[-] DominicO@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 year ago

third world countries where multinational corporations have been buying up land and propping up and collaborating with authoritarian governments for decades: first time?

[-] DominicO@ttrpg.network 74 points 1 year ago

well obviously wet bugs are cleaner since they're surrounded by water all the time

[-] DominicO@ttrpg.network 13 points 1 year ago

what if... the US invasion of Iraq and Saudi censorship of the press can both be bad?

[-] DominicO@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 year ago

I'm from the Philippines and I can explain why, at least here, most people still use chrome. Over here, we're much more concerned about our money and time over our rights and privacy, which means we usually just choose the most convenient and cheap money-wise, which is why the majority of us still use chrome and why the government here can get away with so much shit. we don't care about our rights not because we're being given bread and circuses, but because we're too busy making a circus out of ourselves so we can buy bread.

[-] DominicO@ttrpg.network 59 points 1 year ago

non-american here. I knew the conservatives in your country were bad but holy shit

[-] DominicO@ttrpg.network 56 points 1 year ago

you criticize society... but you participate in society... curious

[-] DominicO@ttrpg.network 49 points 1 year ago

chatGPT doesn't chastize me like a drill instructor whenever I ask it coding problems.

[-] DominicO@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 year ago

idk man, the Philippines has been trying capitalism for a while and it only empowered the aristocrats here even more and turned them into oligarchs.

[-] DominicO@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 year ago

don't forget the US-backed Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr.. he oversaw a borderline ethnic cleansing campaign against moro muslims in mindanao, had thousands tortured and killed and sometimes had their mutilated bodies strewn on public areas(this is what we call salvaging), created an oligarchy that lives on today and, with his wife and children and billions of public funds, was flown out of the country by orders of Reagan when his regime was toppled by the 1986 revolution.

and now his son, who continues to deny his father's crimes and refuse to return the billions they stole from us, is president.

[-] DominicO@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 year ago

mmorpg sweats be like:

[-] DominicO@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago

that makes sense. Ever since 2016 the government here has been cracking down on both the news and the opposition so there isn't really motivation for anyone here to pull stunts like that.

[-] DominicO@ttrpg.network 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Filipino here, I'm curious how american politics got this, for lack of a better word, wild?

don't get me wrong, my country is far from better, but over here, the closest we have to MTG is probably Cynthia Villar or some other overly-vocal conservative oligarch in the senate, but they'd never pull stunts like this over here.

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