Tag: dutertard

Wow Yellowtards can morph into Whitetards. Should we all clap our hands?

September 24, 2017 zaxx 5 Comments

The recent rebranding drive the Yellows are undergoing is just pathetic and outright laughable. Is this how badly they take Filipinos for fools? Indeed, the insecurity and desperation run deep as the once powerful hegemonic political party comes reeling from the rise of the kings of the South who have been enthroned by the people…

Politics

The uneasy impasse between LP-tards and Dutertards

April 21, 2017April 25, 2017 FallenAngel 7 Comments

Fanaticism on both seemingly “opposite” sides of the political spectrum is something that will never truly be non-existent in any society. The peculiar thing about fanaticism in the Philippine political scene, however, is that it doesn’t have a track record of being rooted in opposite ideologies. Rather, Filipinos have become used to characterizing it as…

Politics

Only by crushing the Yellow disease will the Philippines’ deep wounds be healed

September 28, 2016 benign0 145 Comments

At no other time has the Philippines been as deeply-divided as it is today. A virtual civil war is being waged on the Net between the “Dutertards” and the “Yellowtards”. Because current President Rodrigo Duterte is from Mindanao — the first president from the Philippines’ deep south, no less — the battle lines between the…

Culture, Politics, Society

Duterte’s dangerous experiment: Vigilantism as state-sanctioned doctrine

December 4, 2015 benign0 32 Comments

We all have bad experiences dealing with other people. Some of those experiences make us wish we could just take a gun and shoot whoever had caused those bad experiences. But we don’t because there are also consequences for doing so. Perhaps in the case of the Philippines, presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte and what he’s…

Crime, Culture, Development, Politics, Society, The South