#elections
If you’re unemployed, hungry, and desperate, maybe don’t accept bribes to re-elect the same people who made you unemployed, hungry, and desperate in the first place?
Not to mention helping them retain and accumulate the wealth they’ll be using to bribe you with the next time, and the one after, and the one after that…
Anyway, here’s some monkeys.
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I am personally calling any and all germans on Tumblr to please translate this article here:
Someone replied with the article under this main tweet:
But the one who replied said that the newspaper shown is considered “rubbish” in Germany as it is more of a tabloid, so they suggested the article from faz.net.
If it isn’t too much, I would really like to know more about how the current issues here are being perceived by others outside of the Philippines, and if you can provide more context to the main tweet shown above.
“I’m sorry…”
I failed you, didn’t I? The future I hoped you’d have, snatched away from you in the dead of the night.
We’d fight for you Philippines. I’d walk up under the scorching sun and raise my voice just like what our ancestors once did. But I know that they hoped it would only happen just that one time Feburary 22-25, 1986. But here we are. Schools and Universities are threatening to shut down, running up to the comelec office demanding for the democracy unfairly taken away from them. The economy is going down with foreign investors pulling out all together.
Students and people who step up against the Marcoses are being red-tagged. Fake forms are circulating, gathering information of people who are against the government.
I’m scared for my people. You may be celebrating your candidate’s win, but I’m scared of that inevitable day that he will turn against you.
I’m really sorry. Maybe I should’ve done more.
Little vent art and I’m gonna rant a little.
Philippine elections is in 3 days, and for the past weeks we non-legal voters are told to keep our keep our mouth shut about the matter. Of course that doesn’t stop many of the youth to speak up, but being told that our opinions don’t matter is just unfair.
Do you know how scary this whole thing is? How people are openly choosing corrupt people to lead a country?
No. Because for 21 years, my parents, my people, did not endure a tyrant, a dictator, a murderer, and a thief, only for you to tell me to shut up.
We will never ever let that happen again.
In some states, you need to have an ID in order to vote. In other states, you don’t. Different states accept different things as ID (eg: In some states it can be things like a utility bill).
Vote Riders has a complete state-by-state list of everything you need to know about Voter ID: https://www.voteriders.org/get-voter-id/voter-id-info-cards/
Vote Riders also has a Voter ID hotline you can call if you need help understanding voter ID in your state, or if you need help getting an ID: 844-338-8743.
Voter Riders also has a contact form you can use to ask for help.
For those of us in the United States, an election is coming really soon. (In some states, early voting has already started). Does anyone have questions about voting or how voting works?
Four years… wow. If you support Trump, fuck you.
Previously I posted about the Korean presidential election and included a photo of the official candidate posters.
Well, local elections are coming up on Wednesday (early voting has already started) and that means it is once again election season! Already for the past week or so, campaign staffers & candidates themselves have been standing around in subway stations and on street corners, greeting everyone who walks by and passing out business cards so you remember who to vote for.
We’ve still got the official candidate posters, in order by party (and this time different based on area, since this election covers city & district-specific positions), but my last post left out the campaign banners:
These can be seen around basically every major intersection & subway station. The presidential election only had so many candidates, so the same banners were everywhere. Now we’ve got diversity! The major parties still have the most candidates running for various positions, so the numbers 1, 2, and 3 are still the most noticeable.
But my last post also left out the most infamous part of election campaigns here: The Campaign Truck
These trucks drive around blasting the candidate’s little “theme song” (usually 99% the person’s name + #, like the above 1번 1번 정진술!) and sometimes the candidate/someone stands in the back and gives a speech. I encounter at least one outside every subway station I go through.
They are highly annoying but I also find them kinda fun. I live back in some alleys that are too small for them to drive down, so I don’t have to worry about them circling around my house in the morning, though.
