Wait, is Duterte decent? I thought he was a fascist?
I feel what you said. Everyone thought Duterte is a fascist because far-right populists like groyper scum praised him as their dream strongman elected by the people. Duterte is what they wanted Trump to be. They fantasize a Duterte-like figure to dab on “Da Joo elitez” in AmeriKKKa.
When in reality, he’s more of a Stalin than Hitler. He’s more of a Maduro without the ruinous economic incompetence than Pinochet.
The CPP-NPA are bandits at best and Trotskyite larpers backhanded by Raytheon at worst, decieving a lot of Filipino kids in unis to take part in their ReVoLuTiOn only to become test subjects being blown to minced meat to test weapons by US arms dealers.
Most of the brutality of the drug war here are from asshole cops on the ground, not orders from the top. Why do you think Duterte is doing purges on the police force against the so-called "scalawag’ cops?
At that point I would take such insult to go to China as a badge of honor.