Honestly Seymour is damn good at the game. He took a govt failure on the economy and turned it into an attack on left with the Air NZ thing. Nobody in Labour is that good at the game, especially the smug advisors who surround the leadership and bring only Clinton campaign-esk ideas.

Wtf does this even mean?

This is what the last few weeks has kinda revealed about the world and honestly a lot to process

It's hard to explain to a certain type of political pundit that no amount of focus group tested triangulation on policies is going to make an unlikeable candidate popular.

Has anyone done the iwi/Kiwi thing with 3 Waters / Poo waters?

Will trade figs for feijoas if you're in the Auck at least

LMFAO we're being taxed for this, we may not use it, and we're buying it on HP and paying $2.7bn fo rit Are we utterly fucked in the head?

American political and economic elites continue to pal around with a guy who killed 750,000 kids.

This really reminds me of Tom from Succession. The spineless tool who is willing to debase himself in front of the rich just for the money and not much else.

Unironically, only nerds care about the rule of law. If people like the end goal, they're not going to care if someone in power bends or breaks laws to achieve that goal. It shows commitment. The opposite to this is the Dems sitting in power and saying their hands are tied all the time.

Honestly people with more morals than Trump would break the rules to steal the mid terms if they were in his position. At this point if anyone believes he won't they probably need to be put in an institution for the criminally naive.

Willing to bet the Free speech union guys are having a few beers tonight to celebrate Tiktok now censoring left wing opinions.

Just realised the Energy Minister is Simon WATTS! He's a terrible person but it's still kinda funny

Not sure what n dimension chess it is to start a war with other white majority nations to "Save the white race" over a desolate icy island with almost nothing of value.

Sometimes you see some real gems in the RNZ comments

My linguistic bell rang on the use of "dominant predator force" here. It says all you need to know about their worldview. You can't convince someone that stealing is bad if they honestly believe that might makes right. They only understand one language and it's not the one we speak.

Mainstream Dems be like "Hitler invading Poland is just to distract from his failure to bring prices down like he promised".

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Of all the things the US has chosen to do differently than the rest of the world, I think this may be the dumbest. You'd have trouble finding any urban neighborhood in Europe or Latin America without a plaza. It's just so basic. And yet the US has virtually none! No public space, no public.

Calibri is woke now apparently 😂

New idea to regulate methane emissions. For every 10 cents more we pay for butter in NZ supermarkets, we add another $10 to the carbon price the dairy industry has to pay. Will it fix anything, probably not. But will it make the industry feel our pain, yes!

It's amazing how we now live in a completely reality free reality.

Pretty wild that the West is being destroyed from the outside by the formerly colonised who are using social media to incite hysteria that it's being destroyed from the inside by their own people who immigrated there.

Literally Dinesh D'Souza

Driven asks people to vote for people's choice for NZ car of the Year... And there's not a single actual car amongst the options. There's one van and 9 SUVs/Utes. Wtf is wrong with people. Not a single actual car in the entire top 10 of cars sold. Only tanks that should be banned in cities

Wordle 1,603 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 So much for my starter word

Great thing about Avondale is seeing some goth kids get pani puri from an Indian street food stall at 11pm on a Friday night.

My hot take is that Zohran won because he's a good politician. Bad politicians lose elections. It only took me 20 years in politics to come to this conclusion. There's very highly paid journos and consultants who have not figured this out.

The real losers tonight (and every other night) are the lukewarm centrists who always want us to meet the other side halfway.

Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!

Imagine telling someone in 2005 that young Republican males would be doing travel ads for the Taliban

Holy shit, the ads I'm getting on Facebook atm!

The Geely showroom looks like it feel off the bland tree and hit every greyscale branch on the way down. The perfect car for people who are looking for the most forgettable crossover money can buy.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Not taking pain relief medication to own the libs

century of national humiliation

The hypocracy is a feature not a bug. They don't care if you call them out on it

I wonder if there's a bit of self reflection from some people in the media on how they treat orgs like the free speech union, who clearly don't care about free speech. So many of us have been yelling at them not to take their claims at face value.

Who are the free speech guys going to silence next for saying things they don't like.

Three days of the Condor is fantastic (if a little bit problematic in some parts). It's worth a watch in honour of Robert Redford. Not his most famous movie but often overlooked.

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*. There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

It's really hard to explain to normies who wish things were more authoritarian coz they want more efficiency and competence, that authoritarian regimes are actually in practice extremely incompetent at almost everything and extremely inefficient. Democracies actually being order. The Empire doesn't

Pretty sure the Free Speech guys will say nothing about this, and if they do it'll be pro firing the guy for his speech.

All the VSPs out there abasing themselves to lionize Kirk and, hilariously, the toxic narcissist at the top can't even pretend to give a shit.

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

When you have a really uncommon first name it's kinda wild when every other post on the internet is like "(my first name) deserved it".

A threat to authoritarianism anywhere is a threat to authoritarianism everywhere

The fact that right-wingers commit the vast bulk of domestic terrorism in the US is well-established by numerous expert investigations & reports. But the right *accuses* the left more often, makes more *noise* about it, so they've bullied reporters into framing this as a "both sides" problem.

After owning a Skoda for a few months I totally get why the police chose them. They are extremely comfortable seats if you're planning on spending a lot of time in a car. Much more so that the sportier and newer Peugeot that's our primary car. Also they have just insane amounts of boot space.

This is something to keep in mind the next time a CEO says they're unhappy about climate policy or online safety. These rich guys are all a pack of spineless cowards. The state always has more power than them and they know it.