The austerity doom loop

In this week's good news moment, the Waiheke Local Board unanimously decided to raise the trans flag next week to support the national day of action, and to submit opposing the bill 🥹 if you're on Waiheke, you can attend on Thurs 11th 5pm, 10 Belgium St

In this election year, I want to be clear that I want a government that functions as a government. Not like a business. Not like a household. These are three very distinct and different things. Conflating them is purposefully misleading. Not to mention absolutely wrong. Let's push back. #NZPOL

I want non-libertarians to take on ACT ministerial requirements, because they clearly can't cope with their workload.

It’s one thing to not have any policy responses to the continuous govt destruction, but quite another to not even commit to reversing the things back to what you already did. This should be a no brainer.

Instead of hospitals and schools, NZ Govt spends $2.7 billion on military, to lock us into the US war machine. This US war machine is currently closing one of our key energy access points driving the global cost of living crisis, to make oil companies richer. Let’s have an independent foreign policy

“Give $8m of it away. Next question.” Short article, I imagine.

And, so it continues today... We have so much that needs doing - fixing up our infrastructure, teaching our kids, building warm houses, etc... Yet, we have 400,000 people wanting work or more work. It's so obviously a failure of economy strategy and leadership. [Ends]

Awful truth, unknown to 99% of the population... NZ Govt adopted an economic management model in the 1980s that MAKES SURE: 1. We always have tens of thousands of kiwis on the dole. 2. People with work / little work live in abject poverty that keeps them desperate for crap jobs. Why? [🧵 1/n]

AI is one of the worst things humanity has ever created, and it's only the beginning

You know what would really help out GPs? Providing proper funding and training to them! Nurse Practitioners, pharmacists and paramedics can all provide valuable services, but using them as a cheap cop-out instead of proper health funding is disingenuous. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/health/...

For Thomas Coughlan's article: www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

Rather than a “Minimum Wage” I’d like to see a realistic “Cost Of Living Wage” coz WORK should never keep anyone POOR because the literal WORK of billions of humans has created way too many billionaire cunts who think THEY DID IT ALL merely by owning a bank account & an immoral accountant #nzpol

SMRs don't exist. We just went through this in Oz - see link in my pinned post. A fossil fuel-mining funded #AtlasNetwork disinfo operation to distract from far superior, non-polluting & far cheaper ACTUALLY EXISTING solar/wind/battery/EV solutions that will end oil, gas, coal nukes forever.

Do people realize that they can literally just not climb Mount Everest?

Political donations, influence and elections. My #cartoon today #NZpol

Trump has not been seen in public for 8 days. He turned 80 on June 14. This would be above the fold news if it were Biden.

Auckland Council is a case study in council amalgamation at a political level being a terrible idea. Democracy is reduced, and areas away from the central areas are neglected. There are possibly some benefits to shared services between councils, but even that is debateable. #nzpol

The govt can find money for predominantly white stuff like $15m for a roof for a tennis centre to keep people's champagne and strawberries dry, $100 of millions historically on the Am Cup, millions for washed up 90's pop stars, but nothing for Pasifika sports? #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/5...

Fck Data Centers!!

Being careful what we wish for?

Equippers Church launched a review after our reporting of complaints about how it had dealt with sexual assault and abuse allegations. That review into “survivor-centred processes” has been completed. It did not speak to the survivors.

Defence Minister Chris Penk meets David Lange. My #cartoon today #NZpol #NuclearFree

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610... The drunk mobsters are laying down their demands... protection racket anyone? #NzPol #USA #Cartoon #Caricature #Defence

Dame Elizabeth Rata now. White supremacy pays dividends under this government.

Nobody sees the 4:00 am works outs. Nobody sees the hours of meal prepping. Nobody sees the time spent in meditation bettering myself. Nobody sees any of this. Because I don’t do these things.

Israel says it has received the greenlight from Washington to attack southern Beirut. Civilian evacuation of Dahiyeh is now underway.

Hang on a barnacle blistering fuc$ing minute … are people seriously more worried about what Dickens thought 170 years ago, that they are about the crap coming out of the mouths of world leaders that we ourselves elected in the right-here-and-staggeringly-regressive now??? Get a bloody grip people!

These billionaires have been flinging valuable resources over the fence for nearly 60 fucking years? Zero return. Imagine if they just flung it right back from where it came from? #payitforward #nzpol #life #duh

Cc #nzpol

Local chud walks over the hill to Lyttelton, finds lots of things to be mad about

There's only one way to stop all this. We know it. Deep down we know it. We're all just too comfortable to do it.

defund Israel

There is one place in the country I feel it would appropriate to send people of his ilk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappo...

Ironically Happiness is something that can be infinitely increased, that a rising tide really does float all boats and we can make enough pie for everyone to have their slice. But instead these sad little people want to spread misery while they chase an economic delusion

I’ve never been a fan of Tipping Point. The AoNZ version seems particularly dire right now. Celebs raising a few extra dollars plus awareness for a charity is good, but right now in AoNZ a celeb win or loss could mean survival or failure for a charity due to the govt slashing social funding #nzpol

Fuck me. #tvnz point out Peter Thompson getting honors from the government without seeing fit to note that he makes political donations to that government. How is that not a relevant detail? #nzpol

also we should stop calling them philanthropists because they don't love humanity.

We shouldn’t dish out awards to mega rich philanthropists. It should be the norm that all the mega rich contribute via taxes, not just the few who do give (tax deductibly) to charity getting merit badges. Philanthropy is a feudal concept. #nzpol

Deadline for #Tiriti ❤️🤍🖤 12noon TOMORO, Tues damn good feeling on a colonial holiday to text this form ⬇️ to mates to sign who texted it to their kids at uni. to explain kaupapa to neighbour who instantly signed then got whare full of rangitahi to sign & text on ✊ 📝 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

"This is not automation! This is pest control!"

I'm guessing this is about that stupid article? Either they want to lose or are oblivious to how loathed that mediocre centrism has become.

🧵Spotted at a Second Hand Book Fair in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (5?) has created a magnificent book fort under a long table of classic novels. Every now and then a small hand reaches up, snaffles a few books and then retreats under the table to add to the fortifications. (1)

A new belief set is uniting some of the wealthiest men in the world around a ‘transhuman’ future – actual humanity be damned

What a coincidence! I just interviewed this Fisher Price Farmer Says See 'n' Say, and it told me some incredibly interesting things about farm life. Let me know when you'd like to publish this!

It’s funny how even sporting events remind us that we live in a classist society. Like the corporate boxes for football games. In a corporate box you get premium seats, free food & free drinks plus a reserved carpark on-site (usually)…

While I'm on a NZ supermarket rant If you are having something on special, show what the full price was! Basic fucking Tennant of NeoLiberalism is 'self maximised individual making informed choices'. It's as if NeoLiberalism is a scam Labour, how about doing something about that eh.