Greenwald lost the plot a long time ago. What is the issue you and he have with regulating social media monopolies? Do you think these zillion dollar companies with global reach should go unchecked? The very real danger the world faces right now is the ...
Edit: I see there's discussion above oh well lol Anyone watch the UK labour party conference? They've rebranded energy nationalization into patriotic ownership that will stop the french sucking money out of the UK. When all else fails bash the french and ...
He seemed like a nice enough guy However he and his peers cannot be forgiven for refusing to push back on the annihilation of workers rights and unionization in NZ by the Bolger government. It's utterly shameful. The one time the unions NEEDED to fight ...
Actually as a millennial, I can confirm that Lorde's song royals is a criticism of braggadocios hip hop culture. The songs chorus is literally a criticism of rappers , I don't think the queen ever released an album where every song was her drinking grey ...
Jacinda has not been articulate at all this year and has seemed stuck in first gear all year. Out of the two of them Biden has done more to overturn forty years of neoliberalism by bringing back manufacturing jobs and that semiconductor chip bill is ...
Let's be real here, Labour brought in a lot of dead weight in 2020, 65 mp's that's crazy. Parties usually put people in the 50s and 60s who they don't really want or expect to get into parliament and these people are often weirdos, my cousin is Aaron ...
I would like to apologize for my angry rants on this site for the last year or two, especially the long ones. I've been allowing my mental health and cynicism to get the better of me and attacking fellow progressives because I just see everything getting ...
The greens got around 10% in 2014 and around 7.8% in 2020... They've never been anywhere close to 14% which would be around 19 seats! I think you both are mistaking seat count with vote share.
This is why the Greens will never be in cabinet. This is just messy af. No government is going to put an mp from a party in cabinet when that mps rank and file can roll them and get them placed so far down the list they aren't in parliament. Even if they ...
This is a country that historically votes out the incumbent govt if the all blacks lose. That always makes my head explode. The deputy PMs comments about how "you can't win when you make so many mistakes" sounded like he was talking about the Labour ...
Am I a rich person?? I want the stadium built and so does 70% of this city. The earthquake hit just as I hit 18 I've never not had to go to another city to watch a concert or major game. Young people want a stadium bad and we're going to be the ones paying...
Its great that we're nearing full employment and employers have to compete for employees not the other way around, and seeing major wage increases, I desperately wish this had of happened before COVID and global inflation apocalypse because, if we lose the...
Agree completely. We should just get rid of gst altogether, it's a disgusting right wing consumption tax. It's truly despicable. Dropping it by 5% is good enough but getting rid of it altogether would be a 15% tax cut to all. Failing that, yes keep half ...
I consider myself quite knowledgeable about the covid rules but I got red mixed up with 4, honestly I think we should have kept 1-3, everyone knows them, red just sounds so scary and confusing. Medically we should go to red. Politically, economically, ...
Good speech and contrary to what the lunatics who one week think she's a puppet of china and the next week claim she's a puppet of NATO/USA/eu/UK, this is New Zealands independent foreign policy in action. Criticizing China and NATO and it's nuclear ...
The reversal of Roe v Wade is a disgusting reversal of civil rights. However if we're going to keep it 100 let's be real, our foreign affairs minister Nanaia Mahuta voted to criminalize women in 2020 by voting against abortion reform so when Mahuta posted ...
Jesus Christ the All blacks lost?!?!? Well that'd really be the end of the government if that happens next year lol. Kidding
Wow Owen Jones used the term woman. Jesus. Christ. Owen is often part of the angry lynch mob wanting to burn Rowling co at the stake.
Gay here. Good post. This is utterly predictible and the erosion of the hard won civil rights for women and LGBT and minorities is gonna be a bloodbath. How can the left defend womens access to abortion when it won't even say women?!? People don't get ...
The newly merged media company will be named "Aoeteroa New Zealand Public Media " lmfao oooh boy that's a name that'll catch on. ANZPM. Could they fit any more letters on it?? That's the best this govt and it's army of pr reps and gargantuan legions of ...
Great post. Leaders around the world are being punished as people around the world are suffering and governments try to cling on to the ideas of the 80s/90s as much as they can. Twenty years into a new millennium and with unimaginable crises like climate ...
What you're really asking is should a first world liberal democracy stand with other first world liberal democracies or should it cower in the corner so it can do business with authoritarian, neo imperialistic regimes that don't believe in democracy, human...
Noone cares about local elections. Noone. Except people who own houses, they actually turn up to vote. My entire generation is locked out of owning a house and is now being locked out of even finding a rental. Make as big a deal about Leo or Collins or any...
Banning gang insignia and bandanas over peoples faces could be a thing but not gang members being blinged up but it'd have to be done by social media and big tech not the government which doesn't have anywhere near the resources. Gangs are violent vile ...
Poto Williams is a fantastic caring and kind person with a huge background with helping the misfortune downtrodden and abused and vulnerable, she was the wrong person for police (and frankly Mahuta is a terrible pic for Mahuta but Mahutas faction is too ...
As a gay man I've been told by activists that "same sex attraction is transphobic" and noticed left wing orgs saying "same gender attraction" and that saying you're only interested in biological makes is transphobic and reducing people to their privates, ...
Cabinet reshuffle today. Finally!!! This is the governments chance for a reset. If Labour wants a shot at winning 2023 or atleast of having an experienced caucus in opposition it needs to give the 2017 and 2020 class of fresh blood cabinet positions. I'd ...
I don't think they care about reelection at this point. I think the cabinet of mediocrity is simply hoping it gets as many of its social engineering reforms through by mid 2023 as possible. They are doubling and trippling down on everything that makes them...
It's a good day in San Francisco, voters have voted to recall Chesa Boudins, a radical aristocratic socialist whose lawyer grandfather represented Castro and whose parents were leaders of cop killing, bank robbing, neighborhood and federal building bombing...
Noone in Dunedin rated Curran. The whole town thought she was a fruit loop. She was labour candidate in south Dunedin, a pot plant could have been the south Dunedin candidate and won. South Dunedin has a lot of issues that sadly don't get addressed cos ...
Labour ought to tread very carefully when tackling this issue, many of its own die hard voters express similar sentiments albeit quieter. I personally use Maori words as much as I can, I've been doing it all my life. I'm from a mixed race family and Ive ...
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