Trying to, but my brain doesn't work properly right now. So while I understand that capitalism is fucking people over and shooting them in the head, I am not so great on details.
Me - although I still can't figure out whose side I'm on in Thailand. The anti-government red shirts are actually pro government. They're just pro for the government of the guy that got kicked out. He's got the support of the poor, but he's no prince. When he was in power, he started dismantling their democracy and threatened civil rights.
On the flip side are the yellow shirts, who are middle and upper class, and college student intellectuals. The yellow shirt leadership supports the democratic constitution, but has been undemocratic with its handling of the red shirts.
The papers say that the yellow shirts are royalists. When I was there, I saw that everyone in Thailand is a royalist. They all love their king. The current crisis doesn't really involve royalism.
Yeah. I'm smelling a whiff of Lebanon or Venezuela here. The loudest protesters are sometimes not fighting for the people, but sometimes for just keeping the government that throws bloat their way.
yeah, following it and appalled at the strength of the government response, but am not really sure that the red shirts aren't just a front for another regime rather than a true populist movement...
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p.s. I owe you an e-mail! Mostly it's going to be something about Jewish blessings and the waving of hands in ceremonial manners.
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I will await your email breathlessly, but the waving of hands and ceremony is far more important.
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On the flip side are the yellow shirts, who are middle and upper class, and college student intellectuals. The yellow shirt leadership supports the democratic constitution, but has been undemocratic with its handling of the red shirts.
The papers say that the yellow shirts are royalists. When I was there, I saw that everyone in Thailand is a royalist. They all love their king. The current crisis doesn't really involve royalism.
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