Stuff crucify local papers & NZME shows us the shallow puddle future- why NZ media is so awful
The news in NZ really is rich people telling middle class people to blame poor people.
Martyn Bradbury
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The only way to get Aucklanders out of their cars onto public transport (and it’s not bloody pets)
Your pet is your responsibility, not my obligation to have to put up with on board a moving fucking vehicle.
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We get it, rich people want to live on the waterfront – how ‘visionary’
The utter denial needed to think that a decades long re-creation of our waterfront minus any extreme weather events or rising sea levels is so outside the realities we need to actually plan for now it should be held up as proof positive of how flawed our planning process has become.
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When will Grant Robertson come to the aid of the party?
There will be a moment when all good men must come to the aid of the party. Grant is simply waiting for that moment.
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Labour Party attack Kim Dotcom – major blunder
The new Government should not be challenging this case, they should be accepting the Human Rights Review Tribunal’s decision and should be trying to cut a deal with Kim.
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The rats you need to swallow to believe the Public Service is neutral
The predictable outcry from the PSA that any suggestion their members actually have to implement policy by the Government of the day by screaming they must be neutral is funny.
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National pledges to do nothing and take a huge step backwards
This is a Party who actively went out of their way to bleed infrastructure spending and all of a sudden National are willing to fund it?
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Respects to Deborah Hill Cone
In a culture where micro-aggression policing occurs on social media networks fuelled by outrage, the ability to take offence and bloat it into a war crime means we are often left defensive and resentful in response which feeds the algorithms and Mark Zuckerberg makes another billion.
Deborah has shown us what an apology with grace and humility looks like.
Many respects to her.
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New Zealand’s new Alt-Right Twitter Trolls: Dirty Politics 2018
Dirty Politics didn’t end with the demise in influence of Cameron Slater & David Farrar, it has cleverly mutated into a hundred social media voices that are all oddly saying the same things at the same time.
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New Government response to MSD sadism is just not good enough
It is deeply disappointing to see such a lack of real political courage. We can make grand gestures against the oil and roading industry to appease white urban middle class liberals but we can’t protect the weakest, poorest and most brown parts of our community from a cruelty that is being perpetrated by the very Government that is supposed to protect them.