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sadhukar

Member Since 2007-04-08
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In Topic: News From Home Abit Grim?

2011-05-06 02:46:59

robblok, on 2011-04-20 19:57:44, said:

I doubt they will ever give up, and it is fun that a Thai uses this board for news. I am sure there is much more information in the Thai media ? Plus isnt it depressing to see all the people here complaining about your countrymen ?

I find it more balanced to read what the farang community says about news items than what the censored thai media spouts out...like the necessity of buying a submarine (complete and utter madness). Besides, your news items are quoted from thai media anyway

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I don't see many topics complaining about my countrymen and even then the over-generalizations are debunked pretty quickly. Besides, I'm just as annoyed at this business about Preah Vihear and Thaksin as everyone. Thaksin said in a 2006 TIME interview that he's withdrawing from politics forever, yet now he's posting election manifestos. Complete and utter hypocrisy yet people follow him. I just hope they follow his IDEAS and not HIM or (most likely) his money. However the same can be said about the ruling government. Honestly, who cares about Preah Vihear? No one has heard of it 5 years ago and we have plenty of UNESCO world heritage sites, one less isn't going to affect anything. Even then, how can the military be so incompetent? We have all this expensive hardware procured from the west, yet we seem to be getting an equal battering everytime an engagement happens against equipment Vietnam threw away 20 years ago.

And seriously, WHY IN ****s NAME DO WE NEED A SUBMARINE? What are we going to do with it exactly? Sometimes, I wish the entire structure of graft and incompetence would just be replaced...

In Topic: Corruption

2011-04-20 19:32:03

Awohalitsiktoli, on 2011-04-20 16:48:14, said:

zzaa09, on 2011-04-20 09:35:12, said:

transam, on 2011-04-19 19:21:47, said:

Corruption is a way of life here, a good luck attitude if you can get away with it, from top to bottom and it is expected and tolerated. :huh:

Not just a way of life in those select circles, but embedded into the institutional character.....the OP naively suggested that there might be hope if the government would intervene. That would be kin to the foxes drawing straws as to whom would be watching the hen house.

Correct, corruption (and lying, and cheating, and stealing) is embedded in Thai culture. Believe me, your best Thai friend of ten years will steal from you if given the chance. There is no moral base to this corrupt culture.

As a Thai, I'm quite offended by this. Yes the entire institution is based on graft and corruption such that it takes a benevolent despot to break the system but that doesn't mean we all are. Do I say all Americans are corrupt because a couple rotten banking institutions decide to rip off the taxpayer? Maybe you should stop living under your log and crawl outside to see the reality of life