xerxes xerxes:
Get over yourself. Trump loves power mad assholes like this.
Not everyone gets to live in Canada. Duterte grew up in a part of the Phillipines that hasn't known peace in all of recorded history. His worldview is going to be somewhat different from yours and his behavior, while shocking to you, is the result of a lifetime of experience which you haven't had.
I've had different experiences than you have. I've seen things in the world that make me see someone like Duterte and I can understand how he got there and I can understand that he just wants the shit to end. Sometimes the way to convince the assholes to knock it off is to drop a few of them out of a helicopter and to let the others know you did it and that you'll do it to them, too.
Sometimes you shoot them yourself to maintain order...like Saddam Hussein did.
I'm not saying I approve or support what these people do but I can understand the
necessity of it.
If I were facing a bunch of people who were responsible for murdering numerous members of my family I'd have no qualms about doing what Duterte is doing.
Over the years you have impressed me as being made of sterner stuff than most Canadians and I imagine given terribly difficult circumstances you have it in you to make Duterte look like a schoolboy. Maybe that's the heart of your criticism here is that deep down you know you're not far off from this guy.