If only there was a way for them to have kept their jobs and continue those activities…. Given you make no effort to make a good faith argument against the public health measures and just make disingenuous emotional appeals that anti vaxxers should be ...
So, fascists and ethno nationalists put individual self interest above above the collective? Everyone who has campaigned for individual human rights against authoritarian communism is right wing? Your understanding of the political spectrum is incredibly ...
Any disruption in Auckland was due to COVID and public policy to reduce its spread and prevent people getting seriously ill or dying. The disruption here including the public being threatened, intimidated and assaulted, ordinary workers stressed, schools ...
“But they have achieved something, I doubt anyone would be talking about ending mandates if it hadn't happened” Utter utter nonsense, nothing that’s been announced is anything that wasn’t already in the pipe line and anything reasonable people didn’t ...
There’s a reason I put left wing in scare quotes as I think trying to label something like this as left wing or right wing is a fools game and ultimately meaningless. It’s same over whether to use the descriptor ‘Nazi’, it doesn’t add anything to our ...
You’re probably right, but no evidence the different place we’d be would be any better or involve Parliament grounds not being a camp site and the surrounding area impacted.
I don’t think Winston has ‘lost the plot’ at all. He’s always been entirely unscrupulous and a populist happy to engage with anyone and any idea he felt would advance his access to power. All that’s changed is he’s increasingly unable to make enough of an ...
Whilst I’m not arguing there wouldn’t be a difference now, you have to consider it’s 41 Years since the ‘81 tour protests. What we as a society find acceptable Police behaviour will have changed in the time, the Police as an organisation will have changed ...
Sadly, Paramedics often need to.
Did Jimbo comment on why he assumed those present would all leave after Arden had spoken to these ‘credible spokespersons’. Or did Jimbo tells us what the PM should/could say that she already hasn’t that would see them leave? Without addressing those two ...
Omg, your comprehension skills seem to be quite limited. He was responding to the linked Spinoff article where staff described being intimidated by the store being swamped by massless protesters. It wasn’t about safety in the general area Are you calling ...
Nice attempt at deflect, the point wasn’t about where the area per se was unsafe (I agree it isn’t), but about the specifics of serving the protesters as a staff member of Thorndon NW.
RNZ, The Herald & Stuff have all reported it. Are you saying they just repeated something the PM claimed with no evidence?
????? You’re arguing the PM made it up?
I understand your point, but without knowing more details you’ve got to think there’s a bunch of things to consider. - Would the impact on staff by shutting the whole Supermarket out weigh any problems caused by having to serve the protesters? - Is there a...
It’s telling that I’d talked about throwing shit at the cops and you pivot to tipping waste down the drain rather than honestly addressing the point, but if you want to play whataboutery over polluting the harbour then good luck to, but I would suggest you...
Funny you talk of woke a thon and then come up with that word salad. Given that unlike prisoners they’re free to leave and go home anytime they like, that’s a nice bit of rhetorical slight of hand pretending they’re ‘captives’. You can play whatever word ...
It’s the most fundamental question which I’m yet to see any of the mobs apologists address head on. If they actually got what they claim they want are saying? - Anyone concern with the risk of sharing work/public space with the unvaccinated should just ...
“Avoid getting arrested. Avoid all the rumbles with them. We have won this already." Says former Nat MP Matt King. Well if you’ve won this already, surely you can all bugger off home?
National have botched how to respond to COVID as an opposition from Day1. I thought they might have been learning, but apparently not.
Huh? Aside from the racism, what exactly are you arguing here? That they should have been allowed to spread out all over central Wellington beyond parliament, causing whatever manner of disruption and that any attempt to at least contain them to parliament...
Pretty much entirely agree with Rashbrooke. I think there’s a lot of projecting going on around serious issues that deserve our attention, that somehow this mop are a manifestation of more profound and much larger issues. Whilst some people are being ...
That’s a nice statement in the abstract from Joyce, but does the square root of FA in telling us what you do about a group of science deniers throwing literal shit.
These things always have more than a touch of ‘Peoples front of Judea’ about them.
It’s a plant/false flag/tiny minority/understandable/fault of the government for not negotiating (delete as applicable) and it’s outrageous that you have any expectation the decent majority and their reasonable demands do anything to distance themselves.
They’ve been using kids as human shields from Day1.
The laughable veneer of ‘reasonable’ keeps falling away over this literal shit show. At least it’s going to out the absurd apologists as increasingly detached from reality. There’ll be no concession of course as they’re impervious to evidence.
Why assume the funding is limited either in volume or to this country?
It’s lovely that you appear to not give a toss about those who would almost certainly have died or become seriously ill they’d been expected to share work places and other public spaces with the unvaccinated. 2. Given who’s there, their agendas and indeed...
Phone polling is based on globally tested and replicable methodology and hence you can create a ‘margin for error’ as it the methodology is testable and in theory robust. There are countless reason that make achieving this in the case of a protest ...
How does that test work if everyone including Tory MPs knew he was never fit to be PM in the first place and they just made a Faustian bargain?
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