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forkboy84 posted:So Thai police operates exactly like an organised crime family, that's dope. the main competing mafias in thailand are the police, the military, thaksin shinawatra, the yakuza, and the royal family
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Dreddout posted:Lol this is juche poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-nQ_mIPOhI
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 20:24 |
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:the main competing mafias in thailand are the police, the military, thaksin shinawatra, the yakuza, and the royal family The Chinese Triads aren't one of the major ones. Mission Accomplished
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 20:37 |
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:the main competing mafias in thailand are the police, the military, thaksin shinawatra, the yakuza, and the royal family you forgot the russians
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 21:58 |
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:the main competing mafias in thailand are the police, the military, thaksin shinawatra, the yakuza, and the royal family Exactly how much of a crook is Thaksin?
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# ? Feb 15, 2019 22:21 |
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:the main competing mafias in thailand are the police, the military, thaksin shinawatra, the yakuza, and the royal family capitalism is gangsterism lol
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# ? Feb 16, 2019 00:19 |
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are Thais generally that mentally cucked about monarchy or would smashing lese majeste and the power of the royalists bring out a lot of 'always hated those guys' sentiment
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# ? Feb 16, 2019 00:20 |
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mila kunis posted:are Thais generally that mentally cucked about monarchy or would smashing lese majeste and the power of the royalists bring out a lot of 'always hated those guys' sentiment p sure the way the lese majeste laws work and are enforced means this is an impossible question to answer accurately (beyond a not-particularly-helpful "both of course")
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# ? Feb 16, 2019 00:38 |
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# ? Feb 19, 2019 03:11 |
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look if they didn't want to be dissolved then maybe they should have followed the law
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# ? Feb 23, 2019 00:10 |
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lmao this thread ftw
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# ? Feb 23, 2019 03:05 |
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lol
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# ? Feb 23, 2019 03:06 |
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:the main competing mafias in thailand are the police, the military, thaksin shinawatra, the yakuza, and the royal family okay rhetorical question the real question is which mafia do i pick
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# ? Feb 23, 2019 03:14 |
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:what is this a deus ex game thaksin indirectly helps the poor and makes the rest of them angry so prob thaksin
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# ? Feb 23, 2019 04:34 |
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https://archive.fo/q3SqRquote:With five weeks to a general election, Thailand’s political climate is bad and likely to get worse. Sheng-Ji Yang has issued a correction as of 05:47 on Feb 23, 2019 |
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the "other parties" are basically small regional parties controlled by local corrupt political machines, and will go along with whatever big parties win as long as they get their payoffs
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# ? Feb 23, 2019 05:57 |
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i assume Future Forward is the party by the auto parts guy thanks for the thread and the reference OP, Yang i can only assume a Thaksin-Future Forward coalition would be accepted by the military and everything would go fine from there
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# ? Feb 24, 2019 02:03 |
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The leader of Future Forward is almost certainly going to get bodied by the government in the next few days. The police have recommended that he be charged with cyber crimes for uplaoding a video to Facebook where he gives a speech that's critical of the military junta. Really. quote:Police said on Wednesday said they were seeking the prosecution of the leader of the new political party Future Forward over a speech he made that was posted on Facebook last June criticising the ruling junta, the National Council for Peace and Order.
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# ? Feb 24, 2019 06:54 |
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Helen Highwater posted:The leader of Future Forward is almost certainly going to get bodied by the government in the next few days. The police have recommended that he be charged with cyber crimes for uplaoding a video to Facebook where he gives a speech that's critical of the military junta. idk why they even bothered doing elections. all theyre doing is making the inevitable protests worse, especially if they piss off the young which have rallied around thanathorn. should have just kept on delaying them.
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# ? Feb 24, 2019 11:43 |
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The Association for the Protection of the Constitution who are an activist group and definitely not an astroturfed pro-military group have called on the constitutional court to dissolve the Future Forward party. As the CC is directly appointed by the king, and there's nothing that they love more than slapping down pro-Shinawatra parties, I expect this to go ahead.
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# ? Feb 26, 2019 05:28 |
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:idk why they even bothered doing elections. all theyre doing is making the inevitable protests worse, especially if they piss off the young which have rallied around thanathorn. should have just kept on delaying them. maybe they thought they'd win handily and are now getting nervous
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# ? Feb 26, 2019 05:30 |
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GreyjoyBastard posted:maybe they thought they'd win handily and are now getting nervous I'd say they couldn't possibly have been that stupid but that article sjy linked suggests otherwise
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# ? Feb 26, 2019 07:42 |
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BANGKOK: Young people line up to take selfies with him. His hashtags are trending. And when billionaire Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit promises an end to Thailand's military "dictatorship", supporters of his Future Forward Party roar their approval. The 40-year-old heir to an auto parts fortune is a political newcomer and social media star who has energised young voters ahead of Mar 24 elections, the first since a coup in 2014. "I urge our 'Futuristas' to campaign against the future in which the junta leader comes back as a prime minister," Thanathorn said at a rally on Saturday. His message has drawn the attention of police, who want to prosecute him under the Computer Crime Act for criticising the military government in a Facebook video in June. If found guilty of uploading false information, he could face up to five years in prison. He denies wrongdoing, and will meet on Wednesday with prosecutors who will decide whether to take the case to court. Thanathorn also faces a lobbyist's petition asking the Election Commission to disqualify him as a candidate. These moves, he said, are a sign that his left-wing party is worrying those who want to see the military retain broad power. "It's fear. Nobody thought we'd come this far. This is dictatorship's last struggle for life," he said. Posts shared on social media have cast him as anti-royalist, a serious accusation in a country where criticism of the king is against the law. Thanathorn calls it a smear campaign. "It's clear we'll be playing a significant role after the election. The only way to undermine us is to destroy our credibility by means of law, fake news and hate speech," he said. NEW POLITICS? He promises a new kind of politics to heal the divisions of the past 15 years and reduce the role of the military. The challenge for Thanathorn - nicknamed "Daddy" on social media - will be to turn his online popularity into votes. The election is broadly seen as a race between the military-backed royalist prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, and supporters of exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, who was overthrown in a 2006 coup. Parties loyal to Thaksin have won every election since 2001, but after he was ousted, successive governments have been removed by courts or coups, most recently in the 2014 military takeover. Thai opinion polls can be unreliable, but a Feb 20 to 23 survey showed Future Forward topping a list of favoured parties with 37.8 per cent support, compared to 7.5 per cent a month ago. The February poll conducted by Bansomdej University surveyed 1,152 people in Bangkok, with a three percent margin of error. Other polls had Future Forward's support at below 10 per cent and lagging the pro-Thaksin Pheu Thai party or the Palang Pracharat party, with junta leader Prayuth as its candidate. #FAHLOVESDADDY A former student activist, Thanathorn took over his late father's Thai Summit Group at age 23. Before entering politics, he was known for running ultra-marathons in the Arctic and Sahara, and trekking in Morocco's Atlas Mountains. He has been embraced by social-media savvy youth, many of them politicised in a way rarely seen since state forces crushed student pro-democracy movements in the 1970s. About 14 per cent of the electorate, or 7 million people, are eligible to vote for the first time next month. They have lived through Thailand's "colour wars", with anti-Thaksin Yellow Shirt protesters and the ex-premier's loyalist Red Shirts alternatively paralysing Bangkok for weeks at a time. Last week, "#SaveThanathorn" topped Thai-language Twitter after police said they would prosecute him for cyber crimes. Another hashtag, "#FahLovesDaddy", had fans jokingly comparing the candidate to a soap opera character "Daddy", a charismatic businessman pursued by a female protagonist, Fah. He tweeted back "#DaddyAsksFah" to urge supporters to vote. "He's speaking the same language as the new generation, in terms of mindset, world view, perception," said political scientist Titipol Phakdeewanich of Ubon Ratchathani University. "GAME OVER FOR DEMOCRACY" Thanathorn said he was confident his party could send at least 70 members to the 500-member House of Representatives. That could be enough to influence a coalition against military rule, analysts said, even if his candidacy is in doubt. On Monday, a lobbyist petitioned election officials to disqualify Thanathorn, alleging he had misled voters in a party biography that described him as chairman of the Federation of Thai Industries, when he in fact had led a provincial chapter. Thanathorn said the "technical error" was corrected. Another pro-Thaksin party, Thai Raksa Chart, faces possible dissolution after it nominated the king's sister, Princess Ubolratana, as its candidate for prime minister. "With one month left, who knows what magic tricks the junta still has up their sleeves?" Thanathorn said. "If the junta manages to destroy both Thai Raksa Chart and Future Forward, it's game over for democracy". https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/thailand-s-rising-political-star-under-fire-as-election-nears-11290658
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# ? Feb 26, 2019 20:07 |
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https://twitter.com/zenjournalist/status/1101069936112353280 oh also the junta backed down from kicking out thanathorn https://twitter.com/HathaiPia/status/1100597751673311232
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# ? Feb 28, 2019 12:02 |
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So if he wins it'll be an immediate coup?
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# ? Feb 28, 2019 12:08 |
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https://twitter.com/zenjournalist/status/1104360110057549825
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# ? Mar 13, 2019 05:25 |
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lmao
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# ? Mar 13, 2019 05:43 |
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Zack de la chan-ocha
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https://twitter.com/zenjournalist/status/1109814999503912962
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# ? Mar 24, 2019 15:39 |
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lol the pro-junta party is in the lead now. thaksins party did quite bad, future forward did pretty good. lol prayuth isnt going anywhere Sheng-Ji Yang has issued a correction as of 15:45 on Mar 24, 2019 |
# ? Mar 24, 2019 15:42 |
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So the Democrats all ended up voting for the junta?
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# ? Mar 24, 2019 16:02 |
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how bad was the disenfranchisement
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# ? Mar 25, 2019 05:05 |
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i vote for the king because if you don't you'll probably be killed lol
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# ? Mar 25, 2019 05:11 |
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Norton the First posted:So the Democrats all ended up voting for the junta? From what I can tell most of the junta's gains came from future forwards, who collapsed by like 12 points. this does of course assume everything with the election is on the level
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# ? Mar 25, 2019 05:12 |
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1.7 million voided votes apparently
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# ? Mar 25, 2019 05:22 |
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Agean90 posted:From what I can tell most of the junta's gains came from future forwards, who collapsed by like 12 points. the % for the various voting blocs are actually pretty stable. future forward + pheu thai, both anti-junta, combined got about 46% of the vote. in the last real election (2011) pheu thai got about 48%. the junta's party got about 28%, with the democrats making that about 39% - in 2011 the Democrats got about 35%. Basically the right did slightly better in this election, just both sides were divided by more parties, which mainly damaged Pheu Thai. a plurality has gone to the opposition, but that won't be enough to overcome the military's constitution unfortunately. who knows how many votes the military bought or stuffed though.
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# ? Mar 25, 2019 05:30 |
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Under the new constitution, there are 250 senators and 500 members of the lower house. 350 of the 500 lower house seats are voted for directly, and the remaining 150 are dished out between the parties according to national vote percentages. All 250 senators are appointed by the junta though. The PM is appointed by a majority of the whole of parliament - so the junta need only 126 seats in the lower house to reinstall Chan-O-Cha, while the opposition need 376 seats, and to all vote for the same candidate. All that is pretty irrelevant though, as there is no parliament building for the new government to meet in and make those votes. The old parliament building was reabsorbed in the royal household after the last coup, and the replacement building isn't ready for another year.
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# ? Mar 25, 2019 07:04 |
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Helen Highwater posted:All that is pretty irrelevant though, as there is no parliament building for the new government to meet in and make those votes. The old parliament building was reabsorbed in the royal household after the last coup, and the replacement building isn't ready for another year. lmfao
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