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Argue posted:Yep. In fact, he also addressed that by noting that rich people take the "safer" drugs, like cocaine and heroin, which is why we don't hear about killings in upscale parts of town. And I only saw this now while pulling up that link, but I honestly can't believe that he literally said "my order is to destroy." To add to this, my wife's classmate from high school and her classmate's boyfriend were caught in the past couple of weeks with a lot of E and they found lots of paraphernalia and a money counter machine in their apartment, suggesting that they were dealing. They haven't been executed (yet) and it looks like they'll go through the regular justice system instead because they're from well off families.
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Xelkelvos posted:Less than 40% voted for Duerte. Majority my rear end. Even in US elections we can at least get within spitting distance of a winner having 50% (barring Electoral college shenanigans and third party vote splitting). Duerte got a plurality, but even 30% would've given him the same amount of power. I think the 91% was referring to his approval/trust rating.
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So after Obama's speech at the ASEAN Summit talking about human rights, Duterte decided to not follow his prepared speech and instead started a rant about US military killing Filipinos during the Philippine American war during the late 1800s and early 1900s, where he showed photographs of Filipinos who were killed by American soldiers. http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/08/16/duterte-shocks-summit-meeting-with-tirade-vs-us quote:Setting aside a prepared speech, Duterte spoke for more than five minutes about human rights and his campaign against drugs during the East Asian Summit in the Laotian capital of Vientiane, according to one Indonesian diplomat at the meeting.
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lilljonas posted:This is interesting to read for me, as I did my MA thesis on the RH bill as a guest researcher in Manila back in 2009, but kind of lost touch on the subject. The pictures for this article were taken while I was doing my junior internship OB/Gyn rotation at Fabella and my friends and classmates were the ones in the "medical staff" photos. It was a really crazy experience. We had 36 hour shifts every 3 days (for 2 weeks) and I only got to sit down for maybe an hour total for that entire shift. One 24 hour period we're assigned strictly to the labor room, delivery room and operating room - which were all in the same floor of the same wing of the hospital. The only times I got to take a break and close my eyes were when they were prepping the OR for the next cesarean section. Our highest census for a single 24 hour period was 72 babies delivered. There was just one giant delivery room where all the mothers got to give birth, if they were lucky. There were times where it got so busy that mothers had to deliver on stretchers in the hallway between the labor room and the delivery room, or in the labor room itself. The delivery room had 8 old school OB/Gyn exam tables and that was where they delivered the babies, with only a single resident doctor on duty for the entire delivery room (the residents worked in a team of 4 and two were in the OR for the cesarean sections and the other one was in the labor room). There were a bunch of midwives and midwives in training in the room as well. For my first delivery ever, the resident didn't even have time to help me with what to do because she was busy delivering two other babies at the same time. Thankfully the midwives guided me through basically everything except the episiotomy (THAT was scary when they were telling me to do it but not how to). My favorite part was after delivering the baby, we just take the placenta and dump it and the umbilical cords into one giant plastic trash bin right outside the delivery room. The scent of lochia would stick to you when you leave, so I took a long hot shower after every shift. The place also has the biggest mosquitos that I'd ever seen, which I mostly attribute to all the blood available for them to feed on. So, yeah, I support the RH bill. Too bad my school was so against it (University of Santo Tomas) since it's run directly by the Dominican order in the Vatican, that they would actually teach us lies. I mean, I understand being against it but the fact that doctors were trying to teach future doctors lies just because it disagrees with the church, was utter bullshit. There was one medical ethics class where I had enough and they had me called into the dean's office and they put me on probation for calling them out. They were trying to teach us that condoms were not effective at preventing STDs, especially not HIV because condoms naturally had little pores that were large enough for viruses to pass through. And also that condoms were only minimally effective against preventing pregnancy (something like 25-40%). When I saw that I had classmates that actually were taking notes on this crap, I had to speak up. That same class they also put up a slideshow of riot police dealing with protesters at abortion clinics, with our professor saying that the people were just having a peaceful protest and so much force was used against them, completely ignoring and not mentioning all the anti-abortion violence that happens at those things. ihatepants fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Sep 16, 2016 |
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Ytlaya posted:Manny Pacquiao, nooo Let's not act like he wasn't an awful person and a total shithead for a long time before this. I was probably the only Filipino rooting against the guy for most of his career because of it.
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Sep 20, 2016 06:56
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chami posted:How strong is their case against de Lima anyway? Last I heard anything about that, they were trying to play the morality police and slut-shame her for alleged infidelity. I know this is one of those "my uncle works at Nintendo" type stories, but I have heard from others in the know (that also hate Duterte) that De Lima really does have connections to the drug trade and has her right hand man handles pretty much everything with that. She is also very willing to be bribed, even compared to her other peers. She's dirty as gently caress and probably deserves everything that's coming to her.
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Sep 20, 2016 22:24
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webmeister posted:Curious to know, what is it actually like in the Philippines with all this going on? I'm flying in for a holiday tomorrow visiting Boracay, Manila and north Luzon, maybe Bohol and then Palawan - how cautious do I need to be here? chami posted:You should be fine as far as I know, just bring bug spray because sand flies suck. I sure hope you're going to El Nido because that place is seriously amazing. Depending on where in Palawan you'll be going, the WHO also recommends taking anti-malarial prophylaxis like malarone because there's a risk of getting malaria, mostly in southern Palawan. Also, having been to both in the last year, I think Coron is better than El Nido nowadays. El Nido's starting to get the problem of Boracay where everything has become too touristy, with locals approaching you non stop trying to sell souvenirs, boat rides or other things. When island hopping from Coron, you can visit Malcapuya Island which, imo might be the best beach in the Philippines. Also, Coron has the Maquinit hot springs, which are one of the few salt water hot springs in the entire world.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:so apparently huffpo is publishing duterte propoganda machine stuff now They have been for a while, although I'm not sure why. There have been at least two or three other pro-Duterte articles on huffpo, most of them criticizing the people who criticize him.
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So apparently there was an anti-US rally outside the US embassy in Manila today. Then the protesters threatened to tip over a police van and the van ended up running over protesters back and forth so that they wouldn't be tipped. There's a video here: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/147121/police-van-runs-over-protesters-at-anti-us-rally Edit: Sadly, it seems that for the majority of people in the Philippines today, as long as they're not the ones being run over (literally and figuratively), they don't care that others are. ihatepants fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Oct 19, 2016 |
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Oct 19, 2016 16:47
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Baron Corbyn posted:Does the Philippines never get Chinese tourists or...? There are still a ton of Chinese tourists and they are still really bad and kind of disgusting, to be honest. My wife used to work in Makati Med, which is one of the best hospitals in the country and there were multiple times when I would come and pick her up and witness Chinese nationals doing gross poo poo. Spitting on the floors, blowing their snot onto the floor, one time even holding up their infant to pee into one of the potted plants. Awful stuff to do, especially in a hospital. VVVV: forgot to mention this as well. None of this makes sense! ihatepants fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Oct 20, 2016 |
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Rap Record Hoarder posted:I'm really surprised there's not more uproar from Filipino-Americans or expats here in the States, this sort of diplomatic row could really gently caress a lot of people over if the State Dept decides to play hardball and embarrass Duerte by showing him how small of a player he actually is. Unfortunately, there are a LOT of terrible Filipino-Americans who have the "gently caress You Got Mine" attitude, so they don't care (isn't this related to the common Filipino trait of "crab mentality"?). There's also a huge portion of FilAms who supported Duterte during the election because of his anti-corruption stance (or because they're from Davao), so they still support him because of cognitive dissonance at this point. Also a little off topic: there are also a ton of FilAm Trump supporters (and Republicans) for similar reasons - gently caress you got mine, outright racists that hate Obama/blacks and Mexicans, conservative due to culture/religious beliefs. Interestingly, I've noticed that these beliefs also kind of closely emulate those of white people in the same places they live in (vote Republican in red states and vote Democrat in blue states). I guess Filipinos are obsessed with being white that much. ihatepants fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Oct 21, 2016 |
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Rap Record Hoarder posted:I'm really surprised there's not more uproar from Filipino-Americans or expats here in the States, this sort of diplomatic row could really gently caress a lot of people over if the State Dept decides to play hardball and embarrass Duerte by showing him how small of a player he actually is. Apparently Duterte said that Fil-Ams opinions don't count as Filipinos because we're now only pure American. http://themaharlikan.info/world/duterte-filipinos-in-america-dont-count-they-are-americans-not-pinoys/
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The death penalty is such a loving terrible idea in the Philippines because there's no jury and judges are also so loving corrupt and get bribed all the loving time.
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The new thing I'm seeing today from my fellow doctors in the Philippines are various articles and videos about the seven countries that the US is bombing currently, despite having no war approved by Congress and calling Americans hypocrites because "those are the true EJKs."
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Going back to the first page and OP, I really loving hate when people say that I'm "not Filipino" just because I grew up and live in the US but had the gall to comment about the Philippines for all this poo poo that is happening over there. Made sure to point out that my Philippine passport technically means that I am Filipino. Also, I remember reading a few pages back with people mentioning that the Philippines' loans with China are not resource backed. What does this mean and how is it better/worse than what they seemingly have in place?
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NewMars posted:It means that instead of being linked to the value of a country's national resources, like oil or some such, they're being repaid in the form of Chinese money. If the exchange rate relative to the Chinese RMB tanks, your debt magnifies horrifically. I talked to a friend and read a little more about this and please correct me if I'm wrong regarding what I understood (I'm terrible at understanding this sort of thing). Based on how China has operated with loans to African countries and Sri Lanka, they offer to finance projects like infrastructure via debt (and not equity). Then a lot of these projects (possibly by design) fail, leading to a ton of misallocated capital. When these projects bust, of course the country can't pay back the loans and a big reason why is because the debt is allocated in RMB which a lot of the world doesn't have (RMB just became a central bank reserve currency this year, but only at a very small allocation). So the Chinese then convert the debt into equity leading to a lot of the infrastructure or whatever to belong to China. An example I was told about was like how Zimbabwe had to start making RMB an accepted currency but since their monetary and fiscal policy can't affect the RMB, they're kind of like China's economic slaves.
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Squalid posted:I watched a movie a few years ago about the Philippine-American War made by Filipinos and the Americans were just cartoonish two dimensional villains, it was kinda like The Patriot in terms of tone, very patriotic. I can't remember its name right now unfortunately but the movie Amigo also covers the conflict and is much better and more nuanced, and definitely worth a watch. The protagonist is the head of a rural village who has to balance his relationship with his cousin, an insurgent hiding out in the forest, and the Americans who've occupied his town. Characters are constantly switching from English to Spanish to filipino to Cantonese. Was it Heneral Luna? 
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Nov 6, 2016 09:45
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Argue posted:Things the Philippines has done to disgraced leaders: In six years, you can add "Elected as president the son of dictator who murdered thousands." Or does he not count because he isn't technically disgraced (yet).
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Nov 8, 2016 15:46
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Is that place normally accessible to the public? Like I am sure that it's going to be a very popular place for vandalism.
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Nov 18, 2016 06:40
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Looks like the government finally went through with it and has now blocked access to popular porn sites like pornhub and xvideos from loading in the Philippines, citing the Anti-Child pornography law.
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Argue posted:And let's not forget the reasoning: A Pornhub spokesperson commented "Non-consensual and child pornography is strictly prohibited on Pornhub. It's disappointing that Pornhub was blocked as it will just drive people to use less vetted, riskier, smaller websites. We're open to working with government officials to meet their standards in the Philippines." Argue posted:Edit: for the record, I just checked and my ISP, PLDT (the biggest one in the country I believe), is not currently blocking these sites. Looks like the NTC is still in the process of forcing all of the ISPs to comply. I also find it interesting that the age of consent in the Philippines is only 12 years.
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NY Times: A Rare Survivor of a Philippine Drug Raid Takes the Police to Courtquote:MANILA — The drug raid ended like so many others in the Philippines, with all the suspects shot by the police.
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I don't know where this "news" is coming from but I've had multiple Trump voting family members keep telling me that "President Trump approved for Filipinos to travel visa free for 30 days for tourism & business. Never allowed before by any other US President!!!!" I can't find anything about it at all, which means that it's obviously fake, but when I brought it up, the reply was "Really!! Perhaps CNN , ABS-CBN, & NBC are the fake news here. News came from BBC." What the crap.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Hello again, thread! So what do I need to understand about Filipino culture before I can pass judgement on something like this? I always found it kind of off putting that Filipinos seem to always expect someone to clean up after them (for example, just look at a food court at the mall in the Philippines compared to one in the US) and, at times, seem to have no idea how to be independent.
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Argue posted:Won't anyone think of the poor persecuted fascists? Looks like Duterte's administration has been getting tips from North Korea on how to work their propaganda game.
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May 31, 2017 15:55
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Grouchio posted:Explosions and gunfire have been heard around a resort hotel in Manila. Looks like Duterte has his "Plaza Miranda" and subsequent justification for martial law throughout the country.
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Fanatic posted:Do casinos not have much security there? Surprised he was able to do so much damage without getting popped early on. There's armed security in like every small little shop in the Philippines, or even like fast food places, etc. The guards at the casino were probably not well trained because the one story I read about a shooting victim was because one of the guards shot himself when the robber burst into the room.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I am so goddamn sick and tired of having to defend the utility of exercising government regulation on Uber. What's the story behind this? I mean most of the people I know would still rather have Uber available than have to rely on taxis in Manila. I hated taxis there as well when I was living there. I can't even count the number of times a taxi driver would ask where I was going then pull away because he didn't want to go in whatever direction I was going. I also thought Kalanick isn't a CEO of Uber anymore.
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My wife and I wanted to vote for the upcoming elections, but it's stupid that it requires an in-person visit to the Philippine Consulate to get biometrics. I'm not going to travel to San Francisco from Seattle just to do that. They also had one of those consular outreach missions here a few months ago, but none of the options were for voter registration (only passport renewals and the like - you had to specify exactly what kind of service you wanted done from three or four options). It also ran out of slots within the first 10 minutes of opening up (after numerous technical issues on their end - including posting the wrong link to registration on their facebook page). Not really surprising that it was such a mess. Edit: Also while I'm complaining about the Philippine Consulate and their red tape, it's dumb that there's so many requirements necessary to let our US-born daughter be considered a dual citizen. My wife is still a Philippine Citizen and I'm a Dual Citizen. The SF consulate refused to honor my daughter's status because they require submission of a specific certificate (to prove that I became reacquired my Philippine citizenship) that did not exist when I reacquired my Philippine Citizenship in NYC in 2008 after being naturalized. I called the NYC Consulate and they confirmed that the certificate wasn't being given yet at the time, but offered no other help to even coordinate with SF. I don't understand why a certificate is even necessary when I have a valid Philippine passport that I wouldn't even have if I wasn't a citizen. ihatepants fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Nov 13, 2021 |
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