I was looking up Thai politics because of this. .....i was like oh cool a strong monarchy . Oh cool , a politically involved military that is against annoying civil rights activists ......and then i found out that the Thai parliament is looking in to pushing same sex marriage. You'd think they'd hold up a bit more stronger than this but i guess not. https://archive.is/akRRD
Thai lady boys aren't just a meme, all stereotypes are based in a kernel of truth. Look into (or don't) Bangkok's Red Light District to see what I mean.
One of the biggest problems with monarchy, and really any strong small ruler base, throughout all of history is that its under the whims and emotions of that small/singular ruler.
So for everytime a monarch might do something based, they might also do something horrifically bad, and that's just how it works. All outside influences and cancer ever needs to do is figure out how to manipulate one guy.
thailand isnt an absolute monarchy its still technically a constitutional monarchy, the king technically isnt the decision maker. but its illegal to criticize the king and he's the one that approves or disapproves the laws.
USUALLY a monarchy has more incentive to do the right thing (than random politicians who just want to line up their pockets and then just leave once their term is over), , because the king has to think about their descendants and would want to leave the kingdom intact for their descendants to inherit and they can make better long term plans as the king compared to a random politician that's only in office for the short term, (and who may make decisions just for public approval, for the short term even if in the long term its a bad decision). A king is also more able to quickly dispose of bad or bad foreign elements in the country without having to go through the barriers of democracy.
I was looking up Thai politics because of this. .....i was like oh cool a strong monarchy . Oh cool , a politically involved military that is against annoying civil rights activists ......and then i found out that the Thai parliament is looking in to pushing same sex marriage. You'd think they'd hold up a bit more stronger than this but i guess not. https://archive.is/akRRD
Thailand was made famous for pedophile sex tourism since the 60s. Nothing really based about the place.
They have cool martial arts.
I mean, of course they need to make that a thing, they have a whole underclass of male prostitutes pretending to be women.
Thai lady boys aren't just a meme, all stereotypes are based in a kernel of truth. Look into (or don't) Bangkok's Red Light District to see what I mean.
One of the biggest problems with monarchy, and really any strong small ruler base, throughout all of history is that its under the whims and emotions of that small/singular ruler.
So for everytime a monarch might do something based, they might also do something horrifically bad, and that's just how it works. All outside influences and cancer ever needs to do is figure out how to manipulate one guy.
thailand isnt an absolute monarchy its still technically a constitutional monarchy, the king technically isnt the decision maker. but its illegal to criticize the king and he's the one that approves or disapproves the laws.
USUALLY a monarchy has more incentive to do the right thing (than random politicians who just want to line up their pockets and then just leave once their term is over), , because the king has to think about their descendants and would want to leave the kingdom intact for their descendants to inherit and they can make better long term plans as the king compared to a random politician that's only in office for the short term, (and who may make decisions just for public approval, for the short term even if in the long term its a bad decision). A king is also more able to quickly dispose of bad or bad foreign elements in the country without having to go through the barriers of democracy.
but of course its not guaranteed