The curse and blessings of being an attractive young white female
…the hyper response to attractive young white females, whether they be victim or criminal, seems terribly disproportionate either way and invasively unhealthy.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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More oil exploration and less drug reform – If elected, Simon Bridges promises to take NZ backwards 40 years
Big oil love and the war on drugs – he’s like some time warp out of the 1970s.
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The dangers in politicising Grace Millane’s death
Justice campaigner Peter Williams, does a divesting critique of the dangers of politicising Grace Millane’s death.
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If this meaningless dribble is a ‘breakthrough’, we are doomed
Antarctica is melting, run away climate change is a decade away and we have a political environmental leader championing a meaningless side shuffle as some type of victory.
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Well, well, well – Kim Dotcom was right – here is the mass surveillance
Are you feeling safe yet sleepy hobbits?
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How badly beaten down have we become by drug prohibition? When we are offered crumbs we cheer
…giving Police discretion to prosecute drug users is not a solution and will result in racist outcomes, which is what we have now – but by all means, cheer like this is meaningful.
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Soaring rents, skyrocketing suicide rates, environmental scientists too frightened to talk and 100 000 hungry children – Merry Christmas NZ
We have lost perspective on what actually matters in this country. It’s partly a current affairs and news environment more focused on petty gotchas and infotainment, it’s partly a smug conceit by the Left who have ignored those issues because Labour is in Power.
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Of all the people to attack, Richie Hardcore isn’t one of them!
…this story is such horse shit! If there are any questions to answer it’s from Simon Bridges and the National Party member who is in a relationship with Sroubek’s former partner…
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The horror of Antarctica meltdown
While our political leaders are numbed into inaction by business interests who gain the most from climate change pollution, the one place climate deniers always pointed at to claim global warming wasn’t really happening, is in meltdown…
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National’s disgusting and despicable fear mongering over medicinal cannabis
The only thing worse than the Greens celebrating this pathetic nothing is National trying to manufacture monsters that simply don’t exist.