2022 Presidential Elections

[baludoy]

that issue is 36 yrs old... not new. timing is one thing

Wanna Ver just wrote this yesterday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...dinand-marcos/

It's so easy to brush off history when it doesn't suit one's agenda, doesn't it?

In the words of william Faulkner, "History is not was, it is."

do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do

[baludoy]

baka wala masyado reaction kay wanna ver coz she didn't say "f#ck my father"

One doesn't have to be rude and crass to make a point.

do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do

[uls]

maganda ang pagka sulat nito eh

Wanna Ver is the co-founder of Kapwa Pilipinas, an organization focused on cultivating reconciliation for the survivors of martial law under the Marcos dictatorship.

I was 8 years old when the “people power” uprising toppled the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines in 1986. I remember it as a terrifying time: My family was torn apart and I was forced to flee and hide. I felt I had been robbed of my home, childhood, country and culture. It took me decades to realize many things I believed about that period were lies — lies that are still being told.

I am the daughter of Gen. Fabian Ver. For 20-plus years, my father was Marcos’s right-hand man, the chief of staff of the armed forces and the overseer of the country’s intelligence and national security apparatus. He was the second-most powerful man in the country, fiercely loyal to the Marcos family.

I grew up being taught that the Marcos era was the country’s golden age. I believed that Marcos’s great achievements made our country and people flourish. In my 20s, Imelda Marcos, who was visiting our family after my father’s death in exile, told me that multiple public relations firms were smearing the Marcos name. I thought this was the reason many people described their rule as a “brutal dictatorship.”

I have lived in exile in the United States and Europe for most of my life. It was only recently, when I began doing my own research about the martial law era under Marcos, that I came to terms with the stories about my father and the Marcoses.

Today, Marcos’s son, Ferdinand Jr., is the front-runner in next week’s presidential elections, poised to reclaim the presidency that some believe had been wrongfully seized from his family. I used to believe that, too. It took me years of research to finally understand that the 1986 revolution was in fact peaceful, and that it was an important step toward building democracy in the Philippines.

Since then, I have worked with the survivors of the Marcos regime. In Sweden, where I currently reside, I helped form a group that is collecting the stories of those who had suffered during the dictatorship. Our goal is to give survivors a chance to talk about torture, arrest, extrajudicial executions and forced disappearances.

I interview survivors both as a journalist and the daughter of one of the men known for giving orders that resulted in their suffering.

To them, I am the face of a brutal dictatorship but also a witness to their pain. I tell them I am sorry these atrocities happened to them. A torture survivor told me our meeting was cathartic — I was the first, if not the only, person from the Marcos regime to listen to the horrors he had lived through, and the only one who has acknowledged to him and to others that what they suffered was wrong.

One woman thanked me for preserving the story of her slain brother and invited me to visit. Another wept. She is a writer who was arrested in 1976 and forced by her captors to point a gun to her head and play Russian roulette. She, too, thanked me. They appeared to be saying that if Gen. Ver’s daughter is here — listening and apologizing — maybe there is hope for reconciliation.

Marcos Jr. has not apologized for his father’s sins. On the contrary, he champions what he says are his father’s great contributions to the Philippines. Loyalists often ask for survivors to forgive and forget, but our deeply Catholic country knows forgiveness only occurs after confession, penance and restitution. Filipinos cannot move on because they have failed to listen to each other, to acknowledge and account for the sins of the past.

Many in my family feel differently than I do. They say “it’s time to forgive and bury the hatchet for the sake of our nation and the people.”

It is difficult to confront the past. My husband tries to comfort me, suggesting that, because I was so young when we fled the country, I only knew Fabian Ver, the elderly exile who could just be a dad. Not the Gen. Ver, whose army committed human rights violations and crushed dissent, not the loyal officer who stood trial for the assassination of Marcos’s rival, Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr.

It would be easier to keep quiet, but silence is what has allowed the revision of history and denial of people’s testimonies. I have heard enough stories from those who suffered and cannot be quiet any longer.

Regardless of who wins, at this critical moment in our history, I hope for a president who will have the courage to put the Philippines first, to listen to our countrymen and women, to choose reconciliation over revision, and carve a new path toward healing our nation.

unlike ung open letter ni bitter lorenzo inggit lang sa bilyonaryo niyang kapatid na paborito ng nanay

[TopEngine]

Wanna Ver just wrote this yesterday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...dinand-marcos/

It's so easy to brush off history when it doesn't suit one's agenda, doesn't it?

In the words of william Faulkner, "History is not was, it is."

do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do

what I mean is the issue of Martial Law, ill-gotten wealth, etc are not new to the people. All these issues wane down? maybe, maybe not.

but the son bad-mouthing his mother is unprecedented, in our culture. No 2 soft voters may feel disgusted and may go to other candidates, or to the frontrunner.

[uls]

One doesn't have to be rude and crass to make a point.

yes kung maayos sana ung pagkasulat ni lorenzo tulad ni wanna ver

ung "f#ck my mother" niya ang nag backfire



kaya dami nag react

there's nothing to react dun sa sinulat ni wanna ver

she sounds like a nice woman

[uls]

haha

westernized emo woke sh#t studied art history

what's he doing at age 31?

f#cking loser compared to his younger brother solar power billionaire

[uls]

walang utang na loob

pinaaral sa abroad since 18

pinapadalhan ng dollars para ma-sustain ang kanyang lifestyle abroad

turns around and curses his mother

great kid

he better not crawl back to his mother when fails in life

art history sh#t

hahaha

[Little Missy]

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[Sweetlucious]

Re: Wanna Ver

Shes admirable for wanting to right a wrong.

But I bet her father’s wrong doing surely bear “fruit”.

So dapat give back din nya whatever she inherited, otherwise salita lang yan.

[Devastator]

Ibang klase talaga....

Comelec recognizes Cusi faction as legitimate PDP-Laban wing │ GMA News Online

[_Qwerty_]

25M?? eh baka di pa maka 25K to..

[uls]

Re: Wanna Ver

Shes admirable for wanting to right a wrong.

But I bet her father’s wrong doing surely bear “fruit”.

So dapat give back din nya whatever she inherited, otherwise salita lang yan.

tumira kasi sa abroad all her life

naging woke

nakonsensya sa past ng tatay niya

[Sweetlucious]

tumira kasi sa abroad all her life

naging woke

nakonsensya sa past ng tatay niya

Pero yun pera?

[Kender]

Pero yun pera?

Yup, ibalik nya yung pera no? Lakas makapag demand ah.
Pero pag kay Jr meh...amazing...

[uls]

Pero yun pera?

yes if it wasn't for her father's connection to marcos she wouldn't have grown up in the US and Europe (even if it was in exile her standard of living is very likely far higher than of most people here)



she felt bad after learning about her father's role during martial law

pero ung magandang buhay niya was made possible by her father

how is she gonna reconcile that?

so kinonsensya

she felt she needed to do something para patahimikin ang kanyang konsensya

so eto ginagawa niya



kumausap ng mga martial law victim... nagsulat...

yan ang paraan niya so she can continue living her awesome life without her conscience bothering her

#cope

oookaaay

[Tha_Mann]

yes if it wasn't for her father's connection to marcos she wouldn't have grown up in the US and Europe (even if it was in exile her standard of living is very likely far higher than of most people here)



she felt bad after learning about her father's role during martial law

pero ung magandang buhay niya was made possible by his father

how is she gonna reconcile that?

so kinonsensya

she felt she needed to do something para patahimikin ang kanyang konsensya

so eto ginagawa niya



kumausap ng mga martial law victim... nagsulat...

yan ang paraan niya so she can continue living her awesome life without her conscience bothering her

#cope

oookaaay

so ano pala dapat gawin nya? mag ala JR na lang tutal eh nakinabang naman sya?

[uls]

so ano pala dapat gawin nya? mag ala JR na lang tutal eh nakinabang naman sya?

ok na ung ginagawa niya...

at least may konsensya

[uls]

but it would be nice kung pumunta siya dito at mangampanya para kay leni diba?

[TopEngine]

"UA STUDENT DIES AT 23 by suicide. A BS Computer Science student was found by one of his relatives hanging inside their house around 5:00 a.m., this morning of May 6, 2022."
I hate that no matter how much we try to remove politics from this reality to make it "fair" to the other camps, the trigger really is nothing but bullying by the kids from that kamp.
The kid was merely defending Loren Legarda from his schoolmates emphasizing her help with the scholarship grant they received, and the toxic camp can't just help themselves but attack, malign, disgrace, and insult him.
If you suffer from depression please for your sake do not enter into any political discussion especially this season. It's not worth it.
To these young kakampinks who are the material representation of toxicity, I have no words for you right now. But I am starting to hate each and every one of you.
I hope people had screenshots of the post last night. His teacher and his "friends" are one by one deleting their comments.
They need to be accountable.
Update: Family and friends report that the kakampinks from his school made a Group Chat to insult and degrade him behind his back. Convo got leaked and pushed him to take his life.
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What is happening, Lord.
I am burning with rage. -excerpt

[TopEngine]

kakampinks, could you advise your peers to STOP bullying, and hating?