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Aug 21, 2022Liked by Linh Dinh

I dislike rich sex tourists as much as anyone, but I think in this case the problem is bigger. Lots of young men in the West have no option to start a relationship, and arguably it will get worse as the economy worsens. In my parents generation, most couples were legally married and stayed together. In my generation or younger, I don't think I know anyone or almost anyone who is "happily married". Even young people are divorced (if they married at all) or are single with a string of failed relationships behind them, or, increasingly, no relationships at all. So part of it is "cheap pussy", but part of it is just the human need of companionship. I think it's a scam, in the end, like the Ukrainian mail brides. Just as there is no "free lunch", there is no "cheap pussy" -- you pay in other ways.

Unless the West returns to a saner morality, things will get worse. Or we will all become gay/transgender, perhaps after some mRNA genetic vaccine or a microchip in our brains. https://youtu.be/SvxDX-EeZM0

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On a bus through Thailand, sat behind me was a young American expat and a Thai girl. For hours I overheard their sporadic conversation. She obviously had hopes for marriage, and he was obviously about to dump her and try another country. It was as if as the time drew closer, he became more distant and non-committal, and she more desperate, laying on thick the terms of endearment and trying to pry a commitment to future plans out of him. It made me feel ashamed.

Sometime prior I had been on a small puddle jumper from HK to Bangkok, I believe. I don't know what model it was, but it was 5 seats wide. Several rows ahead was a morbidly obese American man in his late 20's travelling with his mother. Seatbelt-extender sized, he took up 2 seats, I'm thinking 500 pounds. He was dressed in sweatpants, and had the manners to match. He was obviously on an expedition to lose his virginity, financed by his own mother. Oh well, everyone's got to have something good on their bucket list. What was most curious is that a rather large American woman his age passed by and accidentally brushed against him, and he whipped his head around the best he could and gave her a dirty look and some cross words. I don't know why, but this too made me feel shame, maybe on his behalf. That shame turned to terror when he got up to go to the head. The aircraft literally bounced and wobbled as he plodded to the back of the plane, and I believed there was a good possibility the shift in weight might knock the little turboprop out of the sky.

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Linh

Thanks for giving Phoenix it's props....doesn't get much better than being lumped in with LA & Philly.

Went to fill up my water jug the other day & found the price had doubled from 25 to 50 cents. Fkn machine even ate my quarter. You see a picture of Lake Mead lately ?

"I see Bad Moon a Rising"

Bill

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Thanks for more biting exposure of the collapsing global shit hole gulag that the Satanic pedovore filth have erected for the mindless sheeple, the electro thingy jabbing and triple jabbed Zombie masses waddling to the edge for their long overdue dive. Thailand, that open aired brothel and land of LBFMs (little brown fucking machines) invented by the Pentacon garbage after their "tours of duty" while "serving their country" as that evil scum genocided their way across Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. More depressing than the end of the road burn outs that you describe as they max out on pussy was in fact the entire tawdry knock off Las Vegas arcade cartoon that passes for night "life" in these towns reeking of sweat and fake orgasm$.

As the already jaded LBFM said, opening her latest john's wallet and flicking through the wad of filthy fiat assessing the potential for a "relationship" based on coitus and juices ...."Me luv yu velly long time."

Keep on rocking, Linh....you're right up there with the greats like Joe Bageant and Brautigan.

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I've never been to Pattya, seems like one of the most depressing places on earth. A lot of these places in SEA has a really dark, sinister vibe. I'd much rather go to Chiang Mai or Kanchanaburi, somewhere chill.. Luang Prabang..Anywhere "rich" russians dont go.

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Intrestligly some sort ethnogeniesis is going on in the far north of Sweden right now, where white women, who have left for the cities, are getting replaced by thai women from Isan. Its not a bad deal for the women, these guys up there are farmers who often own huge areals of wood and farmland. Might evolve into some sort of distinct hapa culture with time, buddhist-lutheranism, if they can keep their daugthers from moving to Stockholm.

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Makes me proud to be an American.

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I have lived in Thailand for years and am married to a Thai woman (never a bar girl. Your normal accountant and chef). So, I have more compassion than Linh for these lost men. I have known some.

The biggest draw of Thailand and the Philippines is the women for sure. However it isn't just the pussy. Western men migrate to Thailand because it is more of a man's world while the west is a woman's world. If you are over 50 you are deemed worthless in the West, especially by less than obese women and employers. Many need a goal or dream to really feel alive. Others are content to live their lives of quiet desperation.

Some men come to South Eastern Asia for the pussy. Others come for real relationships. Some for serial relations with non bar girls. You can get whatever type of setup you want. Many men here start with the bar girls or Tinder and then migrate to marriage some stupidly by marrying bar girls.

The men offing themselves are usually lost before coming here or having financial problems.

The wealthy who come here have a field day. The working class area being forced out by visa changes unless they have a good military or private industry pension.

You can still live here cheaply but the government does not want people who aren't at least financially comfortable even if the tourist is bringing in more money than the average thai makes (many only make about $300 a month. $1000 a month is a cherished middle class income even in Bangkok.)

In many ways, what is happening here in South Eastern Asia is the same as in the White West. The rulers and managerial classes of places like Thailand, Bali and Malaysia don't want the useless eaters. They really only want as expats and tourists wealthy Chinese or Japanese but will tolerate wealthy Whites.

They are all competing for the same small group while the average person in the countries are more likely to profit from the middle and working classes and even the backpackers. But it is really only the wealthy who matter thus the changes.

We shall see if the affluent Chinese go back to flooding SE Asia or they head elsewhere for travel or simply stay in lockdown forever over the flu.

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Funny anecdote:

Standing out front of my brother's bar with his wife and my (Japanese) wife, three young guys roll up on motor bikes and one asks my wife "how much?" Sister in law rips him a new one so hard he falls off his bike, friend all laughing at him. Extreme loss of face! Priceless moment I'll never forget.

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My brother and his (educated non-bar girl) wife owned the Baitong Bar in Chiang Rai - a watering hole for western eco-tourists and globe trotting Germans. Nice place, but they lost it in the 98 crash and had to move to Canada. Visited a couple of times and liked the north, but the Thai girls never appealed to me. Too squeaky and always smelling of garlic. Pass.

Learned a few things from my sister-in-law, who is from a police family. Those bar girls ain't always Thai, especially in the dives. Some are from Myanmar, Laos or Cambodia, sold by their families, often to cover gambling debts. A couple of them got arrested with their escort on a night bus we were on. Girls deported, escort fined I was told.

I really don't get the allure of SE Asia. Stinking hot and humid most of the time, difficult languages, hard to trust people, and a cultural trait of never taking responsibility for anything. Police and judges corrupt as hell. Marrying into a police family kept the bad guys away from my brother, but a lot of ex-pats who open businesses get shaken down pretty hard, or just lose it all when their "wife" decides to dump them.

Two nephews, both born in Thailand, neither speaks much Thai or have any interest in the place. Sister in law goes back once a year for family visits. Friends all expect her to pay when they go out because she snagged a rich farang - that's how they see it. Also, when shopping locally she'd get charged the "farang price" for the same reason. Had to go all the way across town to do her shopping. You just see the facade if you're a tourist. If you live there or have family, different story. Not on my list of places I'd return to.

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Thank you Linh.

Possibly of An Island by Houellebecq was my introduction to the dude. We're phased out gently in that one but phased out nonetheless.

I really enjoyed Platform as well. He's a trip.

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Aug 20, 2022·edited Aug 20, 2022

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