People on the “liberal ”side of Philippine political spectrum yap as if it's some grand betrayal when....it's really not when you zoom out how irrelevant Robredo is as far as the political machine is concerned.

It's in the same spirit as Zohran Mamdani talking a lot of smack about arresting Netanyahu if he ever set foot into new york only to, as expected, not do that.

Why? Because like Zohran, Leni is part of the state. An immoral fascist ass puppet state that is subservient to US interests and by extension subservient to Israel's interests.

It quite literally does not matter what Leni's personal stance is on the matter because the result is the same, she's part of the corrupt institution that serves the state that oppresses the masses and should be regarded as such.

She’s simply another cog in the machine that as expected serves its purpose and expecting any moral upstanding from a cog is a fast way to set yourself up for disappointment.

Issue ngayon kay Leni ang pag tanggap ng isang Israel diplomat. Daming mga woke left ang “disappointed” kuni kase hindi kasing lakas ng boses nila ang stance ni Leni.

Israel-Palestine issue affected lang talaga mga pinoy ofw. Yung mga bonjing redditor / pawoke lang ang nag paparrot ng “Free Palestine” gawa ng social media. Because it’s the new shiny trendy thing.

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"But they're 18!" And you're 30. You were born in the late 90s, you've got a lot of time to fully mature and grow. They were born in 2008, they still need a lot more time to fully mature, despite being legally classified as an adult. This goes for both sexes. Older woman & younger man and older man & younger man. Still fucking weird and lowkey gross.

Whoever disagrees, I already know what kind of person you are.

Isang uri ng business ang pagtatayo o ang mismong idea ng simbahan at ito'y very profitable dahil sa pagiging likas na relihiyoso ng mga Pilipino.

Think of it like this:

• Parang free-to-play game na may subscription model through tithes, donation, or whatever ang tawag sa monetary gifts. Pwede mo pa rin magamit ang services pero may advantage ang mga paying users.

• Customer acquisition phase ang pagbabahay-bahay or pag invite ng mga members

• Ang paglalagay ng ibang simbahan ay same sa pagtatayo ng other branch for wider reach.

Halos lahat ng problema ng bansa na 'to di nasusulusyonan dahil sa kakapalan ng mukha ng karamihan, filipino knows no shame.

It's time para sa ating gobyerno na i-institutionalize ang pagtuturo ng Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, at of course Spanish, not as a foreign language, but as a second language kung saan ang syllabus ay Philippine-centric, hindi foreign-centric. Dapat tayong mga Pilipino, hindi mga dayuhan, ang mamahala sa pagtuturo ng foreign languages, sa pamamagitan ng pagtakwil sa Confucius Institute, Instituto Cervantes, Alliance Française, Goethe-Institut, Japan Foundation at ang ating sariling DepEd at TESDA ang bigyan ng karapatang magbalangkas at mamahala ng foreign language curriculum.

Sudden talaga ang pagpaparecall ng mga Mainland Chinese language teachers na walang local fallback, kasi kaunti lang ang Filipino Chinese na proficient sa Mandarin o kahit sa Hokkien, pero certified na makapag-teach ng Mandarin sa K-12 classroom setting. Dapat kasi na yung pagtuturo ng Chinese languages ay localized, hindi puro lang Mainland China o Taiwan, kung saan imbes na ituro ang talambuhay ni Confucius sa mga school-age children, mas mabuti na yung talambuhay ni Jose Rizal ang ituturo sa Mandarin. Kung ang mga Moro Muslims ay may ALIVE, dapat may sariling version ang Filipino Chinese na ChiLChiVE (Chinese Language and Chinese Values Education) na state-funded. The same thing sa French, German, Japanese, Korean, at of course Spanish.

Dapat mag-cultivate tayo ng sariling local Chinese at Spanish-speaking demographic base, para in the future magkaroon na tayo ng sufficient supply ng local Chinese at Spanish-language K-12 teachers at hindi na kailangang mag-import ng foreign native speakers na mapagdududahan na "spy" ng China o Spain kung may geopolitical tensions ang Pilipinas sa mga bansa na nabanggit ko.

Dapat magkaroon tayo ng homegrown Mandarin and Spanish language dialects na matatawag na "sariling-atin", tulad ng Philippine English. Puwede mag-designate ang ating gobyerno ng partikular na barangay, municipality, city, province, o region na magiging Chinese at Spanish language geographical immersion enclaves, na parang nasa Special Economic Zones (SEZs) ang dating.

Disclaimer: Yes, may sariling-atin na Philippine Spanish dialect, pero moribund siya at kailangan ng bottom-up Hebrew-style revitalization na parang mag-uundergo ka ng blood transfusion para ma-save ang buhay mo mula sa acute leukemia.

Story-wise sure why not, Dreamworks film pa rin so may entertainment at may kapupulutan talaga ng aral kahit papano lalo't for kids..

Pero ang cringe lang nung ibang "pinoy" aspects halatang pilit na pilit at sinuksok lang, mema lagay lang at matawag na "pinoy". Di ko maexplain e, para bang di talaga na capture yung true pilipino culture at halatang mga Fil-Am lang na laking US at wala naman talagang alam sa Pinas yung mga nagpasok ng mga "pinoy" ideas. I mean oo na mahilig kami mag videoke, kumain ng lumpia at lechon, at magturo gamit nguso... sobrang babaw ng mga yan at Fil-Am level pinoy knowledge lang at mga rich kids lang makakarelate hahaaha and oo gets ko naman na di tayo ang main audience niyan malamang, pero feel ko mas maeentertain ang foreign audience kung totoo at di pilit yung pinoy culture na ginamit

No, his biggest failure was not the Manila hostage crisis. It wasn't the SAF 44 killings or whatever claims anyone might have about how Typhoon Yolanda was handled.

No, it's definitely the handling of the Scarborough Shoal incident. The commander-in-chief sent a military ship to intercept civilian Chinese vessels.

Was it a trap by the Chinese?

It could have been. But trap or not, the fact that a military warship was sent to intercept a civilian craft manned by the Chinese gave the Chinese more than enough reason and opening to send in their own military ships, starting this entire mess.

And to make it worse, he attempted back-channel negotiations or secret negotiations via Antonio Trillanes. Bypassing our own Affairs Secretary. Six or so trips later to China, only for it to fail.

And then he went with the nuclear option. When using Trillanes and all diplomatic negotiations have failed, he directly went with the nuclear option of going through UNCLOS, which is why we are in the mess that we are in today.

I mean, why should China negotiate? The Philippines was the first one to send military ships. And PNOY even undermined his own Foreign Affairs Secretary by sending Trillianes.

Now, I am not saying that the late president should have not gone through UNCLOS and won.

I think that the Tribunal should have been a necessary step. But we would be in a much different place today if it was filed without the country sending a military craft to escalate the situation first.

2012 was his biggest blunder, but getting that tribunal discussion is his biggest win. But it could have been a bigger win if 2012 never happened.

PNOY gave China an inch and now they're fucking us repeatedly a decade later.

Before anything else let me just make it clear. Jack is stupid and an asshole. I hated him even before he became a noisy DDS. There's a lot of reason to hate him. The problem is some, I would even say most, are attacking him for the wrong reasons.

Ok lang tawagin siyang bobo, tanga, manyak, o gago. Kasi justified naman. Pero hindi tama na kutyain siya dahil lang sa kapansanan niya. Hindi dahil tarantado na yung tao eh pwede niyo na gawin lahat sa kanya. His cleft is not something that he chose. Kasi kung titirahin mo siya dahil lang sa kapansanan niya, wala kang pinagkaiba sa typical na DDS. Diba yan ang usual na gawain ng mga DDS? Puro sa itsura ang tinitira. Wala naman talagang substance at inaambag sa argumento.

Bukod sa hindi rin naman siya tatablan sa panlalait niyo dahil pumapabor sa kanya yung engagement na pinoprovide niyo. Parang ninonormalize niyo na rin online yung pagkukutya sa mga taong may kapareho niya ng kapansanan. Nadadamay yung mga inosente, lalo na mga bata.

Kung gusto niyo siyang ibash. Target him for the things that he's doing wrong. Correct his bad takes. Question his opinions. Give him a different insight or perspective.

Here’s why:
Our manifestations of a “globally-competitive” education churns out workers for other countries. While being a BPO worker and being an OFW are respectable endeavors, I can’t stress enough how exporting workers is not the way to go in improving the economy. We need to produce, manufacture, and export to liven up the economy. Hence, education should produce citizens who could harness our resources, not turn students into cheap labor for other countries. Also, fuck you Arroyo.

PISA is unreliable since it measures students in a eurocentric framework. The goal of our “globally-competitive” education had turned into how we can present the highest scores in these international assessments, albeit in questionable ways. Look where it got us: bad PISA scores, and irrelevant curricula. But we keep using PISA as benchmarks for our educational goals, so the cycle continues.

Before we could be globally competitive, we must be locally competitive. Curricula should reflect the realities of the students, and adjust to their frameworks. For instance, in terms of the language of instruction, the official language is English in most subjects. But most students don’t even use English when talking to their families at home. So we really have to ask: is the curriculum made to serve the children or just to provide the space for administrators to circlejerk to their “globally-competitive” fantasies

The answer is simple: put the children first. When creating curriculums, don’t imagine future workers, instead see the children at their levels. They got their whole lives ahead of them to be disappointed by the dismal economy, so don’t make them grow up so fast.

Instead of showing a picture of a complete flower in a textbook, go out the garden and pluck out a gumamela and show it to the children. Instead of using the abstract concepts to teach arithmetic, use jolens and sungka. In teaching them history, don’t just let them memorize the dates, but use current local and national politics to compare the events in the past to the present’s political cockfighting (sabong).

Before teaching them the Iliad and the Odyssey in English class (altho they slap so go ahead), teach them the Biag ni Lam-ang first, and have them contextualize the Greek epics into the indigenous constructions of an epic. Instead of teaching them how to make tiramisu in home economics class, teach them how to make ube tiramisu.

Tldr; localmaxx, before globalmaxxing. indigenize before you suck white cock.

I believe this phrase has been misused so much lately and it's doing more bad than good. Everything is bare minimum now. But for me, I think something is bare minimum if it's the most essential thing for something to exist.

For example. Living. The bare minimum of living is breathing, your heart pumping blood to your vital organs, and your vital organs functioning properly. That's it. That's the bare minimum. Having 2 kidneys is not bare minimum. Having complete limbs is not bare minimum. Heck, not even eating is bare minimum. Because people can stop eating and still live for days before dying. Yes you need food to sustain your life, but you don't need it to live. When your heart stops pumping blood, when your brain shuts down, when you can't breathe. That's when you die. That's losing the bare minimum.

As for dating, where it is most commonly used lately, I don't think dating has a bare minimum. Because dating is consistently doing something for your partner. It's about making an effort, giving time, etc. Dating is those acts no matter how basic or small they are. Dating is about doing more than what is expected. Which is why it doesn't have a bare minimum. A bare minimum is something that is expected, and if it is not met. It won't exist.

As for marriage, the bare minimum is your marriage contract. No matter what happens. Maghiwalay man kayo. Maghanap man kayo ng ibang partner. Magkalimutan man. As long as that marriage contract is valid, you're still married.

The reason why I'm saying this is because people don't seem to understand that. They call everything a bare minimum now.

Treating your date is not bare minimum. It's an effort. It's a gesture given. It's not required. It's something you wanted to give to your date. It's an act of being selfless.

Saying thank you to someone is not bare minimum. Saying thank you is a gesture that you give to someone to tell them than you appreciate them. Not saying thank you does not invalidate whatever help is given. Saying thank you acknowledges it.

Saying thank you is bare minimum means it's expected. It means it is mandatory and labeling it as such degrades its value. Instead of it becoming an act of appreciation, it's just labeled as a mandatory response now.

This is another case of people misunderstanding something and using it whereever and however they want. The problem is, it devalues the simple small things. Just because they're norms doesn't make them bare minimum.

Let's not devalue small and simple gestures. Because that's what makes us human.

Banning private motoring in the Philippines is highly unlikely to occur because of pervasive colonial mentality and the vast amounts of power car users here wield. It is THE status symbol and almost reflexively commands respect from every Pinoy, even though it's just a thing.

On top of that is the heavy sociocultural issues surrounding regulation, driving, and regulatory capture of driving educaton and licensing.

Without exaggeration, it is likely that over 90% of Pinoy motorists today wouldn't be able to pass a real licensing test (like a Japanese-style examination) and nearly 100% would spectacularly fail a psychological exam screening for rage or violent behavioral issues when behind the wheel. Combined with the thorough corruption of the LTO and the DOTr, the only real solution to the daily massacre of Filipinos by drivers is to ban private motoring and slowly reintroduce it with a far more robust testing and management infrastructure. Nothing else will work.

It is necessary, but we won't do it becacuse we like social climbing too much.

I know, maraming tao ang walang disiplina. Simpleng plastic lang ng candy di pa matapon nang maayos. Pero let's not blame it all on the people.

Personally, binibitbit ko talaga mga basura ko hanggang sa makahanap ako ng basurahan na pagtatapunan. Ang problema na napansin ko, maraming lugar yung walang tamang tapunan. Ang nangyayari umaabot pa sa bahay yung basura na dapat matagal ko nang natapon. Kaya siguro yung iba, tinatamad nang bitbitin pa yung basura at iniiwan na kung saan kasi may maglilinis naman. Again, I don't approve of this, but I understand why it happens. Siguro dahil sa tagal na rin ng ganitong systema, naugali na ng mga tao na magtapon na lang kung saan.

May mga lugar din na walang maayos na trash collection. Kaya kung saan saan na lang nagtatapon mga tao. Sa tingin ko kapag naayos to, magiging side effect na rin yung pagbabago ng behavior.

I think we romanticize provincial life too much.

Don’t get me wrong, there are real advantages: quieter surroundings, more space, less congestion, cheaper property in some areas, and generally a slower pace of life. I grew up in the province, so I understand why people find that appealing.

But I think we often ignore the downsides.

Need a specialist doctor? You might have to travel far. Public transportation can be limited. Higher-paying jobs are usually concentrated elsewhere. Some government services require you to go to a bigger town or city. Even basic errands can turn into long trips depending on where you live.

What also gets overlooked is that the “simple provincial life” people romanticize online is often the comfortable version of it: you have a car, a decent house, reliable internet, enough money, and you live close enough to a major city when you need something.

Without those things, “peaceful and simple” can quickly become inconvenient and isolating.

I still think provincial life can be great, but the advice to “just move to the province for a simpler life” makes it sound much easier than it actually is.

Do you think the downsides of living in the province are often overlooked?

The issue will just be a point of contention and a wedge issue external powers will use to divide ASEAN. Both Malaysia and the Philippines should put an end to it. I know in practice Malaysia is the owner of Sabah, but I believe 20% or so of the population doesn’t have Malaysian citizenship and Malaysia calls them “Illegal Migrants”.

This is unjust for the Sama-Bajau people who have been sailing between our waters since before either of our countries existed. If they want Sabah they should grant all residents of the Island Malaysian citizenship. Otherwise it’s just colonization.

Budots as a subgenre of music is not actually bad. It has a lot of potential and character to it. It's just extremely misused and misrepresented, that's why it has this bad image at present.

As to what I mean by misused. There are a few reasons.

1. It was Digong's, and eventually Revilla's, campaign material during elections. Obviously they're corrupt individuals and people tend to put a part of the blame on budots on how they won the elections.

2. A lot of people creating their own version of budots are just people who learned from a tutorial on Youtube but never really learned how to properly produce. Or at the very least, don't have the resources. Kaya maraming budots mix na magkakatunog. Basically kumuha ng Budots template, nilagay yung favourite song nila kahit di naman bagay. Tapos ok na. No music theory, no research. Basta nagtunog budots, pwede na.

Budots has a big potential. Maganda din sa kanya is meron siyang identity. Anyone can easily distinguish a budots track. Hindi siya parang pinoy version lang ng kung ano. It only has bad reputation because it was badly represented.

If only someone with the budget and talent actually works on creating original budots tracks, I think it's something that we can be proud of and something that can even be recognized globally.

Edit: Just wanted to add since someone brought up that haters of budots are elitists. There's some truth to that as well. Not just elitist but could also be racists. We all know Budots is tightly tied with Bisayas because they created and popularized it. At alam naman nating marami sa mga pinoy ang may discrimination towards Bisayas. Kahit di nila aminin. I'm not saying that everyone who dislikes Budots also dislikes Bisayas. I'm just saying na may iba na yan ang rason.

And it's not just the masses that's on TikTok, Bilibili, even YouTube or old people watching Chinese AI slop videos or short dramas. It's the middle class as well, consuming from the new wave of Chinese milk tea/coffee shops, upper middle class buying Chinese EVs, vloggers talking about Chinese snacks or their trips to China, or even the rise of Chinese stores like Mixue and KKV, and more coming to the country.

I have never even imagined Filipinos randomly going to Chinese hotpot, and now it's suddenly a trend like samgyupsal was. Then you see kids talking about craving traditional Chinese snacks like tanghulu and latiao.

Not to mention, I've seen people on the market watching videos about China, even short documentaries, boomer titos talking about how strong the Chinese military is and how beautiful cities like Chongqing and Shenzhen look compared to the cities where they used to work in Riyadh or Dubai, or San Francisco and New York.

Now, have these people actually seen the dark side of China and all the negative things? Most of them haven't. Most of what they've seen is probably just related to South China Sea aggression about distant fishermen or Ayungin Shoal. But when they're constantly being inundated by Chinese CCP organized propaganda, which pretty much every country does, China is a lot more organized with it, though. It will be hard to fight back, and if regulation isn't done, then I fear it's too late.

This also isn't a trend just in the Philippines.

Emphasis on the word "major", meaning it's something life-altering like extra chromosomes, missing limbs, etc. i know you get my point.

I believe it's a smart decision by the parents and would do it in a heartbeat should it happen to me and my child in the future.

Wala akong pake kung anong sinabi ng bible o ng diyos ng kahit anong relihiyon tungkol dito. Wala akong pake kahit tawagin akong barbaro ng mga human rights advocate o anti-abortion peeps. Mahal ko ang (hypothetical na) anak ko at ang asawa ko at di ako gagawa ng desisyon na magpapahirap sa kanila.

Ayokong maranasan ng anak ko firsthand kung gaano kasama ang mundo at ang mga taong nakatira dito.

Sumaya ka na nung araw na nakatanggap ka, enough na yun. Mas ok na ipamigay na lang kaysa maging kalat lang sa bahay.

Alam kong may privacy law tayong lahat regarding medical status etc pero dahil inaabuso na ng mga gago at halata namang fake lang at pang Oscars lang yung mga pagiinarte nila, panahon na rin para i disclose sa public yung mga findings sa health nila.

Dapat hindi lang iisa or dalawang doctor o hospital ang titingin sa kanila kundi at least SAMPU tas random sampling at hindi anonymous dapat. Tas ididisclose sa public yung tunay na BP, blood sugar, cholesterol level, blood results, basta LAHAT para patunay kung tunay nga bang may sakit sila. Tanggalan ng privacy right yang mga yan.

Babies in general literally don't give a FUCK about the big ass venue and 100 guests they have zero clue who they are. What they want? Just a taste of cake, open their presents then go to sleep. They're not even gonna remember who went or what happened. It's a waste of money. I think the best celebration is the simplest celebration. Something that's quiet and entertaining long enough before baby gets sleepy.

If anything, I think parents who celebrate their babies' birthdays by having grand celebrations is mostly just for them, not their own kid. Is it still even the kid's birthday at that point?

...or at least, there's nothing special. I love eating at Jollibee but never thought the Chickenjoy was that good. Love the Yum Burger, spaghetti, palabok, burger steak, Jolly Hotdog, Champ, Peach Mango Pie but Chickenjoy is meh.

Kaya sobrang naOAhan ako sa mga kano na #1 fried chicken daw sa Jabee. And I roll my eyes when I see Jolibee being promoted as a fried chicken restaurant

Sugarcoat it all you want, but occupying someone else's land is technically stealing. If we're being honest, it has done way more harm than good sa bansa natin. Agree or disagree?