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Amy Sukwan's avatar

"This last article is rather bizarre. Conflating a mass shooting with a pandemic?? Notice how every agenda is now made attemptable and interchangeable in relating to every other agenda: shooting / pandemic / climate change / censorship. It’s quite amazing how such continuous prose is breathlessly exhaled into print."

What a word salad that whole statement was. We decided to stay one extra day in Thad Phanom because there was a party today for an 18 year old family member who is going into the military tomorrow supposedly for two years. My guess is the ladyboys are much more likely to find that change your sex at birth loophole to avoid military conscription. The phone text message for cash disposits will disproportionately affect the working poor: I know many people in Thailand who either have no phone, or who have a phone but have no electricty to charge it, or who have no internet or phone service on their phone because they can't afford it, sometimes to the point that SIM cards must be changed. They'll probably come up with a workaround for some of the labor like having a boss or foreman deposit for all of the workers at camp, but I suspect this solution will lead to more corruption, not less. The big corruption as always is happening at the top and blamed on the working stiffs...

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Nicholas Creed's avatar

*Correction made to title and final section - proposed bill to enable people to change their gender on official identity documents (assuming national ID card and passport but not confirmed). This does not extend to birth certificates, as I mistakenly included previously.

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