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Super interesting. I work with almost all Filipinos (most of them seem to gravitate to night shift at hospitals) and some like that the voting system doesn't seem corrupt anymore yet dislike the current president.
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I have been talking with my Filipino co-worker about this stuff, and he is adamantly pro Duterte. I bring up about how does Duterte know if the people he kills are drug dealers and just replies to me that you just know. On the other hand, alot of my other Filipina co-workers are against him. In any case, I wonder what they long-term repercussions of this extrajudicial killing campaign would be on the country. Its obvious that I think they are hoping for a country similar to Singapore where both the crime rate and overall happiness of the country is low.
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Sep 6, 2016 06:14
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I have no doubts that some innocent people have been caught up in this. I mean, from what it sounds like, you can probably find someone you don't like, murder them, and simply say they were a drug pusher and get away with it.
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Sep 9, 2016 06:58
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Y-Hat posted:After reading sources in this thread and elsewhere, I figured dictatorship was coming to the Philippines. What I wasn't expecting was a grand total of three months to elapse between Duterte's inauguration and the end of Philippine democracy. If anyone in this thread can leave, find a way to do so. Things won't get better until they get far worse. That's ok cause you can relish in Marquez knocking him the gently caress out.
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Sep 20, 2016 06:33
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Argue posted:"I will tell them, ‘gently caress you.’" Spoken like a true Dutertinista. But from my standpoint, the guy just seems like a giant petulant baby that is lashing out at everything and everyone who dares criticize him.
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Sep 20, 2016 15:10
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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/philippines-playing-dead-survive-duterte-drug-war-160922173054835.html Interesting story about the drug war and puts a face to who these policies are affecting. As always, don't read the comments. From what I can see, most defenders are taking a supreme nationalistic approach attacking anyone who dares criticizes for not being from there or not living there long enough. One commenter nailed it in saying that this is primarily hurting the poor and that the people with real power still won't be touched. blackguy32 fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Sep 25, 2016 |
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Sep 25, 2016 04:36
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CronoGamer posted:Just saw this in Philstar today-- I'm guessing the Philippines will turn to China or Russia if that happens. The comments are what you would expect with people saying that withdrawing aid would actually hurt the United States.
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Sep 28, 2016 06:34
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Well yes I want to kill 3 million people but they are all addicts. Initially when I first read this thread, I thought it was just drug dealers he was killing but apparently he means to kill basically everyone using drugs. What you just posted singles both of them out.
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Oct 2, 2016 11:43
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Flayer posted:I really am shocked by the amount of vitriol towards Duterte in this thread. He is the democratically elected leader of a western allied nation with high approval ratings. Fantasizing about assassinating such a leader is frankly pathetic. Duterte is certainly better than the set of career criminals his government replaced. You're shocked that people don't like a politician who is at the forefront of a campaign to kill anyone he thinks is a drug dealer or drug addict without a trial? I actually only saw one person fantasizing about his assassination. But it's clear that the way to go about fixing a drug problem is not by leading a murder campaign.
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Oct 5, 2016 14:03
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Flayer posted:Duterte ran on a platform where he clearly and openly said he was going to kill drug dealers once elected and the people voted for him in huge numbers despite the fact that he is completely outside the normal political machinery of the country. Duterte is doing what he said he would and what the people of the Philippines voted him in to do. Calling him things like a dictator is just childish. If you have a problem with Duterte you have a problem with democracy as an ideology. Just because he was democratically elected doesn't mean he is above critique.
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Oct 5, 2016 14:47
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I can't tell if Duterte is really smart, or really stupid. Or maybe somewhere in the middle where he just doesn't know what he is doing.
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Oct 7, 2016 17:11
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I usually find that many of them trip up when you ask why only poor people have been targeted and why the suppliers haven't really be focused on. They usually have no reply to that.
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Xelkelvos posted:And nurses We have a ton of Filipino nurses, and they almost always work the night shift.
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