Makadiwata
@makadiwata.bsky.social
Made in the Philippines from local and imported parts and self-shipped to Gadigal Country. I mainly talk about being polytheist, queer or mestize, or all of the above.
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Makadiwata
@makadiwata.bsky.social
· Nov 23
First things first, 24/11/24 version:
🏛 Polytheism is good
✊🏼 Colonialism sucks
🚩 Anti-theism is a red flag
📚 Language is dynamic
🇵🇭 The Philippines is internally diverse
🗣 Filipino (the language) is Tagalog
🌞 Philippine languages—not dialects
🌴 Filipinos are Asian (duh)
🫒 Lebanese are also Asian
🏛 Polytheism is good
✊🏼 Colonialism sucks
🚩 Anti-theism is a red flag
📚 Language is dynamic
🇵🇭 The Philippines is internally diverse
🗣 Filipino (the language) is Tagalog
🌞 Philippine languages—not dialects
🌴 Filipinos are Asian (duh)
🫒 Lebanese are also Asian
Also: diaspora “East Asians” (aka Americans) calling themselves “true” and “original” Asians is hilarious. That title historically belongs to the peoples of ancient Anatolia, and by extension of descent, the people of modern-day Türkiye.
The recurring online beef between East Asians and the rest of us is actually funny because, irl Asia, “East Asians” don’t normally see themselves as falling under the same category — that shit only happens in America where it’s easy to lump them together because it’s other people doing the lumping.
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Also: diaspora “East Asians” (aka Americans) calling themselves “true” and “original” Asians is hilarious. That title historically belongs to the peoples of ancient Anatolia, and by extension of descent, the people of modern-day Türkiye.
I don’t hate when Filipinos celebrate whatever connection they feel to “Hispanidad”. I hate that they never celebrate anything else.
November 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I don’t hate when Filipinos celebrate whatever connection they feel to “Hispanidad”. I hate that they never celebrate anything else.
I’m so sick of ‘kapwa’ this and ‘kapwa’ that. It’s the lexical equivalent of ‘ube’ in the Filipino diaspora. You don’t need to put ube in everything.
November 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’m so sick of ‘kapwa’ this and ‘kapwa’ that. It’s the lexical equivalent of ‘ube’ in the Filipino diaspora. You don’t need to put ube in everything.
Protestant Australia could need a communal day for the dead. Sure, we have ANZAC and Remembrance Day—our war dead are important—but what about Uncle Jack who did absolutely nothing in life? What about Tía or Nona who just stayed home? Sorry, but the pagan papists win this one.
November 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Protestant Australia could need a communal day for the dead. Sure, we have ANZAC and Remembrance Day—our war dead are important—but what about Uncle Jack who did absolutely nothing in life? What about Tía or Nona who just stayed home? Sorry, but the pagan papists win this one.
Atheists saying they don’t have “irrational” beliefs is like white Anglo-Protestants saying they have no “weird” customs. We all do, sillies. You’re not “special”, and thinking that you are makes you even more ordinary—because everybody thinks they’re special!
October 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Atheists saying they don’t have “irrational” beliefs is like white Anglo-Protestants saying they have no “weird” customs. We all do, sillies. You’re not “special”, and thinking that you are makes you even more ordinary—because everybody thinks they’re special!
The recurring online beef between East Asians and the rest of us is actually funny because, irl Asia, “East Asians” don’t normally see themselves as falling under the same category — that shit only happens in America where it’s easy to lump them together because it’s other people doing the lumping.
October 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The recurring online beef between East Asians and the rest of us is actually funny because, irl Asia, “East Asians” don’t normally see themselves as falling under the same category — that shit only happens in America where it’s easy to lump them together because it’s other people doing the lumping.
When you confine ‘religion’ to things that only resemble the Christian one, doesn’t matter if you’re the staunchest anti-theist, you are actually furthering Christian hegemony.
October 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
When you confine ‘religion’ to things that only resemble the Christian one, doesn’t matter if you’re the staunchest anti-theist, you are actually furthering Christian hegemony.
You’re not angry at “gender ideology”, you’re angry it’s not YOUR gender ideology. We’ve been shoving gender ideologies on kids since the dawn of time, we just want the next generation’s gender ideology to be based on science and human dignity.
October 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
You’re not angry at “gender ideology”, you’re angry it’s not YOUR gender ideology. We’ve been shoving gender ideologies on kids since the dawn of time, we just want the next generation’s gender ideology to be based on science and human dignity.
Somebody has to KILL the “Kill the gods” trope in mainstream fiction. This (suicidal) obsession with destabilising the divine order of the cosmos is juvenile. Ants have a better chance of killing us than us killing any God.
September 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Somebody has to KILL the “Kill the gods” trope in mainstream fiction. This (suicidal) obsession with destabilising the divine order of the cosmos is juvenile. Ants have a better chance of killing us than us killing any God.
Many of these out and proud new atheists that outright dismiss anything that sounds remotely “religious” or “theist” without thought or consideration because it doesn’t conform to their manifesto of unbelief are just Born Again Christians one deity less.
September 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Many of these out and proud new atheists that outright dismiss anything that sounds remotely “religious” or “theist” without thought or consideration because it doesn’t conform to their manifesto of unbelief are just Born Again Christians one deity less.
A tattoo of a NT quote in Hebrew? You’ve got to be Protestant.
September 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A tattoo of a NT quote in Hebrew? You’ve got to be Protestant.
Big difference between “This thing has overwhelming evidence against it being that” and “We have not studied this enough in its own right to confer with reasonable confidence that it is that”. They are not the same.
September 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Big difference between “This thing has overwhelming evidence against it being that” and “We have not studied this enough in its own right to confer with reasonable confidence that it is that”. They are not the same.
I’ve never understood the phrase “Glory to Jesus”. Does he want it? I’ve never heard him ask for that.
September 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I’ve never understood the phrase “Glory to Jesus”. Does he want it? I’ve never heard him ask for that.
“POV different from yours” and it’s homophobia/transphobia and racism.
September 12, 2025 at 4:11 AM
“POV different from yours” and it’s homophobia/transphobia and racism.
The second most glaring problem with racial profiling is that it’s highly subjective, inconsistent, and overall unreliable — what “looks” like racial group x may be different for the next person. Because race is made-up. The first problem, of course, is that it’s immoral.
September 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The second most glaring problem with racial profiling is that it’s highly subjective, inconsistent, and overall unreliable — what “looks” like racial group x may be different for the next person. Because race is made-up. The first problem, of course, is that it’s immoral.
Whether I was circumcised or not, I would’ve been the oddball in either side of my extended family. Filipino boys are expected to be cut, and Lebo Christian boys are expected to be uncut.
September 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Whether I was circumcised or not, I would’ve been the oddball in either side of my extended family. Filipino boys are expected to be cut, and Lebo Christian boys are expected to be uncut.
Internal kink-shaming in the online queer community is (usually) just internalised queerphobia because the same kinks exist in the heterosexual world, but when it’s openly kinky gay people, we all of a sudden have to think about the “children”.
August 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Internal kink-shaming in the online queer community is (usually) just internalised queerphobia because the same kinks exist in the heterosexual world, but when it’s openly kinky gay people, we all of a sudden have to think about the “children”.
Catholicism is so part and parcel of mainstream Filipino culture that cradle Catholics are willing to accept the evangelical assertion that Catholics are not Christian. Spoke to my Argentinian coworker, and it seems to be the same for them, too.
August 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Catholicism is so part and parcel of mainstream Filipino culture that cradle Catholics are willing to accept the evangelical assertion that Catholics are not Christian. Spoke to my Argentinian coworker, and it seems to be the same for them, too.
It’s weird to expect kids adopted from, say, Vietnam or China to know or understand or relate to a culture they weren’t raised in. Culture isn’t genetic. You don’t magically inherit feelings of cultural attachment from your bio parents — all these things are learnt.
August 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
It’s weird to expect kids adopted from, say, Vietnam or China to know or understand or relate to a culture they weren’t raised in. Culture isn’t genetic. You don’t magically inherit feelings of cultural attachment from your bio parents — all these things are learnt.
White supremacy would have us believe (the indefensible myth) that there exists a singular, linear “progression” from Ancient Athens to Washington D.C. That pasty diaspora Anglo-Saxon mutts are the heirs to Athenian democracy and the Roman Empire. The hilarity of it all.
August 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
White supremacy would have us believe (the indefensible myth) that there exists a singular, linear “progression” from Ancient Athens to Washington D.C. That pasty diaspora Anglo-Saxon mutts are the heirs to Athenian democracy and the Roman Empire. The hilarity of it all.
Every ‘native European’ who claims to love the culture of their forebears must reject white supremacy. The false promises of white supremacy will not bring about some “pan-European cultural utopia” under the banner of skin colour. Has never happened and (gods willing) never will.
August 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Every ‘native European’ who claims to love the culture of their forebears must reject white supremacy. The false promises of white supremacy will not bring about some “pan-European cultural utopia” under the banner of skin colour. Has never happened and (gods willing) never will.
Real talk: sometimes, that friend who makes the nastiest, most ‘politically incorrect’ jokes is more likely to actually fight for your civil liberties on the streets than any pretend-woke purist with multiple flags of nations in their bio.
August 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Real talk: sometimes, that friend who makes the nastiest, most ‘politically incorrect’ jokes is more likely to actually fight for your civil liberties on the streets than any pretend-woke purist with multiple flags of nations in their bio.
Yes, Catholicism is a huge part of the cultural fabric of the vast majority of modern-day Filipinos, but so is dharmic religion—perhaps even more so because strains of it persist in both Catholic (plus ex-Catholic) and Muslim Filipinos. It’s all “Filipino”.
August 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Yes, Catholicism is a huge part of the cultural fabric of the vast majority of modern-day Filipinos, but so is dharmic religion—perhaps even more so because strains of it persist in both Catholic (plus ex-Catholic) and Muslim Filipinos. It’s all “Filipino”.
I think a lot of people have differing ideas of what ‘worship’ [in a sexual context] should look like because people have differing ideas of worship in a religious context to begin with.
August 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I think a lot of people have differing ideas of what ‘worship’ [in a sexual context] should look like because people have differing ideas of worship in a religious context to begin with.
Some people just cannot imagine a religion that isn’t christianesque in some way. And they think it’s “smart” to apply their reactionary antitheism to billions of people of differing backgrounds. You may have left the church, but you’re still internally Protestant, babes.
August 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Some people just cannot imagine a religion that isn’t christianesque in some way. And they think it’s “smart” to apply their reactionary antitheism to billions of people of differing backgrounds. You may have left the church, but you’re still internally Protestant, babes.