@Andrew ********
I have been rude because they are rude.
Thailand is Thailand.
Immigrants (all long stay visas) are guests and if they are lucky they have friends, at least I have been for 16 years.
I am German and only have to do with Thai politics to the extent that my wife and I discuss it. Otherwise, I'm fine here.
Of course I don't like everything.
But then I change it without discrediting others.
If I can't change it, it's the same as in Germany or wherever, I don't get upset about it anymore, because I can't change it.
Incidentally, if it restricts me too much, I can leave Thailand at any time, be happy with my wife and elsewhere.
If there is one thing Thais do not like, it is know-it-all and better-makers
constant critic.