"X isn't just for Transphobia, it's also for racism"

This really is a master class in how to handle hostile news media

They say it's the equivalent of a human giving birth to a 10yo. No wonder the mother's bugger off after laying and let the father deal with it

Nau mai ki Aotearoa e hoa. (Welcome to New Zealand, friend)

Credit where it's due, and good on her for standing up against this, but it comes with a big asterisk.

Her political party claim they're standing up for women while being responsible for actively reducing women's pay.

They're complaining about AI after using it to try and trick the public that they're not racist. They say it should be regulated while currently trying to bring in legislation that will make it much harder to regulate AI.

She's obviously right, but she's also part of a group that's contributing to these problems.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Basically, leftists who think no one who calls themselves a leftist/communist/socialist (e.g Stalin) Can do any wrong

My 2c as a non American: The politically active "far-left" will likely hold their noses & vote for Biden as "damage reduction".

The non-voters will be the disenfranchised, suppressed and the "non-political".

Then whatever happens, democrats will blame the "far-left" and talk about how they could have done better if only they'd appealed to some imaginary conservative swing voter who doesn't exist.

Men, who have 2 testes go left, while women who have 3 testes go right. Wait...

Its not logical - Weight limits aren't there for the flight, they're there so the luggage handlers don't injure themselves

Would I call it genocide? No.

Would I criticise a Māori person for being fucking livid that yet another government is doing something they know for sure will make Māori lives worse (and shorter)? Also no.

It seems like theatre. How will you ever prove that I chose Burger King over McDonalds for political reasons?

Re NZ politics - Yes and no.

The currect situation is due to some very specific circumstances thst emerged in the chaos of the last 10 years.

• The centre left Labour Party & PM were hugely popular during covid & won an unheard of majority (normally our electoral system requires a coalition). A swing back to the centre-right was inevitable.

• The centre right National party, usually our most popular party, had their leadership retire & endured years of in-fighting that made them unelectable

• Because of this, they've bled a lot of voters to the "libertarian" & "centrist" parties (ACT & NZ First)

• Also because of this, the current National Party leader is rather inexperienced & has given up some things in the coalition agreements that are more extreme than the public likes leading to record breaking protests.

• The "centrist" party leader (Winston Peters) is a whole thing that I can't neatly summarize, but imagine a political party designed to cater exclusively to the oldest & dumbest 5% of voters run by that Monorail guy from The Simpsons

In summary, less a slide right & more a correction back to status quo + a few unpopular chaos agents

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Oh boy! Man-made horrors beyond my comprehension!

Ethereal?

It's like how War of The Worlds is about someone doing to the British what they did to India

We have learned nothing from the past 5 years it seems

I've seen so many comments like the original tweet and i don't get it. At worst Turkish delight is its perfectly fine. If I were an English child in 1943 it would probably blow my mind

It is standard in NZ

First up, how much of the downturn in CBD spend is because of govt. layoffs? And how much is countered by an upturn in the wider region as people go to cafés in Kapiti & Upper Hutt instead of Wellington?

Secondly, for about 10 years govt agencies have been aiming for smaller offices and more people working from home. They can't just turn it around like that, lots of places won't have enough desks