This stupid, un-thought-of statement above shows exactly why politics should not be used to solve social questions. Nazi Germany got its legitmacy because of it. Stalinist Russia lasted so far because of it. The US has been its champion since forever. Extremist nationalism and social desperation are very good ingredients to allow totalitarian states taking over.

With your thinking in the BPO sector, I don’t wonder why this administration is deluded into prostituting this nation.

key points learned:

[8] the tendency of pinoys to give up almost immediately and pin the blame on somebody else is virtually irresistible, which highlights a society-wide problem

Very interesting.

There was this guy who stated “You do admit having said these gems, right?”.

And then quoted my statements:

“MLQ meant that even if there’s improvement but still run like hell; it can still/always be improved.
The government may regress from such improvement but that can still/always be improved.”

And then he added “Heck, you could drive anything rock bottom AND THEN say “it could still be improved.””

So clearly the guy knew that I was pro-improvement through and through.

(We were a democracy, then the dictatorship came, and now we are a democracy again. So clearly we had a regression but improved back.)

Yet on the same post he charges that I’m okay with marginal, minimal, … magnitude of improvement even though he’s going to quote the part where I say ” … it can still/always be improved.”

If someone was actually okay with such magnitude of improvement, why would that someone imply that such magnitude can still/always be improved? Why not go for status quo instead if such magnitude of improvement was actually okay?

Then lo and behold in the same post ; the guy insinuates that my first instinct when faced with negligible, imaginary, far off-target, marginal, or minimal improvements, is to stop trying. The nerve of the guy.

Go check it out. http://filipinovoices.com/quezon-for-senator/comment-page-1#comment-111290

Well he got shown where that “stop trying” thing actually came from. It came from him.

[9] “talk to the hand” is really funny when it actually applies to the situation =vP

Very interesting.

Cheers.

key points learned:

[1] (agreeing with apanfilo’s brief comment) mlq’s quote was a rhetorical device, that which filipinos have failed to comply with properly, save for the shift from martial rule to democratic government

[2] because we always have this second chance to improve, we take it for granted year after year (which would explain upngrad’s crafty comments)

[3] the unacceptably small improvements in government since 1986 edsa revolution have resulted in voices of dissent similar to chino’s, filo’s, dong’s, and apparently upngrad’s as well

[4] mlq isn’t being blamed here; it’s just that the leadership we have is so far from ideal (i got the weight loss analogy)

[5] degree of improvement does matter a lot, so marginal improvement translates to marginally meaningful changes that benefit the common filipino, minimal translates to minimal, and so on

[6] there may be more people out there who feel the same way as chino about how little has changed for the better (no worries bro, i know the word “nothing” was a figure of speech)

[7] we struggle to call “improvement” the unacceptable things we live with like institutionalized corruption (thanks for the link bong!) and media-driven personality politics because it’s an obvious contradiction

[8] the tendency of pinoys to give up almost immediately and pin the blame on somebody else is virtually irresistible, which highlights a society-wide problem

[9] “talk to the hand” is really funny when it actually applies to the situation =vP

cheers guys!

(agreeing with apanfilo’s brief comment) mlq’s quote was a rhetorical device, that which filipinos have failed to comply with properly, save for the shift from martial rule to democratic government
because we always have this second chance to improve, we take it for granted year after year (which would explain upngrad’s crafty comments)
the unacceptably small improvements in government since 1986 edsa revolution have resulted in voices of dissent similar to chino’s, filo’s, dong’s, and apparently upngrad’s as well
mlq isn’t being blamed here; it’s just that the leadership we have is so far from ideal (i got the weight loss analogy)
degree of improvement does matter a lot, so marginal improvement translates to marginally meaningful changes that benefit the common filipino, minimal translates to minimal, and so on
there may be more people out there who feel the same way as chino about how little has changed for the better (no worries bro, i know the word “nothing” was a figure of speech)
we struggle to call “improvement” the unacceptable things we live with like institutionalized corruption (thanks for the link bong!) and media-driven personality politics because it’s an obvious contradiction
the tendency of pinoys to give up almost immediately and pin the blame on somebody else is virtually irresistible, which highlights a society-wide problem
“talk to the hand” is really funny when it actually applies to the situation =vP

cheers!

Filo,

…whichever corresponds

That’s not a part of your earlier post so it doesn’t affect what was highlighted there.

But if you want to show if it has an effect on your “repetition”, do answer this: When improvement is imaginary; “it can always be improved” correspondingly means just as much as what?

Choose your answer from marginal or minimal or negligible or imaginary
or far off-target.

Then you might want to come back to answer “How can you improve it when that it can be improved is IMAGINARY?”

You want to be quoted, well you got quoted.

And you are likely to see this linked in the future http://filipinovoices.com/quezon-for-senator/comment-page-1#comment-111482

Dong,

I actually got to read your post before it got deleted.

Anyway, I saw that you stated “ok naman intentions ni quezon sa sinabi niya … ” in http://filipinovoices.com/quezon-for-senator/comment-page-1#comment-111471

Since MLQ’s intentions were ok to you anyway; can you kindly tell everybody why you posted an incomplete version of MLQ’s statement?

What was that, jl?

(sound of crickets)

Miss something again?

Keep ‘em coming. Haha

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dong,

He’ll be talking to the hand real soon, don’t you worry.

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Chino F.,

No need to further expound on what you were trying to say. Your dissatisfaction with the magnitude of improvement in governance is understandable and corresponds to what I described earlier. Somebody we both know was absent when figure of speech was taken up in school. Cheers man!

That you don’t get the word sarcasm and how the word “hopeful” comes into play is a pity.

Maybe you should reserve that pity for yourself.

Dong,

e ako getz ko mga pahayag nyo.

That should not surprise anyone.