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News Forum - Thailand’s Move Forward Party faces possible dissolution
Your ‘you’d have to be over 90 to remember the last uprising’, ranks up there with your other bout of stupidity, ‘there are no general practice doctor’s clinics in Thailand’. Remember that embarrassing gem? You doubled down on that bizarre assertion too. Give yourself a punch in face and the delete your account. Your offerings are a net deficit to the threads you inhabit. -
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News Forum - Thailand’s Move Forward Party faces possible dissolution
It's incredibly disappointing but it's not tough to believe. The powers that be, wearing their yellow shirts, their military uniforms and their large bank accounts don't want reform. They did their best to kill the Red Shirt movement, which threatened them before, and before the current incarnation of that particular Red Shirt group decided to turn their backs on what they initially proclaimed in order to gain power. That now puts those previous Red Shirts as part of the latest incarnation of the power elite establishment and they, too, are more than happy to see Pita and his party eliminated to keep the rivers of money flowing into the "correct" pockets. The election showed us two things; one, that the Thai electorate wants reform and two, they are still a long way from having a proper voice in their own country.- 1
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News Forum - Foreign man attacked after allegedly slapping Phuket transwoman
I've known a fair share of them, of all ages, in my nearly 18 years here. And I've always found this assumption by "normal" Thais that, yes, they are a bit "touched". I don't live in Pattaya or Phuket or even Bangkok, where violence seems to happen much more frequently, so I can address that issue personally. But in the South and in the villages and small towns I've been in, they aren't known to be overly aggressive or violent but are regarded as "touched". Not sure about your experiences about them but this is a pretty accurate description of what I've seen as other Thais towards them.- 1
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News Forum - Foreign man attacked after allegedly slapping Phuket transwoman
Southeast Asian attitudes are shaped by Buddhism, much as Western attitudes have a historically bound and parochial cultural background. Kathoey is this a gloss for 'pandaka' (or, literally, eunuch but including intersex and nowadays glossed as 'neuter') in the Pali writ disseminated in Southeast Asia. Attitudes of Buddhism towards kathoey were not entirely positive, just because they were naturalistic about kathoey existence. After all, men and women have different virtues, and different cultivation as children: if someone is 'neuter' then it follows, that they can't have these virtues, or so the basic reasoning goes. The question is whether the popular stereotypes reflect the higher incidence of certain co-morbidities among the kathoey demographic. Remember that negative stereotypes as exist in Thailand and neighbouring countries, do consider kathoey as a bit crazy, but not as (for example) irrationally violent or delusional. The stereotype is that their emotions are unstable, which is the domain of personality disorders involving dysphoria.- 2
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News Forum - Bangkok man arrested for luring underage teen (video)
The guy is 24 and the girl is 15. When we compare to some adults where the man is 70 plus hardly can stand and the girl is 30 plus where she is at her peak, this young couple looks normal in their life once they grow older. Further if the guy is having a good income and steady job, always giving money to the in-laws, would they complain any? Definetly not. They will embrace him with 10 arms.- 1
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