The Daily Blog Open Mic – 6th September 2022
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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NZD is 61.00 cents US. How low will we go?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/129693256/neonazi-group-action-zealandia-unfit-illdisciplined-undercover-researcher-finds
(Note PM Jacinda’s black outfit and worried expression to denote the importance of our problem requiring a ‘research facility to study of ways to prevent violent extremism.’)
I’m a bit toey. What’s this bloke on about – running down the quality and lack of fitness of our neo-Nazis. Whose is he comparing ours with? We don’t want better neo-Nazis, we are happy with what we have, they are basically NZ made and come up to the standards that we have accepted as being appropriate. So lay off NZ I say. Leave our boys and girls alone. I think it was the result of a university survey – what would they know about being real he-men and women, the pansies, the lily-white boys and girls who spend their time tapping on keyboards or mixing up brews with obnoxious smells and chucking it at anyone they don’t like? Neo-Nazis today, you could be next – so watch out.
NZ has been building whares and houses since whenever. How come BRANZ can’t set up model systems so that most applications can go through well. Or is it because the system is clogged with speculators dolls’ houses and pigeon lofts without stairs or toilets because it would be cheaper?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/474135/master-builders-says-building-consents-system-is-broken
Now this one is a doozy. It is beautiful and practical and the plans should be registered and licensed or something, and be a model for BRANZ to release and good tradies and green citizens to study and work from,
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/sustainable-living/129468403/he-built-his-dream-eco-house–then-he-built-it-again-in-miniature
Can we ever get to a sexual culture where reasonable restraints and full information about feelings, passion, love and body development of humans is the norm with encouragement to wait till adulthood, instead of blanket restrictions and blame and shame??????
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/474241/court-hears-of-sexual-culture-at-gloriavale-where-women-girls-blamed-and-punished
Ready described a sexual culture of relief not restraint, where women and girls were always blamed and punished for misbehaviour.
“Hopeful had the view that men had limited ability to control themselves sexually and should a man be tempted and subsequently succumb, this meant that any falling from grace would primary be the woman’s fault,” he said.
“This was a tenet of the community, taught by Hopeful and endorsed by other leaders.
“The leaders will decide the girl led the male astray, the girl is totally to blame, she must be a harlot, a whore – these are the words they use to describe the girls who complain.”
Ready said he felt so angry about a woman’s mistreatment he wanted to expose the leaders, but they failed to act when he uncovered “disturbing” information because of the risk to their reputations.
Ready told the court he felt depressed at his impotence and left Gloriavale for 18 months, before returning in 2020 to reunite with his wife.