NZers are more focused on punishing people rather than convicting the guilty. We are a small minded and bitter volk who are easily led by a mainstream media who use crime porn to boost ratings and the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind worship Police authority like a masochist worships a sadist.
Last week an All Black having a sex romp in a toilet eclipsed one of our MPs being kidnapped in international waters by an Apartheid Israel and it eclipsed the fact that SERCO had lied and covered up reports of violence in their private prison complex.
Whatever Trump said to a bunch of Sleepy Hobbits over a decade ago is about as newsworthy as Helen Clark’s collected audio farts of the 1990s. Who cares?
I have no time for medieval superstition be it Christian, Muslim, Hebrew or Jedi but allowing ourselves to believe the ‘other’ is too alien to interact with is an incredibly dangerous narrative to start investing in because the only solution to that belief is genocide and exclusion.
TDB congratulates our bloggers who have now been returned to Council joining Council or who competed…
The media’s ignorance is our ignorance and their chase for clickbait bullshit clouds our ability to have a functioning democracy.
Has any reporter sniffed the toilet seat?
No one should be mocked for being violently robbed. It’s a terrifying experience for any human being to endure. Mocking Kim Kardashian for being the victim of such violence is cruel, spiteful and mean spirited.
However.
Like The Spinoff, it always helps to know who is actually paying the bills here, and Transport Blog seems very much in the thrall of Auckland Transport – they whose corruption knows no bounds – so there was an official information act request to actually check if Auckland Transport have paid any of the lead bloggers on Transport Blog any money.