I retract and apologise
... need a single policy they just had to step back and... has been a blindness in just how bad this was. A...
... debate can take place. It's just them versus us. I disagree...
As far as free speech in concerned, the PM was not decrying glorifying and inciting mass murder (something which is covered by the law), but political dissent. I believe the example she used was about whether people should be allowed to express an opinion ...
... to come out. I can't say all the family catastrophes were... can cite a funeral celebrant saying that lockdown-delayed services were... effects on families. This is just one story. There are many...
It's really dangerous to cast pejorative assumptions upon those who disagree with you. It's even more dangerous to take it further and write a whole story about their reasons, and all without listening to their 'why'. The world is so polarised already. ...
... to learn more -way beyond just the vexatious, I might add... an assumption that ''general'' politics just isn't, and could definitely be...
It's pretty bizarre to say I suffer binary thinking, Weka. ...
.... Trying to type fast. You say you don't frame this as... comment on this thread you say '...even in left wing...
This whole thread has turned into such a mess. There are a couple of things I want to quickly answer. You
I hope this goes to the right place to reply to Sacha. And these were groups/movements who promoted and organised the occupation, not a few random boot boys who just happened to turn up on the day. What is your evidence for this claim?
... protest. The full comment is just above. I've abbreviated for relevance...
This is insulting people, in some cases, people here. Yet without evidence. If you claim that you know something that leads you to make insulting claims on a public forum, isn't there some obligation to provide the evidence?
... smear a protest according to just being at the same protest...
Wow, the Auckland TPP protest too. I think you are right that a unique issue-based protest is a bit different.
Wow, the Auckland TPP protest too. I think you are right that a unique issue-based protest is a bit different.
Thanks Weka, Until this protest I would have been inclined to agree about responding to media accusations and clearly dissociated the protest from White Power etc. If I had been there I think I would have felt anxious, especially about media ...
... with everyone is nonsensical beyond just being there. It would be...
... lead by white supremacists? Not just slurs on mandate protestors, but...
Agree about the importance of diversifying trade. I wasn't suggesting trading with EU and China was either\or. The more countries we can trade with the better. My problem is a deep disappointment with such sycophantic eagerness to play this game. I don't ...
Another important thing to remember is that trade with China is now worth $55 billion annually. This is the Bird in the hand. The cost to NZ was, IMHO, selling out NZ's geopolitical independence at the most dangerous time since WW2. Troops massing all ...
It begins with quite a long preamble, but at some point it becomes compelling story-telling.
Hi Rosemary, I don't agree with your exact position on transgender issues, but a while ago, because the issue was so salient and intense I took a deep dive to try and understand the strength of feeling. Because I really didn't get it. I read a ton of ...
... the most impact. I'm not saying this is the case with... keeping out of it. To say the provocation and the western...
... impending but now upon us says is 'no more time to...
The US is now a senile, dying power and the much of the West is trying to keep both the US and its fantasies propped-up. It strikes me as a desperate insecurity. 'What are we going to do without our security blanket?' Here's an idea, - grow up before it's ...
... because their causes were deemed just. Yet slavery itself never ended... was his slave. It was just reality to him that he...
I did the same thing with John Key. It was a political strategy. He was in town and there were people placed in the different places he was supposed to appear. Our little group drew the 'short straw'. I was yelling at him so close, I was looking at the ...
Response to foreign waka at 3 I think you might be mixing up two different aspects of ACC. Prisoners do not get earnings related compensation (compo) because they are not wage or salary-earners. Both injured people would be entitled to any private medical ...
I agree with the problem that the concept of 'woke' is often being used as a means of silencing human rights abuses, and to pretend that we have solved problems that remain unsolved. I also get that there is a problem with both shutting down of free speech...
... reach an agreement, that would just be more dangerously and insanely... hammering out an agreement is just the first stage. It would... if we found ourselves with, say, some occupied territory there are... squeezing where it hurts. (It's just weird to think of Aus...
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