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6:00 am, September 20th, 2024 - 10 comments
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Open mike is your post.
For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Step up to the mike …
Another ferry has lost power in the Cook Straight overnight. This time it’s Bluebridge ferry, fortunately, once again the seas have been forgiving.
Blows tha right wing meme that we don't need to own ferries because the private sectors got this.
Frickin idiot NACT1 (attribute Thinker : )
I suppose we already have Rimmer/Seymour…so Dr Evil/Luxon seems like a frickin match? And the frickin idiot league/convention….
Drifting powerless in Cook Strait is not my idea of fun even on a good day. There will likely be others now more tentative about booking too.
The Natzos ideologically favour road (Trucking) over rail, that is no secret, but what these vandals may well achieve is the severing of viable maritime and rail links between the North and South Islands.
I have previously linked this…but here is again.
This government has been able to get away with their austerity because there had been minimal pushback from the opposition on the Labour government left the country books in arrears. The government has been spinning this for several years and because Labour hasn’t disputed this the consensus with most voters is that must be true.
Craig Renny and Bernard Hickey are the only voices calling out bull shit.
And just because Grant Robertson has retired from politics he can still defend his record.
The same thing happened after John Key came into power, Labour just let the nats lies predominate the narrative.
You can call out lies and oppose stuff (and say you're doing so) all you like. But if you're not getting the air time, or column inches (or whatever their equivalent is on social media), how is it going to get across to an audience? Several examples cited here lately of Natzos always getting their say whether in government or opposition, but similar courtesies not now being extended to LW parties. (Sorry, haven't time to track down specific links.)
“The narrative” amounts to the ideological end of political struggle and it is important as the 3 Waters debacle showed.
Showers of shit erupt in Wellington streets, boil water notices applied around the country, the infrastructure is crumbling in many District and Regional Council areas. Because the Labour Govt. lost the narrative battle to the nutters (right wing farmers that used no Council services had Stop 3 Waters signage in their fields near state highways), there are now huge rates rises around NZ which will not be enough to fund what is necessary.
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State-sponsored terrorism is terrorist violence carried out with the active support of national governments provided to violent non-state actors.
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