<p>As Thais celebrate Songkran Festival, one of the few remaining landmarks commemorating the 1932 democratic revolution has been quietly removed.</p> <p>On 14 April 2017, the brass plaque commemorating<a href="https://prachatai.org/english/category/1932-revolution"> the 1932 Revolution</a>&nbsp;at the Royal Plaza in Bangkok disappeared.</p>

<div> <div>Thai soap operas play a crucial social role in constructing political ideas of nationalism, Buddhism and morality. This mechanism, however, is not a stagnant process. The recent airing of a nationalistic soap has shown how Thai soaps adapt to changing political contexts. </div></div>

<p>Royalist Thais have filed a lèse majesté complaint against the administrators of a Facebook political satire page. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Members of a group called ‘Network to Protect the Monarchy’ in the central province of Sing Buri on Tuesday, 26 July 2016, filed a legal complaint against the administrators of the Facebook page ‘You Can’t Be Slim [a derogative Thai political term usually referring to the pro-establishment yellow shirts] if You Are Not Buffalos’,&nbsp;<a href="http://politic.tnews.co.th/contents/197730/">T-News reported</a>.</p>

<p>A network of vocational school alumni and other royalists urge people to protect the monarchy, pressing the government to prosecute people who insulted it.</p> <p>At 12 noon on Sunday, 19 June 2016, a network of alumni from 24 vocational schools and many other royalists gathered at the Royal Plaza in central Bangkok to pay respect to the equestrian statue of Rama V and to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the coronation of Rama IX, the current King,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.matichon.co.th/news/180478">Matichon Online&nbsp;</a>reported.&nbsp;</p>

<p>HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver from June 1^st, 2015, includes a major segment on the use of images of Hitler in Thailand:</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wraq6VnXmGo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wraq6VnXmGo</a></p>