Leni Robredo, The Vice President

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ilan parte ng mindanao may abusayaf para igeneralize nung rappler???

[uls]

Again, my question is what would be YOU’re strategy if you were Leni’s campaign manager.

disassociate leni from the yellows but i don't know how that's possible

[shadow]

You're giving too much credit sa mga engot. Hinde nila maiisip yan sinasabi mo *uls it's just plain disinformation that made them voted that way. Basta makita sa FB naniniwala na sila. I really want to believe yun theory mo pero siguro pag mga ibang subjects not with filipino voters.


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[StockEngine]

its just a setup imo lol

[uls]

You're giving too much credit sa mga engot. Hinde nila maiisip yan sinasabi mo *uls it's just plain disinformation that made them voted that way. Basta makita sa FB naniniwala na sila. I really want to believe yun theory mo pero siguro pag mga ibang subjects not with filipino voters.


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tingin ko talaga kahit walang disinformation di mananalo si leni

ayaw na ng majority ang yellow eh -- that's the main reason

kahit nagpalit si leni ng kulay everyone surrounding her are yellows

kaya nagpalit sila ng kulay in the first place kasi alam nila the yellow brand is broken

just look at the senatorial candidates associated with the yellow brand... how many entered the top 12?

si bambam aquino nga umatras nalang... wala eh...

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napansin ko years ago nag fade ang yellow brand

di ko alam bakit di nakita ng iba



#didyouseewhatisaw

[Flipo]

ayan

galing mismo sa article you posted



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convenient explanation that marcos won on disinformation

so ang sinasabi ng leni supporters Leni would have won if it wasn't for Marcos' disinformation

di rin

Not surprised with you cherry picking the items which will support your way of thinking, and forgetting the bigger picture!

Marcos win exposes weakness of democratic processes | The Manila Times

Marcos win exposes weakness of democratic processes

SYDNEY: The landslide victory in the May 9 presidential polls in the Philippines of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of the late dictator of the same name who was forced to flee the country with his family (that included his young son) in 1986 by a "people power" revolution, throws another spanner into the adage that democracy gives people a voice to choose people to serve them and the nation.

Marcos Jr. was the clear winner in the presidential election on May 9 by a whopping 31,103,761 votes, or 58.74 percent of the votes cast. Never in the political history of the Philippines has a presidential candidate garnered this big number of votes and with a lead over the next ranking candidate, Leni Robredo, by as much as 50 percent in absolute numbers.

The election campaign and the results show once again that corruption and wealth thus amassed are a greater asset in a democratic campaign than principles and honesty.

Reflecting on the fact that Robredo's campaign was backed by thousands of young volunteers who wanted change and honest leadership, University of the Philippines professor and clinical psychologist Anna Cristina Tuazon lamented in a column published by the Philippine Daily Inquirer a day after the election asking, "What do we tell our children?"

"A large number of youths — a lot of them being first-time voters — had participated in this election wholeheartedly: attending rallies, joining civic and advocacy groups and participating in house-to house campaigns," noted Tuazon. "After the general listlessness and meaninglessness experienced during the pandemic, it seemed that the youth were hungry for purpose and a source of hope. They saw in the Leni campaign the hope that, yes, they can effect change in the world."

"What our youth bitterly learned, unfortunately, is that goodness doesn't always win, at least not in each battle," she argues. "The wave of collective shock, disbelief, anger, despair and hopelessness on social media was so palpable. The results gave our children very mixed messages."

The president-elect's father was ousted in a peaceful 1986 popular uprising that restored democracy after years of brutal military rule when thousands were killed, tortured and detained without warrant by state forces. He and his family were accused of amassing huge wealth plundering the country. It is estimated that they had up to $13 billion stacked in overseas banks and other investments, mainly in the US, Switzerland and British Virgin Islands.

Just two days after the Marcos family fled to Hawaii, new President Corazon Aquino established the Presidential Commission on Good Government and asked the Switzerland Federal Police for assistance to locate and freeze their bank accounts. Some $623 million were traced and sent back to the Philippines, but most of it is blocked and held at the Philippines National Bank until the Marcos family exhausts their legal proceedings that are still in progress. In July 2003, the Supreme Court reaffirmed an earlier decision that over P25 billion ($.47 billion) of Marcos assets were "ill-gotten wealth."

It is unlikely most of these funds would come back to the Philippine national coffers. And Marcos Jr.'s election campaign had ample funds to utilize using a slick and extremely professional social media campaign to glorify the senior Marcos' rule and present the son as a leader that would bring economic stability and progress to the nation of over 100 million people.

Not simply manipulation

"We can't just simply blame the return of the Marcoses to the political center stage as simply a product of manipulation or disinformation," sociologist Nicole Curato told Singapore's Channel News Asia. She has conducted research on voter preference for Marcos Jr.

"A lot of people have been discontented with the way the Philippines celebrates democracy but doesn't really deliver the results when it comes to better employment, when it comes to poverty alleviation. So, I would really not necessarily dismiss the Marcos Jr. supporters as people who are manipulated, people who are not thinking, or people who are just taking intellectual shortcuts," argues Curato.

The Marcoses' political comeback has riled human rights groups, who fear a return of authoritarian and corrupt leadership under the son. Human rights lawyer Joel Ruiz Butuyan argues that Marcos Jr. has a historic chance to carve out his own name and not go down in history as a mere caricature of his father. "This means withdrawing his family's opposition to the government's claims on ill-gotten wealth that are still pending in court, paying estate taxes and apologizing for the human rights abuses."

But he believes that this could be wishful thinking. "Marcos Jr. may also take the posture that he has been given blanket authority to do whatever he wants because of the huge votes he garnered. He may entertain thoughts that all his family's sins were erased by the massive mandate he received," adds Butuyan in a commentary in the Inquirer.

The huge social movement, mainly of youth that was built up by the Robredo campaign may keep the pressure on the Marcos administration to be accountable to the people and not go back to the old ways of his father. But Manila Times columnist Rigoberto Tiglao dismisses this movement as "unrepresentative voices of the Filipino people" who are funded and supported by the Church, Americans and the international media.

"[The votes for Marcos] mean the majority of Filipinos judging that martial law wasn't the 'Dark Age' the Yellows (liberals), and especially Robredo, have been shrieking against," argues Tiglao, adding that "his personality itself, which many think make him an ideal president — articulate, knowledgeable, diplomatic and not quarrelsome — helped him."

Nobel Peace laureate Maria Ressa (whose Rappler news portal supported the Robredo campaign) argues that in the Philippines social media has become a behavior modification system and since the 2016 presidential campaign when Marcos lost to Robredo narrowly in the vice presidential race, the Marcos camp has cleverly developed a social media narrative of silencing the narrative of Marcos as a dictator and instead promoting the narrative of Marcos as the great leader.

In an interview with "democracy.now," Ressa said that the information system in the Philippines — as well as elsewhere — is corrupted and blames Twitter, and Facebook in particular, for helping to spread hate speech and lies. In the Philippines she says that the Rodrigo Duterte campaign put social media to good use to propel him to the presidency and now Marcos — as well as his daughter Sara Duterte who has won the vice presidency with an even a bigger margin than Marcos — have shown the power of this media manipulation.

Ressa points out that Marcos Jr. is the first president to be elected without answering any media questions throughout his campaign because he did not give any interviews nor took part in election debates.

"If you have no facts, you can't have truth. If you don't have truth, you don't have trust. If you don't have any of these things, we have no shared reality," argues Ressa. "Without that, there's no rule of law and no democracy."

Pointing out that this year there are going to be more than 30 elections all around the world, "If you don't have integrity of facts, how can you have integrity of elections?" she asks.

This op-ed piece was first published in the May 2022 issue of the Sustainable Development Observer magazine of IDN-InDepth News.

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Nobel Peace laureate Maria Ressa (whose Rappler news portal supported the Robredo campaign) argues that in the Philippines social media has become a behavior modification system and since the 2016 presidential campaign when Marcos lost to Robredo narrowly in the vice presidential race, the Marcos camp has cleverly developed a social media narrative of silencing the narrative of Marcos as a dictator and instead promoting the narrative of Marcos as the great leader.

In an interview with "democracy.now," Ressa said that the information system in the Philippines — as well as elsewhere — is corrupted and blames Twitter, and Facebook in particular, for helping to spread hate speech and lies. In the Philippines she says that the Rodrigo Duterte campaign put social media to good use to propel him to the presidency and now Marcos — as well as his daughter Sara Duterte who has won the vice presidency with an even a bigger margin than Marcos — have shown the power of this media manipulation.

Ressa points out that Marcos Jr. is the first president to be elected without answering any media questions throughout his campaign because he did not give any interviews nor took part in election debates.

"If you have no facts, you can't have truth. If you don't have truth, you don't have trust. If you don't have any of these things, we have no shared reality," argues Ressa. "Without that, there's no rule of law and no democracy."

yeah sure

si maria ressa

ang pinaka-biased na journalist

[uls]

Athrunzala

ito empleyado ng American Left

they're on a war against social media



coz social media exposes their agenda

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kunwari fact checker sila

pero ang agenda talaga is to censor views that aren't in line with the Establishment narrative

[Ry_Tower]

You're giving too much credit sa mga engot. Hinde nila maiisip yan sinasabi mo *uls it's just plain disinformation that made them voted that way. Basta makita sa FB naniniwala na sila. I really want to believe yun theory mo pero siguro pag mga ibang subjects not with filipino voters.


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If you participated in campaign itself dun mo makikita yung saradong isip. Engot nga dahilan based sa tiktok, YT at FB na puro fake news naman. Puro sbai ni ganito, nakita ko sa ganito, bakit sa ganito, etc. Halatang hindi na pinag-isipan or niresearch yan. Forced feeding. OFW's nag best example niyang ginapang for so many years at unti-unting ginawan ng networks. There was a news about Taiwan OFW as well.

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Umatras si Bam Aquino kasi nirequest ng camp ni Leni na magfocus as campaign manager ni Leni for the presidency. It was a sacrifice na tinanggap ni Bam kahit na mas sikat siya sa ibang senate bets ni Leni.

About sa pagkatalo ni Leni, the first reason was disinformation ng ibang candidates. Ito talaga pinakamatimbang. That is a fact. I'm not saying na hindi valid reason yung iba (hatred on yellows, Leni supporters) pero malaking reason talaga ang disinformation.

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