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To the parents who are worried about sending their children to UP because of the potential "NPA recruitment" that's allegedly going on there, I'd say there's nothing to worry about. In the '70s and '80s, at the height of its powers, the NPA supposedly had around 25,000 active guerrillas (thanks -- or no thanks -- to its biggest indirect recruiter, Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and his Martial Law). Now government estimates peg the NPA's armed members at around 1,000 or fewer. If these recruitment drives by the communists were really that effective, shouldn't they still have 25,000 guerrillas now -- or more?  I'd actually argue that if your child decides to go to the PMA rather than UP, you have a BIGGER PROBLEM on your hands.

These people (I'd call them heartless but I'll settle for animals; they should aptly be called animals -- my profound apologies to animals) who throw the words “bopis” or “corned beef” around, especially on social media, while feeling so slick about themselves like they just spewed some words of wisdom don't realize that it was the struggle -- yes, even (or especially, whether you like it or not) armed struggle, you ignoramuses -- of people like RJ Nichole Ledesma and Alyssa Alano (of course the same like-minded people all over the world, not just in the Philippines, who came before them, but people like RJ and Alyssa, in their own selfless way that majority of us don't even have the courage to do, them deciding to continue the fight and eventually costing them their lives) that has brought us hard-won victories that the modern middle-class workers enjoy right now: the 8-hour workday, the weekend, overtime pay, minumum wage, social security, workplace safety, employer-p...

The fact that you won as the #1 senator is proof that the system is broken. Like I've repeatedly said before on social media, one big step to fixing the political system in the Philippines is if all DDS voters just somehow died suddenly of natural causes. The same voters, by the way, who put you in that #1 spot. So go ahead and leave. Nobody's gonna miss you anyway. And while you're at it, take the rest of the DDS senators and other politicians with you. Good riddance. 😂