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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 5h

We’ve long tried to make the distinction between journalists and media *decision makers* for exactly this reason

Think it’s also important to ask at what point editorial capture and quashing of stories becomes election interference, because the outcome here is identical

Connor Sharp @connorsharp.bsky.social · 6h

I cant even tell you the number of public interest (and interesting) stories about the local election that journos wanted to do, but couldn't because of editors..

Shout out those that did do coverage, esp The Spinoff

Patrick Reynolds for a greater Auckland @patrickreynolds.bsky.social · 9h

Well done media, you achieved this brilliantly, your campaign to nearly completely ignore AKL’s local elections has flowed on to its inevitable outcome. Accelerating your own irrelevance simultaneously -> www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 1d

on top of that the fucking Labour Party needs to understand that when *they* put the boot in too, that's the context they're doing it in. Just joining a racist dogpile of click-chasing bigots. What do you call someone who willingly sits down at an entire *table* of these folks?

kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 1d

my fucking god, if laying into Māori - for *whatever reason* - isn't about the one topic that will have the entirety of NZ's establishment media baying in lock-step with each other

it show's they CAN coordinate pressure - just choose not to for FAR worse transgressions by the rightwing

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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 1d

I made a video on exactly how the opposition can win, based on strategies from Labour's own 2017 messaging strategist Anat Shenker-Osorio that helped Jacinda win in under 6 weeks. If she doesn't know how to win an election no one does. youtu.be/4UHUg7u8Dtg?...

#nzpol

How to beat the Atlas Network - The power of effective messaging

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 1d

my fucking god, if laying into Māori - for *whatever reason* - isn't about the one topic that will have the entirety of NZ's establishment media baying in lock-step with each other

it show's they CAN coordinate pressure - just choose not to for FAR worse transgressions by the rightwing

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Te wookie o te tangata @chewienz.bsky.social · 1d

Are you listening @chrishipkins.bsky.social? Play to win, not to not lose

empath75.bsky.social @empath75.bsky.social · 1d

“I think for far too long we’ve tried not to lose, as opposed to figuring out how to win.” — the problem with the democratic party in a nutshell.

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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 1d

I made a video on exactly how the opposition can win, based on strategies from Labour's own 2017 messaging strategist Anat Shenker-Osorio that helped Jacinda win in under 6 weeks. If she doesn't know how to win an election no one does. youtu.be/4UHUg7u8Dtg?...

#nzpol

How to beat the Atlas Network - The power of effective messaging

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Lauren M @elenem.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of the many reasons I tear my hair out over the endless BUT THE ECONOMY pieces. This government would be a climate-denying, education and health destroying short-termist shit-show even if the economy was good and we should be SHOUTING that

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 1d

I shit you not, one of the 5 reasons is “every cycle ends eventually”.

Are you fucking *kidding* ??

Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 1d

RNZ really putting in the hard yards for this gov #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Five reasons to feel positive about the New Zealand economy

It's been a year of grim economic news - unemployment has been up, GDP down and consumer confidence weak.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 2d

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How to beat the Atlas Network - The power of effective messaging

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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 2d

I disagree, they need to be loud and proud and message from inevitability. And don't take it from me, take it from their own 2017 messaging strategist. She helped Jacinda Ardern win in under 6 weeks, if she doesn't know how to win an election no one does.
youtube.com/shorts/rKocH...

Anat Shenker-Osorio on how to win elections

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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 2d

open.substack.com/pub/joehendr...
Hipkins won't reverse National’s plan to stop 18- and 19-year-olds from accessing the unemployment benefit when out of work.

Do ya see why we call Labour (especially under Hipkins) National lite? #nzpol

Labour's view on youth welfare: 18- and 19-year-olds aren't adults either

Why the removal of the unemployment benefit for 18–19-year-olds reveals the limits of Labour’s empathy in practice.

open.substack.com

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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 2d

That is being far too charitable to the same guy who literally reversed lots of Labour’s progressive policies. That's his history of commitment of policies, repealing the progressive ones. Not to mention how he literally argues with people at Young Labour, call Greens MPs stupid and so on.

Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · May 5

Labour have consistently shown they don't care about their base & just want to win the center right vote look at Hipkins arguing at Young Labour, & they'd rather listen to TPU and Atlas than their own voter base that wanted a CGT, Atlas literally bragged about it www.atlasnetwork.org/articles/nzt...

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Ciara @ciaraarmstrong.bsky.social · 2d

For fucks sakes Labour members…. Are you seriously going to go into one of the most crucial elections with CH & his vision, or lack thereof, leading the party? He offered nothing inspiring last time & lost…. If Labour loses again, the material harm to people & environment will be horrific. #nzpol

Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 2d

open.substack.com/pub/joehendr...
Hipkins won't reverse National’s plan to stop 18- and 19-year-olds from accessing the unemployment benefit when out of work.

Do ya see why we call Labour (especially under Hipkins) National lite? #nzpol

Labour's view on youth welfare: 18- and 19-year-olds aren't adults either

Why the removal of the unemployment benefit for 18–19-year-olds reveals the limits of Labour’s empathy in practice.

open.substack.com

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Roscoe Changleen @changleen.bsky.social · 3d

#NZPol Get all these fucking useless Chrises out of parliament!

Luxon, Bishop, Hipkins can all fuck off.

Spineless fundy, amoral tobacco lobbyist, Temu Starmer.

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Shansen - famously the founder of antifas wife @srhansen.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus. This election should be so bloody easy. The CoC are objectively the worst government this country has ever experienced.

If you promise to repeal every single policy this government has put into place and reintroduce worthy policy they tried to destroy...

Labour would win.

But nah.

#nzpol

Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 2d

open.substack.com/pub/joehendr...
Hipkins won't reverse National’s plan to stop 18- and 19-year-olds from accessing the unemployment benefit when out of work.

Do ya see why we call Labour (especially under Hipkins) National lite? #nzpol

Labour's view on youth welfare: 18- and 19-year-olds aren't adults either

Why the removal of the unemployment benefit for 18–19-year-olds reveals the limits of Labour’s empathy in practice.

open.substack.com

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck Labour for being part of the rachet effect. If they pulled policy back to the left to undo the harms of National, we might see a stalemate, but instead they are spineless and stand still, allowing all of us to be dragged toward fascism.

This is why I vote green or TPM

Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 2d

open.substack.com/pub/joehendr...
Hipkins won't reverse National’s plan to stop 18- and 19-year-olds from accessing the unemployment benefit when out of work.

Do ya see why we call Labour (especially under Hipkins) National lite? #nzpol

Labour's view on youth welfare: 18- and 19-year-olds aren't adults either

Why the removal of the unemployment benefit for 18–19-year-olds reveals the limits of Labour’s empathy in practice.

open.substack.com

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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 2d

open.substack.com/pub/joehendr...
Hipkins won't reverse National’s plan to stop 18- and 19-year-olds from accessing the unemployment benefit when out of work.

Do ya see why we call Labour (especially under Hipkins) National lite? #nzpol

Labour's view on youth welfare: 18- and 19-year-olds aren't adults either

Why the removal of the unemployment benefit for 18–19-year-olds reveals the limits of Labour’s empathy in practice.

open.substack.com

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Pip @pipinotautahi.bsky.social · 3d

This sounds like our current problem with Labour in Aotearoa. We know that National are terrible economically for the majority and BRILLIANT for the tiny minority…labour are bland at best for the majority and still the fuck owned by donors.
Greens at least have real tax and equality policies.

Yoshemo @yoshemo.bsky.social · 21d

It's not that "the left" is too focused on pronouns. It's that the closest thing to leftists in power (Democrats) are only left-leaning when it comes to self-expression rights. They are bought by corporate money and completely refuse to when discuss leftist economic solutions.

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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 That puts them in the same structural role fascists play, embracing capitalism’s naked form, without the liberal contradictions that once softened it.

In other words they are no doubt evil, however they are not insane, they are essentially capitalists without the contradictions.
#socialist

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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's a mistake to think that Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin are insane.

Yarvin and Thiel are lucid reactionaries rather than deluded idealists.

They accept capitalism’s trajectory toward hierarchy instead of trying to reconcile it with equality or democracy.
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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 2d

There are MPs in parliament who have the personal lived experience of being part of the John Key administration that combined the sickness and jobseeker benefits. It ain't ignorance. Even if they aren't listening to advice, they were there on the day in the past.

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 4d

I remember when a protester punched the co-leader of the Greens in the face.

Hana Maipi-Clarke had her home broken into by a political stalker.

I recall VFF protesting outside Clarke's parents' home while Jacinda was on holiday.

I dont remember hearing about National's concerns back then??

Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 4d

Calling people attack dogs is not at attempt to deescalate and maintain civility, it's a attempt to escalate to distract from a failing economy. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 4d

I don't remember seeing wall to wall coverage of (false, escalatory) statements by the victims either, nor of businesses going out of their way to vice signal and target citizens at the behest of the state.

Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 4d

I remember when a protester punched the co-leader of the Greens in the face.

Hana Maipi-Clarke had her home broken into by a political stalker.

I recall VFF protesting outside Clarke's parents' home while Jacinda was on holiday.

I dont remember hearing about National's concerns back then??

Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 4d

Calling people attack dogs is not at attempt to deescalate and maintain civility, it's a attempt to escalate to distract from a failing economy. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 4d

Important point by Pearse in the Herald here - identifying that NZF et al don't REALLY care about what happened except as something to be weaponised. Would be great if a few more in the media/pol class were able to reflect on this BEFORE they spent the last 2 days escalating in their own right

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"But although Peters condemned the attack on his house as a “disgrace”, he was quite happy to taunt Swarbrick as “crowbar Chlöe”. Shane Jones, vocal even by his standards in defence of his leader, freely bellowed: “Where’s the crowbar?”
Either it’s a serious attack that threatened a politician’s family and crossed a line, or it’s something to tease your political opponent with. It shouldn’t be both."

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Dave @dpdiver.bsky.social · 4d

Labour's falling into the fascist line as well:

"Labour’s broadcasting and media spokesperson Reuben Davidson says it “has the potential to be a bad look” for One NZ.

“They're a commercial company and it's up to them to decide who they want in their campaigns and how they manage that,” he says."

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