>Dude BUDDHISM but you have to join the army and worship a king
Why does Thailand do this?

Thai buddhists are notoriously corrupt

>>212029656
Cambodia is the last bastion of real uncorrupted budhism.

>wypipo found out that their knowledge of buddhism is only its bastardized hippie version from the 70's

>>212030354
Are you here to make a point or just act like a retard

>>212029488 (OP)
monks do that? how do they explain such actions?

>>212030201
opposite. It's the most corrupt place in asia. Monks there grope girls in public, there are tons of videos

>>212029488 (OP)
>>212030571
nah nigga join the army part is spending a year doing jack shit in the barrack. niggas here are somewhat religious so they become a monk like a month at most.

>>212030918
damn. what about myanmar?

>>212030571
same way our priests fuck kids. There are bad apples in every organisation.

>>212029488 (OP)
A lot of Thai mythology about kingship draws on pre-Buddhist, essentially Hindu concepts that were adapted from very old Khmer models. And a lot of contemporary ideas about the monarchy were products of deliberate political fabrication and nationalist propaganda efforts just in the 20th century, mostly from periods when leaders feared unrest and were trying to manufacture ways to legitimize their regimes.

The monarch as an individual was all but irrelevant, if not completely unknown, to the masses in ancient times, and as recently as the 1920s there was widespread popular distaste for the king among many segments of society (the monarch at the time was by most standards a pretty lousy king, who nearly bankrupted Siam with frivolous pursuits and filled the court with his rough trade dockworker boy toys). The country came within inches of becoming a republic in 1932 when the absolute monarchy was finally overthrown. Instead, they set to work explicitly promoting the king as a beloved, universally known national figure.

But king worship as a central national characteristic really wasn’t a thing before the current monarch’s father’s reign.

>>212031789
Myanmar is basically Africa tier lawless. It's not even a country right now

>>212033072
The tide may be turning there before long, mostly to the people’s detriment; China is funding and equipping militias to reclaim, defend, and operate the rare earth minerals mines. It remains to be seen how extensive this latest phase of “technical assistance” will become (until recently they were just supplying the junta with arms to distribute on its own, but they have as of a few weeks ago now got more carefully selected and trained proxy boots on the ground in multiple restive locations), and its aims remain devoutly commercial rather than overtly political, but Chinese money and guns will probably be the tipping point that quells the rebellion and keeps the military dictatorship on top for at least a while longer.

>Cuckbodian under Switzerland flag
Dude, If you wanna shit on my cunt just do it openly. We are on a brink of war at this point no need to hind behind others flag.

>>212035032
>We are on a brink of war

>>212035032
เป็นคนไทย

>>212035032