El Generalisimo says "the media must do more than report the facts", speaking to journalists on Thailand's National Media Day.
http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.ph ... 1425556914
Printable View
El Generalisimo says "the media must do more than report the facts", speaking to journalists on Thailand's National Media Day.
http://www.khaosodenglish.com/detail.ph ... 1425556914
Analysis from The Diplomat, Thailand's big step backward.
http://thediplomat.com/2015/03/thailand ... backwards/
From: Analysis from The Diplomat, Thailand's big step backward.
Quote:
"How did Thailand come to this? Just a decade ago, Thailand was a beacon of democracy in the region, trusted by Western democracies ... "
Not much of analysis if one actually believes in such an animal as the 'Beacon Hypothesis'. Guess what .... Thailand has never been that.
Westerners ~ mostly Americans ~ keep up this brothers-in-democracy dichotomy hopefulness because it enables their sense of righteousness in terms of the Holy Grail of 'Our Way'': "gee, look at Thailand, it's just like us. Terrific!" Fox News jingoism. Liberal naivet├й.
This particular military dictatorship is pretty well Built-in-Thailand and is about as benign as they come given the nature of the beast. Think about Robert Mugabe and his sweet little version of authoritarianism . . . the country is a complete basket case on every conceivable measure and that senile old fucker has still not been assassinated. Certainly no one deserves it more.
Iraq's new democracy? That went well.
In Thailand at least everyone is going about their business just as they always have done, and in the same fashion. The military are not executing their opponents, there is no blood in the streets, the umbrella stands have only Thursdays in which to take a day off. Thai people do not debate the whole mess over dinner ... they couldn't care less, there is too much in their lives that is more important, more essential, and more necessary to accomplish every day.
Analysis was my choice of words and not the best. Whether Thailand was a beacon of democracy by Western standards is argumentable, perhaps more like an allied Normandy beachhead when contrasted to its neighbors. That we are living in a banana republic is closer to the truth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smiles
Ah yes it's much better (Smiles - who's a white man - has decided so it must be better) that little brown people don't need democracy, it's "Western naivet├й". That, despite Narendra Modi saying recently that democracy offers "the best opportunity for the human spirit to flourish". Modi is the (democratically elected) Prime Minister of India. Or perhaps Smiles believes that Aung San Suu Kyi is a victim of "Fox News jingoism" and the people of Burma ungrateful to their military dictatorship - whom the Thai dictatorship hold in high regard. And let's not mention that Western stooge and Prime Minister of Thailand's most significant investor, Japan - Shinzo Abe - who urges the Thai dictatorship to return to civilian rule and democracy as soon as possible. Just remember, Smiles knows best.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smiles
Finally, a realist! B-)Quote:
Originally Posted by kommentariat
Just ask him, he'll tell you. Known in Australia as a FIGJAM so my second-BFF a447 tells me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Smiles
Funny, I thought you did.Quote:
Just remember, Smiles knows best.
Guess we were both wrong.Quote:
Two months before the coup last year Kommie wrote:
Since there probably isn't going to be a military coup.....
FIGJAM!
Amazingly (??) a447 has decided on a selective quote to indulge in his favourite pastime, point-scoring. The full quote was "Since there probably isn't going to be a military coup we can now expect a judicial coup as has happened several times recently."Quote:
Originally Posted by a447
Quote:
Originally Posted by a447
So a military coup is a judicial coup??
Ok, whatever you say. I never said you didn't predict a coup; I just thought that someone who comments so profusely on every political situation on the planet would be more astute.
Remember your gaffe on the Scottish "wee lassie?"
And the reply?Quote:
Kommie wrote:
I see there's a new wee lassie has taken over from Salmonella. Is she mebbe a caviar socialist?
See what I mean? Yet another example of you posting on something you know nothing about.Quote:
Kommie , I know all comments you make on Scotland are all bluster and no substance - but this one surely proves it beyond any doubt.
The 'new wee lassie' has been Deputy First Minister for almost 8 years and Deputy Leader of the SNP for 10
Your constant attacks on me as a poster have had a positive outcome for me, but a rather negative one for you. Many of your clangers, gaffes, zingers - call them what you will - have been posted on forums which get far fewer views than this main forum and, consequently, go unnoticed. I get to post them here and, as a result, everyone gets to read them.
You've set yourself up as the board's intellectual (you even have your own bunch of "undergraduates"..... Lol) who can comment with such confidence and authority on every topic under the sun (with a lot of help from Google). You even tried to tell me from 15000 km away what the situation was in my country. You got that wrong ,too - remember?
So keep up the attacks and I'll keep dragging your gaffes from the minor forums to here for all to see.
Confucius say:
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
FIGJAM