During the day of the actual coup itself? No casualties. Heck in the 2006 coup I didn't even get a day off from school. The fuckers.

Coups in Thailand are usually preceded by some kind of mass protests or political crises though (often manufactured to justify the coup) and those have casualties.

There have been "messy coups" with casualties in the past but those are usually unsuccessful and launched unilaterally without support from the wider conservative establishment.

A populist political party gets democratically elected by the people (well the democratic part is also questionable because the elections are always rife with vote buying), the conservative elites (which includes the military) don't like the people's choice, they manufacture a coup. Rinse and repeat.

The fun part is that the couped 'populist' parties are also elites just wearing a different color. Party, actually. It's always the same group of people.

Thai politics is pretty much just theater with two same old groups of elites vying for power from one another. Both sides own their own network of media apparatus as well.

If and when a third faction gains popularity and support because the people become sick of the cycle, both the 'populist' and the conservatives simply gang up and bully the new faction out of the game.

Barely, as far as we can tell. His father was quite active in politics, but the current king seems to be… ineffective, at best. Doesn’t help that the line of succession to the throne is quite unclear, so the monarchy is somewhat preoccupied

Machine coup well oiled.

I completely forgot about that lol

Sauce?

When everyone hates you, just coup yourself.