Tag: activism

Communism in the Philippines should be CRUSHED once and for all!

December 30, 2018December 30, 2018 benign0 21 Comments

Why does communism continue to plague the Philippines? Its elements openly defy the government, incite unrest, and spread their obsolete ideology. Across the Philippines, communists infest Philippine university and college campuses, radicalise various “cause-oriented” groups and steal precious classroom hours that could have been used to educate Filipinos students. Communists are also behind labour unrest…

Culture, Society

New #MissUniverse Catriona Gray proves Filipinos need to GET REAL about poverty

December 18, 2018December 18, 2018 benign0 97 Comments

The Philippines’ newly-crowned Miss Universe Catriona Gray remarked that there is “beauty” in poverty in the interview section of the pageant which was held in Manila, Philippines this year. The interview sections of beauty pageants are usually the butts of popular jokes. This time, however, Gray, one of the more widely-admired Miss Philippines personalities, drew…

Glitz and Glamour, Religion, Society

Politicisation of the UP-Ateneo UAAP basketball match severely backfires!

December 6, 2018 benign0 6 Comments

You gotta pity the University of the Philippines’ men’s basketball team that went up against the Ateneo de Manila in this year’s UAAP championship match. They may have been under pressure to win the game to fulfil the dream of the Yellowtard-led Philippine Opposition to “oust the dictator”. The “dictator” in this political fantasy is,…

Culture, Politics

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa blocks people on Twitter because she cannot HANDLE dissent!

December 5, 2018December 5, 2018 benign0 17 Comments

After calling Get Real Post writer @Ilda_talk a “minor minor blogger” and copping a bit of flak out of that major major lapse in judgement, the CEO of Rappler Maria Ressa has decided that she’s had enough of the healthy dose of dissent she’s been attracting. This is coming from a person who fancies herself…

Media

“Wear black”?? How Katipunan Road mirrors the degeneration of Boracay Island

December 1, 2018 benign0 5 Comments

Suddenly Katipunan Road is “home” to every UAAP basketball fan and, worse, to every millennial “social justice warrior” (SJW) and her cat. Now I know what it feels like to be an indigenous inhabitant of Boracay Island whenever the LaBoracay crowd comes to town. A basketball “battle” of the Katipunan universities is a relatively rare…

Culture, Society

Upsilon elitism is NOTHING compared to the elitism of the Ateneo and La Salle BOYS club

November 29, 2018November 29, 2018 benign0 23 Comments

While we’re in the business of calling out the misogyny, elitism, homphobia, and racism in the leaked group chats allegedly originating from the “brods” of the illustrious Upsilon Sigma Phi fraternity, perhaps we should step even further back and regard the full landscape of the deep nature of this “fraternity” culture. In his recent Inquirer…

Education, Society

China knows how things “work” in the Philippines

November 21, 2018November 18, 2019 benign0 37 Comments

Indeed, the Chinese know how thing “work” in the Philippines. They have, after all, been prominent figures in Philippine industry since the Middle Ages. They know enough to fly above the radars of the natives and deal directly with the powers-that-be. That strategy of knowing and dealing with the right people continues to this day….

Culture, Economy, Money Talks

Jailing an old lady and exhuming a body to be lynched post-mortem will not win the Opposition an election

November 15, 2018 benign0 73 Comments

The Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) are currently busy celebrating the conviction and impending arrest of former First Lady Imelda Marcos. This, of course, is seen to be a defining moment as, from their prespective, this “development” pulls a key pillar holding up what they call the “revisionist” take on…

Politics