He's not writing on the whaleoil blog any more - - at long fscken last
Simon Bridges is "fomenting class madness" with his bitter attacks on an imaginary CGT that doesn't even exist Landlords are "fomenting class madness" by threatening tenants and trying to force them to vote National https://is.gd/JYsWI6 They don't care ...
Agreed... people should not be getting rich via housing at the expense of a whole generation of poor families. It's disgusting. A CGT is pathetically ineffective but it's a step in the right direction. NZ needs Land Value Tax and generalised wealth taxes ...
Yes they are utter scum as well. But they are *our* scum
a) Wealthy neighbours had the most to gain from killing trees b) Nat voters are generally selfish arseholes who hate nature therefore, tree killers are probably Nat voters with baches seems plausible
Yes the trucking industry has used this "gig" model for years and destroyed the lives of its drivers. It's a sneaky way to avoid OSH, minimum wages, and all sorts of employment laws. They are effectively employees with none of the benefits and all of the ...
Vodafone wants to sack 2800 Kiwis and outsource everything to India https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12211416 All hail our job and wealth creators and their kindly trickles upon the peasants. Fuck them. Glad I switched ...
Everyone's gotta sell something to get by. That's Capitalism
Stephen Baxter's other SciFi (transcendent, resplendent, exultant, and the Xeelee series) is superior to that boring collab with Pratchett Iain M Banks' Culture stuff is an absolute must read for any sci fi fan Takeshi Kovacs series by Richard K. Morgan is...
A more interesting panel than the dishwater served by RNZ, that's for sure
Exactly. Every time MJ's music plays it's abusing his victims further. "I feel you have to separate the artist from the art…." What rubbish. Echoes what Muldoon and rugby boofheads were saying when the Springboks came here in 1981 and NZ tore itself apart....
Correct, MJ isn't banned and this isn't an exercise in destruction of art. In view of a recent documentary where 2 of his victims speak out in graphic terms, there is widespread public disgust at the man and the actions of his estate in covering up. If ...
Asimov wrote a number of short stories about "Multivac", a fictional supercomputer that was given the task of governing humanity. Asimov pointed out a number of weaknesses in this solution, among them our tendency to cheat the system, and to want autonomy....
He’s a rogernome/blairite/third way bulshitter at heart- thoroughly ensconced in privilege and enjoying the status quo. No class struggle in polute society please
Was a bit weird on light of the fact that Bridges is a young brown dude. But the point is that National is not the home of diversity or energy, it's a vehicle of wealthy business and managerial cliques, which is indeed comprised of Orewa Rotary Club and ...
Nobody in government. The leading spokespersons for water quality and improved farm practices are Russell Norman (@russelnorman), Mike Joy, Rachel Stewart (@rfstew), Fish & Game Council, John Hart (@farmgeek)
Little bit of history for those misled by commercialised bullshit: https://twitter.com/nickygumbel/status/1095957972881211392?s=21
what principle? profit extraction, externalising costs, asset stripping, tax evasion?
Overfishing? No worries we still have few marine reserves right?
A positive view - 99.9% of visitors to Waitangi experience a day of celebration https://twitter.com/laura_oc_rapira/status/1092605539152846848?s=21
The reason it's not compatible is that sans proper regulatory oversight, the bankers and business magnates always find a way to take over the levers of power, tilt the economy in favour of their mates, and disempower the working class. Pretty much the ...
So we are outraged that Liam Neeson didn't assault anyone right? But he had bad thoughts. Too bad about his friend that was raped. Just a clickbait POS article trying to stir up a moral panic.
Excellent points DJ, but that doesn't fit the simplistic "US evil empire" narrative that others like to peddle. There are no simple answers to the suffering of the Venezuelan people. The Guardian: Life's a struggle as Venezuela inflation heads for one ...
Unfortunately the Venezuelan people do *not* get a say in their own government, as Maduro is following the playbook of Robert Mugabe, "Socialist" in name only, while importing arms from Russia, rigging elections, and stealing the nation's oil revenues for ...
capitalism is not compatible with democracy- the US govt/deep state ceased being democratic when it repealed Glass Steagall and eliminated Presidents who dared stand up to the military industrial complex
Aside from your irrational Godwinisms, I agree that the concept of walls is not inherently bad, humans have built them throughout history. Trump's tantrum shutdown wasn't really about he wall, it's about Democrats taking control of Congress, and ...
Agreed, Dems cannot pretend to be entirely blameless. But the shutdown really exposes Trump and the Republicans as irresponsible idiots who care nothing for ordinary workers.
Sadly true, I hope they select a better class of benevolent dictator next time
I think NZ1 is *really* gone this time. Winston going into coalition with Lab/Grn was the moral thing to do, but he burned his conservative supporters. Then this UN migration pact, TPPA, and no cap on the mass immigration ponzi scheme. A lot of NZ1 voters ...
Except for the fact that the Milankovitch cycles that drive glaciation show that we should be, in fact, very slowly going into a new ice age... Human fingerprints on climate change rule out natural cycles
Nahh, it's a ham fisted attempt to sow confusion and obstruct the FBI investigation, and postpone his inevitable impeachment. Drumpster is a total crook but so is half of the US government, and they don't want to be investigated either
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