All memes aside, has Duterte actually done anything productive

Self bump

>>127995514
Done a drug war that killed thousands

Fighting terrorists who are controlling some land atm

>>127995514
Stats mean shit all..

Not completely bending the knees towards the US regime is an excellent accomplishment 4 example

>>127995514
Yes, we've got lots of soft loans and aid from China, Russia and Japan coming in. He's cleaning up departments, and he's purging people from even within his own ranks he suspects of corruption. Crime on the streets is down significantly, some long-overdue legislation is being passed, and projects that were languishing in bureaucratic hell are starting to move again.

Overall, he's aiming to pretty much double government spending on social services, and infrastructure especially, and his final goal by the end of his term is to federalize the country. Of course, it's yet to be seen if he manages to pull it off, but he's got a vision.

>>127997787
>he's got a vision

how would you describe it? Right wing land of opportunity?

>All memes aside
are there Duterte memes?

is he the guy that called out soros for fucking up his country's economy?

>>127997971
its trash just look what happened when our country was federalized its communism

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>>127997787
>pretty much double government spending on social services
WTF I hate Duterte now!

>and infrastructure especially
WTF I am #destroyerte now!

I remember how he said he would gladly kill 3 million drug dealers in the same way natsoc killed 3 million jews. The German butthurt was glorious.

>>127997971
It's pretty simple really: a government that actually works for the people, not the interests of elites based in Manila. A state that just works, isn't overly centralized, and develops the country outside the bubble of Manila.
>>127998686
It's really needed when you consider that the past 6 years the government was underspending drastically.

>>127999325
what about the ladyboys?

>>127999446
They're okay as long as they don't do drugs.

>>127999513
still legal to get massage?

>>127999572
Yeah if you're into that kind of degenerate stuff.

>>127995514
Not screwing it up more is better than trying to improve it and failing. He fixed some crime and that's the bedrock to improvement. They should use those lesser criminals for something.

>>127999741
thank you sir

>>127999572
>>127999777
Nice trips.

To clarify, it was never legal, but it's still business as usual.

>>127995514
He's made the Phillippines look tough and scrappy on the world stage which is preferable to looking weak and like America's bitch.

>>127999978
if its not prosecuted and policed its decriminalized which is basically soft legal

>>127997787
He's also done alot for agriculture, cracking down on illegal rice importation and "fake supply" helping farmers earn more.
The government also provides hybrid seeds to increase rice growth per hectare
Also the free irrigation project, which has gained ground

>>127997787
Whats up with him not standing up to chinese territorial claims in the south china sea?

>>128002642
In any logical stand point, we won't stand a chance against china unless it's american backed and he knew the western elites wanted that to happen all along so he did a 60gorillionD water polo against the prevailing geopolitical sentiments and did a business diplomacy instead.

Shit was fucking genius as it can potentially make the philippines trillions of dollars of foreign deals from joint ventures alone and not to mention him being a power broker between Xi and Trump recently.

>>128002642
Honestly, it was pretty quixotic in the first place. To China it's really about their security rather than their need for energy. They can source their energy elsewhere, but what they don't want is those sea lanes potentially being blocked off by the US Navy.

Duterte sees this, and he's willing to give China that peace of mind while making sure the country gets most of the cake. Escalating the tensions is lose-lose for everyone.

>>127995514
Go back to plebit

>>128003785
>>128002971
How does all of this benefit the Phillipines tho? Everyone else in the region is in some sort of anti Chinese bloc. Is relying on China worth the potential ostracization by other ASEAN nations and the US?

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>>127995514
>Has he actually done anything productive?

>he put hundreds of thousands of drug dealers and street gangsters in body bags
>dropped crime by 60%
>his actions alone are cleaning up the Philippines into a first world country

seems productive to me

>>127995514
Not sure if it's thanks to him or the previous administration but public services have gotten a lot better. It took a while day to renew a driver's license because people kept bribing and using fixers to cut in line. Now you can't bribe but it takes 2-3 hours to get a license renewed. Before you could easily pay a cop to avoid a traffic violation ticket, now you cant

>>128004261
>everyone else in the region is in some sort of anti Chinese bloc

Where are you getting this from, pretty much the only one as anti-Chinese as we were for the past few years is Vietnam, and even then, they still skim off considerable amounts of Chinese money in the backroom. Everyone else is a Chinese puppet like Cambodia or getting lots of Chinese money behind the headlines despite the tough talk sometimes.

>>128004261
>potential ostracization by other ASEAN nations.

m8... If there's an pivot to asia agenda, it's most likely an inter-asian policies rather than with a western influenced one.

We've been in deal with china since inception and the only exemption to this is the last administration doing fuck all to mess things up.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-31/five-to-10-years-from-now-asia-won-t-need-america-nomura-q-a