Oh, come on Vector. When we say we like you as a person, we
mean it.
Politics and the Media disgusts me. A new issue in Philippine Politics is how a high-quality University student from the University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB) is disrespecting a presidential candidate. Now, this presidential candidate has rabid fans all over, and granted, he doesn't have much in the way of a horrible track record, except maybe a few select
700-1,700 extrajudicial kills, to which he admitted, and his
official endorsement and complicity with a Vigilante Squad.Now, since I don't live in his city, I can't really tell the efficiency of killing people in the wild if they're known to be criminals, bypassing the court, but it is reputed to have curbed the crime rates over there. If anything, he's incredibly popular because aside from the killings, he hasn't done anything to plunder government funds from taxes and feed it into his own lifestyle, which could have been lavish if he went the corrupt route.
The student, pressed for time, insufferably asked the candidate how they would allocate funds for country defense in terms of the local terrorist NPA group, versus the priority of education. As we all know, we cannot divide a whole number to become double its worth, so something has to suffer for it. Granted, the student
did disrespectfully interject when the candidate was trying to move on to his bigger point, telling him to directly tell the point because time was being wasted and so he could go home.
Conveniently, Rappler (online news outlet) left the tidbit in which the candidate said that he wanted to go home early, and due to the arrogant leanings of the student's attitude, was framed as if the guy was being arrogant for its own sake due to his educational background.
Cue the media, Facebook and all, vilifying the student for a poorly-worded statement, which caused the guy to take down his account due to death threats, and various barbaric leanings of the rabid fanbase wanting the student expelled for disgracing the FUTURE president.
I have no idea how they can be so damned sure that the candidate would win, although he does have the lead at the moment, and the fact that the fanbase actively discourages critical thinking and negative opinions, wanting to turn the country into a world of yes-men. They're all imbeciles, I say.