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  • Leftists: Play the game, win the game, destroy the game – IN THAT ORDER

    About 10 or so years ago I was privy to the mechanics of a prominent left-wing party here in NZ. The single thing that stuck out: they were afraid of winning, because that meant they had to be The Man. It is very hard to be The Man when you’re identity is tied up in…

  • New Right Wing talking point: Welfare make governments broke

    Here Stephen Miller tries to convince us the paying welfare is somehow making governments broke (obviously ignoring military spending): It turns out that Tony Blair leans on the same shitty neo-lib maths in his latest missive: It is no coincidence that Miller and Blair are trying to convince us to “other” the sick and weak…

  • If Starbucks can’t get AI to work, what makes you think you can run a governement with it?

    The tool, which was deployed across its North American stores, was designed to automate inventory management with the goal of providing accurate real-time information that could help Starbucks address ingredient shortages at its locations.  But according to previous Reuters reporting, the error-prone AI frequently miscounted and mislabeled items, confusing different types of milk and sometimes forgetting to count…

  • Being rich makes you dumb

    … Bezos doesn’t understand the most basic facts about taxes, nor did he make any effort to inform himself. He went instead with some numbers he thinks he heard somewhere — numbers that tell a story he wants to hear. As I said, billionaire brain. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bezos-backlash-and-zombies Evidently the man who owns the world’s biggest library…

  • The best Thiel money can buy…

    A charisma-less Vice President JD Vance was met Friday with humiliating silence when he tried to transform a memorial event into a political stump speech. https://newrepublic.com/post/210542/jd-vance-crowd-stays-silent-speech The billionaire class are way over their skis… and it’s starting to show

  • Pride in Self

  • Haka interrupts vote on Treaty Principles Bill

    This was awesome! https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360487380/haka-interrupts-vote-treaty-principles-bill Dear Barry Soper, fuck off with your pearl clutching. ACT introduced the hatred into parliament – those people are responding to it. As per usual… crickets from Labour

  • “But clown shoes are preferable to jackboots”

    As I’ve said recently, I expect things to be very bad for a long time, possibly a generation, as a result of America’s choice. What I am saying is that perhaps they will not be as bad as they could be because God, in His wisdom, has chosen to make these people weird freaks along…

  • Dear NZ Labour: Read this – Handbook For The Politically Deceased

    We now live in a downwardly mobile society (not as bad as the US… but bad). You are an organization full of career politicians. They are so grossly of touch with reality that you’re not even in the same Venn diagram. You actively loathe the working class and elevate people who appear on the US…

  • Why Is the Tesla Cybertruck So Depressingly Ugly?

    That’s the Brutalist aesthetic in a nutshell. People who wax nostalgically over these ugly buildings nowadays miss the point entirely. We were never supposed to love them—that would have defeated the whole purpose in erecting them.  Fear and disempowerment are the intended results.  And that, my friends, is the real purpose of the Tesla Cybertruck design—…