The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday – 21st December 2021

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    • It’s good they said it, but maybe the government should have looked at whether mass migration and tourism was sustainable before they added 1.5 million more people – who then created a Ponzi of needing more people to look after the needs of the people who just came.

      All paid for with government debt, more taxes and asset sales and more poverty, NZ wages circa 1995 while others have 4 million in crypto currency and trying to money launder rubbish sacks of cash and cigarettes, and more crime.

      Welcome to team NZ!

  6. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/458343/discrimination-in-housing-market-leading-to-takatapui-and-lgbtqi-homelessness-study
    Reminds me of UK in 1970s. A law was brought in to protect families with children. Landlords couldn’t decide not to renew rental unless they found alternative accommodation for them. So they would not let to even married couples, better to pretend you were just living together. One woman was obviously pregnant and wanted to get a place closer to London than 1 hour travel each way. She started looking when baby was just a dot; that involved visiting advertised properties and lining up in a queue with other hopefuls. The months went by and the baby was showing and she was so disheartened.

    So perhaps it’s an advantage to be in a single sex relationship. For all the sentiment, society doesn’t seem to actually care about parents and children at all, perhaps okay if they are own family, or they like them as accessories that can be talked up as prodigies adding lustre to the family standing. Women can make a fuss now but in the future with the way that society is going, girls will be limited in number. Recently a family had to hire a plane to get themselves to Australia – who were these well-off parents – two men and a daughter.

    Who would have expected this woke group denying nature and getting such political leverage? Women are being undermined in a half step forward, one step back way. As parents they don’t rate, as confused gender they don’t rate, and generally seem to be stuck in the role of victims, with others delineating their fate and a there’s constant complaining. This despite the work done by feminists last century which unfortunately did not solve all problems in a practical, fair way.

  8. He’ll know all the legal wangles and mangles. And money side having been with Westpac, or so one imagines. Parliament as a stepping stone to richer fields? Time for a song? Fields of Gold –
    Eva Cassidy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UVjjcOUJLE

    And piece on merger of RNZ & TVNZ and other acronyms – anyone else getting on the media bandwagon?

  9. With all this going on, it is hardly surprising that the Security Information in Proceedings Legislation Bill slipped into Parliament in late November, virtually unnoticed. This was unfortunate, because the Bill quietly erodes the principles of natural justice in this country. In essence, the Bill formalises a system whereby, in an expanding range of courtroom situations, people will be unable to know, let alone challenge, all the evidence being used to prosecute their case.
    https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2112/S00036/on-the-obscure-bill-that-erodes-our-system-of-justice.htm

    This is Labour at its best, trading on its past history of appearing to believe in justice for all men, then women and children too. Gordon Campbell – Werewolf asks some questions that may have escaped arising because of our deluge of Covid things.

  10. I like the force of the democratic state clearing away torpid thinkers — the ‘best of bogun science’. Labour learning not to be scared of their own shadow. Learning.

    Hopefully learning to front for Maori (the fucks). And after them for the rest of us, the people.

    • You need to be careful that you don’t accidentally offend while you are fulminating sumsuch. Arthur Prior’s observations have some application.

        • The logic was all out there. If anyone knows my history — how I regard the neglect of the poorest and thus Maori since 1984 as a sin. I come here for people who know our history as opposed to my person to person life.

          I have no regard for you Greywarbler — your writing style or whatever you’re trying to say. I’m sure you’re a nice person.

  11. Words to chew over. From https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/458382/prior-s-warning-what-would-nz-s-greatest-20th-century-philosopher-have-said-about-civil-liberties-in-the-covid-age
    On this fellow’s opinions: ”Arthur Prior, the greatest New Zealand philosopher of the 20th century.’
    Blanket of silence
    Prior identifies the third weakness as “a certain excessive readiness to take offence which we New Zealanders exhibit”. As he put it:

    “For some reason, it is only too easy for a person or organisation to go to the powers that be and say, ‘Look here, it hurts us to hear somebody saying so-and-so’, and the powers that be will reply, ‘Goodness me, I’m sorry to hear that – we’ll just stop them saying it then’.”

    Prior thought New Zealanders were “too touchy” and authorities too willing “to silence voices which this or that group not only does not want to hear, but does not want others to hear”.
    This sounds similar to the rise of 21st century “cancel culture”, whether that be the “pile on” tendencies of the Twittersphere or the vexed intricacies of the proposed hate speech legislation.

    New Zealanders like to speak out about what they oppose, Prior said, but not about what they like. This meant they operated under “a comfortable blanket of silence”.
    Because we don’t tend to speak out in support of the rights of others to say controversial things we don’t agree with, Prior says, it “is deplorably easy” to be united “in coddling our sectional prejudices and in listening to those who would have us all wrapped up in intellectual cotton wool”.
    Sounds rather familiar but it is from ‘ an address to the Civil Liberties Council in 1955’…

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