You can use some of the letters in sanctions to spell “anti-semite” so of course this is not possible.

Is he crazy charismatic and persuasive?

No, he has had virtually no mainstream media presence. Absent in nearly all debates and presidential interviews. His campaign relies solely on his family’s name and the propaganda and historical revisionism that the Marcoses have been relying on for decades. There were certain territories here that were always Marcos loyalists, particularly Ilocos Norte.

One of the biggest problem in this country has always been the amount of misinformation propagated on Facebook, Youtube and now TikTok. If you thought the situation in the US was bad, a Cambridge Analytica whistleblower confessed that the Philippines was the company’s petri dish for testing new proxies. Pair that with piss poor public education, and that’s how the son of a dictator wins.

If I speak I fear I will be in big trouble.

I feel like I was lucky enough to be exposed to radical-left content via Tumblr in my early years (however messy that site got) and never went down the alt-right rabbit hole, at least enough to absorb their ideologies. The worst it ever got was I used to watch a LOT of FilthyFrank, iDubbz, etc. and being involved in those communities was hell. I knew it was wrong but I had an almost voyeuristic satisfaction from watching how dumb it all was, like doomscrolling I guess? Back then, watching iDubbz defend his use of the N word had me thinking “Damn am I glad I am smarter than this”, but then I would just go back to watching Content Cop.

However… NEVER ask me what political opinions I had when I was 5 years old.

Neither did I till recently. Has some shitty DRM on it that is apparently hard to work around. Oh well.

Man, this is shit you keep in therapy. Not an online forum.