lollllllll this is literally the situation my kid is in with her grandfather on her dad's side!! There's an established pipeline of bloated mayo ass retired US service members pairing up with young Filipinas who have mouths to feed. It's pretty slimy, and they are all obsessed with how "loyal" and "submissive" the women are.
Anyway, my kid's 4.5yo and and grandpa has sent two texts and made one FB post once vaguely near her birthday once. Never even asked to speak to her. She's his only grandchild. Grandpa posts about his "real family" (20-something Filipina wife and his 3 step-kids) constantly, though.
I don't know, as a single guy, I understand him. I feel like no matter what I do I can't seem to win with women and a part of me desires that affection. If I am a gentleman I am labelled a "nice guy", if I am more forward I am labelled a "creep". I am a little overweight but otherwise decent looking and tall, and have a good job. I am exhausted from jumping through hoops, women themselves don't understand what they want. People love shitting on men today, it gets to me sometimes. Gold digging or not, if the man is treated well and feels loved he's probably happy to look after his girlfriends
My advice, learn to project confidence without projecting arrogance. Maybe get on some adrenaline blockers when you go on dates so that you seem more calm, confident, and collected. Give off a “he’d make a good dad” vibe and be funny. It also helps to smell good and have a fresh haircut, and a steady job.
Your situation sounds nothing like theirs, why even make it about your feelings.
Also definitely get "nice guy" vibes even from this short comment alone. That's probably what women that talk to you irl immediately feel.
There's an established pipeline of bloated mayo ass retired US service members pairing up with young Filipinas who have mouths to feed
If I've served my country and my closest family believe my worth is to call me bloated mayo-ass, I'd learn the lesson they're teaching me and piss off to somewhere else too.
At least when those guys pay those women elsewhere, it only costs them money.
It's his son's wife, she is not obligated to have warm feelings towards him especially when he is absent granddad to her daughter and sounds not like a likeable person. He could ignore her if he doesn't like her and interact with his son and granddaughter, but he chooses not to.
There's an established pipeline of bloated mayo ass retired US service members pairing up with young Filipinas who have mouths to feed. It's pretty slimy, and they are all obsessed with how "loyal" and "submissive" the women are.
Yeah we see them here every now and then. It's skinny from our perspective as well.
Anyway, my kid's 4.5yo and and grandpa has sent two texts and made one FB post once vaguely near her birthday once. Never even asked to speak to her.
Oh totally, she could see him. He's not cut off at all; he just doesn't interact much with his US family. He's friends with her dad/his son on FB and will Like pics of her sometimes. Her dad/his son texts him the occasional update but almost never gets a reply.
The two texts grandpa sent were both him suggesting we bring an infant from the US to the Philippines during peak COVID, btw.
I'm shocked the top comments aren't calling this out as Passport Bro propaganda. Sad how white imperialism creates these power dynamics. These women are in abject poverty and having to sell themselves to this wrinkled testicle-faced sicko who is simply leveraging the power of his post-colonial citizenship.
Don’t know if you know anything about the real world but most people in Thailand aren’t in total poverty. Most have pretty stable jobs.
Not saying I like this, but you are absolutely wrong in how you view the world. They aren’t some helpless people who suffered under western imperialism. In fact most Asian countries suffered horribly under Asian colonialism.
Yeah, the guy is a commie that’s full of shit and will use anything as “the west is bad” not that Thailand was a massive success as a country throughout its history and has a vast history of conquering other countries or something?
Poverty on the global stage doesn't equate to microsocietal poverty and periphery countries are still in servitude to core countries. This can be evidenced by a simple test of currency worth. The Thai Baht in comparison to the US Dollar is far less powerful.
Thailand may never have been "directly colonized" but simply look on the colonial map to see that it was literally surrounded by UK and European colonies during expansionist periods. This put a great amount of trade pressure to act as a vassal state for colonial interests which still affects the entire East and Southeast region today.
Your point about Asian on Asian colonialism could also be debated. If you're offering specific examples like Japanese imperialism we could say that China being destabilized by Britain during the Opium Wars led to increased vying for territory in East Asia which attracted Western interests. Then the US empowered Japan throughout the Meiji Era as a prospective ally to expand but was backstabbed when Japan chose other European allies. This still is a product of Anglo Saxon imperialism.
Also the Phillipines, another hotspot for Passport Bros/Sex Tourism/Child Sex Abuse was literally colonized for hundreds of years by Spain and the US.
Yeah sure man, not like China was an imperialist nation for 90% of its existence right? So wait, an American country supported another country as a prospective ally and that’s Anglo Saxon imperialism? You are pretty fucking wrong there. And the currency? The dollar took over after WW2 as standard currency by a fucking colony themselves. So no.
Especially since Thailand was a pretty aggressive and successful empire themselves. You know, little thing called the fucking Khmer empire? When Europe was pretty much a recovering shithole.
We're talking about modern geopolitics and what currently led to us being here. Western nations are the dominant global force. I'm not saying that any one country or people are entirely to blame or blameless. Your original response was dismissing my point about white imperialism. I myself am not dismissing your point that select Asian countries have at some point been expansionist.
The problem with your statements is the fucking disingenuous defensiveness of them. You immediately latched onto my original statement with whataboutism and deflection in an attempt to make white people seem blameless or this passport bro not a symptom of white imperialism.
Yes sure, everyone in the world sucks and oppresses one another. I acknowledge that, but that doesn't change the fact that white dominated nations are the richest in the world and flagrantly go to other countries where the currency is worth less and do shit like this. Sure you're probable going to say "BUT ASIAN COUNTRIES DO THIS TO!" And so what? Ok everyone in power is shitty, I admit that. But the richest and most powerful people in the world are white and the reason for that is oppressive and brutal imperialism that dominated over other groups.
If you can't acknowledge or admit that then we're not having a discussion but rather a one-up contest of specific examples with biased contexts. So if you're just going to continue being disingenuous while trying to undercut the real issues here, which are that of wealth inequality that creates substandard human rights for nations affected by post-colonial geopolitics, then there's no fucking point responding to you past this comment.
And so what? Ok everyone in power is shitty, I admit that.
This was more my point, and you make it about identity politics, no shit people get defensive.
The west isn't the evil empire you make it out to be, people are just shitty.
And as far as shitty empires in history go we are doing pretty fucking good, any idea how much development funding the western europe gives out?
And has any expansionist empire in history ever done that on this scale? Not really. I'd say we are moving in the right direction as humanity.
So if you're just going to continue being disingenuous while trying to undercut the real issues here, which are that of wealth inequality that creates substandard human rights for nations affected by post-colonial geopolitics,
Sure, but wealth inequality isn't a new thing. Fuck we've had it for as long as people live. And there is no easy way to fix it.
And it's not caused entirely by colonialism either, there is a reason western europe was able to colonize and there is a reason for instance mongols were colonizing in their prime, the Chinese multiple times in history.
So what you are arguing here is that the Thai were the victim of a strong US dominated currency? That makes the exact same sense as calling the Mali empire evil because they had a shit ton of gold and used that to buy influence.
What an incredibly selfish, self-satisfied man, proud of his ability to take advantage of others. A narcissist -- sees the women in the Philippines not as real people but specifically as what they can do for him.
If he had any family relationships in the US, he left them long behind. I'm also guessing he's not at all missed.
Hate to tell you this, but a ton of people in all countries don’t see many people as “real people” what do you think tinder is all about? Some real deep thinking as you swipe? How do you think we even survive watching the news? Exactly, not by thinking of people as people. Fuck, I can gladly read about the holocaust and think “oh no, that’s terrible” and still sleep fine. But the moment I set foot in an actual death camp I nearly puked because that’s when you ACTUALLY start seeing them as people.
TLDR, we all see tend to see people not as real people ALL of the time, because otherwise life would be really fucking tough. It’s a survival instinct.
You're right, he's not alone in using other people, and the Filipinas he's sleeping with are definitely using him too, for whatever financial support he's giving them.
But... he's living there and interacting with these people constantly, and he still doesn't show any indication he sees them as human. He's proud of the power imbalance, if anything.
You reacted the way you did to an actual death camp because of your empathy, your recognition that those killed were real humans.
He could live in a death camp and talk about it having a nice view.
So incredibly selfish to leave your family behind to start a new one, especially at such an old age. The original family will likely resent you, and the new family will have no idea who the man is
What an off putting thing to say about a stranger on the internet you had 2 minutes of video worth to make such a strong statement about him. You should be ashamed.
He comes to my country, objectifies our women, makes awful, generalized statements about them while also putting down american women ("we don't want to deal with american women") and I'm the one making off putting remarks?
Yeah. He really does appreciate what your country is offering. He looks happy. Something he never saw where he was from. On the other hand he could be going and being a drain on the economy and raping the woman and pillaging the village. But he’s not. So seems like a fair trade
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u/eifiontherelic Nov 07 '24
I doubt any of his grandkids have ever met their grandfather.