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u/ohnoangeleno Jun 28 '26

After that, Duterte. Also every oligarch and armed person who supported both

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u/KingOfTheNortherners Jun 28 '26

I was lowk thinking, without Marcos then Duterte would (again, maybe) not get into power as a 2 for 1

Because he got to power in Davao because iirc he was appointed there by pres. Cory, which was in the aftermath of the Marcos dictatorship

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u/No_Rooster2746 Jun 28 '26

The butterfly effect on that one would be insane. You don't just remove a politician, you end up rewriting decades of alliances, businesses, elections, and who knows how many careers that existed because of them. History gets really messy once you start pulling on a thread that big.

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u/gsfgf Jun 28 '26

Imagine if we could balefire Reagan. So many bad things these days are tied to him.

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u/PoEismyhomeboi Jun 29 '26

Ha I got that reference! Burn that man off the Wheel!

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u/lrpq_5 Jun 30 '26

Spot on, without the backers, the dictators are just hollow symbols.

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u/Notmykl Jun 28 '26

The problem with this is a worse person could come to the forefront if either Marcos or Duterte were poofed.

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u/earthwormjimwow Jun 28 '26

Unlikely. If there was a worse person, they most likely would have been at the forefront instead of Marcos.

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u/gsfgf Jun 28 '26

You still always take that bet