This has been the vicious fucking thing about the "Jobseeker Benefit" ever since Paula Bennett coined it in 2013

In addition to keeping people in poverty it's been a term of propaganda forcing us all to accept the frame of welfare as economic obligation instead of social support

Good to see this angle is being picked up. What hapless policy-making.

refusing to recognise Palestine statehood wasn't enough for Simon Court; now he wants to stop MPs from using the word genocide to describe...GENOCIDE. fuck this guy and fuck the 'Free Speech (except when we don't like what you're saying)' ACT party.

#nzpol

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like, run some sentiment analysis on the replies to politicians, and without even having done it, I can tell you right now how wildly out of sync the replies will be.

should tim jago's victims have been safe? David Seymour protected their rapist because his name being public would've "been a distraction in the run-up to the election". And he's the deputy fucking prime minister.

Aotearoa: there's been at least 21 people in hospital with covid PER WEEK (if I'm reading this correctly)

Please keep up to date with your covid-19 booster vaccinations, if you can

I'm currently recovering from my 2nd bout. Being boostered & masking helped reduce my risk of being hospitalised

just rolling my eyes and chanting capital requires a reserve army of labour to keep the worker down over and over again

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Any discussion about political violence, & this event is going to be *milked* for that, must as a matter of context include discussion about the rhetoric of NZF and ACT & the impacts it has already had. This is pure projection from Peters, no one in leftwing spaces is even close to either of them.

Still waiting on Peters to apologise for inciting violence against Benjamin Doyle.

#nzpol

also to the dumbass who thought it was cool to undermine all the peaceful protest by smashing a dickheads window - if you're not a right-wing plant then what are u doing

greens somehow being blamed again what a fucking joke

"The world doesn't owe you a living" - Christoper Luxon - who continued to claim $52,000 tax free taxpayers money for not living in his 2 official residences, saying he was "entitled to his entitlements".
Luxon finally relented after Newstalk ZB listeners criticised him #nzpol

everyone who asks the infantile genocide enabling question of "what about hamas?" needs to read fanon

“The courage, humanity and compassion of the Sumud flotilla are more than symbolic, they are a visceral reminder to all of us of our duty to stand up to injustice and to stand for the innocent.”

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Really?
Have we found out their party president is a sexual abuser and they've assisted him to cover it up, as per ACT?
Have we found out they have received illegal donations like NZ First?
Have we found out they've received payment for favourable policies, as per the entire Govt?
No.
#nzpol

it's so fitting that the last thing i do before submitting my thesis in its final form is to change one of my closest friend's names in the document to honour their transitioning journey / teenaa koe e hoa teenaa koe

Israel has kidnapped New Zealand Samuel Leason, Rana Hamida, and Youseff Sammour and other humanitarians. Email MFAT and Peters and demand his protection.

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Israel is about to do war crimes, including against NZ nationals, and I haven't seen a single NZ outlet livestreaming this. If they can somehow do a Charlie Kirk livestream, on multiple occasions, you'd think this would garner some journalistic attention