Putting the Me into Millennial – why ‘Ok Boomer’ is identity politics gone awry
…As a Gen Xer I can’t stand Millennials or Boomers, but as a class leftist the delineation of power in a society is the 1% and their 9% enablers vs the 90% rest of us.
New Zealand Politics
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Let’s hope some of the 46,000 Iraqi soldiers NZ has trained have helped shoot 250 Iraqi civilians
Can someone explain why we are helping train a military force that is now turning on its own people?
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‘ok Boomer’ & smug Zero Carbon sophistry – evidence that the climate crisis will doom us and make Fortress Aotearoa an inevitability
I believe in the science and the science tells us overwhelmingly that human made pollution since the industrial revolution is super heating our planet at a rate that has never been seen naturally.
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Political Podcast – Sean Plunket vs Shane Jones vs Damien Grant vs Bomber: This week – Ok Boomer, Zero Carbon Bill, immigration & population planning, fireworks, Bomber fought the law & the law lost, media’s coverage of Grace Millane trial
This week – Ok Boomer, Zero Carbon Bill, immigration & population planning, fireworks, Bomber fought the law & the law lost, media’s coverage of Grace Millane trial
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THIS MONDAY: 8pm Pub Politics – Climate Hoax or Climate Crisis? Live streamed from Chapel Bar on Ponsonby Rd
National Party Climate Change Spokesperson – Scott Simpson
Leader of TOP – Geoff Simmons
School Strike 4 Climate Auckland coordinator – Luke Wijohn
Magic Talk Host – Peter Williams -
Why the Oranga Tamariki apology is so wrong and why nothing is going to change
Oranga Tamariki’s apology today for the appalling manner in which their staff attempted to uplift a new born infant highlights all that is wrong with out neoliberal welfare agencies and hints that nothing will change until the next filmed uplift embarrasses the Government again.
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MEDIA WATCH: Much of the coverage of Winston’s case is more spurious clickbait & less political analysis
Winston’s case matters and if there is any hope for this Government implementing transformative change in a possible second term, then a vast purge of the Public Service needs to be the first issue of their 100 day plan in 2020.
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The only reason there has been so much cross Party support for the Zero Carbon Act is because it doesn’t do anything
The only reason National and their farmer mates are on board is because this doesn’t do a bloody thing! If this sophistry is a ‘win’, your definition of ‘win’ is as meaningless as this Government’s definition of ‘transformative’.
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Chosen To Rule? What Sort Of Christian Is Chris Luxon?
CHRIS LUXON has some explaining to do. He has been identified as an evangelical Christian, which, if you’ll pardon the religious cliché, covers a multitude of sins. That’s why I believe Chris Luxon owes New Zealanders a working definition of evangelical Christianity – and how he intends to practice it.
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Ok Boomer – a weary insult from a gathering generational war
Bless Chloe Swarbrick for just dropping the ‘Ok Boomer’ retort in Parliament as she explained why her generation struggles to remain calm in the face of Boomer apathy over something as agenda setting as climate change.