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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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Hopefully this data mining continues, the haters and wreckers will deny everything….of course….but they need to be exposed and deposed.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/131045572/how-data-shines-a-light-on-the-online-hatred-for-jacinda-ardern
The egg mumbled more dog whistle shit. Whilst a new PM got sworn in.
So this is it from the right, dirty politics until the election
Joy.
It's worse than the old attack politics on politicians. They are perpetuating a disinformation environment that feeds on hate and fear.
This is dangerous, destructive territory, following the Trump example. Their dark money sources (oligarchs like Peter Thiel) don't like democracy much, or brilliant leaders like Jacinda.
I'm sure Taibbi and co are flat out exposing foreign government influence on social media companies.
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https://twitter.com/arjunsethi81/status/1617195591838072836
Twitter and YouTube took down a BBC documentary critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role in a genocidal 2002 massacre in the Indian state of Gujarat, The Intercept reports. The censorship was in coordination with the government of India, as officials called for the social media platforms to take action against what they considered a “propaganda piece.”
https://archive.li/lwSGD (rolling stone)
Christopher Luxon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Brash
The belief that he is of the moderate centre, unlike Seymour, is a myth.
NACT have done a full court press on Māori this week.
1. Luxon calling co-governance immature, and saying Māori seats don't make sense.
2. Seymour boycotting Rātana.
The intent is to delegitimise and trivialise Māori Crown institution and tradition. Expect this behaviour to continue to build throughout the year and surge if they form Government.
We can expect any NACT government to be
Latest RM poll not good for Lab/Grn.
Will be interesting to see if Chippy stems the tide.
https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/9152-nz-national-voting-intention-december-2022
Not good…imagine the carnage if National had a halfway competent leader and/or policy
"For men aged 50+ there was a larger gap with a majority of 64.5% supporting National/ Act NZ……..
Just where are the heads of these men in this country at…and what streets do they live on…..
I an interested to know if there have been threats to Jacinda Ardern from women resulting in investigation or arrest, perhaps this data may come to light.
64.5 NACT to 24.5 LAGR amongst men over 50 is a really large difference.
Surely some form of entitlement/expectation of white men ruling in the interest of white men cannot be a reason …
Is it the largest difference of its kind in the world …maybe Pagani should have led with that in the NYT?
Maybe should have been arrested
And maybe female "leaders of hate"
IMO a lot more. So…not just males
Sadly a fair number of women are exhibiting similar signs of psychopathy, It just appears males get most of the ongoing media attention.
It's 49.5 versus 42.5 and 9 months to go with a new leader full of energy….all to play for.
NACT must be furious. On the day they celebrated NZ's headline inflation figure of 7.2%, we find Australia's is higher at 7.8%.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/australias-annual-inflation-rate-hits-78-in-december-highest-since-1990/WJVWRDMCX5A2PPFWLBKLH67C5U/
For Incognito, the USA navy on climate crisis.
Sane & sensible review of Christopher Luxon's gaffe in raising Maori issues at Ratana while being welcomed as a visitor.
Who is advising this guy?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/131064324/cogovernance-is-less-controversial-than-christopher-luxon-makes-out
And again he walks back what he has said before.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/131064324/cogovernance-is-less-controversial-than-christopher-luxon-makes-out
PS I have seen pictures of Luxon sitting on a table at while speaking to teens I think inc Maori (I cannot find the pic but it was about 7 months ago.
Bottoms don't go on tables where food might be served
Again: Who is advising this guy?
PPS Long may the gaffes continue and we need to point them out constantly.
I cannot amend my post above too much circling wheel of doom every time I tried.
Clearing cache etc prob at my end.
This was the example of the walk back that was mentioned in the article I linked to.
'Quite rightly, this caused a stir – it left a bad taste in people’s mouths, including my own. Effectively, Luxon was a manuhiri who used the celebration of one of the most important and historic figures in Māoridom to effectively signal that if elected prime minister, his government would forgo the decades of work of previous governments (both National and Labour) in the practice of sharing power between Māori and the Crown.
He later clarified to the media that he only meant in the provision of public services, but the damage had – in my view – already been done.'
I've always seen the Oddity (Otago Daily Times) as a right / National leaning rag.
Today they did a pretty standard report on Luxon's Ratana speech. But the photo…..
This is beyond explaining is loosing, this is lost it
A nascent subculture of brownshirts is crawling out from under its rock. The landlord/ oligarch class is revealing its iron fist, and weaponising its gang of useful idiots.
https://twitter.com/Te_Taipo/status/1618192944540057600?s=20
Thus depriving many of the ability to meet their MP. Nice.
And the NAct anti 3/5 Waters mob feel that legislated/consulted co governance is a threat to democracy.
Both legs furiously playing Jingle Bells
Luxon hasn't bothered to learn NZ political history. In the RNZ interview this morning he talked of Māori electorates being there for 'decades', but it's time to get rid of them. They've been a part of our Parliament since 1868. Not winning electorates for the Nats, though…a whiff of race-based voter suppression, perhaps?
He seems hopelessly ill-educated/naive on many aspects of our lives in NZ.
Is this a product of being exposed to a weirdo church & its prosperity doctrine and his focus on making money personally via international corporate capitalism?
If so it is a warning to us all. Money does mean wisdom or even sense.
I think we on this site mostly know this but it might be a thought to ponder for our RW contributors.
I think (hope) you omitted a 'not' in your penultimate sentence, Shanreagh.
I feel he's a particularly joined-up thinker.