• decadentrebel@lemmy.worldOPM
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    2 months ago

    This whole crack down on the Dutertes is just railroading of political enemies. They’re not going to go after corruption among their ranks like Romualdez and now Enrile. This is one thing that idiot attention whore Barzaga is correct at.

    It’s no different from when the elder Duterte was in power and set his sights on Aquino, Leni, De Lima, Trillanes, et. al. Or Noynoy going after Arroyo while shielding his allies from persecution during the PDAF Scandal.

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      2 months ago

      In any developing country politicians are no more different from their autocratic tribal forebears, as Machiavelli observes so how the princely houses make war with each other, either legal means or by violence.