Rodrigo Duterte

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I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.

I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.

Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.

Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.

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Rodrigo Duterte

Discuss this fella.

He seems hell bent on ruining the Philippines' relationship with the US and sucking China's cock instead, despite conflicting claims over the whole South China Sea debacle.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philip...SKCN12C06Q

"About 250 Philippine business executives will visit Beijing with President Rodrigo Duterte next week as he puts aside years of hostility to seek a new partnership with China at a time when tensions between Manila and its traditional ally, the United States, are mounting."

I've got half a mind to think he's a Chinese puppet but China is increasingly becoming a massive power so maybe with such close proximity it is a good thing to be looking to taking advantage of their massive economy?

And of course there's his treatment towards drug users in his country. The use of drugs is definitely a problem in the Philippines, but there must be a better way to go about it than straight up death squads.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philip...SKCN1200B9
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philip...SKCN127049

more on the death squads
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/o...d-killings

(This post was last modified: 10-12-2016 02:48 PM by Gwedin.)

10-12-2016 02:44 PM