Why Simon Bridges defence of his ‘Meth Crooks’ comment is bullshit
It’s just so ugly and Bridges is managing to mutilate it and make it even more ugly.
It’s just so ugly and Bridges is managing to mutilate it and make it even more ugly.
I love how her idea was to cut funding to the student association??? Jesus wept, this is woke de-platforming at it’s most cynical & destructive because once you believe from a fourth wave feminist intersectionist point of view that free speech is white male privilege, any counter is acceptable isn’t it?
I’ve had the chance to read the interim report of the tax working group over the weekend and it’s a sorry, sad document.
The alcohol industry is a large and wealthy one. There is plenty of money to be made. But it is important to understand that it is also a harmful one, as recognised by those women 125 years ago. In principle the law now recognises the right of communities to stand as equals and oppose harmful applications. In practice, wealth, power and lawyer’s writs seek constantly to quash the practice of an equal say.
We should be ashamed of our political leaders and their cowardice. The only way we finally break these pricks is by taking the power into our own hands and voting for a legalised cannabis market in the looming cannabis referendum.
…planning for a million Te Reo users in 2040 seems as meaningless as being carbon neutral by 2050 because our society won’t be worrying about who can speak Māori and who can’t, it will be a desperate fight for survival in an economy and culture that is scrambling to adapt.
…it is extraordinary that this story isn’t leading our news and the main focus of public debate.
Let me be perfectly clear to my fellow New Zealanders – you must, you must, you must boycott any and all local elections that use online voting. These systems are completely open to being hacked and once accepted means every election after that is a joke.
We need to acknowledge that anger and fear have shaped our prison industrial complex and by reframing the issue as a media generated hysteria, Little could bypass National using that same media to try and spread more hysteria.
Simon Bridges & Judith Collins have managed to make Trump’s victim blaming look like valid criticism.