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Sure. #NeverAgain, right? But how EXACTLY is Imee Marcos connected to “Martial Law”?

October 17, 2018 benign0 8 Comments

Spied in a tweet recently that some bozo screeched “Never again to Martial Law” as senatorial candidate Imee Marcos posed for the cameras with her family at some public event. This got me to thinking. What’s Imee Marcos’s connection to “Martial Law” nga ba? Some (mostly communist and Yellowtard “activists”) may say the answer to…

Politics, Society

What happens NEXT after Filipinos #StopTheKillings?

October 15, 2018 benign0 19 Comments

By now, most Filipinos will have been familiar with the Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) slogan “Stop the Killings”. However, what would be interesting to get to the bottom of is how much Filipinos really understand what it means to “stop the killings”. But to get to that understanding there…

Crime

LTO Crackdown on Modified SUVs

October 11, 2018 joeld 24 Comments

My social media feeds for the past few days have been filled up by a post of some guy with a mildly-modified SUV, getting apprehended by the Land Transportation Office (LTO) for “unauthorized modifications”, including a mild lift and an LED bar. The LTO was quoting JAO No. 2014-01. Quoted below, among others “a) the…

Government, Lifestyle

To be truly “revolutionary” university activism should espouse original ideas and not OBSOLETE ones

October 11, 2018October 11, 2018 benign0 6 Comments

Certain “thought leaders” are crying “academic freedom” in light of recent allegations that state forces are cracking down on university campus activism and “red tagging” militants. They argue that educational institutions should be encouraging “revolutionary” thinking and should be a “rebel” during “tyrannical times”. Let’s not get too carried away, however. While it is true…

Education

Gloria Forever Scare Is Just A Yellow Ploy To Derail Federalism

October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 P. Farol 9 Comments

Yellows worship Cory’s 1987 Constitution as if it were the stone tablets on which God himself wrote his ten commandments. So much so that any person proposing any change in the 1987 constitution is automatically demonized and accused of wanting to establish another “tyrannical regime”. Thus, when Raissa Robles falsely claimed that House Speaker Gloria…

Charter Change

The self-righteousness and hypocrisy of activists ruin otherwise noble advocacies

October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 Ilda 6 Comments

There are a lot of hypocrites in the Philippines. I think it has something to do with the country being religious. Mind you, being religious is different from being spiritual. Being religious is easy. It’s simply following dogma or “set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true”. One doesn’t have to think…

Religion, Society

Article on self-important Rappler anti-fake-news “soldiers” published by @NYTimesWorld

October 10, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

You gotta hand it to the circlejerk relationship Rappler manages to cling on to with the New York Times. This recent article, Soldiers in Facebook’s War on Fake News Are Feeling Overrun makes like CEO Maria Ressa’s Rapplerettes are on a mission from God. The tone of the piece goes beyond drama into the realm…

Media, Tech Talk

You can’t legislate against “political dynasties” because the Philippines is a democracy

October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 benign0 14 Comments

The idea of legislating against “political dynasties” is ludicrous in a democracy such as the Philippines. For one thing (and, perhaps, the only thing), leaders and representatives in the Executive and Legislative branches of government respectively are elected by popular vote. This means that the people who make up the government are largely the outcome…

Politics, Society