The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday – 19th August 2021
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Moderation rules are more lenient for this section, but try and play nicely.
EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist language, homophobic language, racist language, anti-muslim hate, transphobic language, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, Qanon lunacy, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics, 5G conspiracy theories, the virus is a bioweapon, some weird bullshit about the UN taking over the world and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.
Mourn the departure of Austin Mitchell MP, and mourn that he ever left New Zealand. Some of us remember him from OU, more remember him as a fearless television commentator back in the days when the New Zealand media valued having contributors with working brain cells. By chance, an old friend, son of the atheist Bishop of Grimsby in his UK constituency, knew Mitchell and saw him as the sort of politician who we only dream of having in contemporary New Zealand, and very much need. Mitchell was pretty ok for a hetero white man – and a Pom. Witty too – lucky to escape the anti-free speech dark clouds looming on our depressing horizon.