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Still this sort of shit going down, FFS, it's 20-f'n-26!!!
You'd think society had evolved a bit by now but... yeah nah.
At that age guys should have at least sprouted *a* braincell and realized women in their class isn't some elaborate mirage they're witnessing but... again, apparently not.
#NZpol
Again with faux reassuring noises from Luxon, this time blabbering about a literally toothless Commerce Commission watching food prices etc won't go up too much. Spare the BS.
All followed by Supermarket Dude saying it'll be "business as usual" for now.
So, just their normal gouging then 🙄
"Look, what I'm saying is, there's a range of cunts to pick from in National and this means freedomality in leadershipping."
“When this regime goes down, we are going to have a new Middle East, and we are going to make a tonne of money... Venezuela and Iran have 31 percent of the world’s oil reserves. We’re going to have a partnership with 31 percent of the known reserves." - Lindsey Graham
At least he isn't pretending this was about "freedom for the Iranian people", like some are, just greed.
After all, war pigs like Graham DGAF about dictators or similar - as long as the US gets what *it* needs out of any arrangements, *any* leader compliant to US Empire becomes a "freedom lover".
Also, could Nicola Willis ever drop that condescending voice when she talks?
Probably not possible but it's very grating to hear her go on and on about fiscal responsibility when she's never shown any herself, and that's also just not how National ever governs.
Not everyone is a brainwashed Tory.
And, the other assurances given are simply what any govt would announce. But they're trying so, soooo hard to pretend they're doing more than anyone else would. It's just a little bit pathetic really.
This *illegal attack* will distract people from Nats horrendous ineptitude. Annoyingly convenient.
#NZpol
The way Lucon and Willis are trying to sound Very Responsible rn is stupefying.
They never walked into the "catastrophe" they talked up pre-23 election. So for ex, their blather about the economy being better than forecasted (note, for SOME) is less about them than a bunch of *other* facts.
And when Luxon read out a list of reasons why he believes Iran’s govt is bad, the media failed to ask why he was spreading propaganda about Iran’s supposed nuclear weapons programme or why the NZ govt doesn’t condemn Israel given that it’s still slaughtering Palestinians...
They’re really trying to do drive-thru colonization
Been a high-ish turnover of comms people in both the Nat Leaders Office and for ACT MPs since 2023. Some get moved sideways to other things, but I just wonder if others are "Honestly, I just can't take their crap anymore, there's only so many times you can get up in the morning for this shit..."
So this is great 😬
US has confirmed it too is participating in these "preemptive" strike 🙄🤬
Bunch of utterly psychotic warmongers
I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.
I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.
"It just... kinda happened... we were all stunned, amazing turnaround... did it all himself really!"
And other comforting narratives in the Mother (of all fuckups) Goose (stepping bootlickers) Nursery Rhymes
Really looking forward to the NZ media admitting "How We Helped NZ's Toxic FR Party Recover from 0.5% and Elect Its Leader to Deputy PM"...
#NZpol
So I've *just* come in from another long day, this week has pretty much be spent outside doing labouring shit, and it's this 🤬🤮
Oh well... what more can be saidIabout this US//MAGA-licking "Govt"?
As always: turn up on Nov 7, PLEASE (and to the extent NZF isn't calling the shots either!!).
This is not for Palestinians. This is colonialism and it won't succeed. Long live the resistance! It has never been in the interest of Palestinians or anyone frankly these organizations were set up to reinforce imperialism. 17 hours ago
This is not for Palestinians.
This is colonialism and it won't succeed. Long live the resistance!
It has never been in the interest of Palestinians or anyone frankly these organizations were set up to reinforce imperialism.
🇵🇸 www.instagram.com/reel/DVHLtIk...
Capitalism is not our friend.
There is no free market.
Austerity & war & exploitation are functions of capitalism, not consequences.
Promotion of the cult of individualism should make it clear to everyone just how much the privileged elite fear the power of our collective might.✊
#nzpol
Just for a retrospective, some musings of mine (checks notes) *a decade ago* when it This Kind of Thing was already a real shitter, much less how it is NOW...
We *could* build more houses — but we've a govt right now that dialed back even *more* housing targets AND undermined previous work, so builders left in droves. We'll take so long to recover momentum.
We *could* fund MH, addiction services etc, but they really don't care.
CHANGE. THIS. F'N. GOVT.
We have failed - to be fair under many govts, but this one in particular - to address the complexities across our communities.
Yes, as Chloe has said: it IS ignoring evidence. And we ALL know it.
So again, *we have a CHOICE this election* TO *CHANGE THIS APPROACH*. To *get real* for fucking once.
#NZpol
I mean, *are* we a fair society at present?! I can find individuals — but *they* don't have control of many of *the biggest levers to alleviate this issue*, THIS govt though DOES.
And it has made its choices plain: move 'em out, anywhere but where they can *prick our societal conscience*.
#NZpol
I'll say it again: every time a ragey person rages I say a point and they go "Yep, commonsense, *that's* what Govt *should* do!".
Then I casually drop *it's the Greens who said it* and they get VERY F'N EMBARRASSED.
Gee, almost like the narrative about how "extreme" the Greens are is BS 🙄
It asks me to "verfiy account using facial recognition" to get back in.
A) Like fuck am I handing that shit to them! 😬
B) Oh wait — facial recognition *isn't even enabled here* according to *their own info*?! So:
C) Can't verify it *even if I wanted to*, and can't contact them direct, f'n idiots 🙄
As ya know, mainly used it very, very strictly for family really, far away cuzzies for whom FB seems the only / main comms, sigh.
And last month, got my account locked for "checks notes* "abusing a feature" that *checks notes again* I've *never used, EVER*. Le F'n Sigh.
But wait! There's worse!...
It'd also help if any time NZF starts spewing this sort of shit up, don't bother asking Seymour. Why bother? Sure, he's the Dep PM right now, but he's also a nut. His ans that he'd not say what Peters said is BS — he's often intimated at far worse, like blowing up the Ministry for Pacific Peoples.
#NZpol
Peters brain went AWOL a while ago. It'd help if NZF voters realised it's not even the Party of 2017, much less being tolerant of this BS before. He doesn't give a shit Tuiono was born here, the foul racism works too good for them.
People, turn up, help ensure zero leverage for NZF in GE26.
Summing Up the Foul Fiddler... "I hope Andrew gets everything that comes to him"
One can only hope at this point an investigative and evidence gathering exercise (which as far as details read so far is set to continue) does, in fact, lead to the latter... say, the inquiry-related equivalent of a double-tap to the head so to speak — to make sure it all goes down *and stays down*.
#NZpol
It *isn't* fair, but as with all things this govt does — and those of their ilk before, and doubtless more after — the cruelty *is* the point.
None of it is inevitable.
None of it need be tolerated.
Change IS possible.
If WE want to.
It can change.
And it *must*.
*MAKE CHANGE IN GE26*.