Rose Matafao appeared on the UK Comedy Roast this week and I’m guessing the woke warriors of NZ Twitter and the trigger free millennials who staff the NZ Herald and Stuff have never seen one before and had no idea that the Comedy Roast is a no holds barred insult competition where sexism, racism and in fact every ism is up for grabs.
It really says something about us as a nation that euthanasia is currently being seriously debated while cannabis reform is not. In New Zealand with a skyrocketing suicide rate, we will allow you to chose to kill yourself if you are in pain, but we won’t allow you to smoke a joint if you are in pain.
Has anyone asked Clayton Mitchell if ‘Leprechaun Curling’ & underage gambling are NZ Values?
The IPCC is an incredibly conservative body who only publish science that everyone agrees with and this (along with them not including methane release from permafrost and from the ocean floor) has been one of the great criticisms of the panel, so when they come out with a damning report as serious as their latest one, complacency, climate denial and apathy are no longer options.
The Green Woke are in absolute denial that this is poor media planning and strategy and any attempt to suggest it is gets attacked as heteronormative patriarchal misogyny.
We are a bitter, petty folk who prefer counter productive policy to success if that success requires kindness and compassion.
It’s a vile and grotesque invasion of privacy that has no real checks or balances, but New Zealander’s have such an incredulous ‘if-you-have-nothing-to-hide-you-have-nothing-to-fear’ mentality to mass surveillance, it’s difficult to feel anything but sad apathy at the manner we hand such incredibly far ranging powers over to the all seeing state.
…why on earth were the officials under National actively trying to get Chinese companies to take our water?
This militancy when Labour are in power and cowardice when National are in is deeply detrimental to industrial relations and progressive politics because it feeds into a National Party narrative that Unions feel emboldened by Jacinda being in power.
With Trump claiming China is attempting to interfere in the upcoming mid term elections, the speed with which mistakes could compound ignorance and collapse the entire house of cards is higher than ever before.