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  1. 100% Martyn. That ’empathy’ displayed by Ardern was all along just performative art.

    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=521738885902667

    To end the protest, all they have to do is relax the vaccine mandate, which really doesn’t make much sense in a society with over 90% vaccinated, where only the very old and vulnerable are at serious risk of hospitalization and where vaccination doesn’t prevent transmission anyway!

    But hey, I’m happy to watch this government die in a ditch over this.

    1. To end the protest, tha vaccination free riders just need to man up get a little prick in the arm and go back to work.

    1. Molesworth is my way home – I can go Bowen Tinakori. Sometimes I go from Kelbs to Thorndon for dropoff, all I need to do is hit Stout. It’s actually better than trying cut across Murphy.

  2. To be working class you have to work…those protesting losers wouldn’t know what work was. They are bludgers!

    1. Nah I work my guts out jobbing, self employed, driving all over Auckland, all my money goes on petrol, food, house, kids.
      I would be down there in a flash if I didn’t have to work…
      Oh wait, that’s your point isn’t it.. Hehehe.

      Actually, I work my guts out all day everyday, but maybe I can take Tuesday and Wednesday off to get down there…

  3. You are dead right on this one Martyn.
    I am so surprised at the intransigence of our “caring “govt and the rapid digging of a hole which they are not going to emerge from.
    I’m picking the polls will soon be in favour of dropping the mandate now that omicron is rampant.
    Interesting times.

    1. No, in part he’s illustrating how the Woke are actively pushing people into the arms of the right. That is what gives credence to the right wing elite.

  4. The government needs to use Tiananmen Square as inspiration on how to deal with protesters. They need to send in the army, backup with tanks to remove the unwashed ferals. These political dissidents are enemies of the state.

  5. I have lost my job due to the vaccine mandate and I’m not even against the vaccine! I simply want to wait for the Novavax but the government agency I work for would not accept this. How verty kind of you.

    Labour can kiss my voting card goodbye, for good

  6. can we please, please, please stop calling these geezers ‘the modern left’ or ‘the woke left’

    they are authoritarian right wingers, just not very capable ones.

    1. Social liberalism is part of the working class, whether bible bashers like you like it or now.

      It was working class movements that got abortion legalized, homosexuality decriminalized, etc.

      I’m guessing you would all oppose that now

    2. Sorry Syd, I wish what you say were true but the Woke, while not the traditional socio-economic left ARE the contemporary cultural left.

      Woke philosophical roots are in American academia, Critical Theory (nothing to do with critical thinking and not a theory) a version of neo-marxism co-opting post-modernist theories and tools (which is partly why they are hated by marxists and some post-modernists). This is ALL from the left, albeit the university educated, middle class, overwhelmingly white left.

      Where they may appear to skew right is the marriage of convenience between neoliberal corporatists and woke activists. The Woke version of ‘conflict theory’ leads to a narrowly defined identity based ‘equity’ politics, so it’s incredibly easy to game the system. Virtue theatre, an anti-politics where advancing anyone who is not male/cis/white/heterosexual feels highly progressive but the actual systems of neoliberal power are not challenged but strengthened. Woke is the ideal cover for corporatists post-Occupy Wall Street.

  7. These protesters are racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic old Testament supporting Christians who oppose tax, high wages, unions, welfare and public services.

    1. Ah Millsy.
      Yours should be an amusing tongue in cheek post to make us chuckle.
      More amusingly though, your record suggests you actually think like this, in fact you copped a ban at the Standard for posting something similarly untrue.
      The woke left and your hatred of the working classes.

      I’ll chuck a couple of names out there:
      Sir Russell Coutts
      Marama Fox
      Dame Tariana Turia

      Which category do you fit each of the above in? Bring your wallet, slander can be expensive.

      1. Russell Coutts is a traitor, who sold out his country. He took a multi million dollar salary to sail for a syndicate that beat Team NZ. He has no right to talk about loyalty and patriotism.

        Tariana Turia supports dismantling the welfare system and state housing and having it all done by her iwi mates, who will pick and choose who they help

        Marama Fox is on record as being opposed to abortion and homosexuality.

        1. So just one of the three people is just one of the things you accused all the protesters. (Fox homophobic according to you,) no evidence given.
          Making your first statement obviously wrong.
          Have you realized that not liking something doesn’t mean everyone associated with it is bad?
          It seems not.

      2. I don’t hate the working class. I just think that don’t think that being anti-vax, anti gay/trans, evangelical Christian, mysognistic, racist or creationist has any place in the working class. People that opposes wage increase, welfare, unions, and public healthcare have no place in the working class.

  8. “BREAKING NEWS”

    There is no news coming out of Wellington and that’s the breaking news.

    Apart from that, I’m sure you will all join me and expressing my delight in the fact a Wellington protestor has now started a herb garden next to their tent. Last week we were told about human excrement seen on the ground in the protest area so there will be no shortage of compost available so great news. Not sure anyone other than a protestor will be wanting to eat those herbs. Maybe Russell Coutts can sprinkle some on his crayfish and caviar. I do hope he doesn’t develop gastric issues.

  9. Wonder how long before the New Zealand state goes down the rabbit hole even further by following the Canadians.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-banks-ottawa-protests-1.6353968

    “The government’s new directive, called the “emergency economic measures order,” goes beyond asking banks to simply stop transferring funds to protest organizers. The government wants banks to stop doing business with some people altogether.

    The order says that banks and other financial entities (like credit unions, co-ops, loan companies, trusts and cryptocurrency platforms) must stop “providing any financial or related services” to people associated with the protests — a move that will result in frozen accounts, stranded money and cancelled credit cards.”

    Bring in an emergency act to lock private citizens bank accounts. Will Labour go down this road.

    You have to ask, if they can freeze protestors bank accounts (held by private institutions), how safe is a non protesters bank account? How long before the Chinese “social credit” score populace control is introduced?

    https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3096090/what-chinas-social-credit-system-and-why-it-controversial

    Sounds utterly draconian and authoritarian.

    1. Spot on, characterising the whole protest by it’s worst supporters rather then by engaging with it’s best gives cover for bureaucratic slide into authoritarian policies. (Not a surprise from Trudeau
      https://youtu.be/T8FuHuUhNZ0?t=22).
      The woke-left cheer for digital un-personing (although arguably modern ‘cancelling’ took off with the right). It was inevitable that they would eventually get round to financial un-personing.

      Who needs a physical gulag when someone can be literally blocked from any meaningful participation in society.

  10. We might as well just have one question on the next census.

    Are you Nazi or not a Nazi.

    Then there could be a list describing what Jacinda’s definition of a Nazi is.

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