The Daily Blog has spent 3 years warning that ACT’s double digit support represents a dangerous polarisation of NZ politics.
I warned the woke activists 5 years ago that if they started a Free Speech Culture War they would accidentally trigger the dormant faultline of ACT and lo and fucking behold, that’s exactly what happened!
The moment the woke started their free speech cancel culture, ACT started rising in the polls to the point they are now the third largest party.
The Greens are barely able to reach what the gained in the last election where as ACT are looking to double their 2020 result.
Well done Wokies, your self constructed identity is more important than our collective humanity, we get it, thanks.
Let me be as clear as I can be to my fellow comrades of the Left, if we allow woke activists and woke politicians to drag us into a culture war, we on the left will lose the election!
The ‘Pure Trans Joy’ of the last Posie Parker fiasco highlighted the vast difference between how the woke see themselves and how the rest of the electorate does.
Here’s why.
Social media proxification – hell is other people’s social media feed – Sartre
Social media algorithms have allowed for a toxicity of debate that is easily manipulated. A symphony of sweaty truths all screaming for attention and no one listening. Woke Identity Politics activists have seized the joy of having no gatekeepers to express how much they hate white men while alt right Incel Nazi’s have seized upon the joy of having no gatekeepers to express how much they hate everyone else.
Millennial woke culture sees macro violence coming from micro aggressions and piously police those micro aggressions with virtue signalling purity mantras.
Alt Right Incel Nazis see white persecution and create some bullshit replacement narrative to justify their powerlessness and feed that resentment online.
Most people are on social media and most people have a woke activist or Qanon fanatic in their social media feed screaming their feverish truths. While these activists certainly think they are speaking truth to power by endlessly calling people out for breaches of woke mantra or fake news anti Trump lies, to everyone else they are simply toxic.
People stop seeing the political party and only see the activist and in the end proxification means the activist becomes the proxy representation of the Party, and seeing as people have negative feelings towards the proxy, they turn from the Party.
Voters aren’t voting on policy, they are voting on who made them feel resentful on social media!
The political is the personal now means what hurts me personally becomes political.
Before social media activists could only face each other off at protests or through letters to the editor or talkback radio. There were constraints of interaction but with social media there are none and it turns out the freedom to insult and dehumanise others is more addictive than nicotine, alcohol and meth combined.
Wokeness has become a puritanical religion with none of the beauty – it’s not so much the personal virtue signal, we are all dicks at times, it’s the weaponization by algorithms that make it so dangerous and damaging.
The danger of identity politics is that it locks people intellectually into only defining the world through their skin colour, genitalia or sexual orientation – it also becomes toxically subjective and tribal where the only solidarity is with other people who share the skin colour or genitalia or sexual orientation- without shared truths and values, the 1% and their 9% enablers continue to divide the rest of us 90%.
The Left has lurched into woke ‘Social Justice’ territory which alienates more than it attracts.
Twitter outrage is woke righteousness porn for the middle classes. A puritanical razoring where the self elected morality police publicly shame and cancel anyone for not using the language protocols of the conclave.
Media proxification is leading to a fascist kaleidoscope of climate crisis entropy triggered by Covid, woke supremacy & ok Karen QAnon echo chambers.
This is why ACT are polling in double digits!
The woke activists have driven people who should be voting Left into the arms of the hard Right!
I’m really excited to see how the woke manage to get ACT to 17% on Election night, the ill-advised Green Party call to hand private land back to Māori will probably do it.
Comrades – Your enemy isn’t a woman who says stupid shit about Trans people in a public park, your enemy are the Banks, Oil Companies, Billionaires and Property Speculators who continue to pillage this country while we are bickering over the narcissism of petty difference!
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Identity politics is about making the woke feel good about themselves and their own sense of having some significance in the world
So the woke won’t change.
But “the woke” aren’t a mass movement, or even especially popular. It will vanish when it is no longer useful for Wall Street.
Oh no it isn’t. Identity politics is another weapon in the armoury of the ‘divide and rule’ brigade, and it works well. Marama alone is as efficacious as any scatter bomb in seeding social discomfort regardless of facts or truth and she should stick to advertising confectionery and lonely brain cells.
Sounds like her and Posie are made for each other.
Yin and Yang. One only likes the non-cisgender males with whom the other declines to share personal and private spaces.
How do you do it yada-yada-ada ? You always seem to be first in with the least interesting thing to write?
ACT’s popular because most AO/NZ’ers have become dangerously ( And deliberately) disconnected from their politics, which is understandable considering we’ve now endured 39 years of trans-party neo-liberal bullshit and not even that good sort of garden composting kind of bullshit. Just a bleak, year in year out fart-sound coming out of deflating roger while twerker seymour expands into rogers undies and platform shoes.
Which reminds me, has anyone seen a film titled ‘Vice’ ? It’s bloody good. It’s based on fact about the odious rise and rise of dick chaney starring Christian Bale and co starring Steve Carrell as donald rumsfeld. The real Donald was nicknamed The Duck and not for the obvious. He had special shoes made to take implants, so to speak, in the heels to make him appear taller which caused him to waddle, like a duck.
As for Woke Wank and all the other dumb ass bi-words used to splinter the mind to do the bidding of others.
Think of the Churches. That’s all they needed to do to make money to go to war. Nothing’s changed.
The Controllers would have no power over us if we never gave fucks. We should just let it all hang out man.
https://youtu.be/hP3OJUk001k
This is interesting too. The comments are telling.
The Guardian
“As big firms exit what came to be a symbol of the office age, we can finally start thinking about building truly civilised cities”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/21/government-planning-canary-wharf-office-cities
It’s a strange old world, innit?
I’ll just leave this here & see myself out ……
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/lost-plot-party-founder-sir-roger-douglas-not-voting-act
Yes. I read that too. An old liar and a coward trying to slip out the back to leave someone else to wipe up the 39 years of the blood sweat and tears he caused. The fucker should be in prison. The fact that he isn’t, shows that not much as changed.
Actual left-wing organising is creating party and trade union branches in real-life workplaces and the streets of tough slum areas. It isn’t exchanging nonsense with sock puppets on Twitter.
I think eventually the entire structure of the social networks, and the World Wide Web in general, might be upended and totally redesigned. Easily located, very high quality information of lesser quantity is vastly more useful than a constant avalanche of useless garbage.
(One computer magazine reported on the day that the Internet ceased to be a network of universities and other scientists/professionals, and was opened to the general public — and memorably described the immediate result as “a firehose of sewage”!)
Knowledge is nothing special. Any idiot has access to knowledge through the WWW. A sane world is build on reason.
Protect free speech. Why restrict speech, sharing of opinions and debate?
Martyn – Short answer is ‘No, the woke activists will not learn’…the longer answer is ‘No, the woke activists cannot learn, because they cannot self reflect on themselves’
If the Greens get their land measures for Māori in no ones homes are safe.
That exactly what one of my ancestors said almost 200 years ago, “If we keep letting too many pakeha in, no one’s land is safe”
Nice comeback Peter
Possibly some of your ancestors Peter couldn’t wait to sell land to the Pakeha…many did several times over with the same piece of land…
Labour & the Greens is why ACT is in double digits.
When they had the mandate to make New Zealand better, to heal the hurts, mend a broken society, to create a true “brighter future” but one for all. Instead we got broken promises, disappointment and a society spiraling into chaos. A Government that has persecuted the law-abiding, the hardworking, the educated, while cuddling criminals and rewarding exploiters, and actually undermining the foundations of our society & democracy. So many lost opportunities, so much waste.
Yep ratty. Horrible sad destruction wrought by inexperienced idealogical incompetents.
That exactly what one of my ancestors said almost 200 years ago, “If we keep letting too many pakeha in, no one’s land is safe”
Sounds xenophobic.
High quality candidates for ACT and disciplined, focused Caucas. They look ready to Govern.
Where as Labour look like they need a re boot and Reset. Hipkins policy Bond fire is damaging the environment, as he keeps throwing policy on it.
Marco+Battler, I wonder have long that will last?
ohhh marco I do enjoy a good larff
No, they will not learn.
Act are the worst offenders using the race card every time they’re on air and through their social media campaign and littered across the country on their billboards messaging racial undertones to win a 3 year stint in government to tip the country into an even worst racial divide than it is today. His elite pakeha sponsors would be happy with the progress that their plans are coming to fruition under the guise equality.
Really? They are only responding to the racist policy of the current government. And your comment is a perfect example of the problem. When ever you call a racist a racist you get called a racist! It’s a vicious cycle the left have stated
Not anything to do with woke-ism (whatever that is) but a lot to do with David Seymour.
It’s the best, not-too-subtle line of the election campaign so far, from Brian the Bish of the Tamaki whanau.
Said he:
‘there’s very little difference between Labour and National. They’re both cheeks of the same bottom with David Seymour in between’.
Charles Taylor wrote a book in 1989 “Sources of the Self, The Makings of the modern identity” where he says that we have moved from a traditional identity where duty was the motivator towards a modern identity where desire is motivator. I am not going to defend the traditional view & we can see the results today where self is allowed to rule.
Christian Identity is the only Identity that is received & not achieved which produces stability and allows us to be incredibly bold, incredibly courageous & humble at the same time. This allows us to see things that are wrong yet accepting of those involved while not affirming them. You don’t need to meet many Christians to know that they are not all like the description above & the dark ages are the best example of those who misuse religion for their own selfish means. This means that anyone who uses religion to try to control others is not a true Christian.
A lot can happen in 200 years. A lot of colonial ideas, effort and money can build a country for all New Zealanders. Where would we be if we didn’t start life as a colony of the British Empire? RIP James Cook who was a great man.
We have come a long way in 200 years, It’s a shame we can’t all stand up together and keep making NZ better but we are at each other’s throats, tearing it down. All you folks on here need to have a long hard look at yourselves and decide to make the most of the future without moaning about the past which you can’t change. We would all change things in our past if we had the chance but would we imperil our future to do it? That does not make sense but seems that to change the past for a few would imperil most others. We are all New Zealanders and need to think of our collective good, not what’s in it for me.
Fuck the Weasel Greens….because Labour are so shit I may have to vote for them because of Labours piss-weak stance over the CGT. Kevin Hague locked out his lab workerrs when CEO of West Coast DHBjust to show you how shit the Greens really are