Respectfully, a lot of your comments appear apologetic to dictatorial/authoritarian figures and contradict "mainstream" thinking. What's your background/perspective? Given the support for Duterte, are you Filipino?
You point could be valid if it was not only a propaganda/marketing speech to cover terrible self interested crimes.
If his policy was so effective, why drug and criminality was still that high during all of his long time administration? Despite a lot of "democratic" countries respecting the rule of law not facing such issues.
And probably even worse, murders for all sort of reasons were very common, especially as corruption was mainstream. I guess when the president says that doing its own justice with murder as an impact in the way people and gangs solves their problems...
If any one still things that Duterte was a humanist, just ask yourself how did he build his wealth!
I am not, but I have some connection to the philippines.
mainstream thinking is what the pictocube tells people.
its very simple, stopping drug epidemic good, having druggies everywhere bad. call it dictatorial if you want, going after drugdealers is something I support. Duterte delivered big.
IMO that's a gross oversimplification which ignores the actual problem.
In my (limited) experience of the Philippines, the greatest problem is the total lack of domestic opportunity, fuelled by the view of labour as an export. It's compounded by the high cost of education which parents are expected to cover. Graduates enter a world of retail and BPO jobs because they are overqualified. There is no social mobility. There is no middle class. Folks sell their homes and what little land their families hold to afford healthcare, which a few privileged doctors build private rental empires on.
Against this backdrop Duterte's popularity appears consistent with other populist figures -- a machismo strongman claiming to execute the people's will whilst stealing from them for his own gain. Add in extrajudicial killings and increasing militarisation of the police and it's hard to see him as anything other than a tyrant.
greatgib|11 months ago
If his policy was so effective, why drug and criminality was still that high during all of his long time administration? Despite a lot of "democratic" countries respecting the rule of law not facing such issues.
And probably even worse, murders for all sort of reasons were very common, especially as corruption was mainstream. I guess when the president says that doing its own justice with murder as an impact in the way people and gangs solves their problems...
If any one still things that Duterte was a humanist, just ask yourself how did he build his wealth!
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redeeman|11 months ago
mainstream thinking is what the pictocube tells people.
its very simple, stopping drug epidemic good, having druggies everywhere bad. call it dictatorial if you want, going after drugdealers is something I support. Duterte delivered big.
sussmannbaka|11 months ago
weasel words. If you are going to publicly support extrajudicial mass murder, say so.
noplacelikehome|11 months ago
In my (limited) experience of the Philippines, the greatest problem is the total lack of domestic opportunity, fuelled by the view of labour as an export. It's compounded by the high cost of education which parents are expected to cover. Graduates enter a world of retail and BPO jobs because they are overqualified. There is no social mobility. There is no middle class. Folks sell their homes and what little land their families hold to afford healthcare, which a few privileged doctors build private rental empires on.
Against this backdrop Duterte's popularity appears consistent with other populist figures -- a machismo strongman claiming to execute the people's will whilst stealing from them for his own gain. Add in extrajudicial killings and increasing militarisation of the police and it's hard to see him as anything other than a tyrant.
archagon|11 months ago