1/200 discord has receipts calling this at least from 2022 in response to people wondering who was advising Luxon. Burgess was an NZ Initiative plant & the entryism across the National Party, and government, specifically to dismantle public services has been extensive, destructive and *predictable*

I thought things would be different after shaw left but the Greens really are sticking with the "everything the same but 2% better" policy platform

Ok maybe they were onto something when they cracked jokes about the left being too wordy lmao

Kinda insane that the MMH breach has been public knowledge since halfway through last year and mainstream reporting is only just catching up on it

Trying to save money and someone posted the Discworld boardgame for sale

I'd never support an extraterritorial extraction of a leader to justify regime change so an exile population can return home, imagine if we kidnapped the president of South Africa and all ... Ok hold up

you don’t actually have to tow the line on foreign policy out of some immensely misguided respect for ‘national unity’ or whatever. this is a coalition government that is actively supporting genocide and US state terrorism. give people a fucking alternative asap please

Its kinda ironic that the US is accusing Maduro of Narco terrorism when they've just bombed civilian infrastructure through coked up helicopter pilots

Curtis Sliwa here beating every single half assed chat gpt political commentator by pointing out that Mamdani has been around for a while, and 100k volunteers and solid retail politics - not tiktok - won the Mayoralty.

People complain about the idea of like a centrally run product design and delivery system in favour of some kind of private alternative but everyone in NZ with new things seems to just own shit from Kmart and Temu these days anyway like the only difference is some fuckwit is profiting lmao.

Western excess is going to end voluntarily or as a result of polycrisis. There's no political or cultural power strong enough to keep the gravy train flowing and it'd be nice to see more politicians begin to get serious about redistributive degrowth.

A scroll through Bishops posting history is enough to void him as any ally of anyone who even pretends at moderate social or economic centrism, let alone leftism. He is, at best, an ecological fascist.

sorry but if Hipkins knew about the original mcskimming allegations then his leadership is actually untenable. he HAS to go

i guess the other thing to note about this, is it reveals somewhat the extent to which powerful people avoid paper trails so that there is less transparency and accountability. what else gets treated in this way?

One of the greatest indictments of Ardern's political project is how she's distanced herself from NZ politics despite leveraging her time as prime minister for increasingly vast personal gain and to grow recognition abroad. Sort of a political version of startups in NZ that just aim to be bought out

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... This needs to be directly linked with the reduction in trained staff and health and safety requirements in early childhood education. The sloughed off skin is on Seymour's hands

People will say magic doesn't exist and then refuse to explain how the HMS New Zealand avoided all damage during WW1 while the captain wore a piupiu and hei tiki.

By my estimates Hamilton can reopen/offer new services 2 more times before they run out of room

When people talk about what they liked about Mamdani's campaign they talk about the promise to make community supermarkets or how he made a genuine effort to engage with voters. No one except for wonks picked up on the fucking fonts and signs lmao

They stacked the dishwasher, loaded up the finish and fucking heavy cycled my goat, she's washed dawg 😭

I do love (hate) that the 90s have been so totally memory holed beyond Ruthanasia in NZ. The misery inflicted on people was terrible sure but there are like a dozen people with names and address who made dozens of millions from that misery who live happy lives lmao.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

The reason techbroes are scared of AGI is it'll completely invalidate them as a class, there's no need for tech billionaires if we have general intelligences that can make impartial decisions. This is why they want to develop and control any potential for singularity, so it can be slaved to them

Once you understand the history of the Waikato river you'll want to beat dairy farmers to death with your bare hands

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... This is actually deranged, there's no universe where this style of legislation, complete caving to the industry that privately benefits at the taxpayer expense, is a fair and just process!

Another day, another post about how Boomers are the macroeconomic manifestation of Vampires

It's legitimately shocking how few people have even a passing understanding of the second world war. There's not really any excuse esp given even western history from the 1990s has generally been more balanced (noteworthy exceptions such as Beevor).

“That you knew that Ray Chung shared sexual and salacious gossip about a woman he worked with and still believed he should be in control of recommending appointments to boards shows abysmal judgement.” Little should reflect on Dr Mudgway’s statement & consider his role in misogny in public life.

People calling Trump's attraction towards winners bang on the money, hard to dismiss the fact there's probably some New York solidarity going on. Insane times.

Difficult to know if the mispronunciation in Birnham Wood audiobook is because all the characters are seppos and south Islanders or if they didn't bother to give the reader a pronunciation guide

I feel so bad every time I turn in cross play in a shooter on PC I feel like a premiership footballer signing up for the primary school leagues

In Birnham Wood there's zero mention of maaori in the text for the first third but then two leftist characters have a chat where one talks about the group needing a Reo name for business purposes and another says having a Te Reo name is cultural appropriation and ok maybe I gotta give Catton a pass

I'm not saying this as like a damning judgement but like it's pretty clear what appropriation is when a game like Horizon Zero Dawn can draw so directly from so many indigenous cultures yet not be playable in any indigenous languages

am currently reading some of the best take downs and analysis of political campaign videos in the community discord in relation to attempts to replicate Mamdani design elements and damn if we don't have some geniuses around

The men who refuse to accept this is a systemic problem and who believe there’s no such thing as society are always the first to whine and grievance troll about NZ schools being too female dominated and blame society for presenting men as toxic.

My country is so poor filling a large tray with cream, biscuits, chocolate and coffee is considered an exceptional display of opulence

Lmaooooooo

People really be doing the omelas like "ok we need some people to be miserable so I can be happy but let's just put em somewhere I can't see them so I can pretend I'm a good person."

Gotta love da spinoff sometimes. Oh, police commissioner abusing power and getting it covered up by his mates? Great time to talk about how we need da boiz in blue to clean the streets of filthy homeless people so developers can build apartments in peace.

If you think the McSkimming thing is bad you should see how police are treating young Maaori and Pacific islander communities, you should see how police respond to rape and domestic abuse cases! You don't get to be the head of an org without reflecting the org itself.

Really cool that stuff stopped being racist all those years ago and made an apology to Maaori I'm sure there's no double standard in repor-

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... If there is one lesson to be learned, strategically, from the war in Ukraine it is that China has near complete spectrum dominance in the areas required for modern war (ironically only lacking in power projection). Western nations should be leveraging soft power.

I guess the thing that shocks me about the general illiteracy regarding the second world war, especially the eastern front, is like ... We have *decades* of history that presents a more grounded view of what happened there but the pop narrative (fuck you Beevor) still dominates this is an issue ...

crowd sourced the idea of a competing “local star” campaign in NZ to hijack the michelin PR here. i’d much rather see strong communities, local sourcing and affordable meals. real opportunity to subvert this i reckon.

Translation: "Our right wing curriculum advisors are getting sad people are ripping their PoS curriculum to shreds so we're going to hide their identities from now on <3"

Dog owners who can't seem to hear their dog barking at everything within 3 miles and cat owners who let their cats roam around and play out DOOM:Eternal on native wildlife are suddenly paragons of maintaining quiet and not disrupting the peace when it comes to letting off a ten shot roman candle

Lmao I have like $3 invested in a Pie fund thanks to not really paying attn when setting up my autoinvest like 4 years ago do I go to the investor event and try to make good on my investment by just going beast mode on the canapes and drinks

We have a wealth of research, peer reviewed and going back decades, that shows what works for Maaori in the education system. The current govt changes are emphatically not it.