Daily review 05/06/2025

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10 comments on “Daily review 05/06/2025”

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  1. 1

    Consider the two stories of the day side by side and who walks home with the greater honour. It ain't the government.

  4. 4

    I always thought ACT MPs would make ‘good’ racists, but, ah, we'll see.

    These things take time you know.

    Aotearoa has been looted and is burning [5 June 2025]
    ACT's recent social media post presents what they call a "Te Pāti Māori translator," claiming to reveal the "real meaning" behind Māori political statements. This propaganda piece represents far more than simple political mockery – it is a sophisticated example of colonial violence disguised as humor, designed to undermine Māori political legitimacy and distort public understanding of indigenous rights.

    A bit of a wake-up call for me.

    Deputy PM Seymour, defending division by wealth – with every fibre of his being.

    1. 5.1

      … best news ever…

      Better than the Equal Pay Amendment Bill?

      Chris Bishop must be almost as “very non-racist” as Attorney-General and Privileges Committee chairperson Judith ‘Crusher watch my eyebrows‘ Collins.

  6. 6

    You might need more than two hands to count the number of times Duncan Grieve either assures us he is not excusing Chris Bishop's behaviour, or confirms that Chris Bishop is wrong, or confirms his opponents are right.

    But that doesn't change the fact that he is excusing Chris Bishop’s behaviour, and confirming he's right, and his opponents are wrong.

    Among the most concerning parts of Grieve's belief system is that dining table activism is enough, and as far as activism should ever go. It's what allows the well to do to pretend they're making a difference to (insert environment/social problem here) without subscribing to or endorsing actual direct activism on those issues. Grieve happily diminishes the Green Party on this point by directly by quoting, ugh, Luke Malpass.

    Another concerning part is Grieve fully subscribes to the idea anything publicly funded must be apolitical including, in this case, the arts. The corollary is that anything privately funded is free to be as political as it wants. His beef, in his defence of Chris Bishop, is that Toitū Te Tiriti is fine as a concept but not as an organised movement, particularly if national treasures might incorporate that movement in their performance or in their criticism of loud, drunk ministers of the crown.

    I think Greive is a closet nut job (perhaps he's just a businessman, but it's often the same thing), and in support of that what really struck was his use of Farrar's whataboutism. He indulged himself by innocently asking what if Groundswell or Family First had appeared at the AMAs.

    WTF?

    https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/05-06-2025/what-was-chris-bishop-thinking-an-earnest-attempt-to-figure-it-out

    1. 6.1

      Sorry Bishop was 100 % on the money.

      [Was he now? Says who? On what arguments?

      Your short social media salvos smell like troll turds. This is your warning – Incognito]

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