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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Today’s graphic is in recognition of the social media shitstorm Pepsi has created by its latest ad in trivialising protest movements in the sale of its sugared up sucrose.
http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/pepsi-s-kendall-jenner-ad-sparks-backlash/308563/
Pepsi Corporation, a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
weka, winning support for the left forever with comments like that
Weka is just plainly stating the facts of what would happen in the event of revolution.
Do you think the revolution will be successful? you may find it’s the instigators who end up against the wall and not the “oppressors”.
I was expecting a laugh,
http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Sirius_Cybernetics_Corporation
Righto. 🙂
Sorry, I’ve never read Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, so that one past me by.
We will probably be reading it soon though, it’s one of the books on the tablet, got to finish H.G.Wells, The Time Machine first.
Downloaded a pile of old classics not so long ago, it’s been quite interesting reading them.
You have not read HHGTTG?
Which dimension do you operate in? Can’t be this one …
I tried years ago but I just couldn’t get into it, my tastes and interests were fairly base level back then.
So nothing’s changed then.
On ya for acknowledging this. Maybe this is the difference between lefties and righties … an appreciation for HHGTTG.
Maybe this is the question to 42?
The woman in the image has a Trump-like pout.
This one is almost unbelievable,
enmet @emmetbroaders 21h21 hours ago
sony: literally just make the most racist thing you can imagine
designer: wait what
sony: we’ll give you ten grand
designer:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8kAcPJXkAERmsT.jpg
https://twitter.com/emmetbroaders/status/849210496431665152
edit: deleted because fuck it, this is better
https://twitter.com/BerniceKing/status/849458511788552193
thanks joe.
I like the link Joe90 – but Dr King, would have liked you to have skipped on the profanity. Just an observation.
Today I watched a bit of parliament. During the General debate several Labour Māori MPs slammed the “Māori Elite Party” for supporting the Nats and not doing anything for struggling, low income Māori.
In the debate on the Research Legislation Amendment Bill, Denis O’Rourke of NZ First slammed the bill.
Eugenie Sage called the bill a Nick Smith special. He claims it’s about cutting red tape. Sage says it’s about taking reserves for housing: reserves that are for recreation and for what they contribute to the ecology of the environment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWoiRfzZ26g
Michael Wood was very thorough and spoke well in dismantling various aspects of the Bill.
Further to that is this eloquent take down of the Māori Party support of the bill from Peeni Henare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTD2k7MCqME
Also noted is the inability of the speaker to pronounce his name properly.
I thought the best thing in PArliament today was Jacinda’s joke in question #2.
English had a good one liner in his question from Peters.
This joke about Todd Barclay & Paula Bennett’s interjection?!
And Russell Brown’s response:
Dr Death Johnathon Coleman found out about the typhoid outbreak on television, obviously it can’t have been very important for the Doctors and the Health Department, definitely a Third World Health system run by monkeys = JOKE
Maybe the Hospital is overstretched and understaffed and the patients have first call on the job with a hopeless Minister way down the List.
I hear that the Consul General for the Philippines Paulo Garcia may become National’s New Lynn candidate tonite. There is quite a bit of background. I am putting this out publicly now so that reference to it in the future can be made.
That’s not intercompany rivalry coming out there is it mickey? He didn’t take a client did he?
Interesting he worked for the company that is now representing people who claim to be afghans affected by Operation Burnham.
Note he is the Honorary Consul. NZ has dozens of similar helping us out overseas.
I’m loving the whole rich people suing the leader of a so called workers party. And blindly and dumbly people are just rolling with it. The so called social democrat’s on this site are just sucking it up. Not that this type of rough justice, designed to intimidate is not business as usual from the far right in this country.
But, lets do nothing, moan a little bit maybe. But nothing to see here as long as labour know there place – right. Don’t ever, ever, ever, question the rich. Who cares if they are doggie, they are to be respected and will bankrupt anyone who defies them.
You know we are by definition vertebrates, so sometimes that means you have to act act like you have a backbone.
The Scenic Hotel owners will rot in hell for this. We should remind them of that fact.
“The Scenic Hotel owners will rot in hell for this. ”
For what? What exactly have they done, that is so morally repugnant to you, that makes you want such a fate for them?
Want, no such thing. They are going to hell, pure and simple. Want has nothing to do with it, that is your fetish.
ok take out the want. What exactly have they done, that is so morally repugnant to you, that makes you state this is the fate for them? What is the ‘this’ you refer to?
Not sure how to respond, are you being deliberately thick, or do you actually have no idea?
clearly I have no idea what you are talking about
Fair enough then.
Ya gotta eat.
That eel put up a good fight.
Help for the US state dept.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8m_VCOWAAoZDYO.jpg