The Onion is leaning into it: https://www.theonion.com/
Yes, the guardian is a prime example of infighting. Their takedown of Corbyn was despicable in my view. I never knew that about Jones; he's obviously symptomatic of the whole sorry sitch.
An interesting discussion between Owen Jones (The Guardian) and Yanis Varoufakis on various topics. Towards the end is some talk around one of the things that pops up here a bit, that of the civil war among those of the 'left'. How it makes us sitting ...
Would some insightful person care to elaborate on this phenomenon? I've got trouble understanding it as well. DP star Jordan Williams, as was Slater, is now a participant Bradbury's podcast. I'm all for reaching across the divide (which is what I assume ...
+100 That's why I think the positive posts you've been putting up have such value; they remind me (and I suspect others) that there are like-minded people actually doing things, and that the drops in the bucket actually add up, hence are worth doing; also,...
You're right of course. I guess I was being a bit of a grump, and a bit obscure. I suppose I meant I'm ready to make the fullest commitment, but I can't bring myself to quit my job and sacrifice my family to do it, if I'm the only one. Drop in the bucket, ...
I'd say it's even weirder; we're wake-walking, knowing and seeing it happen but still not motivated enough as a group to fix it (fast enough). Gotta admit, I'm somewhat like that; I'd make the maximum effort towards cc, but not just to save a few ...
Wow, I watched this 'for a laugh'... now I'm in a disgusted, angry fug. What a despicable twerp!
Agree with Weka, I actually think that's a good idea. I know there's been a few posi-posts recently, but IMO that's what we actually need: a hammering of the actual good that's happened, and rousing motivation to continue. Imagine if we cracked the nut of ...
Well, Roger Halham (XR) predicted this kind of thing would happen, and worse. Along the lines of: heed the peaceful protestors, because if you don't, the violent ones will follow. And if you don't listen to them, worse will follow. And so on.
I notice you've left out Turkmenistan in your condemnations. What's your point?
There, there Duterte.
I just listened to the David Wallace Wells one. He's the guy that wrote 'The Uninhabitable Earth', a harrowing look at the state of the planet. In fact, he is much more optimistic blue than when he wrote it, in 2017. Still thinks we're headed for massive ...
I obviously do, because I'm not quite following you; I found this post quite the opposite of pissing and moaning. A way of seeing the recent budget in a more favourable light than many of the lefty whingers. It was actually quite uplifting, for me at least...
Make up your mind. I thought it wasn't Standard policy to go telling authors what to write, or is it different for you? There's value in seeing the budget in a different light, looking at what can be achieved by it, especially in context with the rest of ...
How can you make it into a snappy soundbite though? Not a flippant but a genuine question. The RW is so good at sloganeering, even leaning into "explaining is losing".
Agree there. Hence, the need for the Greens.
Congratulations on finding another way of saying whoever gets the most votes wins. The Overton window simply shifts the almighty centre, which is what I understood to be the thrust of Weka's post.
With the election across the ditch, it's possible that Oz could soon end up with a more progressive government than us! At a puerile, nationalistic level, that's simply embarrassing. But on more serious level, maybe the fact that 'they' can do it will ...
Wow, so I take it you'll be voting GP/MP? Could hardly be 'worse', and even if so that's better in your view right?
This name rang a bell: Wayne Eaglesome has more than 250 convictions and 40 aliases. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/128646732/sorry-prolific-conman-speaks-for-the-first-and-final-time And one of the aliases is Wayne Eagleson, like the guy from ...
+1 re sacrifices: we've made plenty. And watched on as the beyond-absurd antics of the unconscionably rich waste resources on rockets, yachts bunkers. With never a single wtf from our media. I'd happy sacrifice their wealth, as well as continue to make ...
+1 Damn right Chris! đđ The obscene gap between the stupidly rich and the rest is an open goal. Tax the hell out of them, then talk about tax cuts for us. So easy.
"Would love to save the world, but since I can't I'll just save number one and say 'well, I tried'".
To clarify, I meant banning advertising (starting with the example I mentioned), leading to a reduction in wasteful consumerism. There would be much less demand without advertising right, or it wouldn't exist.
I knew this idea reminded me of something: this Monbiot vid is worth the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDKth-qS8Jk Key takeaways: ⢠We need a story to believe in, it's the catalyst that has changed the world every time. ⢠He calls it the politics ...
Planning for the future and actually preparing for it was hard enough before social media and hyper-advertising wreaked chaos on our attention; but people managed it. Look at temples and cathedrals which took more than a lifetime to complete. Now we want ...
Where did you see / hear about it?
Someone here(?) made the comment that the NZ public can't be 'that stupid' to vote for these, which are so obviously destructive to all of us. But people have in the UK, and not out of stupidity, but maybe despondency, propaganda have a hand in it? Also, I...
...pipeline of vulnerable children... and for prisons.
+100 Incidentally, RNZ ran that story about sea level rises this morning; the following story being about the border-reopenings hence all the flights expected.
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