>>22986599'Westminster System'—it's the system from my country, which your government is modelled on—you've conflated that in your head with me talking about 'democracy', which I've not done
>So don't tell me Thailand became great by adapting their Western system.that's not at all what I'm telling you, you could not be more wrong
nor am I here saying you have us to thank for everything industrially-produced in the room around you right now; your computing device; your electricity; your lightbulbs; your clothes; likely your life, if you compare the Vietnamese infant mortality rates pre- and post- antibiotics and Western medicine... though all of those things are absolutely true
I'm simply saying you've contributed nothing to my life in turn, save Green Curry, and 'Anna and the King of Siam'
so what of the opinions of my nuclear-armed, responsible for your existence and governance, head of the Commonwealth of Nations, founding and permanent member of FVEY, the UN Security Council, the BIS, NATO, G20, G7, etc., country?
...and what of the opinions of your country?
you're in China's orbit, and they're going to harvest you for protein at some unspecified point in the future
that doesn't mean your opinion somehow matters more than mine—it just means you're going to be dim sum
