Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

  • Something interesting that happened to you
  • Something humourous that happened to you
  • Something frustrating that happened to you
  • A quick question
  • A request for recommendations
  • Pictures of your pet
  • A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
  • Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

  • BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz
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    11 days ago

    Why isn’t this country more upset at what this government is doing?

    I am baffled that we as a nation will just stand by and watch the Trumpification of New Zealand.

    I have always been convinced that NZ is a much more conservative country than the image it tries to project, a much more racist and corrupt country than it pretends to be and nothing has brought that into sharper focus than the rule of Winston Peter and David Seymour.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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      9 days ago

      I saw a video from Q&A with Jack Tame, he was interviewing american right winger dickhead James Linsey and the comments were so blackpilling. It was like 90% support for James Linsey.

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          8 days ago

          I don’t know how to fight back against it because new Zealanders are so checked out of nz politics but passively absorbing American right wing politics and applying it here.

          • BikerChiwi@mastodon.nz
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            8 days ago

            @Fizz @BalpeenHammer Given how we lept in boots and all into the market ideology in the 1980s and never resiled from it, I am not surprised that “me first” is lurking just below the surface of our collective psche.