Daily review 01/03/2023

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  1. Joe90 1
    1 March 2023 at 5:54 pm

    Me

    Sir Anand Satyanand

    Queen Elizabeth II

    King George VI

    Neville Chamberlain

    Adolf Hitler

    https://twitter.com/aledornell/status/1629969858598248448

    • bwaghorn 1.1
      1 March 2023 at 6:05 pm

      If Warren Gatland has meet the queen I'm all good,
      The magic of Google says he has

  2. Johnr 2
    1 March 2023 at 5:58 pm

    In response to ghost who walks concerning my less than complimentary remarks about our incompetent auckland mayor on open Mike 27/2

    You replied refuting my assertions, as I read through them, I thought we can have an interesting discussion here. But, without any evidence, explanation or rationale you ended your diatribe with the sentence. "You are clearly a dork". .

    Well, fuck face, let's play this game, I would really like to meet you face to face. So as I can give you a serious smack in the mouth.

    I know, I know the mods won't like this language. They abhor physical violence of any description. Instead of a short sharp bit of pain they are good as with long term mental grief. Go figure.

    • Incognito 2.1
      1 March 2023 at 7:41 pm

      This is your Mod note:

      Despite knowing this site’s policy on violence, you chose self-martyrdom, which is very disappointing. You should read the Policy (https://thestandard.org.nz/policy/#banning) and specifically this part:

      • Directly or indirectly advocating violence in any shape or form (including ‘jest’ and advocating self-harm) to individuals or groups is simply not allowed. Moderators will have a no-tolerance humourless response as the only possible response. If you want to talk about political conflicts around the world, then do so being mindful of this proscription.

      It is also disappointing that you referred to the wrong Post and did not link to the alleged comment (https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-28-02-2023/#comment-1937125). Why didn’t you reply to the actual comment?

      Ghost’s reply to you was within the boundaries of robust debate and his alleged insult of you was at the lower end of severity and in the context of your comment that Ghost was replying to – you did set the tone.

      FWIW, Ghost is a Wayne Brown apologist, which is not a ‘crime’ or a bannable offence here on TS, and serving a one-month ban for insulting others, disrespecting moderation, and disrespecting other commenters through unclear and pointless comments that he refuses to clarify and/or elaborate on when asked.

      Anyway, I don’t understand your last sentence about the bit of pain and mental grief and I hope you can explain this to me in a few words. It is your chance to escape a one-month ban for blatantly violating this site’s explicit policy on violence. Either way, if you violate it again you will receive an instant medium-long ban without warning and without a chance to wriggle your way out of it.

      I look forward to your explanation and put some effort into it, please.

  3. Muttonbird 3
    1 March 2023 at 6:29 pm

    Farrar watch:

    On Heather Stupidity-Allan's 1ZB segment, 'The Huddle', David Farrar was discussing a poem about colonisation which celebrates the murder of Captain Cook. The (brown) poet had received public arts funding. ACT and the TPU obviously were furious about this and were complaining bitterly throughout their mouthpiece who sound drunk to be honest.

    Farrar used his go to argument that if you swapped the races and a publicly funded white poet celebrated the murder of brown historical figure, imagine the outrage! This is the test Farrar applies to all race issues it seems.

    But the argument is not complete without swapping the races right from the point of colonisation. You can't just conveniently swap them now. So it should read imagine if an indigenous white people had 95% of their land stolen by brown invaders who then imposed their version of society resulting in appalling health and incarceration stats for the disenfranchised colonised.

    How would the poem look then?

  4. Muttonbird 4
    1 March 2023 at 6:50 pm

    Further to, and in context of Sanctuary's excellent comments on Feb 24…

    Heather Stupidity-Allan watch:

    HADP today interviewed the woman who organised the meeting where pitchfork brandishing racists in Esk Valley lied about gun shops running out of weapons.

    The Police are sending a bus/caravan and HADP sarcastically asked her if it made her feel safe. Shyly, she replied it did because it's going to be parked at the only current entrance to Esk Valley. Inference being it kept brown people from Hastings out.

    HADP ran with that suggesting it was checkpoint, but the woman explained Coster had told them it was to help people report any crime. Woman then further showed her true colours saying the Police have it about face, and if they kept "these people" out there would be no need to report crime.

    Inference being white people in Esk Valley should be entitled to official police protection and gatekeeping against Hawkes Bay Maori.

  5. Muttonbird 5
    1 March 2023 at 6:59 pm

    Extreme US-style Christian conservatism rears its very ugly head at Avondale Library:

    Police intervene as queer community targeted by protest at Avondale, Auckland, library drag reading

    In a video, viewed by the Herald, police are seen confronting the small group of protesters who claim they are asking “them [referring to drag performers] not to groom children”.

    The damaging false claim that drag performers doing the story times are “groomers” has been increasingly used in the US by opponents of drag, as well as the LGBTQ+ community to, what NBC describes as, “falsely equate it with paedophilia or other forms of child abuse”.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/distressing-police-called-as-queer-community-targeted-by-protest-at-auckland-library-drag-reading/UTQGWO5IHBBKLHVZ4NA4J6KBAQ/

  6. Anne 6
    1 March 2023 at 8:57 pm

    I agree with Gordon Campbell:

    "Once we’ve got over clutching our pearls and having a fit of the vapours about Campbell’s bad manners, maybe we should be considering whose interests are being served by a very strict interpretation of the doctrine of public service neutrality.

    In the last couple of days, a lot of lip service has been paid to the notion of “continuity.” It is as if by presenting a façade of neutrality to the general public, bureaucrats can ensure a smooth transition between governments, and soldier on facelessly for the greater good. Some people might even believe that a seasoned old hand in the public service can sometimes steer a novice Minister away from an error-prone excess of zeal, and by so doing educate them in the ways and means of a benign social democracy.

    Dream on…"

    http://werewolf.co.nz/2023/03/gordon-campbell-on-the-sacking-of-rob-campbell/

    Since I was a part of the Public Service for a good many years in one capacity or another I knew the reality. There was no such thing as neutrality.

    • Muttonbird 6.1
      1 March 2023 at 9:11 pm

      Thanks for highlighting this Anne. Was thinking similar the other day when I said there are infinite ways public service heads act politically behind closed doors. They do it every second of every day in the shadows.

      Quite refreshing to see Rob Campbell tear all that up, speak transparently, and speak for the people Labour should be representing.

  7. gsays 7
    1 March 2023 at 9:00 pm

    I listened to Rob Campbell on RNZ this morning being interviewed by Kim Hill.

    Since then I have been mulling on how best to lend weight, support or tautoko his sentiments.

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