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https://twitter.com/rapplerdotcom/status/1332307077155401729 This is kind of a disappointing sentiment because that poo poo ain't gonna fly. Give us a wage hike. Give us universal healthcare. Give us a stimulus check (something that people specifically called out as why they liked Duterte when he got 91% in approval polls earlier this year!). GIVE US SOMETHING.
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https://tribune.net.ph/index.php/2020/12/20/two-dead-in-paniqui-tarlac-shooting-incident/quote:A police officer shot dead two unarmed victims at point-blank range on Sunday afternoon in Paniqui, Tarlac. NSFW/NMS video of the incident it's significant specifically because the whole thing was caught on tape, so now I'm thinking whether that's going to move the needle appreciably
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https://twitter.com/maan_macapagal/status/938330899883495424 God was evidently having some technical issues for that policeman. anakha has issued a correction as of 03:10 on Dec 21, 2020 |
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1. 2. turns out the perp has a long rap-sheet of priors  3.  It's incredible how much this case has escalated since this morning
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Doing this within living memory of the Diliman Commune takes some balls.
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today i was introduced to a new kind of guy elaborates his position at great length here. apparently the wise and dispassionate communist will see that this duterte fellow has a lot of good ideas, such as...ethnofederalism?!
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It's insane. 1. Duterte is currently shooting avowed communists. That makes him a reactionary. He's not a communist! 2. 'Duterte should get to do his plan of instituting Federalism so that "Imperial Manila" stops sucking up all of the national budget' - is a line straight from Duterte's own PR and campaign talking points. It's not true (Manila sends out more funding to the rest of the provinces than it takes for itself), but also Federalism isn't necessary to change that. You can just... reconfigure the national budget as is! And if Duterte really is the kind of guy who represents Visayans and Mindanaoans, why isn't he ALREADY doing that? And that's to say nothing of how Federalism would cause a regression within provincial funding because if you make provinces sink-or-swim on their own internal budgets, the underdeveloped regions are going to sink. 3. There is no such thing as "Tagalog supremacy" - that is, again, a talking point invented by Duterte to create a new branch of identity politics, where you're supposed to support Duterte just because he's "Visayan" and the other candidate isn't (which still isn't true because Mar Roxas hails from Capiz???) 4. Jose Maria Sison is in exile in the Netherlands because he's going to be arrested/shot as soon as he tries to go back to the Philippines. He's not "living it up" abroad, and to agree with this is to agree with the Philippine government's anti-communist propaganda. That line about "while children die for him in the Philippines?" also the same kind of accusation that the AFP levels against the CPP-NPA. 5. Duterte is not an "anti-imperialist" - he hasn't materially altered the relationship between the Philippines and the US by one whit. We're still playing our trade by the WTO's rules (and to the devastation of our local rice and pork production), we're still allowing US troops to base themselves in the Philippines, we're still a provider of cheap labor for Western firms, and we're still a market/outlet for Western goods. If you think Duterte is opposed to the US just because he said some mean things about Obama one time or pointed out that MacArthur blew up large parts of Manila in 1945, you're a rube and a mark. gently caress this guy, now I'm mad.
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Yeah I have a friend who's anti-Duterte which is all well and good but I found out only recently that he's anti-Duterte because he thinks Duterte is a communist and is too far to the left and I just can't
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So uh, not to take away from being angry about this hellcountry and our warlord king, but is anyone on PLDT having trouble accessing the forums? I haven't been able to all day; all other sites I go to work fine, DNS works, and tracert dies in the middle of PLDT's network, which makes me wonder if they're blocking it.
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I ditched PLDT a month ago because they still don't have fiber where I am and DSL just wasn't cutting it with two people doing WFH at the same time and our only other option was Sky Cable's fiber offerings I expect that switching to Sky Cable is going to bite me in the rear end eventually, but for the moment it seems to be working well
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So yeah, it looks like PLDT started blocking SA yesterday, along with loving Imgur. Doing some searching, it looks like on the same day, they announced that they partnered with IWF to block sites suspected of hosting CP. Which reminds me of the time last year that they tried doing the same thing and got a lot of people mad after they blocked Pornhub. whoopee The only options here in this building are Converge and PLDT, and contrary to the stories I've heard, the former actually seems to have spottier service based on the number of times my mom's called me to complain.
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I'm starting to get connectivity issues going to imgur too via Sky Cable. Wonder if it's because the pathing is almost certainly routing through PLDT's lines. Anyway, it's a good thing I've had a VPN set-up for a while now. Just have to default to always having it turned on.
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No issues with Converge here, but as always with internet in the Phillipines, the best provider is the one with less problems in your specific area. I have a GoMo SIM in a 5G-capable phone as backup since I'm in a high-rise (which makes the Globe and PLDT prepaid internet routers useless) and the non-expiring data is perfect for my purposes.
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So, using DNS over TLS seems to resolve problems with imgur, but I'm still unable to connect to SA without a VPN.
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https://www.democracynow.org/2021/6/15/headlines/icc_prosecutor_seeks_probe_of_philippines_president_rodrigo_duterte_over_drug_war_killingsquote:The International Criminal Court is seeking authorization from The Hague tribunal to open an investigation into possible crimes against humanity committed as part of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs. The crimes include murder, torture and serious physical and mental harm. Since 2016, Duterte’s war on drugs has claimed thousands of lives, including children.
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Jun 24, 2021 00:34
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RIP PNoy. Your only sin was not going hard enough.
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/23/asia/philippines-benigno-noynoy-aquino-dies-intl-hnk/index.html Noynoy Aquino has died on Thursday. Reportedly of kidney failure but also cremated on the same day. https://www.rappler.com/nation/former-president-noynoy-aquino-inurnment Xelkelvos has issued a correction as of 18:30 on Jun 26, 2021 |
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Fleetwood posted:https://www.democracynow.org/2021/6/15/headlines/icc_prosecutor_seeks_probe_of_philippines_president_rodrigo_duterte_over_drug_war_killings I mean he's gone on tv multiple times and said "kill them and their entire families, make it gruesome" it seems like an open and shut case
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He's running https://twitter.com/cnnphilippines/status/1439521317179428867?s=19
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I just hope his followers and the DDS cannibalize each others' votes and there's a consensus opposition candidate rather than the Mar/Poe fiasco in 2016.
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Good luck on not getting another psycho https://twitter.com/9DashLine/status/1444227035694575618?s=19
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lol that just means his daughter is probably running for prez
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I kinda wanna do an effortpost on what the presidential race is shaping up like but also I don't know if that'd just be screaming into the void
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gradenko_2000 posted:I kinda wanna do an effortpost on what the presidential race is shaping up like but also I don't know if that'd just be screaming into the void Wait until the completion of filling of certificates of candidacy first if you're planning to do this. All of this party nomination stuff means nothing until we actually get the CoCs.
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anakha posted:Wait until the completion of filling of certificates of candidacy first if you're planning to do this. All of this party nomination stuff means nothing until we actually get the CoCs. I already wrote something for another thread, might as well cross-post: gradenko_2000 posted:okay, I may have mentioned this before, but Duterte was threatening (my word) for months and months that he was going to run for Vice President, and then his daughter, Sara Duterte, would run for President, and that would do a full-court press on the Executive branch but you're right anakha, there's still another week of this drama left AT LEAST, and possibly an upset in the first week of December
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thanks, just saw the headline and ran to this thread to read exactly that post
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gradenko_2000 posted:I kinda wanna do an effortpost on what the presidential race is shaping up like but also I don't know if that'd just be screaming into the void
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guzman with room for growth!!! edit who is leila de lima, she seems uniquely unpopular
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i say swears online posted:guzman with room for growth!!! Leila de Lima was PNoy Aquino's Secretary of the Department of Justice during his term. She ran on an anti-crime crusader platform in 2016 and won a Senate seat, and in the course of opening investigations into Duterte's ties into death squads as Davao mayor and extrajudicial killings during his Presidency's "war on drugs", Duterte countered by alleging that she herself had ties to the drug underworld and was a "protector" of certain high-profile drug lords during her time as head of the DOJ. She's been incarcerated since Feb 24, 2017 and is probably the highest-profile example of a political prisoner in the Philippines. She's running for re-election despite still being behind bars.
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interesting yeah, after my post i looked at her wiki and her positions seemed decent am i out of touch? no, it's the electorate who are wrong
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So much for that one poll where Isko took out a chunk of Marcos' voteshare
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Leni was at 8% in September so this is better than I thought regardless, god please send help because marcos is way higher than he should ever have been
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https://twitter.com/LeodyManggagawa/status/1474427313375047680 Translation: "A meaningful Christmas to all of us from Marie and me, and children Lei, Dex, Ash, Gucci (in no particular order)" liberals have been melting down over this in the replies and the quote-tweets because apparently owning a house and Christmas decor means you're not really a working-class socialist
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When the makabayan bloc announced their endorsement of leni, I thought i'd feel more rage and betrayal but I think reading more theory and history over the years is helping me see it as more confirmation of electoralism being a dead end. It doesn't help that the rhetoric is almost word for word why the electoral left in the usa wanted to vote for biden.
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Polgas posted:When the makabayan bloc announced their endorsement of leni, I thought i'd feel more rage and betrayal but I think reading more theory and history over the years is helping me see it as more confirmation of electoralism being a dead end. It doesn't help that the rhetoric is almost word for word why the electoral left in the usa wanted to vote for biden. this is pretty much where I am as well she walked back on her promise of abolishing the NTF-ELCAC, is soft on taxation for the rich, isn't even socially progressive as far as being reluctant to come out strongly on abortion and divorce, and they STILL endorsed her, with perhaps the only concession being an inclusion of Nero Colmenares in the Senate slate, three months after it became an issue I am not loving voting for the liberals. I've already done that twice and I can't do it again - and the fact that it didn't even take 12 hours for so many people I'd consider to be on the left to join ranks behind Robredo just hardens my heart all the further I hope she wins, but only because I want to be able to say I-told-you-so when this "coalition" turns into ash in so many mouths, as it did with the DSA and the Sunrise Movement
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