Category: Society

The Yellow Cult — turned #KakamPink scum — are the REAL threats to Democracy!

October 27, 2021 Moduli 11 Comments

If you can’t beat ’em, mass-report or bully online, threaten with a lawsuit, cancel, or silence them. The shift from yellow to pink, to be fair, could have been a very sound strategy. It’s just that, the Yellowtards forgot the most vital aspect of their supposed transformation – becoming a better alternative brand for Filipinos….

Politics, Society

Leni Robredo’s #kakamPINK campaign aims to dumb down Filipino voters instead of uplifting the practice of democracy

October 20, 2021October 20, 2021 benign0 7 Comments

It is ironic that for all the Opposition harping about “democracy”, how it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread, and how it supposedly delivers governments representative of a society’s greater good, it is their camp — specifically the leading Yellowtard bloc within it — that seems to be obsessed with dumbing down the discourse around…

Politics, Society

Marcos Derangement Syndrome Overdrive

October 16, 2021October 16, 2021 Hector Gamboa 17 Comments

So it is presidential elections season again in the Philippines and cultish partisan bashing has started to get heated up once more. We know that exciting things are ahead as the country seems to be in a bar fight populated by a bunch of drunken basketball fans watching the Philippine team Gilas duking it out…

Politics, Society

Only charter change following the 2022 elections will see the last of plurality presidents and a more unified Philippines

October 12, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 5 Comments

Why are Filipinos so disunited thirty-five years after Ferdinand Marcos was ousted? The answer lies in part to the unanswered question of who actually won the 1986 Snap Election. Marcos claimed victory. When the RAM mounted a coup and failed at the onset, Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile verified the claim of the then opposition…

History, Politics, Society

While Leni Robredo’s pink colours and Maria Ressa’s “Peace Prize” flood socmed timelines, those who beg to differ keep silent – for now

October 11, 2021October 12, 2021 benign0 6 Comments

The lesson “political analysts” and “strategists” seem to have not learnt yet about social media is that it feeds one’s confirmation biases — basically shows you what you want to see. This is specially true of those who block, unfollow, or “unfriend” people in their social networks who express political views different to theirs. As…

Media, Society

Why be pink when you can be FILIPINO?

October 10, 2021 benign0 10 Comments

The rebranding of the Yellowtard cause around the colour pink represents a massive misreading of the pulse and character of the Filipino people. For so long, the Opposition led by the Yellowtards (the bloc of partisans within it rabidly-loyal to the Aquino-Cojuangco clan) expressed bafflement over the continued popularity of incumbent Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte….

Culture, Politics, Society

Vote for Noynoy because he’s an Aquino, don’t vote for Bongbong because he is a Marcos

October 6, 2021 benign0 12 Comments

Aren’t Filipinos already tired of the primitive logic of the Yellowtards? That camp misled Filipinos into voting no less than two Aquinos to the presidency on the sole merit of their being respectively spouse to and son of former senator and “national hero” Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. Now here they are again misleading Filipinos with…

Politics, Society

#LetWomenLead is a dishonest initiative to fund a Leni Robredo candidacy DISGUISED as feminist “activism”

September 25, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 6 Comments

If we’re to believe Mareng Winnie Monsod, the Opposition’s “Let Women Lead” initiative is off to a good start. P1M+ in donations she points out in her Inquirer piece “LetWomenLead: An idea whose time has come”. This despite no defined grant procedures for who may apply for funding. It’s easy for Monsod to launch a…

Politics, Society