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Where I am it's been raining all Easter break, so the Thai political crisis has served a purpose in keeping me from getting bored, but now I'm just sick of it.
The mainstream media is hopeless - it either has no news or just reports government spin.
The reds leaders are doing their own media management, and there seem to be hundreds of bloggers, twitters and youtubers also adding layers of their own spin.
Neither side seems to be able to admit any wrong doing by participants on their own side, and always blame the other side.
(I could insert something about thai culture and aversion to loss of face here, but the very people who need to take note don't want to know about it anyway)
To date I have seen no real sign of reasonableness or compromise from either side, both still going for winner take all after more than 3 years of conflict.
It's very frustrating to this observer (who can sympathize with the genuine grievances of both sides).
Whatever happens now, whoever is the victor in the current battle, all I can hope is that you learn some humility and show some compassion to the loser, because if you don't, then be sure that blowback will happen.
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