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i'm so fucking tired of international media reporting on the philippine election with the undertone of "poor uncivilized savage uneducated little brown asian country is so so sooooo stupid for electing a dictator's son" as if there aren't thousands on the streets protesting it, as if there isn't electoral fraud, as if there aren't people staying at voting precincts for over 24 hours just to be denied their right to vote, as if this isn't a product of decades of US-backed imperialism and as if foreign powers don't have a hand in this decades-long project of historical revisionism. if you aren't reporting about the philippine election with these contexts in mind then don't report at all because fuck you we do not need your pity nor your "help"
#the philippines#elections 2022#halalan 2022#im so tired of the victim narrative. andaming lumalaban ang namatay hindi ko kailangan ang interbensyon ng ibang bansa kailangan ko#ng bala sa ulo ng mga marcos.
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Hey guys, I know I don’t post much in this blog anymore and I am not exactly sure who will see this but I’m posting this because today is the Philippine Presidential Elections and, just like what other people here are already saying, we’re fighting for our lives right now.
We are fighting against the return of dictatorship in the country. We are fighting against the continuation of corruption and injustice. We are fighting for a better future. We are fighting, so that we may finally know peace.
Today, multiple issues regarding the elections have come up. Vote-Counting Machines (VCMs) “malfunctioning”, SD cards missing, people getting PAID for voting for the dictator’s son and his party, and more. Even the commission in charge of ENSURING FAIR ELECTIONS is failing to fully understand the grasp said issues, wasting people’s time and votes.
If you do find this post and read it, all I ask is that you share the news about the Philippines. Anything about today (May 9, 2022),
about Halalan 2022/PH Elections 2022,
about BBM and the Marcos Family,
about Leni Robredo, Kiko Pangilinan, Chel Diokno and the rest of Robredo’s senatorial slate (+ Neri Colmenares),
and if this inspires you to learn everything else, then please do.
We are asking for your help, not in votes, but in sharing what is happening here to the rest of the world. Whatever happens, whatever the results are, we want the whole world to see what is going on. (But thank you to the foreign news outlets who have been speaking on this).
All the Filipinos are asking for is a fair government, where lives are recognized and uplifted. We cannot be kept in the dark again, we have had enough.
And if we need to meet in EDSA once again, then so be it.
#philippines#halalan 2022#elections 2022#ph elections 2022#leni rebredo for president#kiko pangilinan for vice president#leni robredo#kiko pangilinan#chel diokno#philippine elections#philippine elections 2022#philippine politics#politics#social justice
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sending strength to all filipinos reading this. we are in a very dark time and we absolutely do not deserve this trauma we're collectively experiencing because of the current presidential elections.
i was only 16 when president rodrigo duterte was elected. i witnessed news of people being killed by police numbering in the thousands. i was also 17 when i read about kian's death at the hands of policemen who planted a gun on his corpse and claimed he was a drug carrier.
in 2018 i entered university full of excitement and hope and a drive to change the nation for the better. i only experienced 2 and a half years of being on-campus when the covid pandemic struck. now, i'm supposed to be graduating and the government's current pandemic response has not allowed face-to-face classes.
6 years is a terribly, terribly long time.
in these past few months with the Leni-Kiko campaign, i have felt hope for the first time in a long time. i could see that this country was indeed desperate for change and the collective action across different sectors of our society. and then, i felt that hope dashed last night with the announcement of the unofficial vote count.
i won't discourage you from feeling all the grief and anxiety you need to feel. but in these coming days, we have to pick ourselves back up.
the marcos family's return without any sense of apology is not honorable. their manipulation of fake news to clear their name and rewrite history is not honorable. bongbong marcos being permitted to run as a presidential candidate is not honorable. the handling of the voting process yesterday is not honorable.
the way they spit on our democracy is not honorable.
it's time for us to rise up again because the power has always been with the people. we absolutely have to fight for it.
on behalf of the people killed during martial law. on behalf of the people killed under the duterte regime. on behalf of the student-activists, farmers, laborers, fisherfolk, environmentalists, artists, journalists, and urban poor who are the most vulnerable targets if a marcos presidency comes.
we have up-ended a marcos presidency before and we can do it again.
if need be, see you all in EDSA
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will maybe add some helpful informative links later
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I can hear the youth mourning for a future that will be taken, abused, tainted, and destroyed. We will endure another term of dictatorship.
When people say love can be tiring, none of us would have expected it would also be love for a country.
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Don't Lose Hope.
After watching our candidate, her team, and supporters put all their work, effort, time, money, and tears into the 2022 Elections, it feels like a dark shadow has been cast on our country again and there's nothing we can do about it.
I'm so sorry to the families who were victimized by the Marcoses. I'm so sorry to those who died trying to stop a ruthless and corrupt dictator, only for his son to wind up as President of our poor and starving country. I'm sorry to victims of the Marcos family, to those victims whose bodies were found and those whose bodies are lost in a place that their loved ones cannot find. I'm sorry to those who witnessed Martial Law and celebrated when Ferdinand Marcos was ousted, thinking their children won't have to suffer the way the Filipinos did in the 70s-80s. I'm sorry to those in lower socioeconomic status families who voted for Leni with hopes that she would be able to bring about change as our President. I'm sorry to everyone who hoped for a better future, only for evil to prevail.
Our hearts ache. Today, I watched my 81 year old grandfather sit on his own in a depressed mood because he couldn't believe that after doing his part in history by joining the EDSA revolution and voting on May 9, he was watching history repeat itself. He is too old to worry...but he worries because he cares the future of his family and country when he is gone.
But this is only the beginning. Before things will get better, they will get worse. But things can still get better. We cannot lose hope, because that's exactly what our corrupt government wants.
If you are lucky enough to be in class A and B, please do your part to help the less fortunate. We will suffer, but we will not suffer as gravely as those who live hand to mouth on a daily basis. It is easy to think that they might deserve it because they were the bulk of the voters who supported the Marcos family's return. But the truth is that their return has been carefully prepared for, for decades. Fake news, vote buying, poll manipulation, cronyism, corruption, political dynasties. The real evil lies in those with power and privilege who are educated enough to know better but choose not to do better. There is a reason why education is normally given the smallest budget, because these corrupt politicians benefit from the less fortunate's ignorance and miseducation.
The day will come when we are called to rally again and fight for our freedom. Until then, do not lose hope and do not forget to act as the miracle in other people's lives. The evilness of our government should not push us to tolerate and enable such behavior or worse, be as uncaring and without compassion as they are. Our country can be better if we continue to push ourselves to be better and demand our government to be better.
God bless you guys. To the non-Filipinos, please pray for our country or help spread the news about what is happening to us. We really need it.
#philippines#halalan 2022#halalan2022#letlenilead#letlenikikolead2022#leni kiko 2022#leni robredo#kiko pangilinan for vice president#edsa revolution#fake news#Anti Marcos#ph elections 2022#ph elections
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The state of the Philippines after the May 9, 2022 National Elections (Part 2)
continuing from here
"why are there so many tweets?"
I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE GRAVITY OF OUR SITUATION, ESPECIALLY FROM THE FILIPINOS' PERSPECTIVE.
this might as well be the only time I get to tell about it too
especially given that we have a history of being silenced and shot down by our political abusers.
read my messages. then try to understand. then read them all again.
I need you to understand and know this well. almost begging, even, because we are in a state of turmoil and we may have to fight for our rights — we might have fight for our lives
and if anyone asks what happened, and if anyone so dares to tell you that we were all fools- i hope by then you will have known the deep struggle we had to go through just to fight for ourselves and the very president we wanted to have
Filipino resilience should not be celebrated.
Accountability must be demanded.
[referring to the Commission on Elections] You are rich in funds. Even if- all we want is ONE reliable VCM (Vote Counting Machine). That's it. That's all we want. Voting should not last beyond 10 minutes, but how many hours have we been in line here?
The resiliency of Filipinos is not an honorary badge.
We should not be used to being sweaty, tired, and hungry.
— from ABS-CBN News Official Twitter
With this in mind, there have been some speculation that PayPal might pull out from the Philippines like they pulled out from Ukraine due to the Ukraine/Russia conflicts.
A freelance illustrator had to personally reach out to PayPal to clarify this.
I would like to end this with an archive of documents, news articles, and resources comprehensively detailing the Marcos era, especially during the Martial Law. He has committed heinous crimes against the Filipino people as well as robbed us of ₱203B which should have long been paid in their estate taxes.
Please help me spread awareness. I cannot trust the international media and news outlets to properly tell our experiences without dubbing us collectively as fools or idiots who let a dictator's son have power. I cannot trust them to tell how we fought so hard and accumulated too many supporters only to be let down by manipulation and exploitation.
That will be all, and thank you for reading.
#[ 🗣️ | the magical girl speaks ]#[ 📢 | the magical girl's signal boost ]#signal boost#boost#philippines#philippine politics#politics#philippine national elections#philippine elections#philippine elections 2022#elections 2022#national elections 2022#halalan 2022#fascism#dictatorship#bongbong marcos#ferdinand marcos#sara duterte#rodrigo duterte#the kingmaker
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i’ll share this one last tidbit because i’m scared to get hunted down by the government, but i trust tumblr anyway- but there already have been rumors of people getting redtagged in the philippines for being vocal about this elections
what’s redtagging? wikipedia describes it as “the malicious blacklisting of individuals or organizations critical or not fully supportive of the actions of a sitting government administration in the country.” redtagging is used to mark down names of activists or, honestly, anyone opposing the government’s beliefs for potential arrests, or in worst case scenarios, extrajudicial killings.
this has been happening in the philippines for a long time, but it’s only recently reemerged during the reign of duterte. while i can’t compile all redtagging cases, here’s an example thread i made last year that highlighted some cases from april-may. it can give you the gist of how it works. and with the suppression of press freedom (google maria ressa, ceo of rappler, a filipino news site, who got arrested. she was eventually awarded the nobel peace prize for speaking out), there are many redtagging cases that are not spoken about. a friend from a certain university has talked to me about many of their classmates immediately being targeted. many filipinos are in danger
and i’m already hearing that the gov is trying to redtag more people who are just VOCAL about this elections. i was not even gonna post this because i was scared something’ll happen, but i think people deserve to know what’s going on before i stop posting about stuff completely.
freedom of speech is a privilege in the philippines. now that sara duterte, daughter of the current president, is going to head the department of education, it’s important to continue uplifting, supporting, and sharing news and posts by filipinos. bbm is a son of a dictator tyrant who murdered and tortured tens of thousands, and they will revise our history books despite years of fighting against them.
again, we are risking our lives trying to post about this, so if you see any post about the elections, it’s important to stay informed. it’s important to get mad at our government on our behalf because at some point, we won’t be able to. here’s some good posts i’ve found that summarize the elections/the marcos family’s wrongdoings pretty well (1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5). and if you have the audacity to go “why the hell are filipinos so stupid to vote for this man?” please read this.
and when marcos gets fully instated, i want you to cause a ruckus, a riot. we can’t let another marcos and duterte ruin our country once again.
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If you've seen what's happening in the philippine elections I just want to clarify and say: I don't support the Marcoses. I voted for Leni and the people who's platforms I believed in.
I didn't support thieves and corrupt politicians.
The election is being cheated and our comelecs are cowards. They let money run the scene and gave us fake generated numbers. The statistics are so obvious as well.
There are multiple reports of ballot tampering and even machine failures. People were being asked to LEAVE THEIR BALLOTS behind or wait for new machines. People waited for HOURS, as long as 17 hours and more to be able to vote. Some are STILL waiting to vote. And yet they started releasing vote numbers even though we aren't finished voting.
The DILG and Comelec are trying to say the voting went smoothly, no reports, and everything was peaceful. But there's people dead, gunshots were fire, grenades were thrown in poll stations and yet they try to cover it up. Don't let them bury all this.
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The world needs to see truth. We're being robbed.
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This will be a non-Downton related post, but I'd just like want my mutuals to know that I'm from the Philippines and we just had our national elections and it's absolutely terrifying as the son of a late dictator is on the lead for president. And the daughter of our current president, Rodrigo Duterte, is in the lead for vice president. In addition to that, senators leads are filled with people who have crimes of corruption, is a celebrity, is a radio host and everything in between.
Incompetency at its finest. Lies and deceit on a pedestal.
I am a first-time voter and this just breaks my heart. Elections just happens only ONE DAY in the Philippines and earlier there were violence from other provinces and broken ballot machines. Ridiculous how we had 6 years to prepare for this one day and it's all in shambles.
Hoping for good to prevail in this difficult times.
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important for Filipinos and OFWs especially
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it’s so embarrassing to be a filipino right now. i am literally so ashamed. yall actually voted a dictator’s son for president? and a fucking actor for senate? i don’t like saying this but how fucking stupid are you? aren’t you thinking about the martial law victims and the people who took part in the EDSA revolution for YOUR future? the filipino people are fucking doomed. im typing this as fireworks are going off outside bc they’re celebrating marcos’ win. putangina niyo wala na talagang pag-asa pilipinas salamat nalang mga bobo
#rant#mine#philippines#halalan 2022#lenikikoparin#politics#lenikiko2022#literally the whole world knows he's the worst candidate and yet here we are#the ph is the world's laughing stock after this#COMELEC PALPAK
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I do not blame Filipinos.
What I do blame is those who spread misinformation.
What I blame is the education system that did not teach the significance of EDSA people power.
The dark age of the Philippines that they did not expound upon.
To the older generations. I am not angry. I am disappointed.
The future of our country is now up in the air.
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This might be my last post for the night (char early morning na but anyway), so I will just post this:
To any and every non-filo here on Tumblr, whether you are my mutual or just someone who happens to see this post,
I hope this encourages you to not only look into what is happening here in the Philippines, but also into what is happening in your own country. In your own home.
#personal#philippines#philippine elections#philippine elections 2022#halalan 2022#elections 2022#eleksyons 2022#worldwide#international#international politics#current events#international news#news
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i think one of the worst parts about the possibility of bongbong marcos becoming president again is that there are victims from the ferdinand marcos regime that are still alive and watching their worst nightmare happening all over again.
these people experienced severe torture, rape, harassment, beatings, and long imprisonment for refusing to stay silent back then and with bongbong marcos becoming re-elected, there traumas and experiences are being silenced again.
for their sake, we can't let another marcos become president.
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btw unless you fully understand the political climate in the philippines you dont get to comment on it. of course the media wont talk about us being guinea pigs for cambridge analytica, the us bailing out the marcos family, vote buying being so common here there are basically no attempts to hide it anymore, the VERY suspicious elections where countless vcms were broken for hours, people being completely unable to vote, election results somehow magically being transmitted so quickly to comelec, a comelec official promoting unsafe practices that leave ballots exposed to tampering, MULTIPLE comelec officials either being appointed by duterte or have connections to marcos (imee marcos, his fucking sister, is the chairwoman of electoral reforms) etc etc. like its so so much more complicated than “filipinos are so stupid they let marcos win”
#bubugbugin kita#lalo na yung mga filam no ang hilig magcomment pero wala naman silang alam 🙄#halalan 2022#philippines#philippines election#like this was not a fair election by any means are you kidding me
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More than 70,000 people imprisoned, more than 30,000 sexually and physically abused, and more than 3,000 killed during the Marcos regime. More than 30,000 killed extrajudicially on Duterte's so-called "war on drugs" for the past six years and more than 60,000 COVID-19 deaths due to his administration's incompetency and lack of a decent healthcare plan.
Only for the people to elect their son and daughter into the top two positions in the Philippines.
All these lives diminished into numbers. All these deaths for nothing.
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