nerdlinger wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 3:14 pm

Cooldude wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 2:01 am

sanjuro wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 1:01 am ^
well then her boyfriend should beat her.
fk sake "social justice comes to cambodia". should make a fkng coloring book.

Unfortunately these social justice warriors have already been in Cambodia for awhile and completely ruining the place.

Are you kidding me? No way she’s an SJW, she’s a classic Karen. She might use SJW talking points to try scraping sympathy but I highly doubt she actually believes in them.

In fact I’m beginning to wonder if exposure to people like this is why so many people find the concept of encouraging an inclusive society so distasteful…

Pizzalover wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 8:48 pm I like the word schmuck much better.


What really matters is the bribery attempt. The story and the reactions tell us something about the expats in PP. It is popular to decry the police, the corruption and whatever. With more or less good reasons. The untold other side of the coin is, however, that the same people do like it when it suits them. And they not only like it, they engage in it.

The policeman who refused the money does not fit into their narrative. No wonder that comments on his behavior are few.

One reason for the defense of Michael Berg is that he did something these characters consider as being perfectly ok. In their view there is no reason even to comment about it. So the little incident works as a wonderful mirror for a good part of that expat community. It confronts self-perception with a very ugly reality.

and, the lady might be a total nut case or whatever negative attribute might come to mind but, still, she is way ahead of that scene and she got the guy. So who is the idiot in the end? Results speak for themselves.
Also there is no return. I cannot see him repairing that and maintaining the American Chamber affiliation. If he does then the story needs to move on to the next level.

GMJS-CEO you just dont get it. But that's ok.

violet wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 10:53 pm

Pizzalover wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 8:48 pm I like the word schmuck much better.


What really matters is the bribery attempt. The story and the reactions tell us something about the expats in PP. It is popular to decry the police, the corruption and whatever. With more or less good reasons. The untold other side of the coin is, however, that the same people do like it when it suits them. And they not only like it, they engage in it.

The policeman who refused the money does not fit into their narrative. No wonder that comments on his behavior are few.

One reason for the defense of Michael Berg is that he did something these characters consider as being perfectly ok. In their view there is no reason even to comment about it. So the little incident works as a wonderful mirror for a good part of that expat community. It confronts self-perception with a very ugly reality.

and, the lady might be a total nut case or whatever negative attribute might come to mind but, still, she is way ahead of that scene and she got the guy. So who is the idiot in the end? Results speak for themselves.
Also there is no return. I cannot see him repairing that and maintaining the American Chamber affiliation. If he does then the story needs to move on to the next level.

GMJS-CEO you just dont get it. But that's ok.

I don’t recall if it was the American Chamber, but one of them had prominent members in the news for fisty cuffs. Didn’t they remain in position? Is a folded up note worse?

I am not one to throw my cash around to make life easier but for as long as I have read the forums it has been said that bar and restaurant owners are required to lubricate authorities to get by with less hassle. I won’t condemn a person who does what every other person in the business does.
For the record I’ve spent less than an hour in his company with others. Don’t know him. Not a friend.
Having read all the comments I am still more offended by a woman who plays the I’m a woman and you made me feel unsafe card than I am offended by a person doing what I have read is the norm (regardless of whether I’d do it - I wouldn’t open a bar etc partly because I wouldn’t want to navigate the gifts expected to stop from being targeted)