Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
But change is coming. By 2023 Millennials and Gen Xers will be the democratic majority, and then dear brothers and sisters we will tear power from the hands of the Boomers and we will smash their privilege into tiny houses which can be sold in community lots with a communal garden and smashed avocado free kitchens.
An under siege Trump needs a distraction, military action against Venezuela might be that distraction.
…the NZ State is the biggest enemy of the people. The sooner the Left start appreciating that and recognising the need for an enormous state sector purge, the better.
That there is hysteria should surprise no one, but the Government seem to have been incredibly flat footed in their response. Where were the Governments heavy hitters to face the media platforms the day after the announcement and the narrative build up to defend the tax?
It feels uneasy to ask the majority to consider the rights of the minority, we want politicians to lead on these challenging issues, not throw it back to the baying majority like a one sided gladiatorial match.
New Zealand is a tiny country and it is incredibly easy to manipulate the narrative and seed the debate the way vested interests want it seeded. We are seeing some incredible propaganda campaigns being run in NZ right now and it’s worth reminding people about them as we pick our way through the minefield of fake news.
These companies are the new Gods and listen to no single Government.
The pressure is on the poor because the desperate have no better options, if the Government lifts the poorest out of that desperation by a huge wholesale state house building process, then the rental market has to upgrade itself because they aren’t housing the desperate.
The ‘Kiwi way of life’ is a low imagination horizon anti intellectualism based on exploitation of confiscated indigenous resources where ignorance & malice is celebrated by the rural volk while middle class attention is engulfed between school rankings & property speculation.
With screaming headlines and pundits claiming Winston Peters is dragging us into a conflicting foreign policy and examples of Chinese passive aggression turning up weekly what is actually happening here?