Thailand 2011

[Filuwaúrdjan]

So please lay out for us which political ideas are allowed and which are to be censored.

A quick check of the list of Capital Offenses* should make that fairly clear. Number six, in case you've not spotted it. You will be executed at noon. By a bear, it seems.

In all seriousness, it's a matter of common sense (so a collection of prejudices, namely mine). If you insist on complaining in a manner that would get you shot in one of your beloved dictatorships, then an updated set of rules and regulations may be written and posted up here and some point in the reasonably near future.

*The more American spelling option makes more sense in that context, naturally.

[opebo]

I'm proud to say that my map more or less matches Wikipedia's, which as far as I can tell was made a few days after mine:

Wiki:


Mine:

[opebo]

Finally, gentlemen, I found an actual constituency map of this election:



Very interesting stuff, in some cases it serves to confirm my guesses  - for example 23 central, richer bangkok constituencies voted Dem, while 10 poorer  more peripheral but still urban constituencies voted Taksin, and in other cases throw me for a loop  - for example look at Ubon Ratchathani in the northeast - the one place in the Northeast you see a knot of several Democrat constituencies.  While some of them do look like they're in the urban heart of the eponymous capital of the province, a few look like they're quite rural.. very interesting.

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

What's so different north from south that they vote so differently?

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

So it's an ethic thing?

[Teddy (IDS Legislator)]

Ok, that's quite clear, thanks!

[Novelty]

Wow, you can even see where the ethnic malay majority constituency is in that map!

[opebo]

Yeah, sorry guys, the ethnic and linguistic differences between Isaan and to a slightly lesser extent the North are somewhat common knowledge, and I didn't think to mention them.  They are extremely important to Thai politics.

Isaan people do in fact not only speak a different dialect they look quite different from Central Thais.  I can identify whether someone comes from Isaan, the North, South, or is a 'real Thai' about 80% of the time.