Updated: 2019-08-06 23:46:30 GMT
“Today, being a virgin before marriage is more the exception than the rule.” https://t.co/yq4yrWcj79
— benign0 (@benign0) August 6, 2019
Aquino supporters are still insisting Ninoy was a hero. No, he was not. A lot of politicians all over the world get gunned down by political rivals. The most famous one was John F Kennedy. The Americans did not make him a hero after his assassination.
His speeches are not even great — which means beyond his “martyrdom” he didn’t leave much of a political legacy nor any significant contribution to thought leadership. Filipinos need to think twice about what they’ve been fed by a small clique of oligarchs over the last 30 years.
Now have a think. Who was Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr after whom the Philippines’ premiere international airport in Manila is named?
What did Ninoy do?
- Irresponsible ABS-CBN headline ignites mass social media hysteria to “news” of ex-Calauan Mayor Sanchez “release”!
- Gretchen Diez sets back the LGBTQ cause by OVER-playing the victim card
- Ninoy Aquino died. SO WHAT?
- Rappler hires EXPENSIVE lobbying firms to help Maria Ressa in “foreign relations campaign against Duterte”!
- Activists are ABUSING Filipinos’ tolerance for people who differ to the norm
I noticed the members of the Opposition do not have much to criticise about Duterte’s SONA so they just focus on his green jokes, which is actually less now than his previous speeches. The people who voted for Duterte are already aware of his foul mouth. They voted for him anyway https://t.co/IOOtXhfYgw
— ilda (@ilda_talk) July 24, 2019
Duterte’s 2019 State of the Nation Address delivered but did not answer an important question: Are we winning the ‘War on Drugs’?
Critics slam the speech citing many instances of “misogynistic” statements. The question is, are all these statements false? Do they misrepresent anything about the core realities of Philippine society?
There were directives that addressed very fundamental issues about Philippine society, specifically endemic corruption and the accountability of both public officials and ordinary Filipinos to take accountability.
Some questions were raised: Did Duterte further exacerbate the South China Sea row with China?
