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Vigilant Amalek Snow Leopard's avatar

BuT i ThOuGhT cOvId WaS oVeR aNd We DiD iT aNd ThAt AlL tHe ReStRiCtIoNs ArE jUsT iN wOkE uNiVeRsItIeS aNd StUfF!!!

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

They are going to keep doing this from every angle they can until something stops them. Too much capital is flooded into that system while alternatives are systematically and literally starved out. I'm either blessed or cursed to be at the tip of the metaphorical spear where international travel is not some optional event. I have to deal with the cards I'm dealt...

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Vigilant Amalek Snow Leopard's avatar

btw, This was an epic post. Excellent breakdown note by note. 💥

You nailed it from the inside of the blender. And I'm so sorry that you are separated from your husband and I hope that this works out okay somehow. Love.

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LoveOneAnother's avatar

Well HoTMaiL and ShoEboX to you too!

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Malignant's avatar

Man up. Be ungovernable.

Or your children will grow up as slaves.

It’s a shit sandwich, but here we are.

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

I am well aware of the hellhole they have planned and how incompatible with life such a future is for my children. My primary debate is if this is best fought against through legal or extralegal means

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Michael Framson's avatar

Amy, I am sure plenty of others have some form of that debate or when does the legal unfortunately shift to what may have never been contemplated. I saw this in a comment on Chris Martenson's site. I am going to do it, maybe on a T-shirt and my truck. https://globalwalkout.com/step-5/

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Malignant's avatar

We cannot condone illegality….

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Michael Framson's avatar

Your point always has merit until what? Canadian Truckers certainly showed what can be peacefully accomplished, but Trudeau and the authorities are just doubling down. This is why people are struggling with the over arching issue of what will it take? I don't know.

I'm pretty sure I saw people being arrested in Australia for not wearing a mask--must have been illegal. I'm pretty sure I saw a surfer in California being arrested for being a surfer--must have been illegal. I remember blacks sitting at lunch room counters when no blacks were allowed--it was illegal.

I'm just not sure where the authorities are drawing the lines. Will using cash when CBDC becomes the rule be illegal?

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LoveOneAnother's avatar

Before AirBnB, I booked 3 days and 2 nights combined at two different county jails over a speeding ticket in the 90's. You gotta train to be ungovernable.

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

A reflection out of love;

Woman up, be under-governable.

Your slave children will eat a shit sandwich for lunch,

and you will be the one who made their lunch.

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Samantha Gluck's avatar

Indeed! Working on it.

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

Hi S i remember you from the beforetimes...

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Samantha Gluck's avatar

Twitter?

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

no just like so last year, but early last year

which at this point amounts to

ferever....i too have qyite a name

and not easily forgotten

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Samantha Gluck's avatar

Hmmm tell me where! Holy Mass? Instagram? I am not super social (though my husband is and I’m typically with him), so I can’t imagine my being a social butterfly and flitting around randomly.

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

just substack comments sorry a bit

gone to the potato vodka

I jsut tend to trust names I have seen about

for a bit....

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Samantha Gluck's avatar

Really?

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Aoratos's avatar

I think Anutin may be losing it and will be soon brought/pressured back to "reason" by any advisers he has.

This would be a devastating blow to Thailand and IMO unfeasable. They're just panicking because hordes of Chinese are arriving but they will soon revert this ludicrous announcement (I hope I am right on this!!!).

By the way I got my wife a fake vax pass in France earlier this year, which she could use if required. I doubt I would do it for myself, for the same reason as Nicholas Creed, but not everyone is equipped to deal with the pressure.

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

I sure hope you are right and have seriously considered such a thing for my husband, who I am afraid would bow to pressure during his immigration health check to the USA otherwise. I personally have prayed over this exact issue and feel in my personal situation that I am a bad liar. But to each there own...

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𝙂𝙊𝙊𝘿 𝘾𝙄𝙏𝙄𝙕𝙀𝙉's avatar

We will not discriminate against people of any country! Instead we will harass and molest all of them.

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

If anyone ever doubted that this was a compliance operation first and foremost that pretty much sums it up

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Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman's avatar

Let’s go Thailand

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CATHERINE's avatar

Hey Brandon.

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

I think it's sarcasm...it doesn't even seem to be well supported on the Bangkok Post comments section...

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

It pops up on its own on the rare occasion I use my phone to type messages, but when I am on a laptop like now it doesn't work... :-D

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Jeffrey Teruel's avatar

Good news: Thailand reversed on this.

They understand ease of travel is essential for their tourism industry. They have been the leaders in Asia when it comes to opening up for tourism in an area which usually is behind the trends.

I am more optimistic about the future since we see indications of things to come in the ease of travel in the US, Australia, and Europe. Asian countries are slower in adjusting but they will get there.

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

I hope so I'm writing a post on my husband's visa to the USA right now!

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CATHERINE's avatar

Didn't the Thai Jogging Princess recently perish in the park? Jab casualty.

Stupid person, stupid rule.

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CATHERINE's avatar

It takes a stupid person to make a stupid rule,

And a fool to mind it.

Do not be a stupid.

Do not be a fool.

This is how to collapse the Insanity Vortex. :)

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

Let me know how your return flight is. I'll be looking into exemptions

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Nicholas Creed's avatar

I will post publicly about the return trip but will also email you about the exemptions route...

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

I've been checking flight restrictions as of last night Delta Airlines had not updated anything regarding any restrictions to entering Thailand. As I'm sure you are aware the nightmare is before you get on the plane the front counter is who enforces it at the behest of immigration later. Chinese New Year's is January 22 which is blessedly early for it. If they are doing this as any type of response to some expected influx of Chinese tourists that stuff will die down by February and then they'll have to deal with the rest of everyone...

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

They don't want to think about their own mortality, period. Though there is a tipping point that may come on the heels of collapse. I had an interesting talk with our quintuple jabbed just out of the hospital with a heart attack roommate. He figures he's 70 years old already and says his biological brothers and father all died in their 50's so he credits doctors with his relative longevity. Everybody has their own rationale. My interest moves back to the enforcers.

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Aoratos's avatar

I remember telling people in 2021 that denial mechanisms were going to be a central aspect of all this. This was because a few years ago, on two separate occasions I knew or heard of people who were conned out of their money and not only continued to send cash to the scammer once the scam was obvious, but just couldn't face what they had done and preferred to go all the way and crash and burn rather than face reality and try to mitigate the damage. It's just a human psychological thing.

Turns out I was right but I never thought I would be THAT right (much to my despair). It's a freak experiment gone wrong.

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Amy Sukwan's avatar

Our roommate here in Las Vegas has much the same story there too: he was called by some people claiming he had won 1 million dollars but needed to send them some processing fee four years ago. It's laughably clear this is a scam to me, but he's older and naive and fell for the intrigue. They wiped him of everything: his home, his car, his credit score. He moved in with us because he had nowhere to go. He still talks to them, still sends them money, gets small amounts back but never what he put in. It's investment ego and stockholme syndrome all tied together...

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