Tag: intellectual bankruptcy

Rodrigo Duterte represents the revolution that was denied the Filipino

May 3, 2016 benign0 42 Comments

Leading presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte is unstoppable. He does not only weather storms, he thrives in them. The latest witchhunt launched by disgruntled vice presidential candidate Antonio Trillanes (who consistently ranks near bottom in the many surveys taken so far) was a mere blip on his radar. Duterte’s fans remain adamant in their choice, and…

Media, Politics, Society

Filipinos need to face a Duterte presidency LIKE MEN rather than be all girly about it

April 29, 2016 benign0 30 Comments

A tweet issued yesterday by Inquirer columnist Dax Lucas resonated loudly across the Philippines’ Netizens: The country’s so-called enlightened class in near panic over the prospects of a Duterte presidency. What a fascinating sight to behold. Indeed, the elegant simplicity of this tweet hit me hard too and, finally, how I really feel about these…

Culture, Politics, Society

Proof of how hopeless Mar Roxas’s campaign and messaging team REALLY is!

April 1, 2016April 1, 2016 Kate Natividad 6 Comments

Mar-tards just don’t get it. In their efforts to mount a last-ditch effort to shore up Mar Roxas’s stats (showing photos of him surrounded by hakot crowds in various stadiums and all that), they are showing just how disogranised they are and just how incoherent their messaging strategy is. In fact, the more they publish,…

Culture, Media, Politics

The Tagalog language consists of words that hardly mean anything of substance

March 22, 2016 Add 94 Comments

Tagalog is a derivative of the Malay languages as Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasia Malaysia are. They are languages of experiences and emotions. They are NOT languages of the MIND as English, Spanish, German, French, etc, which are derivatives of Latin, are. Latin, in turn, derives its concept from Ancient Greek, which of course found its…

Culture, Development, Education, Media

Use of Tagalog and other native dialects should be banned from Filipino political debates!

March 21, 2016 Kate Natividad 40 Comments

I watched Round 2 of the presidential debates (dubbed #PilipinasDebates2016) last night. It was really entertaining! Mar Roxas was clearly on the run, chased by the disarming wit and articulateness of Rodrigo Duterte and Grace Poe. Vice President Jojo Binay was also pretty sharp and, for a guy who prepared notes but wasn’t allowed to…

Culture, Education, Media, Politics

Leni Robredo is the WRONG choice for Vice President of the Philippines

March 18, 2016 David Yap II 129 Comments

Bongbong Marcos being the ‘wrong’ choice for Vice President does not make your preferred candidate the ‘right’ choice. That does not make Rep. Leni Robredo the ‘answer’. She has not demonstrated that she is capable of assuming the mantle of the vice presidency of the Philippines. I have to speak out against this. This is…

Politics

Dynasty activism: Anti-Marcos ‘activists’ disqualify politicians on the basis of their bloodlines!

March 8, 2016 benign0 63 Comments

Look no further than the venerable Fidel Ramos — former Philippine president and Army general extraordinaire. Today, nobody seems to remember him as one of the key implementors of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos’s allegedly atrocious Martial Law regime. Why have people chosen to overlook Ramos’s past as a Martial Law chieftain? Simple. Because after…

Education, Politics

The ivory tower that is the Ateneo de Manila University

March 7, 2016 benign0 105 Comments

It’s nothing short of a memetic explosion. Get Real Post articles that dissected and, in the process, eviscerated the ill-conceived conceptual foundation of a statement released by the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) faculty, denouncing Martial Law “historical revisionism” and baldly accusing Philippine senator and vice presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos of “brutality” have strongly-resonated amongst…

Culture, Education, Society