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John Holmes's avatar

I'm curious. You probably saw that the Mexican supreme court made up a law out of thin air "legalizing" abortion yesterday. The Woke virus, aka Marxism, is spreading to non Western countries. I see that many women in Thailand have tattoos now. What is the situation on the ground in Thailand regarding embracing Cultural Marxism?

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No, I didn't hear about MX. Tattoos are more acceptable now in the West compared to our generation. I haven't seen any tattoos on women here, just super-kind people who wonder why they have a king who lives in Germany. They also wonder why they still have an old-fart military government full of very old men, with no elections still after democracy was abolished by the Bangkok elites (connected to the previous king) some ~15+ years ago.

The elites couldn't permit it because the Thai people kept electing bold, firebrand PMs JUST LIKE TRUMP. I kid you not! The elites managed to disqualify about 4 PMs starting with Taksin Shinawatra (a bold billionaire telecom business moghul---sounds familiar?? You can't make this up!) then old-fart army guys took over after 4 'soft' coups/engineered disqualifications. Now no elections and if you criticize the King, with his many 'consorts', who travel with 30 poodles for an occasional one-day visit to Bangkok and travel immediately back to a lavish estate in Bavaria, you can be put in prison for 15 years. But some students are still openly asking WHY?--and risking jail time by asking an obvious questions like "why do we need a king?" and why no elections?

I'll do a post about this. I've been thinking about this daily.

Fundamentally, Thailand also has a Bangkok elite "problem' like in the West and in America; it's 'elites' vs the extremely sane, common sense "country bumpkins" in the heartland of the country. It's similar to our deranged elites and our smeared and ridiculed "'flyover people." The parallels are striking. More later.

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John Holmes's avatar

Thank you for

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