Virtue signalling has long been the bane of any effort to implement initiatives that help the Philippines progress and prosper. Specially true nowadays is how that and its evil twin, emotional blackmail, conspire to slow or, worse, reverse the country’s march to progress. Nowhere is the battle between wokedom’s lame emotionalism and the sort of […]
If you don’t know what virtue signalling means, the below thread is a classic example. Pinapakita na isa syang mabait at maawain. The lady who tweeted this now has her account locked so the rest of the thread can’t be read. But it basically narrates how she went out of her way to help the […]
Ironic that Yellowtards, whose members are an assortment of religious nuts, shrill emotional blackmailers, and artsy social climbing types are now decrying those who “crucify” scientists who have long been consistent in applying systematic thinking on the back of facts. The fact is, science and technology will not thrive in a society addicted to poverty […]
News flash: governments don’t care if you live or die. It’s not the government’s job to fix your life for you. Don’t have an education? Read books instead of watching retarded teleseryes. Browse Wikipedia instead of Facebook. Nobody wants to employ you? Take a good hard look at yourself. Perhaps you’re unreliable, tardy, entitled, or […]
It’s one thing having a collection of expensive bags exhibited on a YouTube channel, but some people believe Filipino singer a.k.a. “Asia’s Songbird” Regine Velasquez went a bit too far when she likened an unpleasant smell coming from one of her recent acquisitions to a slum community known as the Payatas. In the video, Velasquez […]
Communism is so closely intertwined with poverty because by definition it is a social system that rewards you based on your needs (not success). Notice how almost always the words communism and poverty/poor will always pop up in the same paragraph. The question these activists should reflect on is this: are you communist because you’re […]
Some people are incapable of looking at the bigger picture. A simple act of enforcing the law can benefit the majority in Philippine society. As usual, “pro-poor” bleeding hearts like Inquirer columnist Gideon Lasco are up in arms over new Manila Mayor Isko Moreno’s drive to rid his city’s streets of illegal occupants… To the […]
Everything poverty touches becomes ugly. That’s a no-brainer. It’s the reason why squatters are an eyesore, the homeless stink, and malnutrition ravages one’s looks. For society to be pure in beauty, poverty must be eradicated. Thus there is no merit in putting the poor on a pedestal. It may be virtuous to give to the […]
Many Filipino “thought leaders” continue to carry on about food security, rising prices, the peso exchange rate and bad infrastructure like baying dogs in the middle of a quiet night. What they seem to have lost sight of is the root of ALL Filipino poverty: overpopulation. This little fact about the Philippines is important because […]
From what I gather, seeing the sorts of thinking that pervades the poltical chatter, the poor are too poor to extricate themselves from poverty. And so the poor are destined to be poor forever, it seems. It is easy to arrive at this conclusion in a society that habitually blames government for their poverty. The […]
