vebate.bsky.social
Thinking about climate, equity, rainbow/trans rights. Toitū te Tiriti. Mum. She/her. Love a good book, especially NZ fiction. ☕️ Cat person with a dog. Aotearoa. 🍉
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This was such an excellent article from MT. Like everyone else, I'm really frustrated that getting any information comes down to people thinking to do OIAs. And then we get that info piecemeal. We really deserve a proper regulatory statement that isn't redacted and is made public to everyone.
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I can hear the pearls being clutched from here.
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All of those work! Just fry them first before adding to the pasta and sauce.
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I've done it, delish. But I add all sorts to mine so kids end up getting lots of their daily veg allowance in it.
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Superb! Love his energy 😀.
But how tight were Rage, even then! Incredible.
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Come to Aotearoa New Zealand? Please 🙏
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Yup. Happy to say bye bye to the terf.
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It's gross that people feel comfortable making this type of comment under their own name now. I'm really sorry about your accident and hope you have a quick path to recovery.
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Pathetic. Thatcher's was saying this 40 years ago and they can't come up with anything new. Their supporters have really never studied history eh. The only people to benefit from this were the top 5%, now it's the top 1%.
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But this simple campaign allows them to attack academia, indigenous knowledge, te Tiriti o Waitangi and push neoliberal ideals that something has to have immediate commercial value to be of use.
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A perfect example is ACT's campaign against the Waipapa Taumata Rau course they brand as a Treaty of Waitangi course. It's an intro to faculty, industry and place course. Their disingenuous rhetoric:"Forces students to pay for their own indoctrination", ignores that any qual has set requirements.
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Or they lose their opportunity to move to ANZ PR role.
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Shit. Me too. Might leave that email for a few hours.
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Speaking of student radio, I've started to listen to 95bfm again. The Wire is so much more intelligent and informed than anything on RNZ. Highly recommend.
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95Bfm in Auckland does much better political and informative reporting.
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Should be illegal to profit from a public necessity. What power company are you with (preparing myself before I look at mine).
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Perfect! That's exactly the message we need to hear.
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Thanks for all your reporting and keeping us up to date with submissions from the big guns.
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What about from the acting PM? He usually dresses up and does a big thing for Chinese NY, so assume he would be keen to do the same for Mātāriki 🙄
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We need the Helen Clark solution but we have Chris from Marketing who just told the world he saw no evidence of collusion between China, Iran Russia and North Korea... in his 3 day visit. 🙄
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Probably cheering them on and offering our remaining navy ships and troops.
Look at what he said in China: "no evidence of collaboration with Russia, North Korea or Iran". He says whatever the person in front of him wants him to say. Typical marketing type.
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I sniggered and then quietly nodded at this being the alternate future if we don't wake up.
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I was just saying this. He became CEO by saying things the Board wanted to hear, not by being strong. He could never be Helen Clark and just say no.
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There's only so much one Chlöe can bear.
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Yeah, back in his early days Key was called the smiling assassin, wasn't he? But I've noticed as he gets older he is much more smarmy and definitely ick. Must get harder to keep masks up.
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Eughh, that's a melting pot I don't want to spend too much time thinking about.
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😔 And attacking academia is the perfect way to keep up their base of dummies.
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Totally. Who the heck falls for his shit?
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Thank you for sharing all of this detail. I didn't really want to know but kind of have to, in order to keep whānau safe. Then I thought about you having to trawl through it all to give us this summary, and I am so grateful. I would hate to do that.
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Because in nearly the next breath he decided to engage culture wars to pull down 2 celebrated, hard working New Zealanders and make them targets of ridicule.
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Who cares what businesses want. The government's job is to negotiate a position that is fair for workers and employers. That's what we currently have. Soon all the worker rights built up over the last century will be gone in a haze of neoliberal gunfire.
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Their commitment to equal rights is only for equal property rights, as David let slip to Guyon, rights of workers/human rights are not part of the equation. The cult of neoliberalism is about ownership and wealth and screw anything or anyone that gets in their way.
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Just finished binge watching Shrinking (on Apple). Great lighthearted, feelgood watch for duvet days.
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Wasn't it gorgeous and dark and creepy and all the things! The set and the music were exceptional.
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Love this! I saw Toshigazu Kawaguchi at last year's Writer's Fest. He was hilarious and so generous and warm when he was signing books.
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Very much agree. They're asking exceptional questions on bfm. Far more revealing interviews and much less jaded.
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He's a fully fledged member of the neoliberal cult. I don't think he knows a different way of being. He can't logically look at all the evidence that shows neoliberal policies fail every time and change his stance. It's seriously cult-like behaviour.
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Hmm, given Seymour's penchant for military schools and prisons, I wonder if the same would happen in a town under his set of rules?
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Lying and hypocrisy is straight out of the neoliberal cult handbook.
Their economic policies have failed time and again, spectacularly and they still push them as the answer, they're too scared to admit their cult is smoke and mirrors.
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Blimey! Same in Chile. They had the ear of Pinochet and introduced pure neoliberal economics. It failed badly and they still called it The Miracle of Chile. They have no problem with authoritarian military regimes removing democracy and they have no problem lying & saying neoliberalism works.
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Yes, he's gross, this has been the neoliberal narrative since the late 1940s and mainstream since Thatcher & Reagan. Old videos of Thatcher have her saying the now old catchphrase "Wouldn't you all rather keep more of your own money". We get more as a collective but Friedman taught them otherwise.
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Seymour's opinion piece makes it clear where tax should be spent:
1. Foreign baddies (defence)
2. Local baddies and enemies of the state (law and order)
3. Sanitation.
That's it!
That's what neoliberalism is all about as written by the OGs Friedman and Hayek.
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