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aphroditesknife · 6 months
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Current president of the Philippines, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., watching F1 races while the country is in multiple crises
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Current vice president of the Philippines, Sara Duterte, refusing to tell the public why she needs SO MUCH MONEY as Confidential Funds for "Education"
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calling it a "shitshow" is an understatement
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dalandan-oranges · 4 months
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THE LONG REACH OF ROME a personal project collecting references to Ancient Rome (and Greece) throughout Philippine history and politics
Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country, Patricia Evangelista / Duterte: The die is cast, Mike Firalde (Philippine Star, November 23, 2015) / Plutarch, Caesar 32-33 (trans. Bernadotte Perrin)
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lapeacenasumusulat · 2 years
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May 9, 2022, Pilipinas
I am a public school elementary teacher and one of my students' parent joked on our group chat:
"Ma'am, hindi ko na lang paaralin si ***** kasi yung susunod nga na presidente, hindi nakatapos pero successful naman."
I knew it was a joke and patutsada sa ibang mga magulang na bumoto ng tax evader at anak ng diktador. Still, it was humiliating.
As I type these words, I can't help but cry while remembering all the hardships I had to go through para lang makapagtapos—para lang matawag na isang Licensed Professional teacher. It was very personal for me, and just like many of my colleagues, feeling namin failure kami.
A lot of filipinos may not feel it but despite the education system's flaws and the lack of the government's support, we, the teachers, are all giving our very best.
Ilagay niyo kami sa face to face class, maga-adjust kami.
Ilagay niyo kami sa online class, gagawan pa rin namin ng paraan.
Ilagay niyo kami sa hybrid setup, gagawan pa rin namin yan ng paraan.
Patungan niyo man kami ng napakaraming administrative work, hindi rin namin yan pababayaan.
Saan ba kami nagkulang?
It still blows my mind that a lot of other supporters took it as a competition between Leni and BBM. Hindi po kasi ganon. Kakampinks were aggressive kasi uhaw kami sa good governance while other supporters are aggressive kasi they want to prove us wrong.
Kung "kabutihan" ang basehan ng nakararami at nakikita yun kay Bongbong Marcos, siguro masamang tao talaga ako.
Gusto kong radikal na magmahal pero patuloy na ginagawang puta ng nakararami ang Pilipinas.
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pannaginip · 3 months
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Anakbayan on Twitter @anakbayan_ph shared an image taken from inside a jeepney being followed by a police car with its beacons turned on. Police have been harassing and following jeepney drivers along with some Anakbayan members even after the program for the day has ended.
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apopcornkernel · 2 years
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In 1986, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos was ousted from the Philippine presidency in the People Power Revolution. He and his family fled the country and were exiled to Hawaii. 36 years later, his eldest son is elected president in one of the dirtiest elections in our history, with countless reports of broken vote-counting machines, torn ballots, pre-shaded ballots, and election day violence that even resulted in deaths.
To this day, his family continues to deny the human rights violations committed under his father’s martial law, and refuse to return their billions of stolen wealth. They have invested into a decades-long campaign to distort history and restore the reputation of their patriarch’s regime, claiming that under Ferdinand Marcos the Philippines had experienced a “golden era”, and in doing so, they have successfully scammed their way back into Malacañang (the presidential seat of power equivalent to the White House).
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claviclez · 2 years
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Presidential elections are coming up real soon and I know this site isn't great at talking about anything outside of western affairs but I do hope my Filipino followers are paying attention to what's been happening recently. I know some more privileged and/or less politically aware people think I'm being dramatic by saying this but it really is akin to a life or death situation. We cannot let another Marcos and another Duterte back into power in Malacañang.
But even more than that, we as a people deserve better, more competent, more compassionate leadership. We need someone who listens, acknowledges their shortcomings and actually pushes to educate themselves in order to enact better, actionable policy. Someone with a damn good, fucking verifiable resumé. This time we actually have someone like that running for the presidency. This time, we don't have to choose the least of how many evils. The choice SHOULD be clear.
Filipino mutuals, those living in the motherland like me as well as those from the diaspora, I implore you: get to know my candidate, my president: Ms. Vice President Leni Robredo.
Read up on her achievements. Watch the endorsements. Pledge and follow through to vote if you can. And more importantly, please help spread the word to your families, your friends, your communities.
We are having a crisis of misinformation with all the mass trolling attacks and fake news propaganda being spread by the Marcos camp likely starting in the early 2010s. Now more than ever, we need to start talking to each other - tao sa tao, kapatid sa kapatid, kamag-anak sa kamag-anak, kapitbahay sa kapitbahay.
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barbie-girlll · 2 years
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Sen Risa not clapping during the SONA issa mood
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sha-n-dowbannedlol · 2 years
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pannacatto · 2 years
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Please help them if you can!
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not-so-rosyyy · 1 year
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trump getting indicted now i’m thinking na icc baka naman yung iba dyan?
CATCH IT @RODRIGO DUTERTE
lmao but ugh I wish we were that lucky. Bongbong just said he's gonna "disengage" with the ICC because we have "no moral duty" to cooperate with them in the drug war investigation. NANGGIGIGIL AKO, MGA DE PUTA 😤
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kaziee2 · 2 years
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To all the Filipinos here. Do not give up on hope, and even if we were to lose. We'll march down the streets of EDSA once again.
We have to fight this corruption in our country.
Letlenilead!
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aphroditesknife · 6 months
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Today marks the 51st anniversary of the enactment of US-backed Martial Law in the Philippines by the late president/dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. One of the darkest days in the history of the country and spanning for about a decade, many human rights violations, killings, tortures, enforced disappearances, military and police abuse of power, economic downfall, environmental damages, famine, media blackout (except for those approved of the regime), and overall corruption. All for the so called "fight against communist insurgency." The Marcos family and their allies basically lived like royalites while the Filipino people suffered.
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. served as the 10th president of the Philippines for 20 years from 1965 to 1986. He ruled under martial law for nine years from 1972 until 1981 but kept most of his martial law powers until he was deposed in 1986. Under his regime, violence was used to enforce civil control over the citizens of the Philippines, resulting in thousands of documented cases of human rights violations.
But many people to this day continue to refer to this time as the "Golden Age" of the country, that life was good for "law abiding citizens." Here are some numbers that debunks this popular myth.
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Sept. 21, 1972: Date of Proclamation No. 1081 placing the Philippines under martial law.
49: Persons from the Greater Manila Area immediately arrested on Sept. 22, 1972, by the military, among them three senators, three congressmen, two provincial governors, four delegates to the Constitutional Convention and eight newsmen. First on the list was opposition senator and main political rival Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr.
Sept. 23, 1972: Press Secretary Francisco Tatad announces the imposition of martial law and reads the Marcos proclamation in a nationwide televised broadcast. Marcos himself went on air at 7 p.m. to formally announce the proclamation
12-4 a.m. – Curfew was put in place
Jan. 17, 1981: Marcos signs Proclamation No. 2045 lifting the implementation of martial law ahead of the first papal visit of Pope John Paul II in February.
107,240: Primary victims of human rights violations during martial law
70,000 people arrested, mostly arbitrarily without warrants of arrests*
34,000 people tortured*
3,240 killed by the military and the police*
*Amnesty International
464: Closed media outlets after declaration of martial law
$683 million: Worth of Marcos assets in various Swiss banks declared as ill-gotten based on a July 2003 the Supreme Court ruling
$5-10 billion: Estimated alleged ill-gotten wealth plundered by the Marcoses during two decades in Malacañang
6,281: Number of Marcos laws from September 1972 to February 1986
2,036 presidential decrees
61 general orders
1,093 executive orders
1,409 proclamations and other issuances
1,525 letters of instructions
157 letters of implementation
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Military Power
By the time martial law was in effect, the Philippine Army had an estimated strength of 17,600; the Philippine Navy with 8,000; Philippine Air Force with 9,000; and the Philippine Constabulary with 25,500.
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Poverty
Poverty worsened over the course of the Marcos era. Whereas about 4 out of 10 families were poor before Marcos took office, 6 out of 10 families were poor by the end of his rule.
Moreover, as the graph on the left shows, this is a consistent trend across the different regions of the nation, with some regions reaching as high a rate as 7 out of 10 families below the poverty line. Only two regions saw a marginal decrease in the number of poor families: the Ilocos Region and Cagayan Valley.
Daily wages of Filipino agricultural workers declined by about 30%, such that if a farmer earned Php 42 per day in 1972, he would only be earning about Php 30 in 1986. The wages of farmers even went as low as nearly half of the pre-Marcos values in 1974, right after the declaration of Martial Law (middle graph).
On the other hand, for skilled and unskilled workers in urban areas, the graph on the right shows the change in their wages from pre-Marcos to EDSA values. Skilled workers are workers with some special knowledge or skill, often having gone to college or technical school; unskilled workers are workers without this level of training.
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Deforestation
In addition to factors relating to the domestic economy, another way of assessing the Marcos regime is through its impacts on the nation’s natural resources and the environment. The graph specifically gives us an idea about how Marcos’s policies affected the country’s forest cover over the course of about 20 years.
Supposedly, about 90% of the Philippines’ 18.7 million hectares of uplands, including more than 11 million hectares officially classified as timberlands, is publicly owned. In practice, fewer than 200 individuals controlled a large fraction of the country’s forests.
In pursuit of economic gains, Marcos and his cronies’ uncontrolled exportation of timber led to a drastic reduction in forest cover. This cascades into dire environmental impacts including flooding, landslides, and even the worldwide phenomenon of global warming.
I could add more to this post, but that would be way too long.
To this day, the Marcos family, their allies, and supporters, paid or not, continue to deny these facts and claim that the Marcos family were good for the Filipino people and the country.
We must continue to remind the people of this dark time in the history, to not let history be erased and be replaced with lies, to remember the sacrifices made by the victims of Martial Law and their families, and to not let history repeat itself.
Never Forget!
Never Again!
sources:
https://philstarlife.com/news-and-views/649814-martial-law-by-the-numbers?page=6
https://martiallawmuseum.ph/magaral/martial-law-in-data/
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1167808/fast-facts-the-marcos-martial-law-regime
The Martial Law Museum and the Bantayog ng mga Bayani sites are good places to start reading more about this.
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filipinawritcr · 2 years
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“To the Filipino People, who dramatized in the Battle of Mactan of April 27, 1521, their rejection of a foreign tyranny sought to be imposed by Ferdinand Magellan, that they may soon recover lost courage and, with greater vigor and determination, rid the Philippines of the evil rule of a home-grown tyrant with the same initials and first name.”
— Primitivo Mijares, Author of The Conjugal Dictatorship
Every day, I ask myself and the Universe the same question:
“When will the Filipinos learn that our ancestors have valued honesty?”
Have we failed to realize that this man and his family, is just a reflection of how our colonizers were? Who tried to deceive us and led us into corruption, and then wanted to erase our fucking history?
No? Well, there you have it.
Well. Who knows, we're probably fucked..
Good luck, folks.
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Hopefully, we'll survive this nonsense.
But I'm shifting my awareness outta here to experience a different reality.
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lapeacenasumusulat · 2 years
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HINDI KAMI IN-DENIAL
BBM supporters now call for "respect for the vote of majority" as if they had given the same to VP Leni for the past 6 years. They cry to respect democracy yet frontrunner Bongbong Marcos called for a recount for the 2016 elections. He did it 3 times. He lost 3 times. Until the end of the campaign period for the 2022 elections, he still claims that he lost because someone cheated.
For 6 years, his supporters never respected VP Leni. Now they ask the same from us as if Bongbong is not guilty of maligning the vice president's name. I can and I will respect BBM as much as I could but I will not pretend that everything is alright. Most people from his team never even addresses VP Leni as vice president. I often hear BBM's spokesperson address VP Leni as Mrs. Robredo.
They say it was a clean election free of irregularities yet they fail to address how there are cases of electoral board staffs shading ballots in some precincts; they claim that it's the smoothest election in history yet ironically declare failure of elections in 14 barangays in Lanao del Sur; eight members from the Marcos clan was elected. As the May 9 elections ensue, multiple people all at different parts of the Philippines would claim that they voted for BBM but the receipt would have Leni's name—this conditions the mind of gullible Filipino voters that VP Leni was cheating. There are multiple videos of vote buying (most of these videos were already taken down on the internet).
Imee Marcos, eldest sister of Bongbong, is the chairperson of the senate committee on electoral reforms.
As the election was undergoing, BBM supporters would continue to mock us, shame us, and invalidate all our claims.
Their camp refuses to address how BBM would face US district court's contempt order.
People call for accountability from their family but they were silent.
They say there is no ill-gotten wealth. His words were "I cannot give what I do not have," but the missing Picasso painting glares at us when him, his mother Imelda, and his son Sandro was recently interviewed.
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Left picture shows Imelda in their house during an interview for The Kingmaker documentary. On the right, the paintings were replaced because the PCGG tried to recover the paintings from the Marcoses. Imelda refused to admit that the painting was in their house to begin with even though earlier recording for The Kingmaker tells us otherwise.
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This is their recent interview (May 12, 2022). The Picasso painting is back!
Right now, Bongbong is already portraying himself as a generous leader and I fear that someday, more of my fellow countrymen forget how this family refuse to be accountable.
I have said this again but I will say it again: the morale of the education sector is low. There are teachers who are ironically Marcos apologists but there are more of us who are frustrated. A lot of students are losing their motivation to continue. They see no point in putting efforts to their education saying that if the highest governing body lied about receiving a college degree (he didn't) yet still end up successful, then truly, this is a country that never cared for its civilians to be properly educated.
He plans to appoint frontrunner vice president Sara Duterte as next secretary for the department of education. The same woman who punched a sheriff years ago. The same woman who wishes for mandatory ROTC because she only see students as avid critiques of the government. They tell us that the youth has too much freedom and lacks discipline and it will break my heart if they weaponize the ROTC program against our students.
Miriam Defensor-Santiago was right. Stupid is really forever.
I will never thank BBM even if he does a great job. It is his job and responsibility, after all. His actions will forever be the bare minimum until he finally had the guts to acknowledge the atrocities of their family.
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pannaginip · 3 months
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https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/12/30/23/ltfrb-jeepney-consolidation-rate-in-ncr-at-33-pct
ABS-CBN: ~33% of jeepneys in Metro Manila have consolidated, according to LTFRB.
Meanwhile, [LTFRB NCR Director Tamayo] said consolidated UV Express units are at 3,259 or 44.3 percent.
Combined, they make up 17,152 or only 35 percent of Public Utility Vehicles in NCR.
This has reinforced the LTFRB’s position that there will be no transportation crisis come January 2024, even in NCR, where 47.3 percent of routes are already being operated by consolidated transport entities, according to the agency.
Other modes of public transportation will also be there to serve the riding public. Although some, like taxis and Transportation Network Vehicle Services (TNVS) may be more costly.
[OTC Chairman] Ortega admits that some passengers may have to bear this burden temporarily.
The LTFRB said it is still in the process of collating the consolidation figures from all over the country as they come in. As per the Department of Transportation’s last update, the nationwide PUV consolidation rate was at 70 percent.
2023 Dec. 30
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fabricated-pessimist · 11 months
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a year ago today, i cried. i cried because i saw the cheated and dishonest votes on tv. as i laid my eyes on those stupidly uneven results, i couldnt help but suddenly see my future flash before my eyes. this confirmed for me and many other children in the philippines that we no longer had a future here. in this wasteland that i still see as home. and it was all because of some greedy and mindless dictators son. has he not hurt us enough? has he not had his fair share of glory fuelled by the voices of your people? ang iyong mga kapwa pilipino? i was only young but i understood. more children probably understood more about how dangerous it would be to put a man such as him in power than any of you adults that raised us. "what had he done?" you may ask, the answer is he did absolutely nothing. after all the cries about martial law, he excused it as fake news. after all the calamities albeit natural or otherwise, he did nothing. in his campaigns in which was bedazzled by the possibilities of our so-called "future", he stood there, promising- you promised- all the good that would come out of his presidency. but if you just opened your eyes and peered just an inch closer you could see nothing was there except a steep pile of lies. but you didnt listen. my naive and impressionable mind could not fathom the fact that after all the suffering your people went through, you still decided to turn a blind eye and empower a tax evader alongside the greedy and dependent daughter of former president Rodrigo Duterte whom had a number of scandals to his name in his 6 years he ruled this dreadful country. you voted all the senators who were just bored celebrities that said they would work hand in hand to better this country, but after one whole year, can you see any difference? is there no longer beggars on the street you're forced to ignore? is there no longer palengkes with tinderas that worked from sunrise to sunset only to have made virtually no profit? is there finally a reasonable statistic of children with no proper education? all of this has been promised to us, apparently. the day of the elections were chaotic, to put it lightly. ballots getting ruined, people desperately pleading on the streets and on social media, and the official vote counts being stolen, but that doesn't mean nobody let them win. i fled my country that i loved so dearly because of you. a stable life isin't feasible anymore in our country because of you. The Marcoses and Dutertes and countless other names might have stolen the votes, everyone knows that. but that doesn't mean you didn't leave a deep mark on your country. scratch that, this is in no way a country, it's a family business. now that i am living 8000 kilometers away from home, i can somehow see it clearer. i can now pinpoint everything that went wrong. i see that all the protests, the singing, the streets and gates and murals in a flood of pink, could still be erased anyway. NEVER AGAIN. NEVER FORGET.
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