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CronoGamer posted:Right, the drug-running lover-driver was the part I was thinking of. When I first read it it sounded like feeble attempts to discredit one of the few people who has spearheaded the calls for accountability in the killings, but reading Rappler and Philstar in following days, most people seemed to have an attitude of "YEAH, thank god you called her out, this bitch has been getting away with it for TOO LONG!" So I wasnt sure if there were some common knowledge/backstory I was missing, or if people are just really quick to hop on Duterte's hatewagon. The legitimate part of the criticism regarding Senator De Lima is that she was the head of the Department of Justice under the Aquino administration and how that relates to New Bilibid Prison, the main penitentiary of the Philippines. It's somewhat infamous for actually being not all that secure in terms of limiting freedom of the inmates: they'd have TVs inside, cellphones, you'd even have strippers entering the premises to do gigs for the high-profile prisoners inside, and the police could never seem to clean it up, despite frequent raids into the prison grounds. The general consensus is that it's a failure of De Lima to get that place in order. We do a Bureau of Corrections, but the DOJ could have cracked down harder on people who are already in prison, yet seem to still be able to run their criminal organizations from the inside anyway. The "hatewagon" part of the criticism regarding the Senator is that she ran on a "crusader for justice" image during the elections, so the portrayal of her as a harlot, and the accusations of her having drug ties, is a terrible juxtaposition since she positioned herself as being on the moral high-ground. You just know that there's a political agenda behind these things because the President only brought them up once the Senate hearings into extra-judicial killings were about to commence, but it's very easy for the President to destroy someone's credibility on his mere say-so to his supporters, and even moderates are wincing at her not being above reproach. Spoiler alert: there isn't anyone in Philippine politics who doesn't have dirt on them, which is going to make concerted political opposition to the President difficult, since anyone that tries to be the nominal center of such a faction is going to get torn down in a New York minute, much in the same way De Lima has. sincx posted:How are people in the Philippines reacting to Duterte's sudden rapprochement with China, to the point of suggesting that he'll start a new UN with the PRC? Most people are incensed at China, given their activities in the South China Sea. The liberal demographic don't like how much Duterte has been cozying up with the PRC, and they don't like that he wants to conduct bilateral rather than multi-lateral talks regarding the SCS issue. Our current Foreign Affairs Secretary is largely an idiot who was caught lying about how he was the one who urged the ASEAN to not recognize the UNCLOS ruling on the SCS, and Duterte's stance so far is largely a waste of what the Aquino administration worked for for so long. Now, the President ran on a tough-guy image of "we're totally going to beat China", to the point where he promised to ride out on a skijet and plant a Philippine flag on the Scarborough Shoal, so his words and actions have so far been pretty two-faced. He says he wants to leave the UN and start a not-UN with I don't think there's any rhyme or reason to it. He's just flailing about.
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wid posted:The communist panic was a smokescreen to cover up the coup de tat. And then it was used to suppress any dissenting voice on the new ruler. To add on to this, Ferdinand Marcos also used a Communist insurgency in the Philippines as a pre-text for declaring Martial Law in the 70s. It's just that Communism is a small enough threat nowadays that you can't hang a "law-and-order" campaign on it anymore, so instead of accusing anyone who dare question the Executive of being a pinko, now it's accusations of being bought off by the drug lords, or being involved in the drug trade somehow.
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:The Thai monarchy is almost entirely powerless, right? So why does this matter? It's my understanding that part of the controversy regarding the late King's infirmity was that the government was issuing decrees and proclamations that were ostensibly signed by him at a time when he'd have been far too sick and/or senile to know what was going on.
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What the hell is happening in South Korea?
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http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/najib-asks-west-to-stop-lecturing-as-malaysia-embraces-china/3254788.html?cid=fbcnaquote:Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that former colonial powers should not lecture countries they once exploited on their internal affairs, a Chinese newspaper reported on Wednesday, in a veiled attack on the West as he looks to strengthen ties with China. That rhetoric is straight out of the Rodrigo Duterte playbook. Is Malaysia going to be the next domino to fall? I don't know much about Malaysian politics besides that huge embezzling scandal that swirled around Razak a while back.
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