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My fear is that the Wellington Woke won’t be able to contain themselves and inadvertently hand ACT an enormous political win in the ongoing freedom of speech culture war.
There are 24.5 million Australians.
There are barely 5 million of us.
How are we going to cope politically and culturally if swamped by our larger neighbour?
This isn’t about protecting the public from guns, this is about gaining new means to explore anyone associated with guns.
Matt McCarten’s strategy for Labour in the 2017 election was to undermine National’s support parties to create the space for a win. It took Labour 3 terms to realise that strategy, it’s taken National one term out of power to adopt it.
…As a Gen Xer I can’t stand Millennials or Boomers, but as a class leftist the delineation of power in a society is the 1% and their 9% enablers vs the 90% rest of us.
Can someone explain why we are helping train a military force that is now turning on its own people?
I believe in the science and the science tells us overwhelmingly that human made pollution since the industrial revolution is super heating our planet at a rate that has never been seen naturally.
Oranga Tamariki’s apology today for the appalling manner in which their staff attempted to uplift a new born infant highlights all that is wrong with out neoliberal welfare agencies and hints that nothing will change until the next filmed uplift embarrasses the Government again.
The only reason National and their farmer mates are on board is because this doesn’t do a bloody thing! If this sophistry is a ‘win’, your definition of ‘win’ is as meaningless as this Government’s definition of ‘transformative’.
Bless Chloe Swarbrick for just dropping the ‘Ok Boomer’ retort in Parliament as she explained why her generation struggles to remain calm in the face of Boomer apathy over something as agenda setting as climate change.