Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard)

And when Luxon read out a list of reasons why he believes Iran’s govt is bad, the media failed to ask why he was spreading propaganda about Iran’s supposed nuclear weapons programme or why the NZ govt doesn’t condemn Israel given that it’s still slaughtering Palestinians...

They’re really trying to do drive-thru colonization

Been a high-ish turnover of comms people in both the Nat Leaders Office and for ACT MPs since 2023. Some get moved sideways to other things, but I just wonder if others are "Honestly, I just can't take their crap anymore, there's only so many times you can get up in the morning for this shit..."

Israel says it launched pre-emptive attack against Iran The attack dims hopes for a diplomatic solution to Tehran's nuclear dispute with the West.

So this is great 😬

US has confirmed it too is participating in these "preemptive" strike 🙄🤬

Bunch of utterly psychotic warmongers

I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.

I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.

"It just... kinda happened... we were all stunned, amazing turnaround... did it all himself really!"

And other comforting narratives in the Mother (of all fuckups) Goose (stepping bootlickers) Nursery Rhymes

Really looking forward to the NZ media admitting "How We Helped NZ's Toxic FR Party Recover from 0.5% and Elect Its Leader to Deputy PM"...

#NZpol

So I've *just* come in from another long day, this week has pretty much be spent outside doing labouring shit, and it's this 🤬🤮

Oh well... what more can be saidIabout this US//MAGA-licking "Govt"?

As always: turn up on Nov 7, PLEASE (and to the extent NZF isn't calling the shots either!!).

This is not for Palestinians. This is colonialism and it won't succeed. Long live the resistance! It has never been in the interest of Palestinians or anyone frankly these organizations were set up to reinforce imperialism. 17 hours ago

This is not for Palestinians.
This is colonialism and it won't succeed. Long live the resistance!
It has never been in the interest of Palestinians or anyone frankly these organizations were set up to reinforce imperialism.

🇵🇸 www.instagram.com/reel/DVHLtIk...

YouTube video by PoliticsJOE Capitalism is a trap - and you can't get out | Clara Mattei interview

Capitalism is not our friend.
There is no free market.
Austerity & war & exploitation are functions of capitalism, not consequences.
Promotion of the cult of individualism should make it clear to everyone just how much the privileged elite fear the power of our collective might.✊
#nzpol

Starting Points: what defines a fair shot in life? [Originally written Dec 01, 2016, with an addendum on a Business Insider article published in 2017 added] By way of introduction, I’m going to use a bit of a twist on something online I saw, …

Just for a retrospective, some musings of mine (checks notes) *a decade ago* when it This Kind of Thing was already a real shitter, much less how it is NOW...

We *could* build more houses — but we've a govt right now that dialed back even *more* housing targets AND undermined previous work, so builders left in droves. We'll take so long to recover momentum.

We *could* fund MH, addiction services etc, but they really don't care.

CHANGE. THIS. F'N. GOVT.

We have failed - to be fair under many govts, but this one in particular - to address the complexities across our communities.

Yes, as Chloe has said: it IS ignoring evidence. And we ALL know it.

So again, *we have a CHOICE this election* TO *CHANGE THIS APPROACH*. To *get real* for fucking once.

#NZpol

I mean, *are* we a fair society at present?! I can find individuals — but *they* don't have control of many of *the biggest levers to alleviate this issue*, THIS govt though DOES.

And it has made its choices plain: move 'em out, anywhere but where they can *prick our societal conscience*.

#NZpol

I'll say it again: every time a ragey person rages I say a point and they go "Yep, commonsense, *that's* what Govt *should* do!".

Then I casually drop *it's the Greens who said it* and they get VERY F'N EMBARRASSED.

Gee, almost like the narrative about how "extreme" the Greens are is BS 🙄

It asks me to "verfiy account using facial recognition" to get back in.

A) Like fuck am I handing that shit to them! 😬
B) Oh wait — facial recognition *isn't even enabled here* according to *their own info*?! So:
C) Can't verify it *even if I wanted to*, and can't contact them direct, f'n idiots 🙄

As ya know, mainly used it very, very strictly for family really, far away cuzzies for whom FB seems the only / main comms, sigh.

And last month, got my account locked for "checks notes* "abusing a feature" that *checks notes again* I've *never used, EVER*. Le F'n Sigh.

But wait! There's worse!...

It'd also help if any time NZF starts spewing this sort of shit up, don't bother asking Seymour. Why bother? Sure, he's the Dep PM right now, but he's also a nut. His ans that he'd not say what Peters said is BS — he's often intimated at far worse, like blowing up the Ministry for Pacific Peoples.

#NZpol

Peters brain went AWOL a while ago. It'd help if NZF voters realised it's not even the Party of 2017, much less being tolerant of this BS before. He doesn't give a shit Tuiono was born here, the foul racism works too good for them.

People, turn up, help ensure zero leverage for NZF in GE26.

YouTube video by Jonathan Pie A Royal Reckoning

Summing Up the Foul Fiddler... "I hope Andrew gets everything that comes to him"

One can only hope at this point an investigative and evidence gathering exercise (which as far as details read so far is set to continue) does, in fact, lead to the latter... say, the inquiry-related equivalent of a double-tap to the head so to speak — to make sure it all goes down *and stays down*.

#NZpol

It *isn't* fair, but as with all things this govt does — and those of their ilk before, and doubtless more after — the cruelty *is* the point.

None of it is inevitable.
None of it need be tolerated.

Change IS possible.
If WE want to.
It can change.
And it *must*.

*MAKE CHANGE IN GE26*.

No honour among thieves — someone is gonna get stabbed in the back, and it'll include Chagos Islanders of course (because none of them *really* gave a current or historical shit about *that* side of it), but also, one of the squabblers here, cough, when Trump is the one who holds that knife...

There's a section of NZF votes reliant on old-school style Nationalist tactics which are more about economic nationalism than the culture war shit. This is basically them, in my reading, of tilting back to that (for a slight moment), and differentiate electorally fr Nat / ACT for election purposes.

Part of it will be political positioning, NZF will not want to be attached too much (despite the whole collective responsibility thing of Cabinet) to anything that tanks their own political fortunes if they're tainted too much by Luxon's hell-for-leather approach to total selling off of the country.

#NZpol

Important reading.

This Party hopes to grind the fire out of us, steamroll right past to a future that will do none of us any good.

As always, talk to people you know, near and far, get them out there to the polls come GE2026.

We need *far better than this* from both our MP's and society.

#NZpol

Can Pay, Won't Pay... AKA FuckUNomics 101

"...overseas-owned Methanex consumes up to 45 percent of New Zealand’s natural gas every year..."

Did it occur to the likes of Seymour that nobody *else* might've asked for sensible rules around Yuge Buildings looking into anyone*else's* back yards apart from his Epsom voters?!

Of course it did. There is a happy medium. But no, as soon as *his* pet turds pack a stink, *everyone f'n loses out*.

This despite the fact these fuckers would not only NEVER STAND FOR THAT SHIT being spread across the wealthier burbs, there'd be outcry after outcry because of how many other issues that shit throws up... *fixes to which these same govt's never fucking fund either*: MH, rehabs, health initiatives...