Marc in Calif

Not a very good sign! 🙄

And yet you're too cowardly to click links to actual statistics and verified facts. You still haven't admitted WHY you don't want to click those links. Scared? 🐔🤣🐔

Since the pandemic and the criminal invasion of Ukraine, Russians have started to take over the island of Bali in Indonesia. Their business and developments have destroyed local businesses. And they even want to destroy rice fields to build unnecessary new developments. The Russians are HATED in Bali. I imagine it's the same in Thailand.

Thanks for surrendering in the face of numerous verified statistics that Galant cited in that article. They're from sources such as your trusted New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and other major media. The fact that you steadfastly refuse to open those clearly marked links demonstrates your cowardice. 🐔🐔🐔 You didn't have the slightest chance of proving that those statistics were wrong. So you conveniently take the right-wing troll's way out by writing "Case closed"! 🤖 🤡 Nothing in Galant's background is relevant. His cited sources and facts are what matter in this case. And you cannot prove them wrong, can you? If you can, why don't you try. You'd love nothing better than to show they're wrong. here are some of them: Trump inherited Obama's drone war and he significantly expanded it in countries where the US was not technically at war. The US dropped more bombs on Afghanistan in 2019 than any other year since the Pentagon began keeping a tally in 2006, reflecting an apparent effort to force concessions from the Taliban at the negotiating table. According to new figures released by US central command, US warplanes dropped 7,423 bombs and other munitions on Afghanistan, a nearly eightfold increase from 2015. From the last year of the Obama administration to the last full year of recorded data during the Trump administration, the number of civilians killed by U.S.-led airstrikes in Afghanistan increased by 330 percent. Trump’s campaign talk of troop withdrawals doesn’t mMatch military reality. He has brought home few American combat troops over all even as his pressure campaign against Iran risks a new Middle East conflict.

Thanks for finally admitting that you simply do not understand what source citations are. The article has MANY verified statistics from a wide variety of sources. You're just too stubborn to click the links and read those sources. Tell me: Did you click any of the links in that article? If you were afraid to click them, I understand. Your fragile ego wouldn't have liked reading them because they prove that your claims are completely false. I'll just continue poking you with those links -- whether you want to click them or not! 🤡🤣🤡

Have you not developed any passions or hobbies in your long life? Is going to the gym the only activity you've pursued outside of work? Living in a foreign country has much to offer. You can volunteer. You can mentor or teach (English) either informally or formally. And, as the previous commenter suggested, you do need to learn to speak and read Thai. This is a must -- it will give you both satisfaction and some definite goals. Please stay OUT of the business world!

Fly Lion Air? Never. In any country. With its notorious safety history, LionAir should be avoided at all costs.

HINT: In online text, underlining (underscoring) indicates a reference link to the specific evidence. I'm embarrassed for you. You don't even know this most significant feature of the internet. 🤣

There are sourced links throughout the article. And Afghanistan (it is indeed a "country") is specifically referenced. How could you not know that? I just told you. 🙄 REPEAT I asked you specifically about Afghanistan. Can you prove that the following statements are incorrect? The US dropped more bombs on Afghanistan in 2019 than any other year since the Pentagon began keeping a tally in 2006, reflecting an apparent effort to force concessions from the Taliban at the negotiating table. According to new figures released by US central command, US warplanes dropped 7,423 bombs and other munitions on Afghanistan, a nearly eightfold increase from 2015.

Please prove that any one of the factual statements is false. Did you not go to the linked evidence, which is VERY specific? Just as an example, can you prove that the following facts are false? The US dropped more bombs on Afghanistan in 2019 than any other year since the Pentagon began keeping a tally in 2006, reflecting an apparent effort to force concessions from the Taliban at the negotiating table. According to new figures released by US central command, US warplanes dropped 7,423 bombs and other munitions on Afghanistan, a nearly eightfold increase from 2015.

The Center Theatre Group hasn't closed shop at all. Tha't's just BS. What are you talking about? 💩 There are two productions currently playing onstage, with two more opening in the next 10 days.

Why would I deny facts? I never did deny that. But Drumpf was a warmonger. He escalated existing wars and military actions. He brought the US perilously close to new wars. And he didn't try to end some of the "endless" wars. https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/01/20/trump-the-anti-war-president-was-always-a-myth/ ... Trump did escalate conflict in theatres of war he inherited, repeatedly brought the country to the brink of new wars, and recklessly threw around U.S. power with no regard for the many lives it would cost. The “anti-war” candidate, like those before him, was a pro-war president. Escalating Inherited Wars — Despite repeated PR stunts, Trump did not “bring the troops home” or “end endless wars.” In fact, Trump consistently added fuel to the fire, increasing troop levels, deepening reliance on private contractors, and dramatically scaling up aerial warfare. Where an end to endless war requires repealing the 2001 and 2002 Authorizations for Use of Military Force, Trump expanded conflicts under both. His term saw four consecutive years of growth of an already out-of-control Pentagon budget. And loosening even the minimal restrictions that were already in place, he expanded the United States’ deadly and unaccountable drone wars. Not only did Trump not end the wars he promised to, he worsened them, dropping more bombs, stoking further conflict, undermining the prospects of peace, and massively increasing the rate of civilian deaths. All in on Yemen — U.S. support for the Saudi- and UAE-led intervention in the war in Yemen is one of the most egregious examples of destructive militarist foreign policymaking in years. Not only did Trump do nothing to end U.S. complicity himself, he repeatedly used his veto power to override bipartisan majorities in Congress that tried to stop U.S. military involvement and block the flow of arms to the conflict....

Quite a turn of phrase! 🤡

There's actually a word for that: a mondegreen.

None of those deplorables are great with comebacks -- or words in general. They can only resort to their old right-wing memes and fake accusations. Here's one of them: Joe Biden wears diapers. But then there's actual reality: Donald Drumpf has actually been seen wearing diapers (with trousers on backwards). And who can ever forget this eye-searing image?

Yeah, as if you really care about dead non-white children. 🙄 We already know your vile racist views from other posts. Stop acting like you're concerned about any of the dead children in the Middle East. Your clownishness drumpfs your pious accusations. 🤡

The bike would instantly fall over because NOTHING can hold up that immense tub of lard. 🐖 🐽🐷 And because Drumpf can barely balance himself standing upright, who expects him to balance on a bicycle seat? 😃

That's because you've proven that you don't know how to do your own homework. 🤡 Sourcing information means being willing to say where you found it. But you're afraid of doing that. If you actually had the source, you would be OVERJOYED to share it to prove us wrong. 😘

It's so funny that you get excited -- and even orgasmic -- by reading polls a year before the 2024 election. 🤡 Keep going, if it makes you so enthusiastic. You'll be wiping all the egg of your face AFTER the election. 😁

There were no Republican candidates in the poll at that time. So the people who the New York Times polled at the time changed their minds -- perhaps many times before the 2012 election That's what polls do: they track opinion at only the time when they are adminstered. Your exquisite trust in any current poll is amusing. And it leads you to make foolish statements. But I hope you keep believing in Drumpf and his chances to win another election. The grief you experience will be all the more devastating when it comes! And it will... because voters' opinions change. ⌛

Yes, the left-wing New York Times poll from September 2011 predicted that left-wing President Barack Obama's chances for re-election had dropped significantly: President Obama’s support is eroding among elements of his base, and a yearlong effort to recapture the political center has failed to attract independent voters, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, leaving him vulnerable at a moment when pessimism over the country’s direction is greater than at any other time since he took office. You're very smart to trust New York Times polls. They are ALWAYS predictive of election results in the year preceding a presidential election. 🤡🤡🤡

You've obviously never been on gay forums -- or, for that matter, any forum where free discussion is the norm. When someone states an idea or plan, people are going to comment on it whether you like it or not. They're not breaking any rules or guidelines. Remember: You're not in the Navy anymore, Seaman. You've repeatedly cursed at other members since you joined these forums. You've proven yourself to be a right arsehole (yeah, that's one of your cursewords) yourself. 🍑 I'm sure the door will slam painfully on your 🍑 when you leave here. We'll all shout simultaneously, "Good riddance!" 😘

Nice to see you finally surrender, 4-5-6. You found an image and text somewhere online. It appears to have appeared in the notoriously lying and cheating News of the World. But we don't even know THAT for sure. And you don't remember where you did this "homework" of yours after we asked for a source for several days. 🤣 NO other publication in the world has claimed that Jade Cabbage has a broken beard. No searches turn up that particular fact -- or any other statement that the Jade Cabbage was dammaged and repaired (as you originally and erroneously statement). You won't find that fact it either. Only YOUR one, single, lonely unsourced image... yeah, that's believable. 🤡

Again, you don't read very widely about theatre. Steppenwolf Theatre announces staff cuts in the wake of falling revenue, drop in attendance Tony Award-winning Steppenwolf in Chicago -- probably the most honored regional theater in the U.S. -- recently imposed staff cuts and eliminated open positions. "Unfortunately, like many non-profit theaters across the country, Steppenwolf Theatre Company has been negatively impacted by a protracted post-pandemic economic recovery for our sector and the rising cost of inflation. To be sustainable well into the future has required some very difficult decisions. We found that factors keeping our subscribers from coming back included traffic concerns, safety concerns and not wanting to come into the city, and long-lasting COVID concerns." And of course it's happening all over the country: Many US theaters have been contending with similar financial challenges – namely decreasing donations, low attendance rates post-pandemic, and high production costs. Chicago’s Tony Award-winning Lookingglass Theatre has announced a year-long pause in new productions and layoffs impacting 50% of its staff. The Public Theater in New York City, one of the nation’s most prestigious and successful nonprofit theaters, laid off 19 percent of its staff in July as a financial crisis sweeps across the field. The move, which cost about 50 people their jobs, followed a 13 percent layoff (and program cuts) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Smaller theaters and institutions such as the Oregon Shakespeare festival and the Dallas Theater Center also have dealt with similar cuts and cancellations. And of course it's also happening in Los Angeles, the home of "countless" (!!!) theatre companies: Theater is back, but its recovery is proving to be perilous (Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2022) — After nearly two years of pandemic closures, live theater has returned. But attendance is down and operational costs are soaring.... A recent study conducted by a group of arts organizations, L.A.'s Performing Arts and Reopening Survey, found three troubling trends: Both operating capacity and audience attendance are down to almost 50% of pre-pandemic levels, and ticket revenue is about one-third of what it was before COVID-19 struck. https://larchmontbuzz.com/larchmont-village-life/opinion-we-need-theater/ Local theater was fraught even before the pandemic with the 2019 passage of California AB5, which was meant to protect freelance artists but has decimated the economics of the “blackbox” theater community where new talent and productions traditionally percolate...

The blurb I quoted above was from the Center Theatre Group's own promotion of the production on its website (it's still there): Direct from an acclaimed run on Broadway comes an OKLAHOMA! that looks and sounds like America today. Furthermore, all regional theatres -- as well as those on Broadway -- were greatly affected by the pandemic. In the following years, ticket sales and subscriptions were slow to recover. But the recent CTG production of “Slave Play” enjoyed a mostly sold-out run at the Mark Taper Forum. Despite being extremely "woke," it had relatively huge attendance. So the argument that "wokeness" killed the CTG is based only in your own mind.