The Philippines: Forget everything you thought you knew about human rights

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CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

gradenko_2000 posted:

And then the audience laughed.

Never go to the Philippines, I guess is the moral of that story.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2016 15:56

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 15:34

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

This is unreal.

# ¿ Aug 29, 2016 15:59

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

I'm shocked that a state of lawlessness exists in a country whose president encouraged extra judicial killings.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2016 04:36

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

gradenko_2000 posted:

Manila's traffic is legendarily bad*, and Duterte ran on a platform promising that he'll fix it, by God.

There's deliberations in the Senate to give the President emergency powers to solve the traffic situation. I don't really know what that means.

* that's not really a scientific study of traffic, but it gets the point across.

I suspect it has something to do with bulldozers and blackmail/bribery.

# ¿ Sep 8, 2016 16:10

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

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# ¿ Sep 12, 2016 13:26

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

One of my friends commented on a Facebook post about Duterte, tagging a Philipine friend in it.

Turned into: "You aren't there, you cannot understand, Biased Media, etc."

# ¿ Sep 19, 2016 19:23

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...o-a7332551.html

quote:

The Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has called for the death penalty in the country to be reinstated, claiming growing atheism and agnosticism means people have a lack of fear and respect for the law.

The death penalty was officially abolished in the largely Catholic country in 2006, but Mr Duterte said that �if God doesn�t exist�, capital punishment is the only way to ensure justice for the victims of terrible crimes.

Speaking in Manila, Mr Duterte also questioned God�s existence himself and addressed God directly in his speech, asking �where are you?�

# ¿ Sep 27, 2016 17:30

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

CronoGamer posted:

Not entirely human rights focused, but in the continuing annals of amateur foreign policy, Duterte just announced he is ending US-PH military exercises after the PHIBLEX amphibious landing exercises next week.

http://www.rappler.com/nation/147643-duterte-last-ph-us-military-exercises

The Balikatan exercises have been a pretty big deal for a number of years. This would be a blow to the AFP for sure. Very curious to see how DefSec Lorenzana takes this news...

Its even more creepy how he specifically highlights "China doesn't want this, so we're not doing it anymore"

# ¿ Sep 28, 2016 18:01

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

http://aje.io/26q8

Told Obama to go to hell. Twice. Then suggested he's going to Russia

# ¿ Oct 4, 2016 23:09

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Xelkelvos posted:

Is the Philippines in the TPP? Is it too late to cut them out of it?

Even if we did, the Philippines doing this is a pretty effective damage to the TPP goals.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2016 18:08

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Deceitful Penguin posted:

So now, he's going against public smoking?

And the comments are people praising him and writing loving poetry about The Pinoy Lion.

And then others calling him the leader Africa needs :psyduck:

# ¿ Oct 12, 2016 16:59

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

The Saddest Rhino posted:

how much in the shitter is Philippines's international trade and economy now

Not as much as its going to be.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2016 03:15

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Mulva posted:

It's not really at all painful for the US except in theoretical terms. It is bad for the Philippines in very, very concrete terms. Like technically it's not great for the US to have an ally side with China in a region where we are trying to curtail Chinese imperialism, but pretty much everyone else is on board with us to oppose that soooooo.......in practical terms only the Philippines gets hurt by selling out to China.

Chances are, between New Zealand and Australia, this is going to just result in a defacto embargo for the Philippines.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2016 15:42

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Fojar38 posted:

Ehh, as long as the treaty is still in place and US bases are still in the Philippines he hasn't quite yet put his money where his mouth is

All signs point to him threatening to rip the treaties up. Sure, he'll have to find a way to push US bases out, but he's basically done everything else no one could have foreseen, why not that?

# ¿ Oct 20, 2016 19:08

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Ceiling fan posted:

The US has plenty of nearby options for drama free bases. I'm sure Indonesia would be more than happy to host any US forces the Philippines did up til now. Hell, if the US wants to sweeten it enough, Vietnam would be up for that.

That'll be a hell of an irony, but considering Vietnam is not a fan of China right now, I could totally see that happening.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2016 19:33

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

chird posted:

Spin! Pivot! Pirouette!

Duterte says he will not sever US ties - Rappler

Pretty sure he's a failed Trump clone.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2016 00:11

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Flayer posted:

Pretty sure he's not walking back anything, I reckon the plan all along has been to get money from both the Chinese and Americans. Now he has his Chinese money I'm sure some doors will be opening to the Americans. A rather unsubtle ploy but there you go.

You're giving him way too much credit, and his current legacy is: He's an idiot that can't figure out what side of the street he wants to play ball on.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2016 14:39

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

CronoGamer posted:

Some incisive Taiwanese commentary on Duterte

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0_DLnyM3s0

We're doing news the wrong way.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2016 15:20

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

seiferguy posted:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/02/philippines-duterte-discovered-this-week-that-his-actions-have-consequences/

Fidel Ramos, Duterte's envoy to China, just resigned.

Good. And he chewed Duterte out as he walked out the door.

But we all know what's really going to happen, Duterte will just call him a traitor and play up his base.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2016 16:03

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

http://www.npr.org/sections/paralle..._content=202702

# ¿ Nov 3, 2016 04:55

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Anime Schoolgirl posted:

the best possible ending to this is that duterte mysteriously gets offed by a "stray" drone and hillary just picks her nose in response to queries

"Who do you think killed Duterte?"

"Would you look at the size of that booger?"

# ¿ Nov 5, 2016 23:53

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

I really wish Theodore Roosevelt would rise from the grave and demand his name back.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2016 20:02

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Notice Me, Trump-san! :nyoron:

CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Dec 3, 2016

# ¿ Dec 3, 2016 13:58

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

caps on caps on caps posted:

why are there so many large shopping Malls in the Philippines?

Probably for the same reason there are so many malls in America:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omVHP35La9c

# ¿ Dec 5, 2016 13:05

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

gradenko_2000 posted:

http://www.rappler.com/business/156315-duterte-threatens-bsp-amlc-tetangco

http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/12/22/16/duterte-3-out-of-5-americans-are-idiots

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/593427/news/nation/duterte-wants-martial-law-to-be-the-sole-call-of-president

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/855804/duterte-slams-un-rights-exec-calls-him-idiot

https://globalnation.inquirer.net/150867/duterte-warning-pact-us-baffles-aides

Jesus loving Christ.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2016 16:41

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

So, Duerte is now swearing he'll throw his critics (he calls them corrupt) out of helicopters and says he's done it before.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...fore/?tid=sm_fb

# ¿ Dec 28, 2016 23:22

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

gradenko_2000 posted:

Okay, so yesterday, Benjamin Diokno said these things, right:

Turns out he wrote an Op-Ed back in January 2016 which directly contradicts his position:

Well, you wouldn't want him getting tossed out a helicopter, right?

# ¿ Jan 4, 2017 02:33