. Thanks, Anker ... I've really appreciated your support (both politically and health-wise).
. Cheers, Red ... I've noted your recent absence here ... I'm guessing partly a consequence of your recently-diagnosed serious health issue and partly that you've simply had enough. You're one of the sane ones here, calmly grounded in reality, always ...
. The "Left" has slowly but surely been captured by Woke dogmatists among the professional middle class ... a little cult of arrogant, authoritarian & utterly deluded followers in culturally & socially powerful positions. Their understanding of reality is ...
. It’s the political outcomes of this (professional-managerial) class relentlessly following its own self-interest that are bad. Danyl astutely applies the arguments of Christopher Lasch in The Revolt of the Elites ... and, by extension, the theories of ...
Thanks for asking, Pat. Deserves a considered response ... have a few major things to deal with at moment ... but I'll respond here in next few days.
. Pretty much describes my elderly parents' situation for the last 4 and a half years ... slightly different in that they own their house, have lived there for almost 60 years, nice, leafy community-minded street with beautiful sea-views, very socially-...
. The Tamaki Religious Cult ... the Green Upper-Middle Pakeha Woke Cult ... the Maori ethno-nationalist Cult ... none care too much for liberal democracy, majority sentiment or fundamental human rights. Each grounded in a remarkably crude & distorted ...
Ahh that's a real shame ... I understand you were 6 years, 3 months & 21 days sober ... until tonight.
. And let's nor forget their (BJP's) attitudes towards women. Maybe that's why Sharma had trouble working with colleagues? They need to keep you the hell away from Jury Service. Wild unsubstantiated rumour followed by wildly speculative smearing.
. A (sic) hear tell Dr. Gaurav Sharma has some links to local BJP types in NZ ... he is going to form an Indian NZ party and try and tap into the not inconsiderable resentment in the local expat Indian community, a group that contains many with at least as...
. By stealth or by arrogance, they don't care, they just want power. Are we subject to the same steady takeover from delusional cult members? An almost perfect description of the Critical Theory Cult ... Wokedom relatively weak among the wider population ...
. More Clark vs Brash in the run-up to the 2005 Election ... which was close.
.. Peters is still well below Seymour in preferred PM league. Irrelevant to the question of whether or not the doubling of his personal rating (making it almost twice as high as current committed NZF supporters) indicates a latent potential pool of support...
. Left & Right blocs essentially neck-and-neck ... TPM holding balance. Luxon's initial fall in popularity didn't affect National's ratings, now it's beginning to. While NZF is only rating 2.6%, Winston almost doubles his personal popularity to 4.2% ... ...
She's doing well in the standup, but she is pissed! Suggesting the Prime Minister was exceedingly drunk during a stand up is a very serious allegation indeed ... I hope you can either back that up with solid evidence or confirm that you watch far too many...
. If National (and, indeed, the British Tories) had any sense they'd move in a decidedly centrist direction on fiscal/economic policy while simultaneously adopting an overtly anti-Woke position on cultural issues (emphasising the latter more from a liberal...
. Anyone…who has ever had the unfortunate circumstance of dealing with a narcissist bully…or worse, the Dark Triad, will maybe be (sic) seeing some similarities here. Look in the mirror. More than a few narcissists among the Woke Dogmatist element here. ...
. Yep ... astonishing double-standards ... ...partly the usual lack of principle you find in all partisan echo-chambers (as George Orwell brilliantly dissected way back in the 30s) ... but also, for Woke dogmatists, Sharma's probably the wrong identity ...
. Right-wing blokes – they'd be a joke if they didn't have so much power to do harm. Right-wing blokes and Woke dogmatists of both sexes.
The difference is the Horizon poll is only of those who expressed a clear intention to vote Is that really all that different from the other, more established Polls ? For example ... 1News-Kantar only includes those saying they are 'quite likely' or 'very...
. Also the most widely-liked Party leader in the early-mid 90s (among NZ voters as a whole) according to the New Zealand Election Study (ie stood out from other leaders for being liked by voters across the political / ideological spectrum).
. Probably overshadowed in swing-voters' minds by inflation / cost of living ... but: As a rule of thumb, if Governments, in all their arrogance & hubris, allow themselves to get too far ahead of the voters on fundamental issues then the electorate will ...
. This 1 News-Kantar Poll raises questions about the fairly popular notion among media commentators that the Māori Party (TPM) are currently enjoying a surge in support (supposedly as a result of some sort of unprecedented mobilisation of non-voters) & may...
. Certainly a message that dogmatic Woke Cultists urgently need to hear (but, of course, their inherent narcissism, self-righteous delusions of grandeur & love of indiscriminately wielding power over others renders them deaf to all critique).. Critical ...
Older brother was a massive Collingwood fan (eclipsed only by his loyalty to Liverpool FC (UK football) & St George Dragons (NRL)).
Oh Shit, sorry to hear that, mate.
. Generally sound critique of neo-liberalism ... but otherwise bordering on the horrendous. Exemplifies the fake moral posturing & radical chic of affluent Upper-Middle Wokedom ... imagining themselves heroic subversives ... dripping with the narcissism & ...
. his statement wasn’t never cleared with the party My understanding is he didn't say nufing ! I'm guessing you were brought up in Dickensian London, Simon. Don't get me wrong, Guv, you're a right Gent and no mistake but that double negative was a right ...
. Mickysavage: It was a close thing about what was published first. Bryce’s hot take or Chloe Swarbrick announcing that she was not going to stand thereby completely repudiating every single paragraph of Bryce’s analysis. Bryce Edwards: Another possibility...
. If only Woke Dogmatists within the Green Party would "listen and reflect" for the first time in their cosseted lives.
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