adobomocha

Oliva Pope, but corporate 👔
dying on weird, unpopular hills all the time 🍅
my personal yapping doesn’t reflect my employer’s or my mom’s

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

Then again, why should a smart, beautiful boy pursue modest ambitions? (Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall")

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

When I was working at a startup heading a business unit, an official from this very ‘august’ and revered institution in Manila shook my hand and told me I was ‘too young to head anything’. Shows how seniority is deeply ingrained in our bureaucracy.

[Dictator Class Cruiser @DictatorClass]

We really need a DOGE-style buyout program here. Too much dead wood. Offer every civil servant over 55 (hell, over 50 even) early retirement with a full pension in exchange for leaving government forever, then restock the ranks with people under 40

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

First time to fly out of NAIA T2 in at least 7 years?? Wow - it looks and works so much better. Check-in was smooth and seamless.

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

@ilovechrissia @m0rtimah @miroscorsissy @chillang_1917 Apprehension over 4Ps in general is shared across the political spectrum. No less than Renato Reyes/Bayan called 4Ps ‘foreign-dictated’ and ineffective. IBON decried it for adding to the debt burden, even if PNoy actually tallied budget surpluses at times 🤷‍♂️

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

@m0rtimah @miroscorsissy @chillang_1917 Nah, the Filipino liberals you abhor actually templated 4Ps on Bolsa Familia. GMA studied LatAm cash transfers and PNoy expanded this to its fullest. This is a known fact hahah

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

Maybe Leni should run again after all. Maybe Leni can do what no other PH politician in history has done before - win in a second bid for the presidency. This is the era of comebacks - and Lula and Trump are two sides of the same coin.

[butch sandra hüller @sanchehuller]

brazil won so it means philippines is next #brazilippines

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

A country ‘brainwashed to need tagalog validation’ girl are you fr? Tagalog is literally the basis of OUR national language, which you also speak. It is OURS to use, develop, and love. Stop being so small-minded and regionalistic.

[Nikko TAN 💜 @nikkotaaaan]

@redbtkn For songs to be commercially successful, they have to be appealing to a country brainwashed to need tagalog validation... the bias with tagalog being a need gives people who write music in that language enough leverage commercially. Sorry 🤷‍♂️

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

@AJsaysthings That’s a reductionist take. Also, the form factor of the electoral process affects the results just as much as the candidates themselves. Brazil has a runoff, US and the Philippines don’t. Brazil also has a much more established and mainstream left/socialist party, unlike here.

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

This is actually outdated. Our new upper middle-income status corresponds to a higher poverty threshold of 8.3 USD per person per day. This is the threshold used by Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

[XdelaCruz ✝️ 🇵🇭 ⚔️ @XdelaC]

Who the *eff* came up with these figures/financial taxonomy!?

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

@comicalcasey GHULLI GUSH IS ICONIC

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

MDS in ‘92
Roco in ‘98
Mar instead of Duterte

[Skill Bugate @BugateCate]

PH POLITICS BIGGEST WHAT IFS

Alam niyo bang muntikan ng maging Presidente si Noli de Castro?

Kung maalala niyo, stroke ang kinamatay ni Fernando Poe. At madaming nagsasabi na dinaya nga siya ni Gloria sa 2004 election.

At that time, hindi na din talaga maayos ang health 1/

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

The #DragRacePH snatch game was awful. Only Merckz was bearable. Not sure what the judges were seeing in Bhorj. I love Bomba and wish Taylor was in the bottom instead. Andy was trying too hard. This season is becoming a snooze fest fast. 🥱

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

@vpsison They’re doing it out of economic necessity. Broadcast media is gasping for air - the deluge of self-produced content in the YT/TikTok era has really affected broadcast business models. It’s not the TV networks’ fault - you have to take a look at changing viewer habits.

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

The more successful ‘mass’ movements in recent PH history have tended to center on/need urban, liberal, and middle-class support - a demographic that is as fickle and transactional as they come. Political sentiment ebbs as soon as some sort of catharsis is achieved.

[MA13NG @crypt0mai]

some thoughts

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

It’s really ironic that the true post-EDSA golden era was PNoy’s. Reviled by the left, right, and China for their own nefarious agendas, PNoy was the only one who made more sensible choices for social, environmental, and diplomatic strategy.

[Daily Tribune @tribunephl]

China appears to have discovered something about Ferdinand Marcos Jr.: His administration may condemn Beijing's provocations, but its preference for dialogue leaves questions about what consequences China actually faces.

The Department of Foreign Affairs summoned Chinese Ambassador Jing Quan over remarks suggesting China could easily defeat the Philippines. The move was a formal diplomatic protest, intended to register Manila's objections while preserving channels for dialogue.

Malacañang, however, had already signaled that Marcos did not favor declaring the ambassador persona non grata.

Barely a day later, the Chinese Embassy was publicly telling Filipino lawmakers, “You are now on the list,” while separately rebuking Sen. Risa Hontiveros for seeking the ambassador's expulsion.

Imagine that. A foreign mission, operating on Philippine soil, openly antagonizing elected officials of its host country even after its ambassador had been summoned over provocative remarks.

Marcos looks weak not because he prefers diplomacy, but because his restraint appears to have done little to discourage further provocations.

Dialogue is not weakness. Diplomacy requires patience, restraint and the willingness to keep communication open even with an adversary. But dialogue without credible consequences risks becoming an invitation to further disrespect.

A president need not threaten war, expel every offending diplomat or manufacture a crisis to demonstrate authority. He must, however, establish boundaries that foreign representatives understand they cannot cross without consequences.

Instead, Malacañang has publicly indicated what Marcos would prefer not to do, even as Beijing's representatives continue to challenge Philippine officials.

Power is not merely possessing the authority to act. It is making others believe you are prepared to exercise it when necessary.

And right now, Beijing appears to have little reason to believe that provoking Marcos will carry a meaningful diplomatic price. | CM

#dailytribune

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

Meanwhile in the Philippines in this same time frame, GMA’s ‘strong republic’ was churning out nursing graduates to keep remittances flowing in as well as English-speaking graduates for a nascent, low-skilled BPO industry 😩

[Commissar of The Council of Kalinga @HindooMolotov]

Much of the gap between India & developing economies dates to 2004-2010, during the globalization rally, India was the slowest major emerging economy. In terms of pcGDP Vietnam overtook India in 2005, China's went from 2X to 5X of India's between

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

@balong0991 @BananaTanghulu You are spouting misinformation. EDSA 1 was not an American invention. Reagan was coddling the Marcoses right to the very end. https://t.co/IOS1D6LXLF

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

@BananaTanghulu EDSA 1 worked bec of military defections and the upswell of urban, middle class support for the defectors. The CPP was not in the equation in EDSA 1 at all, having boycotted and even acknowledged FM’s ‘win’ in the rigged snap elections. Get your history straight.

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

@ghullighush you will always be iconic!! Huhuh

[adobomocha @roughangelo]

@LRMF54 This is insane and I’m living for it!!!