That Reddit account is uproarious. Typical 'First-world problem' nonsense.

Disowned by Mum.

Disowned by 'last remaining family member in [Mum's] side of the family'.

Disowned by stepdad.

'I wake up from nightmares almost every night, I haven't showered in days, and the only way I can make money is by sending pictures of myself, and being around men who are old enough to be my dad.'

Think about it. Our ancestors suffered from, and overcame, plagues, poverty and starvation... all just so that modern people could suffer from new problems like obesity or gender dysphoria. We replaced tragic problems with farcical ones.

Imagine some starving peasant after a long day's work looking into a crystal ball and seeing this guy today: 'Wait... I'm enduring all this and all that this descendant of mine has to 'endure' is an inability to accept the very same manliness without which my life would be even more difficult?'

Notice that the slippery slope is a 'logical fallacy' unless they make it?

Homo rights will lead to pedo rights? That's a logical fallacy!

Overturning Roe v. Wade will lead to the restoration of slavery. That's logically sound!

There has been a sort of agreement in which Marcos supporters effectively supported Duterte last election in return for Duterte supporters supporting Marcos in this election.

So, a lot of his supporters, yes. Marcos is now at the head of what is essentially a pro-Duterte party. However, Duterte himself basically claimed that Marcos would make a weak President. I don't believe he had ever officially endorsed Marcos even after it was clear that he had no successor to his legacy because of the bungling of two people: his daughter, and close ally Bong Go.

Because of his daughter's hesitation to run for the presidency until doing a partial U-Turn and deciding to run for VP, Duterte wanted a close ally who he has known for decades, Bong Go, to replace him. However, Bong Go also had limited motivation and didn't announce his candidacy until it was far too late, by which time much of the Duterte camp had decided upon Marcos. Bong Go then withdrew from the race, particularly because of poor polling and because he would only divide the Duterte supporters between himself and Marcos at that stage, potentially leading neither to win because of the Philippines' first-past-the-post electoral system (there is no Presidential runoff like in France).

Effectively, the reluctance of both people allowed the establishment to retake the Presidency.

Thanks for drawing our attention to that. I had no idea that he was (by their standards) ultra-liberal. That being said, Duterte was also weak on sociocultural issues.

Things have been moving in the pozzed, Western direction there, but I guess we can expect the Philippines to really start following the West in earnest if Marcos is going to trigger the slippery slopes of abortion, divorce and alphabet nonsense. However, there are plenty of queers and trans and similar types around; they just aren't as much a centre of attention as their Western counterparts. Things definitely aren't going well in their university system, for example, some of which became clear bastions of anti-Duterte 'yellowtards' over the past few years.

There's something of a fight between populism (Duterte family), liberal-pluralist pro-Western bullshit (Marcos) and a vaguely Christian cuckservatism (Aquinos) going on there.

I'm not sure if I would characterize it as a monarchy (that would be more befitting of North Korea or Turkmenistan), but it clearly shares parallels with other countries in that region in which political parties tend to be vehicles for elite families.

In Pakistan, you have the Bhuttos and Sharifs. In Bangladesh, you have the Sheikh-Wazed and Zia families. In Philippines you have the Marcos and Aquino families. If one of those families conclusively defeated the other, they would indeed look suspiciously monarchical.

Duterte was a bit of an oddball because he was able to break this duopoly. But just as Pakistan's Imran Khan has been replaced by another Sharif, we're seeing these elite families retake the Philippines as well.

I suppose if Aquino's son was the last President, making Marcos' son the next President doesn't seem that objectionable. However, it isn't a total counter-revolution against Duterte, since both Marcos' party and Vice President are both part of the Duterte faction. Whether Marcos has effectively puppetized the Duterte family, channeling their populism into serving establishment ends, or whether the Duterte family have puppetized Marcos, remains to be seen.

Duterte's daughter quite predictably screwed it up, since she would have sailed into the Presidency easily to continue his legacy if she didn't hesitate because she needed time to bring up kids or whatever, time which she all of a sudden no longer needs. But by the time she decided to enter the election, people already had their minds made up on Marcos.

Spot on. I saw this exact same video earlier today and noticed two things in particular.

The first is what you said. The Left go out and riot; the Christian Republican types that constitute America's poor excuse for a 'Right-wing' go out and... pray... This kind of asymmetry regarding reactions greatly helps them move everything further in their direction each generation.

The second is the obvious racialization here. I don't think a whole bunch of white baby dolls was chosen coincidentally when she starts shouting about 'killing the babies'.

The combined IQ of all of those commenters must be about room temperature.

Drivel I saw yesterday:

1. Somehow we're back in the Dark Ages;
2. Somehow, Handmaid's Tale has become real: we're in literal Gilead;
3. Somehow, America hates women;

Drivel I saw today:

1. We need a violent insurrection to... to... restore muh aboshun rights;

Imagine being dumb enough to think that starting a rebellion because abortion won't be a federal issue is somehow a good idea. No one is even going to stop these morons from having an abortion, since they probably don't live in Red states. They're upset over something that doesn't concern them in the slightest.