gradenko_2000 posted:

i say swears online posted:

gradenko i've missed ur updates

Jose posted:

I'm sorry if you feel like an RSS feed but I genuinely like your updates since I don't learn anything otherwise and they're crazy

Subjunctive posted:

yeah, I get ready for some good poo poo every time this thread gets bumped

Jose posted:

I'm sorry if you feel like an RSS feed but I genuinely like your updates since I don't learn anything otherwise and they're crazy

Jose posted:

lmao he's not wrong

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44610872


https://twitter.com/kaesuin/status/1011448668543578112

gradenko_2000 posted:

Finally, this was from January 9, but the US Senate did pass a resolution that called on the Secretary of State to impose sanctions on persons involved in the detainment of Senator Leila de Lima

Given the lack of names named, and the fact that it requires Mike Pompeo of all people to take action, I don't really expect much to come out of this except as a lib-level talking point dunk on the Duterte administration, but it did happen.

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Needs To Be Said: People Want To Avoid Contact With Chinese People Because China Is The Primary Hot Zone For nCoV, Not Because They're Racist

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This isn't about race.

This is about trying to minimize the risks of contracting a serious disease.

Fact is: China is the source of this virus and it is still spreading. Even worse, China hasn't been totally honest so the situation could be worse than reported.

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I've had friends who have been outright disrespected by the Chinese Mainlanders, the "Tai Diok Ka" as how my Fil-Chi friends call them. Even yesterday, a colleague of mine got a paper thrown directly into his face by one of these Tai Diok Ka. Meanwhile, you have snowflakes in the shithole of the internet, who couldn't be bothered tolerating a push back without "prioritizing the first sign of racism".

Let me make this clear. This is isn't America. Filipinos are already oppressed in their own land, and defending the Tai Diok Ka (Chinese Mainlanders) from "racism" won't matter to them because they'll still believe that we Pinoys are "dogs" and that we're beneath them. This is the problem when SJWs westernize oriental society, without consideration to sociological context, power relations, and more importantly, actually studying the history of the specific country or people in question.

The Tai Diok Ka are not your friends. They are different from our Uniqlo-wearing beloved Filipino Chinese whose parents or grandparents escaped poverty and Mao Zedong's oppressive system just to reestablish their lives in our country. The Fil-Chis actually bothered learning our language, culture, and practices.

The Tai Diok Ka would not even care to study English because they are more interested exploiting our lands, people, and resources. They have been brainwashed by the Communist Party since birth while treating us like "barbarians" by making GBS threads in our tourist spots, spitting in our faces, and spreading a virus without consideration for biological hazards (stop loving eating wild animals which hastens viral mutations, you dipshits).

Just to clarify in case some random rear end mofo misinterprets my post as a "dogwhistle" for outright racism: a.) No, you're not allowed to say "ching chong", but you can call the Tai Diok Ka "piao si" instead. It's an actual cuss and it's more insulting to their language; b.) You cannot be racist if the oppressed are the ones pushing back against the oppressor. If you believe the Tai Diok Ka hold minority status, maaaaan read an actual book instead of relying on Twitter because you're too lazy or too distracted from sErvInG tEA while you cry yourself to sleep cause you weren't born a celebrity.

gently caress outta here with this rAcIsM poo poo. Have the big dick energy to protect our dignity. Piao si.

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China has invaded Philippine territory, infiltrated Philippine government and made it a Chinese puppet and flooded the Philippines with legal and illegal migrants, pushing us Filipinos to the edges in our own country.

Add to that the fact that these Chinese migrants (legal and non legal) are highly likely to be carrying a highly contagious and lethal virus and, you know what? This Filipino is tired of being pushed around.

As a Filipino, I'm tired of the Chinese lording it over us here.

I'm tired of watching the news and listening to president Duterte, an obvious Chinese puppet, keep prioritizing his China connection instead of us Filipinos.

I'm tired of being told I can't demand protection from my government because my Filipino politicians who are Chinese salaried are worried about losing their monthly allowances.

And I'm tired of comments like yours that try to derail the discussion over some weak hand-wringing about possibly offending Chinese people who are more privileged than us, more taken care of by their government AND OURS than us and are very likely more capable of weathering this epidemic than us Filipinos because they have their AND OUR resources to help them.

anakha posted:

If nothing else, at least those who got masks for the taal ashfall can use them for peace of mind while this whole thing is going on.

Not that the mask actually helps from what I'm reading.

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The Tai Diok Ka are not your friends. They are different from our Uniqlo-wearing beloved Filipino Chinese whose parents or grandparents escaped poverty and Mao Zedong's oppressive system just to reestablish their lives in our country. The Fil-Chis actually bothered learning our language, culture, and practices.

Subjunctive posted:

How are public health services in Philippines? Are they mostly independent and evidence-based, or are they like whichever African one was touting homeopathy as an effective preventative measure against nCoV-2019?

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“Let’s start with the narratives by saying that everything is well in the country. There is nothing really to be extra scared of that coronavirus thing although it has affected a lot of countries...You know one or two in any country is not really that fearsome,” the President said in a press briefing at Malacañang.

“The response of the people was almost hysterical when there was no need for it actually. And if there is a virus, why do you go hysterical? Just go to the hospital and be treated. Or have yourself quarantined,” he said.

Duterte said the nCoV might worsen “in the meantime,” but would die a “natural death” just like the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), an illness recognized as a global threat in 2003.

“You know, the progress of medical science now is far too different (from) the yesteryears,” he said.

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MANILA, Philippines — This is not the time to “do a Pelosi” and rip up the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA).

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said this on Thursday in reference to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who ripped up her copy of U.S. President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.

“This is not the time to do a Pelosi and rip up the VFA,” Recto said in a statement as the Senate foreign relations committee is reviewing the said military accord after President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to scrap it over the visa cancelation of Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa.

Recto said the termination of the VFA should “could come later” in a manner that is “planned and programmed” and not “rushed”

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08:34 PM February 07, 2020

Manila, Philippines—President Rodrigo Duterte has instructed Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea to ask the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to send the United States the official notice to terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), Malacañang said Friday.

“”I instruct[ed] the Executive Secretary to tell him [Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr.] to send the notice of termination to the US government,” presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo told the INQUIRER in a phone interview.

“[I said], can I quote you on that. Can I quote you on that. [He replied], yes,” he added.

The Palace official added Duterte and US President Donald Trump are “expected to talk” anytime soon.

This is after Locsin, during a Senate hearing on VFA termination, said that Duterte supposedly ordered him to hold off transmittal of the termination notice.

Duterte has ordered the termination of the military pact after the US canceled the visa of his longtime confidant Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, who also led his bloody war on drugs during his stint as national police chief.

The VFA, signed in 1998, accorded legal status to US troops who were rotated in the country for military exercises and humanitarian assistance operations.

Dela Rosa, who was Duterte’s chief of police from 2016 to 2018, said the US Embassy did not explain why his visa was voided but he acknowledged it has something to do with the alleged extrajudicial killings under his watch.

This was not the first time Duterte threatened to scrap the VFA. However, the firebrand leader has claimed that he is “not joking” with the termination of the military pact this time.

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The Quezon City representative warned that some provisions in the bill could be “interpreted very loosely,” such as the definition of “threat to commit any terrorist act.”

“Any member, a student who wants to join a political organization, who wants to discuss Marxism, Leninism, Friedrich Nietzsche, and his concept of Übermensch, or the superman, is suspect,” he said.