Tag: activism

Opposition’s lack of a strong leader and vision secures Duterte’s hold on power

September 20, 2017 benign0 21 Comments

What were the Opposition thinking when they came up with their latest media stunt? It’s an aping of the Hunger Games salute that came across like the Nazi Sieg Heil! salute. Talk about double-whammy fail! If this was attempt at a rebranding to distance themselves from the Yellowtards, it seems they made things worse and…

Politics

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

“Fashion” Mentality Damaged the World of Causes

September 20, 2017September 20, 2017 ChinoF 2 Comments

So called social media “activists” these days seem all about putting someone down. For example, when Cynthia Villar called out the problem of eating so much rice, people just started ranting angrily against her, instead of bringing up more intellectual objections and pertinent suggestions. Another is peppering people who supported Rodrigo Duterte or Donald Trump…

Culture

Will the next anti-Duterte rally be AWESOME enough for Millennials?

September 12, 2017 benign0 10 Comments

According to various sources, there will be (yet another) protest rally against the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in the coming days. What are these rallyists going to protest? Duterte’s purported authoritarianism? Martial Law in Mindanao? “Killings” related to his “war on drugs”? So what else is new? This is, after all, the era…

Lifestyle, Politics

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

To @RapplerDotCom ‘thought leader’ @seclaudio: Apology accepted

August 31, 2017 benign0 19 Comments

You don’t need to be a perfect, sinless person to be a critic. You just need to be consistent and rational. More importantly, what you shouldn’t be is a shill like Rappler “thought leader” Sylvia Estrada Claudio who, in her latest “thought” piece I apologize for being a critic, issued this vow: As a way…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media

Reports of LP’s P2M deal with Kian delos Santos’s parents explode!

August 30, 2017 benign0 6 Comments

Reports that the Liberal Party (LP) had offered two million pesos to Saldy and Lorenza delos Santos, parents of murdered teenager Kian, to join protest rallies against Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte are making the rounds! There are even reports that the plan was hatched in the Aquino residence at Times Square Street in New Manila….

Politics

A simple social grace extended by Duterte to Kian’s parents made all the difference

August 29, 2017 benign0 5 Comments

The irony that escapes Yellowtards is that they now see themselves as “victims” of a system they supposedly “fought” for. If only somebody had warned them back in their golden years that spanned the 1980s through the 1990s and the 2000s: Be careful what you wish for. Indeed, everything they are now tearing their hair…

Crime, Culture