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Well worth a read. It is time to reframe our language, change the narrative, challenge the thinking.

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I finished my article on how to win the center while staying left, tell me what y'all think and share it around please (even better if it reaches our politicians) These tips are heavily based on Anat Shenker-Osorio's book, Anat helped Jacinda Ardern win in 2017 despite only being leader for 7 weeks

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I finished my article on how to win the center while staying left, tell me what y'all think and share it around please (even better if it reaches our politicians) These tips are heavily based on Anat Shenker-Osorio's book, Anat helped Jacinda Ardern win in 2017 despite only being leader for 7 weeks

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

It's annoying me how USA liberals are pretending the US was a great democracy until Trump got in. Trump certainly makes things even worse but the USA was never great, genocides on the indigenous population, slavery, wealth gaps, coups and establishing dictatorships and wars around the world.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

1954 NZ Labour party poster, showing how National has always worsened the cost of living. #nzpol

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

If Peters suggested kicking puppies, rather than saying “What the hell? Don’t kick puppies you sick bastard!” Chippie would just respond with “When kiwis are struggling with the cost of living, I don’t think kicking puppies should be our priority”.

submitted 59 days ago • 3 comments

Hipkins can get in the sea with this tepid response. Labelling it 'populist politics' and saying, "it's not a priority" is ceding a whole lot of ground to Peters' transphobic bullshit, and like Labour/Dems in other countries, just continues to let right wing parties shift the Overton window. #nzpol

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

Source polls: www.lowyinstitute.org/publications... Australians having confidence in: Luxon, 2025: 63% Hipkins, 2023: 72% Ardern, 2022: 87% Ardern, 2021: 91%

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

How the media launders genocide: A case study ✒️ New Karyn Taylor-Moore syndication "So many of the ways our media launders Israel's genocide neatly encapsulated in one bulletin of TVNZ's One News"

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Stuart Nash who was sacked for communicating confidential details to two of his donors & who hired Simon Lusk to try and form a centrist party & who works for a global recruiting consultancy & who hates the idea of a wealth tax has left the Labour Party. newsroom.co.nz/2025/01/24/o...

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

For the opposition (mostly Labour) to reject NACTs privatisation yet push neoliberal economic policies such as insufficient taxes on the rich is not Labour rejecting privatisation at all. When they don't abandon neoliberalism they are just letting the right privatise the "left"

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

former NZ prime minister jacinda ardern is complimenting ezra klein’s abundance on her book tour 🫠

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

No minister should ever be targeting an individual like this. This is wildly inappropriate and undemocratic behaviour. But our media will care more about opposition MPs swearing in response to Seymour's dishonest shit than the fact he's leaving steaming turds all over the halls of Parliament 😒

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

So it begins. 10-year outsourcing contracts for private hospitals? It’s a sell-off. You don’t lock in health equity with private contracts to those who profit from illness. You lock out the public. The corporate takeover of our health system is now official policy. #PublicHealthCrisis #NZPol

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

I'm sorry, but @beefaerie.bsky.social and @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social are fucking heroes for articulating the same reaction we all have when listening to Seymour's disingenuous bullshit. This is representative democracy at its finest. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

@kaimataara.bsky.social has blessed us with another great creation of all the #BHN hosts. @iamprettyawesome.bsky.social @chewienz.bsky.social @patbrittenden.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A bit of an edit for Barry's original meme: #nzpol

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Herald and NZME being full of shit again Que surprised Pikachu Face

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Hey NZ Labour, please learn some lessons from the rest of the world. We do not need a Centre party shifting the Overton window to the right. youtu.be/sWHxKD27XKk?... #nzpol

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Nonviolent mass protests only work if they are sustained and not just one off every three months. If you actually want your nonviolent movement to work, you can’t go back to work on Monday. You actually have to sustain the protest for months or until you oust the fascist leader.

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

Here's the problem with this condescending rhetoric to non voters: (The image is in a NZ context but still relevant, the more that people talk like this the more they actually push people away from voting) #nzpol #voting

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I'm making a Substack on political framing and thought that here's a fun question to try out Where does “From each according to ability to each according to need” come from? 🌿

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Alright whānau we are less than 3 hours away from Aotearoa Tonight's first stream. We will be looking at our current list of failures this govt have pushed through since November 2023. I'm sure we'll be missing some so come along and help us fill the list. #nzpol www.youtube.com/live/TNVGUQl...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

AI is using up water & energy, causing pollution & scarcity, effectively killing the planet but more so, killing off brain cells & critical thinking & research skills - been saying it for years, was mocked by dudebros for years. And here we are, in the pre-era of every bad sci-fi movie involving AI

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

This is just cringe. Ive never seen a PM look this desperate. Luxon has been randomly praising farmers for 2 weeks now after never mentioning them ever before. Its like he just learned that some people start work before 9 🤦

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Truth from @saulwilliams.bsky.social I also want to note that the National Guard and military police were both sent to Standing Rock. They were brutalizing Water Protectors with several inhumane methods and Obama said "Let's wait several weeks and see if they resolve it."

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

I'm sorry to say this, but if Labour is enough for you then you're relatively privileged. For those of us extremely disabled, I mean housebound, relying in carers we've had crumbs at most from Labour. They never brought back 5 year renewals for SLP, sickness, and still have inhumane sanctions #nzpol

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

I'm sorry to say this, but if Labour is enough for you then you're relatively privileged. For those of us extremely disabled, I mean housebound, relying in carers we've had crumbs at most from Labour. They never brought back 5 year renewals for SLP, sickness, and still have inhumane sanctions #nzpol

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

This has been one of Labour's problems for years now - abdication of responsibility for leading the narrative.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I've been thinking about how to say this all day but now I don't have to because this is perfect. #nzpol

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Retention is as big a problem for them as acquisition right now ffs.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments