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5:30 pm, May 7th, 2026 - 9 comments
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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
Winston Peters forgot to sanction NZ first.
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/nz-announces-sanctions-malicious-russian-cyber-actors-online-platforms
Every time you fill up the car with
Russian oilSingaporean fuel, you’re a malicious actor.I think Brooke van Velden would fail miserably on her own citizenship test, as she obviously doesn’t share Kiwi values such as fairness and equity.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/594460/formal-complaint-lodged-with-united-nations-over-changes-to-new-zealand-s-pay-equity-laws
To incognito at 2 above.
Brooke will have other 'Kiwi values' that exclude fairness and equity but are (conveniently) consistent with her political, economic, social and cultural preferences. Which is why basing any test on 'Kiwi values' is horseshit. There's a great deal of crap being talked about 'values' at present. Australian Liberal Party leader Angus Taylor has been talking about immigration tests based on 'Australian values' and defenders of Israel like to talk about its role as a bastion of 'Western values'. This is also horseshit.
Here's a proposed test we can all apply when someone craps on about their 'values': do these values compel their proponents to willingly do things that are contrary to their self interest in the service of the common good, or are they merely disguised expressions of self interest and thus not values at all?
Well said.
Preferences are tradeable, negotiable, malleable, superficial, and seasonal and values are not. Preferences are grist for the mill for populists when masquerading as values.
@ Incognito @ 1
"Every time you fill up the car with Russian oil Singaporean fuel, you’re a malicious actor."
As a rider and driver of electric motorbike and car I didn't think I could get more smug. Supercilious is the way forward.
Not for one moment would I expect people to feel guilty or stop fuelling their car (personally, I don’t and won’t), but I do think that they should be aware, at least, of the duplicitous Coalition Government that is purported to act all New Zealanders and the nation and doesn’t seem to bat an eyelid laundering dirty money & oil. The Coalition and its supporters are very skilled in batting away criticisms of double standards using ‘economistic reasoning’. For example, not implementing NZ [domestic] standards to farm [pork] imports.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/05/hit-job-v-personal-attacks-competing-claims-as-high-profile-farmer-quits/
In this light it’s actually a little miracle that the Modern Slavery Bill has made it as far.
@gsays Some irony and humour about ourselves as well as those others out there, will keep us going as good humans on our quest to find old and not perfect but hopeful NZ, and world. Perhaps we could start a Good Humour Party which would be enjoyable and mean value when it spoke for us all. And when it spoke it would look for its own flaws and possible criticisms, and so be an entirely, fully conscious, different party and direction for Kiwis.
Maybe a McGillicuddy Humorous Party (McGHP) could take up the McGSP torch – things are getting serious, not to mention precarious, for many unsorted Kiwis.
Yes it's not entirely silly, as we have to turn away from the black arts being practised under cover on the net, the pleasure of media in bringing us Grand Guignol tragedies, the daily new developments going closer to unfixable messes or actual disasters. All brought about by we modern, intelligent, well educated, supposedly moral people.
We have to give youth some coaching about learning our human faults set permanently in our genes, and the ever-changing events and actions on the news. These can be bad at one time and then found totally necessary and right and good another. And how we can turn our faces away from a lie and vile behaviour and continue under it when we are doing the exact opposite to our basic values (ie Palestine but others in the near past and back.)
Voltaire said in 1700s about war and murder being acceptable when it suits, and that was when wrongdoers might be put in a gibbet and left hanging in the cage till their flesh dropped off. You have to have a strong stomach to read about what we are capable of. The only remedy is to understand the proclivity and grit teeth not to do it again, and turn our children's behaviour.
We could be assisting our youth when unemployed, giving them periods of work in groups at set needed agricultural tasks and emergency work, maybe helping in other countries. Clearing scrub and cuttings from poor forestry practices washed onto people's farms on the East Coast etc; emergency worker experience which will be needed. (Also studying about running projects which could lead to individuals developing management skills of site projects and bringing their practical experience to local politics).
Blah blah I do go on but if it pains me so much to hear our news that I don't know how young adults can cope.