MEDIA WATCH: Ummmmmm – isn’t there ANOTHER problem with that Steinlager advert?

1. Things like this annoy me enough to want to boycott a product, but there’s a catch. I once bought some t-shirts from Cotton On and when I found out they were trying to remove their employees breaks I never went back. That was straight forward. But I haven’t had a steinlager for years. Because it tastes bad. Same goes for Lion Beers, but at the other end of the undrinkable scale. I’ve tasted Kirin, but of all the easy choices, why would I seek that out just to pay extra? I’m fairly sure I don’t own anything made by mitsubishi, unless it’s a tiny chip inside an electonic product somewhere. How the hell am I supposed to boycott something I don’t buy or can’t see? It’s like yesterday when the head of Pandora Jewelry sent an threatening email to staff that if they have time off over christmas they’re in for it. Whatever that means. It doesn’t sound legal, anyway. I mean, that isn’t legal, and I’ve been on the recieveing end of that sort of thing. There was so much wrong with it that i almost had a stroke before i remembered to breathe. But how can i boycott his franchise when I don’t buy his trinkets? I guess I should just be grateful i don’t live in their world, because it sounds and looks, and tastes, really bad.

2. Sadly millennials have the attention span of a goldfish so working through the linkages to they get to the uranium mines would be too hard for most.

   Sadly Lion and their masters would have outsourced this ad to some woketard advertising agency that would have too lazy to do any research and too dumb to connect the dots.

   Care factor zero though as a previous poster explained the product tastes like cold rat urine.

3. The issue is advertising and encouraging alcohol. The cause of so many of society’s problems.

   But white dudes on a yacht? That’s dead accurate isn’t it? But I don’t expect much from the wokey Standard other than ritualistic self flagellation for white men. They love that shit.

4. Always pays to checkout the ownership chain when looking at corporate behaviour. Hopefully “someone” will let the Standard and Spinoff know of their omission, it is rather a biggie given one of the vital components of nuclear weapons happens to be…

   But in todays short attention span world–Tiktok anyone?–the damage is probably done. All sorts will now think some yachties saved the Pacific, when in fact it was a true bottom up peoples movement responsible. Same for Nuke Free NZ, it was won street by street, Council by Council, school by school and march and vigil by etc.

5. Unfortunately the woke bigots at the spinoff are uncapable of joining the dots you have connected between steinlager and uranium Bomber, because that involves critical thinking, investigative journalism, an IQ above 85, and doing some real work.

6. Why are they not wearing life jackets?

   • Because, back then, personal risk management was, um, personal.

7. Completely unrelated but I have been thinking about people such as prominent lawyer Mai Chen lauding what is called ‘super diversity’ as if it is some kind of holy grail and I am at a loss as to why this is something we should be striving for.
   When was it decided that there was something wrong with what was a NZ with a mix of largely Pakeha / Maori / Pasifika and that this existing diversity had to be much further extended to essentially include as many other ‘peoples’ as possible?
   When was it decided that we had to become a ‘cosmopolitan’ society no different from New York or London therefore losing forever what it was that made us unique in the world?

   • James – When was it decided ? When we needed cheap labour, and also wanted to keep wages down – same as the UK bringing in West Indians and Pakistanis, except that the UK did actually have a major labour shortage and needed people to eg keep the public transport system functioning, but whether New Zealand had that sort of shortage I do not know, but doubt.

8. The woke won’t be happy until we become like our betters like China who loves human rights and freedom of speech (sarcasm)

   “China’s government sees human rights as an existential threat. Its reaction could pose an existential threat to the rights of people worldwide.

   At home, the Chinese Communist Party, worried that permitting political freedom would jeopardize its grasp on power, has constructed an Orwellian high-tech surveillance state and a sophisticated internet censorship system to monitor and suppress public criticism. Abroad, it uses its growing economic clout to silence critics and to carry out the most intense attack on the global system for enforcing human rights since that system began to emerge in the mid-20th century.” https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/global

   or India a country full of wonderful diversity according to the woke…
   ” India’s dark past of mass killings, most of which is upon a religious or a minority community. 58 years on after India ratified the Genocide convention, domestic laws still fail to recognise mass crimes against humanity and Genocide.” http://ijlia.in/rising-communal-violence-and-political-patronage-indias-failure-to-recognize-genocide-in-domestic-law/

   Woke believe NZ is so racist we need to beat ourselves everyday, drive more to suicide, and ultimately celebrate our woke diversity betters who judging by the silence seem to be the above groups because I don’t seem them worrying about the above.

   Also the post is completely right about the irony of a uranium company advertising nuclear free. Marketing does not need to have any truth or integrity to it in our globalist culture where fake news abounds.

9. There is a relatively simple solution to the issue Paul Thomas raises at #1 concerning how do we know what products are connected to which particular strand of the general evil that is corporate consumerism.
   We live in a society where successive governments have successfully neutered the right of citizens to withdraw their labour in any organised manner.

   In addition the reduced rate of workforce participation is not just part of the problem regarding striking, I.E. there so no cultural revulsion at scabbing any more, even a general strike would no longer involve sufficient of the masses to generate the wave of opposition essential to bring about change. Too many don’t have real employment to withdraw their labour from.

   IMO the solution is to use consumerism against itself. Putting together a database of all products that, say, have a connection to Occupied Palestine, or are connected to egregious environmental destruction, or were know to profit from child labour is an achievable goal, then make a phone app that connects to the database so that people such as myself who do not want to support zionism any time ever, or who don’t want to give economic support to environmental destructors, can select the issues which concern them most.

   Then when they are about to make a purchase they fire up the app, scan or photograph the product and the database tells them if there are issues with their prospective purchase.
   Such an app could do much more than that, with a database that is regularly and accurately updated it could direct consumers of a product that didn’t cross their particular boundaries, to where they can get the best deal etc.

   Any such project would need to be managed by an elected group, so organising all of us in a way that
   meets our individual beliefs in an objective, non-tendentious way could be both powerful & uncontroversial.

   • Yep. Back when I first went to live in London during the anti-apartheid era, activists stickered. imported Sth African products in the supermarkets; we quickly got to know which brands to boycott.

10. It suffices to be scathing about Steinlager because there are so many better beers.

11. I’m assuming that the labour party is embarrassed now that they let the standard become so closely identified with them recently.. Bunch of pretentious blowhards.. LPrent actually called me a “right wing nut job” once when I called out one of his BFF’s… That made a lot of sense (sarc) as I’ve been a committed socialist ever since Winston peters showed me just what being a tory was all about (and make no bones about it)… The spinoff looks more like a creche for wannabe journalists who haven’t figured out what journalism actually entails yet.. In short, the real tragedy is that there are still enough people who waste their time with the utter drivel on offer on both sites to keep these cretins in business.. What sort of journalist doesn’t even come close to the real reason the Frogs were forced underground in the first place, which was the beginning of the end for testing by the Frogolians in the Pacific.. Does any of you boys and girls know what that reason was? I suppose the brains behind these pretend bastions of intelligentsia either have no clue as to the actual events leading up to them being forced to compromise on their testing methods… For the (sub)standard this is unforgivable, as they pretended to be the voice of the labour movement… I’ll give you all a clue.. https://nzhistory.govt.nz/hmnzs-otago-sails-for-mururoa-test-zone…. THAT, boys and girls, was why the Rainbow Warrior was sunk in Auckland harbour… These halfwit, woke morons wouldn’t have the first idea… We should be screaming for Stienlager to be dispossessed of their sponsorship rights, as they are insulting the hard work, sacrifices, and the bravery of the last real leader NZ had.. Norman Eric Kirk.

12. Got a job, workin for this exploiter, sayin, americas cup its our new zealand cup, first time winning,then slauter every water race since winning again, shall our culture bourgiouse say us our New Zealand cup, fuck should our skill waged exploited doin say, should it be our exploited labour skilled cup.

13. Is our socialist foil allowed.

14. Ever been in a place like, coronation st. Course never,only on the tele, our humanity.He how you, knowing sailing these boats.

15. SHOULD we listen to this new American control, saying Union jobs union jobs union jobs waged care union paid jobs,

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