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Bullies in the Internetz  

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Bullying of any form is wrong.
I remember back in high school, we were bullied for being nerds. So we fought back. A dozen or so fistfights later, the bullying ceased to exist. And strangely enough became sorta friends with the other belligerent students. But that was high school, a time when fistfights do not have any real consequences.
When kids get bullied, it's usually something they had not a lot of control over. It could be the braces, or that funky hair, or the way they walk. Or any random thing. Some kids live with it. Some kids are scarred for life. Some, like us, fight back.
Fighting is wrong.
It's just that in that situation, it kind of worked out well.
And then came tha Internetz. 
Christopher Lao and the Reporter Who Couldn't Keep the Sarcasm In
Christopher Lao should have been informed.

It was a different sort of bullying. No one can steal your cap in there. Or hit you on the head when you're not looking. Sure you get insulted, humiliated, and get all those memes made in your name. People laugh at you. The crazier ones call you names. The ones with no breeding curse you online.
It's degrading.
You can never live it down.
And you can't search yourself in Google anymore.

But really, whose fault was it that you're in a perfect position to be humiliated by even the dumbest prick and twats online? (Also, there are a lot of them, all deserving of the title, dumbest.)
Barney's Assault
Robert Blair Carabuena is pudgy and he's wearing purple.
That's why witty Internet residents call him Barney.
Also, he bullied that MMDA guy.
Victims of cyberbullying. They probably did something quite stupid. Did they deserve the humiliation? I believe they had it coming. Am I right? The Commission on Human Rights might beg to differ. Carabuena and Lao had something in common: Bad decision, caught on video. Are they that stupid in real life? We'll never know. That's where Tito Sen is different. You see, he's macho. Tito Sen came from a time when manly men can never be wrong. 
Plagiarism is always wrong.
Sure, it's not against Philippine law. Sure, everyone in the Senate does it. Apparently that means we should it slide. They're in a way. Politicians steal taxpayers money. It is as much as a truth as they are plagiarizing mofos. It's not that we're letting it slide. We just can't do much about it.
Atty. Hector Villacorta is a lawyer. I forgive his lies, they are part of his job description. I guess I just did not expect him to be that stupid. (My bad!)
L-R: Tito Sotto with brother Vic, and pal, Joey at a time when he still had credibility.
It probably sucks to be insulted by anonymous people on the Internet. They should do a Maricar Reyes. Shut up, disappear. Keep quiet. We've already established that people are dumb panicky animals with the attention span of fungus. When you're a victim of cyberbullying, take it from the Internet: STFU.

Please, stop humiliating yourselves.


 

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Reklamong Trabahador  

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Habang lumalaki ang sweldo mo, lumalaki ang tax. Dapat matutuwa ka. Pero hindi, kasi lumalaki din ang nababawas sa 'yo. Sa mga empleyado, tinatawag itong withholding tax. Wala kang takas dahil kinakaltas kagad ito sa sweldo mo.

Mahirap ang kalagayan ng mga empleyado. Paano sila yayaman kung sila lang ang nagbabayad ng tamang buwis? Yumayaman ang mga mayaman, dahil naiiwasan nila ang mawalan ng pera. Pero eto talaga ang mas malungkot, yung mga nakikita nating squatter, yung mga taong nang-aagaw ng cellphone, nandurukot, nanghoholdap.... HINDI SILA NAGBABAYAD NG BUWIS.

Pero saan ba nakukuha ang pang-pondo ng pang-relocate sa mga squatter? Pag may nahuling holdaper, san kinukuha ng gobyerno ang pambayad sa gastusin ng kulungan? Doble ang sakit nito sa mga kawawang biktima na tapat na nagbabayad ng buwis. Dalawang beses silang nanakawan. Nakakalungkot dahil kahit pwede silang mag-ingat para hindi na pisikal na manakawan, ay wala silang takas sa buwis.

May malaking problema tayo dahil sa paraan kung pano nauupo sa pwesto ang mga taong nagnanakaw ng ating buwis. Ito ay dahil halos 90% ng botante ay ang mga taong hindi nagbabayad ng buwis. Kahit na magkaisa ang lahat ng mga taong may utak at may malasakit sa bansa natin, hindi kayang labanan ang puwersang masa. Ang puwersa na laging binibili ng mga pulitiko. Pero bahala ka na, kung gusto mong maniwala na every vote counts. Hindi naman ako eksperto sa statistics.

Paano nga ba makaka-angat ang mga middle-class? May pag-asa pa ba na manaig ang mga matatalino at may silbi na populasyon laban sa mga walang kwentang salot? Mga mahihirap ang pinapaboran ng mga pulitiko. Boto kasi sila. Madaming boto. At yun lang naman ang mahalaga.

Kung umabot ka pa sa talatang ito, alam mo na rin dapat na wala na pag-asa. Mas mahirap ang solusyon pag TAO ang problema mo. Hindi mo naman sila pwedeng ubusin lahat. Dahil sinubukan na yun ni Hitler, at alam natin ang nangyari sa kanya.

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