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  • Cory Doctorow: Marshmallow Longtermism

    … the “patient” kids weren’t demonstrat­ing “self-control” – rather, their willingness to wait for a second marshmallow reflected a charmed life in which adults came through with the goodies they promised. That same charmed life saw those subjects enrolled in the best schools, backstopped by tutors and college application consultants, significant parental financial contributions to…

  • Simeon Brown can’t even draft legal laws

    We’ve got a bonkers road side drug testing law going through Parliament at present. It’s the creation of Simeon. ‘Lil Bigot’ Brown. It is so punative and poor drafted that the Attorney General has provided this feedback: The Attorney-General has presented a Section 7 report to the House on this Bill. The Attorney-General’s report noted…

  • Why David Seymour’s Treaty debate is not an honest conversation

    He wants to undo the Treaty. To reshape it by altering the essence of the principles. To strip away enshrined rights, while pretending they never existed. But he doesn’t want to say that, because to most voters, that’s unpalatable. And that’s the big lie. This is not an honest conversation. https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350397764/why-david-seymours-treaty-debate-not-honest-conversation David Seymour is an Atlas Network…

  • Local Councils Defy Central Government Agenda

    Still – the results speak for themselves. 94% have rejected the Coalition government’s racist legislation effort. And although Councils can anticipate Hobsons Pledge and Jordan Williams/David Farrar efforts to run interference during referendums next year, so far the sparks are bright. Simeon ‘Lil Bigot’ Brown gets another kicking… Next year is going to be awful.…

  • Matthew Hooton goes off at the current state of racism

    I kinda have the same feelings about Matthew Hooton that I have about Chris Findlayson. I really don’t like either of them. But they both have recognized the important of Māori in moving NZ forward. Here is Hooton ripping into the current state of play in NZ… he’s f**ked off. A much better snippet: Words…

  • Local Government Minister ‘committed’ to removing iwi representation from Canterbury Regional Council

    So…ah… good luck with that lil’ bigot https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/526606/local-government-minister-committed-to-removing-iwi-representation-from-canterbury-regional-council

  • Christopher Luxon is gaslighting the country amid energy crisis – Chlöe Swarbrick

    They’ll tell you the oil and gas ban, which came into effect six years ago, is to blame. That wilfully ignores how, of the five oil and gas fields that already exist, it has taken an average of 16 years to go from exploration to production. It carefully curates out the fact that gas production…

  • What if We Threw a Civil War and Nobody Came?

    It won’t be lard-ass militias that matter if there is a civil implosion in the US. These things always come down to intra-elite splits and/or intra-military splits.

  • What austerity actually means and how it pays for $10 billion of tax cuts for the richest 40%

    Our richest 40% should know the $10b of tax cuts they’ll get & save are being paid for by making poor, sick & disabled kids & nanas poorer, sicker & homeless, not by ‘cutting fat from the system’ https://thekaka.substack.com/p/what-austerity-actually-means-and

  • Labour is finally finding it’s opposition spine…

    I’ll start this by stating that I hate Labour… but NZ needs an opposition with spine and heft. The minor parties have had the spine, but not the heft. This is very good news (and it’s also critical to adding a “find out” phase to the current governments “fuck about” approach). https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/526435/labour-refuses-to-commit-to-honouring-future-consents-under-coalition-s-fast-track-laws