Man has got to have a code. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who strikes us as what you'd get if you blended Donald Trump with any given stereotypical Third World dictator from a bad B-movie (then threw in a dash of Paul LePage's anti-drug rhetoric
One of our Filipina friends thinks he is a great man who is trying to save the country. When we tried to show her facts about how this was not the way to do it, she doubled down on how awful it has been there and how he would make it better. She is sweet, but unsophisticated, as I say.
You know what? Maybe this goes against commenting rules, but I'm gonna fucking say it anyway. If this this little third-rate tinpot shitstain gets eye-for-an-eye'd by someone whose relative he murdered, no decent human being should shed a single fuckin' tear for him.
Eradication of opium addiction and execution of a lot of addicts as part of that in post-Revolutionary China is maybe a better comparison. Not a comfortable comparison, since it was successful.
I think there's a strategy behind the policy. I don't think they're looking at eradicating drugs. They just want to make sure they're the only ones who can sell them in the future. Duterte probably gets a nice cut from what his associates sell and he's doing his part to eliminate their competitors.
This is getting really scary--and I become more and more ashamed of being a Filipina. I used to be proud to be Filipina. Now I'm sad and ashamed that this rests on me, too, even if I have nothing to do with this.
I keep wondering if there's anything I or my family can do about this from out here in the US. We know we're not going back to the Philippines anytime soon. Not as long as that ape-faced Hitler is in power out there. None of us like what Duterte or his people are doing. But I think that nobody knows how to stop this monster and de-escalate the whole situation, either. It's like...just because you somehow get rid of Duterte, it's not like you get rid of him completely. What about all the other people who want to continue killing whoever they want and claim they're drug addicts or dealers? And how do you undo all this damage? You can't bring back the thousands of lives already lost. And...well. The Philippines is a very Catholic nation, or a Christian nation, at least. Many of us are still Catholic because that's what the Spanish gave us when they occupied the country. I wonder if these people think they can wash the blood off their hands and stand before their God with a clear conscience after they've killed people in their ape-faced Hitler's name.
Pol Pot Lite?
don't piss off the germans.
Hitler wasn't so bad -- he killed Hitler, after all.
Putin will always be Traitor Don's favorite, but this scrappy little up-and-comer shows real potential as Vlad and Don's sidekick
One of our Filipina friends thinks he is a great man who is trying to save the country. When we tried to show her facts about how this was not the way to do it, she doubled down on how awful it has been there and how he would make it better. She is sweet, but unsophisticated, as I say.
He is, he has, and he probably isn't finished.
I hope she Benghazis him in true Killary form.
You know what? Maybe this goes against commenting rules, but I'm gonna fucking say it anyway. If this this little third-rate tinpot shitstain gets eye-for-an-eye'd by someone whose relative he murdered, no decent human being should shed a single fuckin' tear for him.
Because he's an evil Hitler lover. No other explanation needed.
At least Pol Pot didn't gin up the pretense of some "war on drugs", he got right down to the massacre proceedings.
Still busy trying to sort out Bay of Pigs, Cuba
The basket of deplorables with the biggest and most depraved egos.
Eradication of opium addiction and execution of a lot of addicts as part of that in post-Revolutionary China is maybe a better comparison. Not a comfortable comparison, since it was successful.
I think there's a strategy behind the policy. I don't think they're looking at eradicating drugs. They just want to make sure they're the only ones who can sell them in the future. Duterte probably gets a nice cut from what his associates sell and he's doing his part to eliminate their competitors.
This is getting really scary--and I become more and more ashamed of being a Filipina. I used to be proud to be Filipina. Now I'm sad and ashamed that this rests on me, too, even if I have nothing to do with this.
I keep wondering if there's anything I or my family can do about this from out here in the US. We know we're not going back to the Philippines anytime soon. Not as long as that ape-faced Hitler is in power out there. None of us like what Duterte or his people are doing. But I think that nobody knows how to stop this monster and de-escalate the whole situation, either. It's like...just because you somehow get rid of Duterte, it's not like you get rid of him completely. What about all the other people who want to continue killing whoever they want and claim they're drug addicts or dealers? And how do you undo all this damage? You can't bring back the thousands of lives already lost. And...well. The Philippines is a very Catholic nation, or a Christian nation, at least. Many of us are still Catholic because that's what the Spanish gave us when they occupied the country. I wonder if these people think they can wash the blood off their hands and stand before their God with a clear conscience after they've killed people in their ape-faced Hitler's name.
Why did you post a picture of Ted Cruz?