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How long until the death squads go from targeting poor users/dealers, to targeting foreign sex tourists? Asking for a friend.
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It is weird how Duterte alternates narratives between; 1) There are infinite murderous drug pusher/users and it is total war we will annihilate them all. 2) How dare you accuse us of killing X numbers of people extra-judiciously? Am I correct in assuming that these are inward and outward facing narratives he is building?
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Sep 2, 2016 16:14
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 I wonder if Twitter appreciates that at some point it is going to be the star witness in a future Nuremberg trial.
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Sep 25, 2016 17:33
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The US is less interested in a foreign countries leaders democratic legitimacy, than they are with any of their own strategic interests. Marcos was fine because their bases were there, and the country was against communism. Noriega was fine until he suggested he would close the canal. Dutertes will be fine until he does something that materially affects American strategic interests, and unfortunately going full Hitler towards drug users does not qualify. Plus the Philippines just elected him and he appears to have legit 90% approval, so there isn't much for them to do anyways.
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Sep 30, 2016 20:46
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keevo posted:Didn't he threaten to kick out the military? He keeps that up and he will probably end up in trouble faster than anything else he is doing. (Trouble being a pretty open ended thing.)
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Sep 30, 2016 23:07
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Calling for the murder of the democratically elected leader of any country is in really poor taste. Unless you have evidence of a joint, or can write that he definitely did have a joint on a piece of cardboard, in which case it is basically part of his election platform.
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Oct 5, 2016 15:16
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It is spreading... I have a Canadian acquaintance posting pro Dutertes memes on Facebook. He is not Filipino, and most certainly would be getting fitted for his cardboard sign if he was there. 
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Oct 19, 2016 19:24
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Fojar38 posted:I know you probably didn't intend it this way but this is the exact same rhetoric you hear from PRC apologists whining that China's neighbours host US bases. "What if China hosted a base in Mexico?!?!?" If China wants to have their own version of the Monroe doctrine, they are welcome to do it. I am pretty sure I know which one external parties will believe will be enforced by military force and which will be enforced by a babies tantrum.
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Oct 20, 2016 20:28
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It probably doesn't really matter since it is current government policy to hire criminals to murder other criminals in the street. The death penalty being legal of not seems to be a weird thing to be concerned about. (Either way.) E: imagine scare quotes around vast tracks of this post.
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Oct 29, 2016 04:02
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First they came for the drug pushers, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a drug pusher. Then they came for the Senator drug pushers, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Senator drug pusher. Then they came for the Mayor drug pushers, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Mayor drug pusher. Then they came for me—whoops I guess I was a drug pusher. Who knew?
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Nov 5, 2016 22:52
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chird posted:I'm not talking about the common man, as I said, "I expected more Philippines politicians and people in authority to have been more vocal against him by now." There are very few voicing dissent or calling for investigations into glaring irregularities. Either they agree with what is going on, are covering their political careers by doing nothing, are too cowardly to do anything, or are waiting for public opinion to change. We are talking about a country where his party won a minority, and all the elected officials flocked to his party and gave him an undeserved super majority. I think it can be all of those things.
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