discussion Halalan ‘22: Philippines to elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, son of former dictator

[ClashAndBurn]

 

 

Expected to win in a landslide.

 

Note: for those who don’t know, “Halalan” is Tagalog for “election.”

[Jotham]

I was already expecting the worst but I still feel so sick at these results.

[Russell22]

[LustSpell]

The second you saw all the stuff on social media about the other candidate blowing up and having pop stars music played at rallies kinda sealed the deal for me. Felt like another Hillary Clinton situation. I'm feeling sorry for the Philippines and I hope they can get through things together

[Swiftie07]

Disappointed but not surprised. 

[aesthetic bih]

I feel so sad y'all

[Cloudy]

Just tragic

[supertiffany]

please help us 

[Archetype]

I feel bad for saying this, but y’all are doomed with these two.  I can’t imagine how people are voting for the son of a DICTATOR who stole billions from the people and the daughter of a guy who jails his critics.  

Edited May 9, 2022 by Archetype

[Mr. Duff]

This is so disappointing and sad

[Samsara]

57 minutes ago, Archetype said:

I feel bad for saying this, but y’all are doomed with these two.  I can’t imagine how people are voting for the son of a DICTATOR who stole billions from the people and the daughter of a guy who jails his critics.  

The Philippines is considered “patient zero” in global disinformation. That coupled with the an education crisis and the poorest reading comprehension according to a world report, you’ve got ideologues, political propagandists and online trolls flourishing and succeeding in altering people’s perception of their own history. 

[Mellark]

I thought Leni had this in the bag? 

[futurenostalgic]

how much of this “win” was riggery and fixing? cus yikes

[Jotham]

1 hour ago, futurenostalgic said:

how much of this “win” was riggery and fixing? cus yikes

The sad thing is, even if the election wasn't rigged, I don't think Leni would've won. The Marcoses ran a huge campaign deceiving millions of Filipinos.

[kwek_kwek]

1 hour ago, futurenostalgic said:

how much of this “win” was riggery and fixing? cus yikes

I’m not a statistician, but is it possible in elections to have a linear graph like this? 

[Marianah Adkins]

TikTok, Youtube and Facebook propaganda made him win this election.

This is a warning for other countries. You may be dumb and you may not have a solid legit platform but you can win an election by altering perceptions of history. Cambrdige Analytica did it again. **** them.

7 hours ago, LustSpell said:

The second you saw all the stuff on social media about the other candidate blowing up and having pop stars music played at rallies kinda sealed the deal for me. Felt like another Hillary Clinton situation. I'm feeling sorry for the Philippines and I hope they can get through things together

Tbh it was a hard battle to fight. She didnt have that much political machinery (compared to him who almost has all the governors and mayors under his payroll). The only positive out of this is that this will probably unite the opposition after 6 years of being in disarray. 

[Revolution]

Marcos, Estrada, Rodrigo, Marcos Jr. 

[Jormungand]

Can I say I'm surprised? Nope! I'm not even Filipino, but I took it upon myself to learn about the history of Ferdinand Marcos after a Filipino friend of mine shared a propaganda documentary that spoke about how Ferdinand brought the Philippines into the Golden ages some years ago. I thought to myself, if that were the case, why is the Philippines in these moderns times still lagging behind so many of its neighbors? Why would so many Filipinos rather work and or live abroad? 

 

What we're witnessing today is a family that returned from exile, systemically making it's way back to power and rewriting the very fabric and history of their own country. His family and the team behind him have managed to do something remarkable, and I don't say that lightly. Despots and families that have inherited blood money and or amassed ill-gotten wealth are going to take a page from his book and soon you're going to start seeing this replicated in other countries. 

[Cloröx]

My fellow Pinoy watafak is this 

[Ethereaaal]

Looks like the country chose to learn its lesson (AGAIN jfc) the hard way. I can’t. There’s no hope. I’m sorry, but how dumb can this country get. 

[Ethereaaal]

20 hours ago, LustSpell said:

The second you saw all the stuff on social media about the other candidate blowing up and having pop stars music played at rallies kinda sealed the deal for me. Felt like another Hillary Clinton situation. I'm feeling sorry for the Philippines and I hope they can get through things together

They’re literally not the same. Leni Robredo has to be one of the best presidential candidates this country ever had, which is why almost everybody with a working brain stood up for her. It’s not the celebrities speaking up that ruined her, it’s the years and years of disinformation that plagues the country.

 

Filipinos wasted her for that ****** useless Marcos (and I’m already being kind and generous with my words towards him); I think this country deserves what’s to come.

Edited May 10, 2022 by Ethereaaal

[kwek_kwek]

3 minutes ago, Ethereaaal said:

They’re literally not the same. Leni Robredo has to be one of the best presidential candidates this country ever had, which is why almost everybody with a working brain stood up for her. It’s not the celebrities speaking up that ruined her, it’s the years and years of disinformation that plagues the country.

 

Filipinos wasted her for that ****** useless Marcos (and I’m already being kind and generous with my words towards him); I think this country deserves what’s to come.

Filipinos chose the evil one when we had a good candidate.  
 

It’s our loss not hers. We wasted to have a good governance. ???

[Ethereaaal]

3 minutes ago, kwek_kwek said:

Filipinos chose the evil one when we had a good candidate.  
 

It’s our loss not hers. We wasted to have a good governance. ???

Exactly. We did not have to choose the ‘lesser evil” this time around. People can choose ‘good’ but instead they chose the literal WORST.

It’s so embarrassing to be a Filipino right now. 

[supertiffany]

exactly

 

Leni is different

She is such an open-book, the even her bank passbook is transparent for everyone. She is not from a political dynasty or a showbiz clan. Her showbiz endorsements are not paid by her camp, those celebrities even paid penalties just to endorse her. 

[supertiffany]

11 hours ago, Jormungand said:

Despots and families that have inherited blood money and or amassed ill-gotten wealth are going to take a page from his book and soon you're going to start seeing this replicated in other countries. 

This is actually the scariest of what will happen, it will just set a precedent for every corrupt officials of every other countries to follow.