Category: Society

Philippine mainstream media in all-out effort to bury #CocoyGate ‘fake news’ scandal!

October 2, 2017December 23, 2021 benign0 12 Comments

Back in October 2016, Rappler CEO Maria Ressa wrote about how an army of trolls have “weaponized the Internet” and that she is the protagonist in a “propaganda war” waged by an enemy that is “chipping away at facts, using half-truths that fabricate an alternative reality by merging the power of bots and fake accounts…

Media, Society

The oxymoron that is the Philippines’ university fraternity community

September 26, 2017 benign0 7 Comments

Suffice to say, everyone recognises that patronage is the single biggest issue that plagues Philippine politics. Nothing moves and nothing gets done unless an initiative is brokered through its movers’ unofficial patronage network. Thus it is quite surprising that a key pillar of the cancer of patronage politics — university fraternities — has enjoyed blanket…

Education, Society

To CONQUER their future, Filipinos need to forget the past and get over Martial Law Butthurt

September 21, 2017September 21, 2017 benign0 19 Comments

Martial Law crybabies like emphasizing the past. They lament the lack of “accurate” education on the “Martial Law era” and rally around slogans like “Never Forget” and “Never Again”. To be fair, memory of hurt is important so that lessons are learnt. If we don’t remember being burnt we won’t know enough to avoid fires….

Culture, Politics, Society

To every Filipino ‘activist’ slogan, always ask: ‘And then what?’

September 20, 2017 benign0 11 Comments

The thing with “activist” slogans proliferating in the lead up to that big 21st September rally being hyped all over social media is they all express a call to “stop” or “end” something. They are so the same and so unoriginal that you can list them all here and kind of forget which timeframe or…

Culture, Politics, Society

CHR and CBCP’s solution to traffic congestion: Stop killing criminals and multiply like rabbits

September 16, 2017 zaxx 19 Comments

Peaceful solutions don’t usually work in the Philippines. Take squatting for example. The land owner kindly asks the squatter to leave (while even dangling some P30K pocket money). The squatter shows the land owner the finger and cries out against the violation of his rights. CHR comes in to remind the land owner that the 1987…

Crime, Society

Filipinos have come to prefer VIOLENT solutions to their national problems

September 15, 2017 benign0 44 Comments

Who owns the concept of “human rights”? Is it the United Nations? Is it the Commission on Human Rights (CHR)? Is it Chito Gascon? Is it the Yellowtards? If we are to believe certain “thought leaders”, it seems everyone but ordinary Filipinos are “human rights” advocates. They are overdue for a reality check. Just within…

Crime, Society

Filipinos are only good at being afraid of Martial Law and not much else

September 11, 2017September 11, 2017 benign0 5 Comments

There are things worse than being under the sort of Martial Law former President Ferdinand Marcos oversaw in the 1970s — like being invaded by a foreign army, being struck by a killer earthquake or cyclone, being genetically mutated by years of exposure to diesel fumes, being stabbed to death by a drug-crazed loser, or…

Culture, Development, Society

Philippine Opposition mounting ‘distraction campaigns’ to bury important national issues

August 31, 2017 benign0 3 Comments

Overheard on my Twitter timeline: Filipinos are an “angry” people. As such, the landscape of political chatter is fertile ground for the Opposition (specifically the cancer within it, the Yellowtard clique) to mount one distraction campaign after another. Whilst reputable thought leaders tackle the hard-hitting issues — like the drug menace, public transport, public health…

Culture, Society