The very nature of politics is gaslighting is it not? I don’t see any reason why the accusation should be limited to President Rodrigo Duterte. Pandering is another politician’s trait. So is patronizing. In his Manila Times piece “Presidential gaslighting”, Professor Antonio Contreras again pushes this non-issue… The [“Duterte Die hard Supporters”] DDS had this…
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I thought this was a column piece of substance considering its author is a former Secretary of Foreign Affairs. In “The social media imperative” published on the Philippine Star, Roberto Romulo writes of “trolls”… “It was these ‘warriors’ on social media who delivered the presidency to Duterte, who won with over 16.6 million votes–convincingly and…
Filipino showbiz starlet Liza Soberano tweets something about the “plight” of Filipinos in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and all of Yellowtardom gush to the high heavens. If we examine the substance of in Soberano’s tweets, we will find that there is none — or at least nothing that is original. All there is…
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It seems popular Yellowtard social media personality Jover Laurio’s Twitter account @PinoyAkoBlog had mysteriously disappeared from Twitter. Even more mysterious is how major Opposition “thought leaders” are seemingly tight-lipped on the matter — almost as if they had all agreed to maintain “radio silence” about this. Leaks from other curious Netizens are emerging but information…
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In the midst of a sudden and uncharacteristic bout of self-awareness, Kakie Pangilinan has taken to Twitter to express her regret over emotion-fuelled but totally-misguided earlier tweets about the death of Philippine Airlines flight attendant Christine Dacera. It should be noted, however, that Pangilinan, daughter of Senator and Mrs Sharon Cuneta, caveats her apologies with…
Administrators of the Facebook group Defend UPLB (UPLB stands for University of the Philippines Los Banos campus) are under fire for seemingly sending a threatening message to one of its own members. A digital flier used by the group in its campaign against the proposed Anti-Terrorism Bill (Senate Bill 1083, “An Act to Prevent, Prohibit…
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Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Commissioner Rowena Guanzon is obviously not a very classy person. When you are privileged to have earned an excellent education from an excellent school, you do not use that as a means to put down other people. However, this is exactly what Guanzon does in a recent tweet. Adding credentialism to…
CNN Philippines “reports” that “vice president” Leni Robredo believes that funds for trolls should be used to provide protective gear for COVID-19 frontliners. In her radio show Biserbisyong Leni, Robredo said the following in Tagalog (translated to English by CNN Philippines)… I always tell [fellow government officials] that the funds they use to pay for…
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People have nothing better to do, it seems. They even turn hostage situations such as the one currently transpiring at the popular Virra Mall in Greenhills into entertainment for their friends and family. Why else would these people crowd around the scene of the situation armed with their phones taking videos and streaming these over…
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A GMA News “reporter” posting a video where he mimes messages (TikTok style) that denounce the “Martial Law Era” and presents “data” to substantiate these messages is making the rounds. Eduard Faraon has earned his 15 minutes of fame among members of the Philippine Opposition by making his partisan sentiments evident on Twitter Unbothered https://t.co/mQQojnDKIS…
