MikeD
@lovecollides.bsky.social
Well cured, leftward, tangata tiriti, art appreciating, nature loving, climate distressed, culture junkie with insular tendencies.
He/him.
He/him.
Excellent summary; super concise.
December 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Excellent summary; super concise.
Yikes, we never recovered from that Ruth kicker huh?
December 31, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Yikes, we never recovered from that Ruth kicker huh?
Great article.
BVV's actions towards workers and formal unions are more openly hostile than unengaged, to my mind.
BVV's actions towards workers and formal unions are more openly hostile than unengaged, to my mind.
December 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Great article.
BVV's actions towards workers and formal unions are more openly hostile than unengaged, to my mind.
BVV's actions towards workers and formal unions are more openly hostile than unengaged, to my mind.
Yes, not everyone though. Just dole blubgers, bottom feeders, children, disabled people, women, and māori.
December 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Yes, not everyone though. Just dole blubgers, bottom feeders, children, disabled people, women, and māori.
Uh-huh, even better - when Aotearoa can't afford to build enough prisons to hold the swelling numbers of people imprisoned for wearing a patch or being homeless, then GEO Group or some other worthy bunch of corporate love junkies can do it!
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Uh-huh, even better - when Aotearoa can't afford to build enough prisons to hold the swelling numbers of people imprisoned for wearing a patch or being homeless, then GEO Group or some other worthy bunch of corporate love junkies can do it!
That way tax money can be funneled directly to big business instead of investing in effective policies that reduce re-offending like providing access to meaningful employment, stable housing, and strong social support systems. Let's emphasise incarceration over rehabilitation, brilliant!!
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
That way tax money can be funneled directly to big business instead of investing in effective policies that reduce re-offending like providing access to meaningful employment, stable housing, and strong social support systems. Let's emphasise incarceration over rehabilitation, brilliant!!
Too right Jason! A strong argument for this BS being contrary to the Bill of Rights Act here - www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...
Media Release: Government Bans Trans Youth While Protecting Cisgender Access to Puberty Blockers.
Rights Aotearoa condemns the Government’s decision today to ban the prescription of puberty blockers for transgender youth as an act of unlawful discrimination and political interference in clinical m...
www.rightsaotearoa.nz
November 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Too right Jason! A strong argument for this BS being contrary to the Bill of Rights Act here - www.rightsaotearoa.nz/media-releas...
You don't need to be māori to vote TPM.
November 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
You don't need to be māori to vote TPM.
Yes agree with @nzheretic, land tax is a bit ambiguous. Could be land value tax, proposed by Common Ground Aotearoa, isn't central govt tax though. Basic income AND flat income tax is left and right, could be bipolar, could be ambidextrous.
More questions raised than answers answered.
More questions raised than answers answered.
November 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Yes agree with @nzheretic, land tax is a bit ambiguous. Could be land value tax, proposed by Common Ground Aotearoa, isn't central govt tax though. Basic income AND flat income tax is left and right, could be bipolar, could be ambidextrous.
More questions raised than answers answered.
More questions raised than answers answered.
Ay?? A president floating new financial products is dodgy in way too many ways.
Is he tripping or is this another Epstein distraction?
Is he tripping or is this another Epstein distraction?
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Ay?? A president floating new financial products is dodgy in way too many ways.
Is he tripping or is this another Epstein distraction?
Is he tripping or is this another Epstein distraction?
Caption this - David imagines massaging his knobend as he shafts the country.
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Caption this - David imagines massaging his knobend as he shafts the country.
David wants to be the NZ Augusto Pinochet
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
David wants to be the NZ Augusto Pinochet
This kind of regulatory capture is described in "Democracy in Chans", Nancy McLean. Chile went all out and that didn't go well for the people there. Sounds like that reality is now being rewritten as great for the (business) economy. Even that's disingenuous.
Best to nip this in the bud!
Best to nip this in the bud!
November 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
This kind of regulatory capture is described in "Democracy in Chans", Nancy McLean. Chile went all out and that didn't go well for the people there. Sounds like that reality is now being rewritten as great for the (business) economy. Even that's disingenuous.
Best to nip this in the bud!
Best to nip this in the bud!
He's right, but then . . . he's the expert.
Simon Watts - not so much.
Simon Watts - not so much.
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
He's right, but then . . . he's the expert.
Simon Watts - not so much.
Simon Watts - not so much.
The genocide is still going despite the alleged ceasefire, so trading and cooperation with Israel is still contrary to our UN obligations.
Maybe he's actually thinking about breaking down borders with Palestine & Iran? That'd be cool.
Maybe he's actually thinking about breaking down borders with Palestine & Iran? That'd be cool.
November 13, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The genocide is still going despite the alleged ceasefire, so trading and cooperation with Israel is still contrary to our UN obligations.
Maybe he's actually thinking about breaking down borders with Palestine & Iran? That'd be cool.
Maybe he's actually thinking about breaking down borders with Palestine & Iran? That'd be cool.
Of course you trust the guy enabling genocide. People protesting genocide must be troublemakers right?
October 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Of course you trust the guy enabling genocide. People protesting genocide must be troublemakers right?
Of course the guy enabling the genocide is way more entitled to righteous anger than those protesting against it.
Goes without saying.
Goes without saying.
October 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Of course the guy enabling the genocide is way more entitled to righteous anger than those protesting against it.
Goes without saying.
Goes without saying.
He's everywhere MT, Al Jazeera and France24 even.
September 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
He's everywhere MT, Al Jazeera and France24 even.
Hmm, this guy - www.thepost.co.nz/business/360... - not sure it's Southland he's really working for.
The Post
www.thepost.co.nz
September 16, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Hmm, this guy - www.thepost.co.nz/business/360... - not sure it's Southland he's really working for.
The rockstar without any original material reinvents themselves as a folk artist and winds up busking on a windswept steet corner in winter economy?
September 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The rockstar without any original material reinvents themselves as a folk artist and winds up busking on a windswept steet corner in winter economy?