Damien’s view that the Greens are somehow ‘Lenin reborn’ is simply evidence of just how successful the 30 year neoliberal social, political and economic experiment in NZ has been. It is one of the most grotesque failures of intellectual debate that this 30 year experiment has never been seriously challenged by the Left in NZ and that the most ‘left wing’ political Party in NZ is only slightly less right wing than the Conservatives in Britain.
How many times are we told by the State that they need these intrusive new powers of spying to protect us from foreign terrorists and domestic organised crime when in fact they are used against who they’ve always been used against, Māori, environmentalists and social justice activists.
Any day now the mainstream media will start holding the state to account for all that illegal spying with the same gusto they’ve chased Clare Curran’s coffee dates, extra pacific island travel for Baby Neve & a Czech MDMA smuggler.
News last week that the latest studies show Antartica is in danger of melting should shake us from any complacency that climate change is some distant event at the end of the century.
You can see how the Trump attack line of ‘Fake News’ is so powerful can’t you?
…How the fuck can ‘this can’t be good sad face sad face’ be journalism?
How come a micro aggression of a prisoner shouting at his wife after she reneges on an agreement be a BIGGER news story than entire swathes of the Government illegally spying on citizens?
Welcome to the madness that is perpetual Millennial aggrieved culture.
…didn’t you oversee a grotesque abuse of surveillance powers with the deeply flawed Urewera terrorism case that saw an entire Māori township come under illegal martial law?
…I love how desperately diplomatic Steve Braunias tries to be towards the alt-Right and woke left snowflakes who have managed to make this micro-aggression into a war crime. It’s the heteronormative patriarchy blame game gal pal squad vs the ‘not all men’ fuckwit brigade.