Politics 🗳️ NZ Politics

[wizard of Tauranga]

The Wizard household, are thrilled (and slightly traumatised) to announce the arrival of a brand new arrival to the family.

Name: Pebble
Weight: 1 stone
Length: Somehow, still too long
Place of Birth: The porcelain throne

Both father and little pebble are... well, only one is doing okay. We'll let you guess which. Glad it’s over

 

[John Nick]

The Wizard household, are thrilled (and slightly traumatised) to announce the arrival of a brand new arrival to the family.

Name: Pebble
Weight: 1 stone
Length: Somehow, still too long
Place of Birth: The porcelain throne

Both father and little pebble are... well, only one is doing okay. We'll let you guess which. Glad it’s over

Full of humor tonight Wiz.
Not stoned are you??

 

[Worried2Death]

The Wizard household, are thrilled (and slightly traumatised) to announce the arrival of a brand new arrival to the family.

Name: Pebble
Weight: 1 stone
Length: Somehow, still too long
Place of Birth: The porcelain throne

Both father and little pebble are... well, only one is doing okay. We'll let you guess which. Glad it’s over

Congrats and welcome little Pebbles. I gave birth to a bouncing Ashley Klein this morning.

 

[MaybeTop8]

Tamaki is part of the far right in New Zealand

Bluesky

bsky.app

 

[MaybeTop8]

I await the incoming sneers, denial and condescension.

Disinformation has been a powerful weapon from those looking to disrupt the Western ideas of democracy. Putin is one player. The oligarchs and the far right are other players.

Mountain Tūī's 1 & Taking A Break

Plus: Jacinda Ardern's period saw significant Russian Interference - changing our culture forever

mountaintui.substack.com

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

I await the incoming sneers, denial and condescension.

Disinformation has been a powerful weapon from those looking to disrupt the Western ideas of democracy. Putin is one player. The oligarchs and the far right are other players.

Mountain Tūī's 1 & Taking A Break

Plus: Jacinda Ardern's period saw significant Russian Interference - changing our culture forever

mountaintui.substack.com

Where’s your evidence of democracy being disrupted.

Voter turnout has increase since the low of 2011. There is no apathy or disingagement.

The centre left and centre right are still the predominant parties with mainstream policies representing their long term values (wether we like them personally or not).

Quote me some examples of Russian propaganda? Wtf would he be interested in NZ at all. Even if they have been more active show evidence anyone’s actually believes any of it. The Riussians are coming for our democracy sounds like propaganda itself…

Don’t get to emotionally invested and lose sight of the big picture that our country continues to be very centrist. As these pages show, people don’t change their political ideas easily.

 

[MaybeTop8]

Where’s your evidence of democracy being disrupted.

Voter turnout has increase since the low of 2011. There is no apathy or disingagement.

The centre left and centre right are still the predominant parties with mainstream policies representing their long term values (wether we like them personally or not).

Quote me some examples of Russian propaganda? Wtf would he be interested in NZ at all. Even if they have been more active show evidence anyone’s actually believes any of it. The Riussians are coming for our democracy sounds like propaganda itself…

Don’t get to emotionally invested and lose sight of the big picture that our country continues to be very centrist. As these pages show, people don’t change their political ideas easily.

And your idea of centrist is actually very right.

 

[MaybeTop8]

Where’s your evidence of democracy being disrupted.

Voter turnout has increase since the low of 2011. There is no apathy or disingagement.

The centre left and centre right are still the predominant parties with mainstream policies representing their long term values (wether we like them personally or not).

Quote me some examples of Russian propaganda? Wtf would he be interested in NZ at all. Even if they have been more active show evidence anyone’s actually believes any of it. The Riussians are coming for our democracy sounds like propaganda itself…

Don’t get to emotionally invested and lose sight of the big picture that our country continues to be very centrist. As these pages show, people don’t change their political ideas easily.

My evidence, aside from the opinion post I linked to? It's happening around the world. It's being driven by the right and far right to destroy western democracy in favour of the oligarchs and wealth extraction.

It's that simple.

A first step for some would be to acknowledge neoliberalism in all it's forms over the last 50 years, the people behind that, and the patterns of wealth extraction, the links to climate change and deliberate suppression of science, and also disinformation.

Take a look with an open mind. Have a great day too, hope you're feeling better.

 

[MaybeTop8]

Hopefully this will also silence the flood of misogyny from a bunch of losers that flooded the internet recently. After all, how many of them have had any kind of creative success? Much easier to sneer and spew bile via their own insecurities on talkback and the toxic forums.

Fucking awesome Lorde.

'Absolutely insane': Lorde's new album hits number 1 on both sides of globe

Lorde said she was in disbelief at the love fans had shown for Virgin.

www.nzherald.co.nz

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

And your idea of centrist is actually very right.

Said like someone in the grips of propaganda

Labour was in last election, we flip flop between left and right in a globally socialist country.

NZ is centre left globally with US, Australia, Great Britain, etc all right of us.

We are world leading in many left issues (gender issues, LGBT, green issues, etc). Don’t let your personal views cloud you thinking about the whole country.

I firmly believe NZ has a centre line and the harder we go one way or the other, the harder we swing back. labour went far left last term and we’ve swung back hard right now. We will end up central over the long term because our people and economy ensure it. (Eg lose sight of the economy or people (to far left or right) and we become self correcting as the economy or people suffer)

 

[MaybeTop8]

Said like someone in the grips of propaganda

Labour was in last election, we flip flop between left and right in a globally socialist country.

NZ is centre left globally with US, Australia, Great Britain, etc all right of us.

We are world leading in many left issues (gender issues, LGBT, green issues, etc). Don’t let your personal views cloud you thinking about the whole country.

I firmly believe NZ has a centre line and the harder we go one way or the other, the harder we swing back. labour went far left last term and we’ve swung back hard right now. We will end up central over the long term because our people and economy ensure it. (Eg lose sight of the economy or people (to far left or right) and we become self correcting as the economy or people suffer)

Well you are so incorrect in so many statements here. Later mate, it's too nice a day and life is too short to debate your own echo chamber.

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Hopefully this will also silence the flood of misogyny from a bunch of losers that flooded the internet recently. After all, how many of them have had any kind of creative success? Much easier to sneer and spew bile via their own insecurities on talkback and the toxic forums.

Fucking awesome Lorde.

'Absolutely insane': Lorde's new album hits number 1 on both sides of globe

Lorde said she was in disbelief at the love fans had shown for Virgin.

www.nzherald.co.nz

Where do you hang out online mate, I’ve only heard good things about Lorde.

Focus on the positives dude instead of taking a positive as a chance to be political

 

[MaybeTop8]

Where do you hang out online mate, I’ve only heard good things about Lorde.

Focus on the positives dude instead of taking a positive as a chance to be political

Good for you Wiz.

The Men Commenting on Lorde

Whenever Lorde releases new music, New Zealand's worst men come running for the comments section.

www.webworm.co

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Good for you Wiz.

The Men Commenting on Lorde

Whenever Lorde releases new music, New Zealand's worst men come running for the comments section.

www.webworm.co

Your ability to keep quoting obscure websites ive never heard of to support your views is truely stunning!

Got to give you credit for giving the full commitment into your rabbit holes

And as a final counter your big anti Lorde conspiracy postings, she’s number 1 on the charts in NZ - we love her! Disprove that!

Tip: spend more time off your computer in the real world with real people to find the real NZ.

 

[defensivebomb]

I wonder how much a
AI will increasingly play a role in elections and voter manipulation in years to come. We have seen recent reports of much chat GPT etc can lead otherwise intelligent people down a rabbit hole. I can imagine this sort of thing would be a very scalable tool that governments can weaponise

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Your ability to keep quoting obscure websites ive never heard of to support your views is truely stunning!

Got to give you credit for giving the full commitment into your rabbit holes

And as a final counter your big anti Lorde conspiracy postings, she’s number 1 on the charts in NZ - we love her! Disprove that!

Tip: spend more time off your computer in the real world with real people to find the real NZ.

People are shitting on Lorde because she started hyping some gender confusion story right before her album dropped which then happened to feature a picture of her mons pubis.

Fans Left Divided Over Lorde's Artwork For Her Latest Album Virgin: 'So Dramatic'

God forbid there’s a bit of bush!

www.pedestrian.tv

 

[Noitall]

People are shitting on Lorde because she started hyping some gender confusion story right before her album dropped which then happened to feature a picture of her mons pubis.

Fans Left Divided Over Lorde's Artwork For Her Latest Album Virgin: 'So Dramatic'

God forbid there’s a bit of bush!

www.pedestrian.tv

Reminds me of the old Stones album sticky fingers with the bulge in the jeans, but this one see through and the opposite gender. I don’t see a problem, nothing unkempt

 

[MrFrankWhite]

Reminds me of the old Stones album sticky fingers with the bulge in the jeans, but this one see through and the opposite gender. I don’t see a problem, nothing unkempt

Werent half the Stones sleeping with teenagers?

 

[Noitall]

Werent half the Stones sleeping with teenagers?

For sure, such were the times. Probably still young groupies following bands throwing themselves at them

 

[Noitall]

Your ability to keep quoting obscure websites ive never heard of to support your views is truely stunning!

Got to give you credit for giving the full commitment into your rabbit holes

And as a final counter your big anti Lorde conspiracy postings, she’s number 1 on the charts in NZ - we love her! Disprove that!

Tip: spend more time off your computer in the real world with real people to find the real NZ.

Looks like Frank’s heard about criticism too. Must be looking at those obscure websites and going down rabbit holes too