Daily review 28/03/2023

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  1. Anker 1
    28 March 2023 at 5:47 pm

    Massive own goal for the trans rights activists (the thugs who abused and intimated women on Saturday in Albert Park and the rest who celebrated it.

    I have it on very good authority that Speak Up for Women have been flooded with women who want to join the group,

    • Belladonna 2.1
      28 March 2023 at 6:36 pm

      Well, it's historical (2020) – so could be considered the first, rather than the 3rd strike.

      But, seems to be outlining a pattern of behaviour that regards the cabinet manual as an optional extra, if he should feel so inclined to abide by it.

      I don't necessarily think this is a firing offense on it's own – but Hipkins has to be wondering just how much leaking he's routinely doing, and just how trustworthy he is.

      More to the point, is there more to come? Hipkins asked for assurances last time (and received them) that there was nothing further waiting in the wings. If Nash just 'forgot' about this one, how many other issues has he forgotten about?

      And, it's another distraction that Hipkins doesn't need. He, surely, wants the Labour team on message (you could just see his frustration today, when every question was about Davidson's remarkably stupid response to a hostile questioner)

      • bwaghorn 2.1.1
        28 March 2023 at 7:06 pm

        Mate of mine knows his bro, his bro reckons he belongs in national, it's starting to look like he's onto it.

      • Alan 2.1.2
        28 March 2023 at 8:28 pm

        The PMs' real test will come when he attempts to water down 3 waters – excuse the pun.

  3. tsmithfield 3
    28 March 2023 at 6:34 pm

    Looks like Nash is in hot water again. On TV1 news tonight. Apparently, it relates to an email he sent that disclosed private cabinet information a couple of years ago. Sounds like Hipkins will be giving a presser this evening. Be interesting to see if Nash survives.

    • Barfly 3.1
      28 March 2023 at 6:40 pm

      My money is on the Tui ad – "Yeah….nah"

    • Ad 3.2
      28 March 2023 at 9:29 pm

      Fucking dick Nash is dumped but crashes Prime Minister Hipkins' momentum.

      Hipkins has worked damn hard to right the ship that Ardern was crashing, chucking weak policies for basic cash redistribution and doing well at it.

      Hopefully it gives some coverage for Marama in Parliament, though there's a risk of blood in the water attracting sharks.

      2 months out from budget and the effective start of election campaign, this is the stupidest dumbest most ignorant piece pf lying wideboy bullshit I've seen from a cabinet minister since probably Shipley's year of total dumbassery over 20 years ago.

  4. Robert Guyton 4
    28 March 2023 at 7:19 pm

    "Don’t preach love, tolerance and respect, then brazenly do the opposite. It’s not a one-way street. Dignity and self-control, whatever the circumstances, matters."

    Sounds like the anti-vaxx mob on Parliament's grounds, doesn't it.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/131620080/the-bullying-hypocrisy-unleashed-over-posie-parker
    What a tangled web we weave!

  6. RedLogix 6
    28 March 2023 at 9:02 pm

    Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and parkour expert Rafe Kelley discuss the importance of rough-and-tumble play for developing children, how a lifestyle centered around movement can expand our grasp and involvement with the natural world, and why society should value masculine activities, rather than adhering to the push for feminization in all aspects of modern life.

    Rafe Kelley is an entrepreneur and advocate for a lifestyle centered around human movement. He suffered at a young age from ADHD, causing him to struggle in school. As it would happen, he came into contact with a mentor who recognized his need for play, encouraged time in nature, and taught him to productively roughhouse. This quickly resulted in Kelley advancing in his studies, launching him on his life path. In college, he studied anthropology and evolutionary biology, falling in love with martial arts and parkour along the way. He would go on to establish the first parkour gym on the west coast, Parkour Visions, before developing a new fitness lifestyle based on primal movement that Kelley calls “Evolve, Move, Play.”

    This interview speaks directly to the question of violence and why so many people, of both sexes, find it such an unregulated and threatening aspect of life.

    • Ad 6.1
      28 March 2023 at 9:41 pm

      For weird confessions, I did competitive wrestling at High School, and loved it.

      Now my Other Half still makes unitard and 'oiled GrecoRomano man love' jokes but she rowed for Cambridge Uni for several years and it's still her go-to heroic storytelling well-of-cockiness. Well earned sure but cocky.

      Embodied identity is often solidified over years with hard contact sport, including a bit of injury to reckon with your limits.

      • RedLogix 6.1.1
        28 March 2023 at 9:51 pm

        I will confess that due to my brother's disabilities and the complete absence of extended family I missed out on a fair bit of this kind of play within my childhood home. But not completely either – we were mad for bullrush at school and especially Scouting.

        I played junior soccer for a club that relegated the useless oafs like me to a team that never won a game for five seasons running. In hindsight that was a mistake – modern club coaches would have broken us up and let us experience at least a few wins to keep the motivation going. As a result I was turned off team sports altogether and headed toward more solitary challenges like tramping, cycle touring and eventually rock and alpine climbing. Not to a remarkable level, but quite enough to have plenty of near miss stories.

        But that was only ever a partial replacement for the early childhood experiences Rafe Kelly is exploring here. In particular it is the failure of children to learn how to calibrate physicality which leads to people who are either fearful of aggression and thus become pushovers all their lives – or they cannot regulate themselves in the face of provocation and misuse aggression to bully others or worse.

        • Ad 6.1.1.1
          28 March 2023 at 10:15 pm

          Edwin Gale's book The Species That Changed Itself (Penguin, 2020) has a couple of chapters on how prosperity led to a kind of developmental disembodiment, which is getting to such a high pitch that it is altering our phenotype.

          Not saying the life-journey of embodied risk is a lost cause, but it's certainly on its decline here.

  7. Robert Guyton 7
    28 March 2023 at 10:01 pm

    "Marama Davidson should not have to apologise or “backtrack” on her values, Te Pāti Māori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi say, ​as the minister responsible for sexual and family violence faces mounting pressure from the political right over her comments about white men and violence."

    Things that make you go, hmmmmmm….

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131625085/this-is-about-maramas-lived-experience-te-pti-mori-back-green-coleader-after-white-cis-men-comment

    • Ad 7.1
      28 March 2023 at 10:11 pm

      Endorsements like that from Marama's ultra-pc base won't win any new votes.

      Greens want better than 7% they need to stop playing defence with dumb shit.

      • Robert Guyton 7.1.1
        28 March 2023 at 10:37 pm

        She wasn't trying to win votes with her comments, she was supporting a marginalised/oppressed minority, imo.

      • adam 7.1.2
        28 March 2023 at 10:45 pm

        I don't know Ad, are labour, national, and act going to keep funding Te Puna Aonui?

        TPM want to expand its scope. Greens as well, not 100% there. So some clarity on that would be nice.

        That said, Marama needs to accept the own goal. And keep her mouth shut in front of cameras, when she is amoungst the mob in the future.

      • Leighton 7.1.3
        29 March 2023 at 7:12 am

        Unbelievable. The left is imploding its own support just after Hipkins had managed to get Labour's back onside with a lot of middle voters. Hugely unhelpful contribution from TPM, and I won't be surprised if this is the turning point which results in Luxon being PM by the end of the year. Ugh. We have nobody to blame but ourselves.

  8. Anker 8
    28 March 2023 at 11:15 pm
    • Marama as Minister of prevention of Family and Sexual violence needs to absolutely condemn the violence against the Let Women Speak group. The women who were spat at, Posie who was assailed by an aggressive mob of mostly men, had liquid etc poured over her and genuinely feared for her own life. And the 70 year old women who was punched in the faced twice. Given that she hasn’t, she should be sacked.

    the fact that she hasn’t done so,diminishes any credibility she had