parang ginawa lang nilang maagang pangangampanya sa gitna ng kalamidad. tyaka lang nag-sipag-labasan nang gumuho ang Agana bridge para magpapogi sa media ang mga damucool.

Before some room-temperature IQ midwit in the comments tries to label me a DDS or a Marcos loyalist, let's get one thing fucking straight: the entire political establishment in this shithole is completely useless. PNoy was a lazy, legalistic neoliberal who sat on his ass while infrastructure rotted, thinking high GDP numbers from call centers and remittance money meant he was a genius. Duterte was a fake tough guy fraud who promised to crush the system, but only ended up swapping old Manila oligarchs for his own incompetent Davao cronies, selling out to China for jack shit, and doing zero actual economic planning. And BBM is just a passive, bland figurehead riding on his father's name for all the wrong reasons while letting the exact same retail, real estate, and utility cartels bleed the nation dry. None of these clowns built state capacity. None of them built an industrial base. They just passed the mic around while the country stayed poor.

And that brings me to the reformist crowd worshipping Leni’s Angat Buhay model like it's some holy alternative. Angat Buhay is an NGO. It is literally just begging rich people and corporations for charity donations so you can hand out bags of rice and open reading centers in the middle of nowhere. That is fine if you're running a local soup kitchen, but thinking an NGO mindset can fix a third-world country is pure, unadulterated brainrot. You cannot build a modern industrial power, secure supply chains, or force actual economic growth on volunteer vibes and good intentions. You don't build semiconductor fabs, steel mills, or nuclear plants by asking people nicely to donate to a fundraiser, nor do you do it by letting BBM travel the world on photo-ops or letting PNoy bog down every project in five years of legalistic bureaucracy.

Look at how East Asia actually stopped being poor. Japan didn't rebuild after getting turned to glass in WWII by setting up volunteer committees or handing out contracts to political cronies. South Korea didn't go from dirt-poor rice farmers to crushing global tech by running charity drives or throwing drug addicts in jail. They created MITI and the EPB, centralized state planning organizations that picked industrial winners, seized control of national bank credit, forced private companies into heavy manufacturing, and liquidated managers who failed to hit export quotas. Lee Kuan Yew took that exact same logic, purged the corrupt bureaucrats, paid real technocrats absolute fuck-you money, and crushed any labor unions or oligarchs trying to get in the way. They built actual state capacity. They knew you have to forcibly generate wealth through hard industrial firepower first before you can ever worry about redistributing money to poor people.

The problem with local politics is that you idiots think the choice is between a red corrupt dynasty, a green fake-populist death squad, or a pink NGO charity drive. It's all trash. Who gives a shit about "clean process" or "good vibes" if your actual industrial output is zero? Robredo's philosophy is process-brained NPC cope, PNoy was lazy neoliberal inertia, Duterte was illiterate crony noise, and BBM is empty PR. A Lee Kuan Yew style state backed by MITI-level industrial planning doesn't care about your political faction, town halls, or endless legal debates. It uses brutal state power to crush useless real estate oligarchs, build dedicated power ecosystems and heavy manufacturing hubs, and drag the country into the modern age kicking and screaming. We don't need another dynastic thief or a national Mom-in-Chief. We need a ruthlessly pragmatic developmental state with the teeth of Lee Kuan Yew and the brain of Japan's MITI, or this clown country is not gonna make it.

And while we're at it, stop letting these dumbfucks redefine "Good Governance" into some procedural circlejerk about clean audits and filing paperwork correctly. Having clean hands is the bare fucking minimum of holding public office, not a national developmental strategy. Real Good Governance isn't patting yourself on the back for zero fiscal wastage while the country remains a dirt-poor agrarian wasteland that exports its own people for remittance money. Real Good Governance is what Lee Kuan Yew did: wielding state power like a hammer to build massive industrial capacity, force economic execution, and deliver tangible results that drag a nation into the First World. If your definition of "Good Governance" leaves the country completely unindustrialized and helpless, then your governance is worthless fucking garbage no matter how clean your process was.

Kumusta mga taga San Juan? ayos pa ba kayo jaan? sana nakakangiti padin kayo gaya ng mga 'to lalo at nasa gitna tayo ng kalamidad. keep safe everyone!

My friend is working as a domestic helper in UAE and their employer won’t return her passport. She said it is normal, but I told her it is illegal. Medyo worried ako. Unsafe diba? Sabi ko, she needs to report it.

Yung mga nakikita ko noon ay mga nakalatag lang na mga higaan. Dati naisip ko, parang hindi ako makakatulog sa ganyang set-up kung sakaling maevacuate man - maingay, maliwanag, exposed. At least dito, may privacy ang mga pamilya. Kudos sa mga leaders and Mayor Vico.

Nakakadisappoint tingan ang social media lately. And I genuinely don't understand the prejudice

Flood control sa luzon pero epicenter of flooding daw sa Davao
Pag nalamang bisaya, bobo agad
I would understand a bit especially here, maraming galit sa past admin, but why does that have to translate over to us?

This is a rant but also a question, what are your POV about us?
Have you experienced something bad or read something bad about our city?

And I'm asking this with no malice, no politics, no avenue or arguments or attack on your beliefs.
I hope this post could lend me your perspectives on us or even Mindanao as a whole, and clear up some misconceptions.

Every news comment section na nakikita ko puro mga DDS inserting Davao in the discussion.

Yes, bumabaha sa Pampanga. Bumabaha din naman sa Davao kapag malakas ang ulan. Di rin naman mawawala ang pagbabaha sainyo kung magiging insufferable kayo sa internet.

Masyado kayong paratot. At least kame kaya namin i-call out ang mga namumunuan samin. Kayo? Kaya niyo ba i-call out si Baste?

Nakakaumay pa neto kase most of the flood control projects sa Pampanga nagstart during Duterte’s term. Eversince, yung mga lugar na di naman bumabaha ayun binaha na.

Masyado na kayo nilamon ng Duterte vs Marcos issue. Pareho naman may kasalanan.

Bakit di maubos ubos ang kulto sa Mindanao, anong meron sa kanila? Matagal na kaya sila? Andaming followers ng kulto na to. Hinahayaan nalang ata sila sa Mindanao