest, and to move on. Trump is President. It will be a hard core Republican  agenda for the next 2 years.

Either take a page from the MAGA  collective and organize and agitate and oppose vociferously with litigation and  protests, or accept the reality and invest in renewing a damaged and misguided Democrat party. Or do both.  Whatever, it may be, life goes on and the   bills still need to be paid.

The republican party no longer exists.

It's 100 percent the Trump maga party now.

You are normalizing something that is the opposite. 

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1 hour ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   What would you say if they asked that  if you are so pro democracy , then why did you stay in Thailand for 8 years when the military took over in a coup ?

   Why did you stay in non democracy Thailand when you could have gone to Obama's democratic  USA ?

   What would you say to them ?

That I'm not Thai. Duh.

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Posted
3 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Yeah well living in Pattaya, I can tell you that there are many Maga Americans here. Perhaps the majority. No hat needed. Less so in Bangkok and Chiang Mai. 

 

Don’t kid yourself. There are plenty of us MAGA types in Bangkok too… including Thai people with American citizenship. It’s been super-fun and awesome meeting conservative people of many stripes — including Trumpers — over the past months and years. It makes a nice break half the year for me and wife, who live in a strongly leftist part of the USA during the other half of the year.

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5 minutes ago, tai4de2 said:

 

Don’t kid yourself. There are plenty of us MAGA types in Bangkok too… including Thai people with American citizenship. It’s been super-fun and awesome meeting conservative people of many stripes — including Trumpers — over the past months and years. It makes a nice break half the year for me and wife, who live in a strongly leftist part of the USA during the other half of the year.

Trump is not conservative!

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Posted
10 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

The republican party no longer exists.

It's 100 percent the Trump maga party now.

 

Such is the power of a unified movement and party? That’s actually a good thing; dunno what to tell ya.

 

Contrast with the Democrats, who are seemingly in disarray, practically a civil war even, because the ones least palatable to the electorate refuse to compromise in any way.

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Posted (edited)
12 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Trump is not conservative!

 

I’m not using word “conservative” here in some obscure pointy-headed way whose nuance would require me to post a reference to a PhD thesis as justification.

 

I meant it in its plain, commonly understood facility as a synonym for “Republican”. So my post says that I’ve enjoyed meeting non-leftist Americans of all stripes in Thailand.

 

Of course, I’ve also enjoyed meeting leftist ones too… Certain kinds of people — to their detriment and great experiential loss — assess the value of everything and everyone they encounter in life through a political lens. I am more open-minded, and thus am not such an experientially limited person.

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Posted (edited)
37 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

That I'm not Thai. Duh.

 

That’s just a convenient rationalization. Living somewhere by choice for an extended period of time under a regime installed by a coup, which some people consider anti-democratic, etc. is somewhere between “endorsement” and “I don’t care about its negatives”.

 

Most of us don’t care about either of those labels and people should just do what they need to do in their own lives! But if you are going to talk the talk about a Trump administration being bad for… all the reasons people are quick to jump on President Trump, then not walking the walk elsewhere in life is a wee bit hypocritical.

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