morgan godfery

i support a social media ban but also for over 18s too

i agree with urbanists on 99% of things but i also love to see them cope lol. send me their copes

man hana rawhiti is such a credit to her people - dignified, and the wisest member of that caucus despite being the youngest

looks like four lanes to the planes is back on the menu boys

somehow new zealand politicians are even worse than the new zealand private sector at allocating capital

yes sir

no one has written about the almost total collapse of good new zealand writing. which is ironic etc

everything moves so quickly. even two years ago a sustained cycle of negative media coverage could force a government to change direction. now, nothing. it doesn’t matter. and short form video is too diffuse and ephemeral to shift anything (yet?). an age of impunity

And of course, the rent-seeking and market power of the government-blessed monopoly businesses (supermarkets, gentailers, building materials) is effectively a system of multiple private taxes on innovation and creativity across the entire economy.

and threaten it more so than incompetent executives and chairs, although the point about the preponderance of lawyers and accountants in executive and chair positions is well made. we really need to cap numbers in law schools man

new zealand’s economy was built on the theft and purchase of māori land, its conversion to property, and then pushing its carrying capacity as far as possible to maintain profitability. māori land claims, environmental limits, and a lack of innovation is going to threaten that profit

new zealand’s tightly enmeshed social networks make it hard for chief executives and board chairs to fail any direction but upwards, so i’m sympathetic to bryce and robert macculloch point about the failures of the country’s executives and chairs. but surely there’s a structural answer

henry oliver and simon chesterman did amazing things at metro. anyone could pick it up and find something interesting, but henry and simon somehow bottled the the voice, sensibilities, anxieties, and hopes of the generation shaped between 2008 and 2019. an intensely specific thing that worked

but importantly there is no party in NZ in 2025 that truly represents the working class. they are run by the professional middle classes for the professional middle classes.

you cannot maintain a pan-māori party in a capitalist society: the interests of working class māori will always diverge from the upwardly mobile bureaucrats who run the party and make up its elected officials. TPM, like all of its predecessors, will always fail

māori need to get serious lol. nepotism is a problem, and there’s a whole class of 2nd and 3rd generation no hopers in positions by sheer accident of birth. let’s be honest with each other lol

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his sacking of richardson once he realised her devilish plans (by which time it was too late), his later regret, his reverence (grief?) for the lost paradise of the decent society, his religiosity, his dealings with mr peters, his later policies that clark built upon, getting rolled, there’s a lot x

gee whiz mr bolger was a complex character, but you have to admire the unbreakable conviction on the treaty partnership staring down his own cabinet, his party, his social base, and a majority of new zealanders. no way a politician would have the courage to do the same today x

registered “job done” or felt slightly misled. now that a very real threat is before us in the MCA amendments the organisers are infighting, and the anger and sense of threat has entirely dissipated. no doubt the amendment will now pass easily

i maintained at the time the historic march against the treaty principles bill would have the inevitable effect of actually demobilising people: it misdirected organising energy and collective anger toward a bill that was designed to fail. when it failed as was always intended many people either

do your job !!!

no not like that ?!?!

based henry cooke:

1) reports on shocking infighting in TPM, *gets told to start reporting on the government*

2) reports on a series of disastrous polls for the leading party in government, *gets told to start reporting on TPM* lol

while the amendment is before parliament rawiri is on his way to an arts festival in china, debbie is defending a “fact sheet” attacking the former whip and her son, takuta moved a motion of no confidence in the party president only days ago. just not a serious party

the government is reforming the legislation that TPM was born from, reverting it to a position closer to the foreshore and seabed act than the marine and coastal area act finlayson intended. this is the most significant reform to māori rights in a generation, yet:

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urbanists are 100% correct on their one Thing but have the worst opinions and the most off putting manner on literally every other thing

the kawerau district is both extremely left wing and extremely māori

watching rawiri literally pull debbie away to stop her answering a legitimate question. like high school bully tactics

sorry i know i’m TPM’s biggest hater (rawiri packing a sad because maiki asked a legitimate question lol) but the american style psychobabble about believing in yourself is so weird. people are starving man

so bad eh. he’s taken the worst edges of nationalism (racism against outsiders) and quadrupled down on it. we’re not down south anymore but when rino was the MP you knew he was working out in the electorate, not on social media