These comments really illustrate how badly Lemmy has become a homogenised echo chamber.

Users just subscribe to these generalised binary concepts like religion = terrible, and any attempt to demonstrate the nuance is downvoted.

Seems like a pretty good explainer:

https://bbc.com/news/articles/c5ylk9r336zo

However, i infer from your comment that youre incredulous?

Why would the BBC report it if its not true?

Ah, no… the King has very publicly stripped him of his title and evicted him from the royal property in which he resided.

While it doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that Andrew would want to do this but it does surprise me that his handlers allowed him to do it so brazenly.

Even not-particularly-wealthy people can go to a resort / brothel in South East Asia and see 40 prostitutes in a few days if that’s their desire. Everyone involved would very happily turn a blind eye.

However, doing it on a state visit is essentially the production and provision of kompromat.

It’s interesting that the bangkok post has chosen to publish this now.

Thailand has strict Lèse-majesté laws prohibiting any negative commentary about royalty. I wonder if that applied to foreign royalty and if so, whether it no longer applies now that Andy is no longer a “Prince”.

sorry what crowds ?

Yeah, but fine print isn’t always binding.

You can leave someone in Port if they were dawdling back from the bar.

You can’t leave an 80 year old woman alone on an uninhabited island in the heat with no water.

This actually seems to happen semi-regularly in Queensland. This is certainly not the first time.

You’d think they’d have some kind of infallible double redundancy tag out system.

One wonders how often this might happen and go unreported.

Edit: oof. Sorry, I just read the article. Looks like she didn’t die because she was left behind. Rather, she fell off a cliff and died which is why she didn’t board the boat prior to it’s departure. Still. Wouldn’t hurt to have some awareness of how many passengers had re-boarded the boat.

I didn’t even know this was a thing before reading that article but I’m going to engage in some wild supposition.

I’m going to suppose that many of those in the outgoing presidents cabinet were heavily invested in companies involved in industries such as production of construction materials, transport of those materials, and of course construction.

I also predict that in the not so distant future they will find significant deficiencies in the buildings which have been constructed, such as defective materials, insufficient concrete density, insufficient foundations, and so on.

Anyone who votes for Trump who is not a millionaire is an idiot, but anyone who is not a white male really is fucking stupid.

You may not have noticed but the entire world has lurched to the right. You can’t win an election by wooing voters on the left, you’ll just lose votes on the right.

The American left will just stay home and pay on reddit about how the dems are secretly right wing capitalists anyway.

Oh man. Thais and Khmers have been killing each other since the dawn of time. Only an idiot would think this deal is any more meaningful than the last dozen. They probably only kicked off this time because they realised they could get a few free helicopters out of Trump.

We pretty much are “completely owned” by corporations, but you could argue about the extent.

For example, I think we’re closer to Europe’s stance on big tech than we are to the USA’s.

A captured state refers to governments that are dependent on specific industries, and all governments are to some extent.

Gambling companies would provide a lot of tax revenue. They also contribute a lot of sponsorship / advertising revenue for sporting events. There’s also many millions of voters who enjoy gambling just how it is.

In summary, its not only industry lobbyists, gambling is a deeply entrenched industry.

I agree that we have a captured state - parties kinda cant really afford not to take donations from gambling companies.

I also agree that it really sucks to have our lawmakers playing sports with these assholes - that just sucks. I think it’s also pretty tone-deaf.

I also agree that it seems like this guy has performed this stunt for publicity, but I happen to feel strongly about this issue so I don’t really mind.

Oh, wow ok. Boom.

God that’s kinda heavy-handed. You’d think they would have done this the moment they were aware that a book was in the offing.

I imagine they got an advance copy and this is a reaction to the content.

Yeah that was my first thought.

The royal family’s PR team would have been strategising this since forever.

I expect they’ve been monitoring the Epstein situation, as the likelihood of a release increases they’re looking to distance themselves from this turd.

Governments can literally just spend money into existence.

I just want to point out the irony of her case.

If a far-left influencer was denied a visa to enter the US, they wouldn’t bother filing with the supreme court because they wouldn’t get a fair hearing.

The legal facility she attempted to access is one that she would withhold from her own people.

They don’t need to complain? They just put you in the van and disappear you.

Easier to identify that they’re ICE but still impossible to make a complaint or hold anyone accountable.

Lets not pretend that they’re refusing on any kind of ideological ground.

Their respective legal teams would have told them not to sign. I’m sure that acknowledging / signing would expose them to additional risk of litigation.