#phillippines

What the Marcos’ return to power means for the Philippines - BBC News

What the Marcos’ return to power means for the Philippines

I really never thought I’d see a Marcos in power again. wtf

“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.

tejuina:

tejuina:

colonialism is so fucked like spain really just sold puerto rico, guam, cuba, and the philippines to the US when some of them had already declared their independence. and then when the japanese invaded the philippines, the US basically just left filipinos to their fate and returned when it was most convenient for them.

it’s baffling but some people on this site talk about colonialism and decolonization in super abstract ways and I’m just begging you all to read some history and learn about how colonialism has worked in practice and spare us all terrible ~hot~ takes.