Right now, the only “pro” we ought to be is protest. Social media has spoiled politics. The right to free speech is now a Get-Out-Of-Logic-Free card. Popular support has been hijacked by clickfarms and trolls, who stir the pot with lies and false reasoning. The bandwagon is crashing, and we are being distracted from this wretched truth.
However, shortly after people saw that post (on the original Facebook page), it disappeared. People thought its disappearance was a retraction, leading some to believe that the post was highly shady. Turns out there’s a different angle to the story, according to our favorite fake government publication the Superficial Gazette.
Everyone’s piling on Sandro Marcos for unironically loving a movie about an evil empire terrorizing good citizens and said good citizens fighting back, but hey, maybe this is a good thing for all of us. Maybe this means we could actually get through somehow, so out of the goodness of our hearts we’re offering him a list of five contemporary movies that are just like Rogue One to watch over the holidays in the hope that he’d finally get it.
I didn’t attend a rally because (1) I was never required to by a left-leaning professor, (2) I always found something more important—a class, an org meeting, a tambay session at the org’s hangout spot, or (3) I just never felt personally attached to the cause. At the end of the day, if I was going to stand in the heat or march and be all sweaty and grimy all day, it had better be for a cause I strongly believed in. I never found that cause. Until now.
Right now there’s not much we can do until, heaven forbid, they also manage to steal the vice presidency. For now, though, the reactions on Twitter are priceless as always. It’s a healthy mix of anger, defiance, and that lovely, typical Filipino humor. It’s how we can deal at this moment, and it’s a good first step to start discrediting an administration that already loves discrediting itself, one way or another.
Twitter citizen @marocharim noticed someone—he can’t remember who—wondering on the social media platform: what if Duterte is just holding an invisible handbag? After a few minutes of photo manipulation, Rodrigo Duterte Holding Things Was Born.
You’ve seen them on your News Feeds by now, but friends, Romans, countrymen, we present again for your consideration the Duterte Youth.
Local social media had been abuzz for the past few days over its new cause célèbre, the attempt to shutter the world-famous infamous Mocha Uson Blog on Facebook. There’s a petition some people put up on Change.org, that notorious site where anyone can just ask for anything as long as you can get enough signatures, although no one’s ever seem to have won anything by doing so.
Acccording to a report by Rappler, the Philippines has the highest digital populations in the world. 47 million accounts on Facebook are from the Philippines. That’s a lot of people.
Well, here’s another reason why China’s all sketchy af: they want to keep a score for everything each citizen does, whether it’s borrowing money, breaking traffic rules, or saying something bad about the government. It’s the credit score brought to its bleak, horrific dystopian extreme.
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