Tag: activism

At the People Power Monument: Anti-Marcos protesters have become a laughingstock

December 1, 2016December 1, 2016 benign0 56 Comments

You gotta give credit to the anti-Marcos mob. They came back in their thousand-odd force, this time at the “People Power Monument” on EDSA at its intersection with Temple Drive outside Camp Aguinaldo today. Amongst those leading the charge (so they claim) are representatives of the “Big Three” elite Philippine schools, the University of the…

Politics, Society

Does the Anti-Marcos Movement have an end game?

November 28, 2016 benign0 78 Comments

Following the spectacular flop of last Friday’s anti-Marcos-burial rally at the Luneta, the leaders of a community of Filipino “activists” calling for the Marcos family to be taken to account for the alleged atrocities that happened during “the Martial Law years” continue to soldier on. There is another set of rallies planned over the coming…

Politics, Society

The FAILED November 25 anti-Marcos rally at the Luneta

November 26, 2016November 26, 2016 benign0 22 Comments

When will these hipsters learn? Warm bodies out pumping fists in an outdoor love-in versus an alleged social media “troll army” out to “weaponise” the Internet from comfy air-conditioned offices? Anti-Marcos protestors would like to believe the old ways of doing things supposedly representing the righteous camp in this political conflict necessarily triumph at the…

Politics

Here is why Martial Law Cryababies are unable to move on…

November 24, 2016 benign0 25 Comments

The best revenge is success. So when someone does you wrong, pick yourself up, spend the next couple of years getting rich, then come back and slap your wads of dollars across that asshole’s face. I realise that this is the lesson that the now-famous viral photo of that girlette with the placard that goes…

Politics, Society

Hillary Clinton’s “Delete your account” tweet at the root of her colossal campaign FAIL

November 14, 2016 benign0 2 Comments

This was a year of upsets. The EU crackdown on refugrees, Brexit, the the rise of Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, then the ascent of Donald Trump to Leader of the Free World confronts the thinking classes and “shocks” the chattering classes. We now hear how Filipinos, in this latest instance, are “shocked” by their…

Media, Politics, Society

Trump Win Highlights Failure of Bratty Conyo Idealism

November 14, 2016 ChinoF 6 Comments

A lot of my colleagues already mentioned that the vote for Donald Trump is more of a troll or contrarian vote. It is not a vote for something, but a vote against something. It is a vote that Trump supporters wielded against what they feel is unfair imposition on them by others, such as liberals….

Culture, Politics, Society

Ferdinand Marcos was just another Filipino president

November 9, 2016November 9, 2016 benign0 19 Comments

The truly revealing thing about the way Filipinos have turned the burial of former Presdident Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB) into a massive circus is in how they hold on to the belief that the country’s evil’s are embodied in a single man. The underlying psychology here seems to be that…

Culture, Society

Mambo Duterte or Huling El Bimbo?

October 31, 2016 Charles Englund 31 Comments

It does not help that you think I’m a blind follower, an apologist, a rude and crude supporter of a bloodthirsty maniac. You think I am a troll. Worse, you suspect I am a paid troll, or even, a bot. For how can anyone in their right mind support such a foul-mouthed monster? On the…

Government, Politics