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TheBobbicus (he/him)

@thebobbicus.bsky.social

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Just a random guy from Ōtautahi Chch, Aotearoa NZ 🇳🇿 here for a chill time or to help bring about the downfall of capitalism. Hard lefty, LGBTQIA2+ ally, etymology enthusiast, PC and board gamer, avid reader of sci-fi and fantasy, ethical non-monogamy.

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TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · Apr 16

A post that will slowly get added to as I find more mottos, quotes, explanations and rules to live by that I like:

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 1d

In 2022, protestors hurled bricks, faeces at police & lit fires. Winston Peters said those protestors just wanted to be "heard" & shook their hands.

This week Peters called the mostly peaceful, law abiding Kiwis outside his home "gutless, spineless, [the] worst" protestors #nzpol

Faeces thrown at police at Parliament protest

Poo was pelted at officers during an early morning operation today to contain the protest at Parliament. The 3.30am operation caught the occupiers off guard with attempts to thwart the plan, resulting...

www.rnz.co.nz

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TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 1d

@thepress.co.nz please do your jobs and investigate their concerns of the protestors, not just show them being arrested

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TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 1d

Please explain their concerns in your publication

TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 1d

Another important one to sign #nzpol

Treen | Toitū Te Tiriti @heyren519.bsky.social · 1d

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/fo...
#nzpol

For the People: Tax Corporate Profits

Now is the time for the Government to increase the tax on corporate profits and put it back into the people. Show your support and get involved.

our.actionstation.org.nz

TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 1d

I'll take him over the current lot any day! #nzpol

TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 1d

No proof at all, it even happened days after the protest so even less likelihood of a link. They've just launched into attacking the left in general and Chloe Swarbrick in particular because they know they have to fight filthy to have even a chance at getting their way and are terrified they'll lose

TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 1d

It's not even covert, it's an overt and open attack on women

TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 1d

Mild correction, they're the party of "free speech for me but not for thee"

I'd call them swine, but that would be an insult to pigs

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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa @psna-otautahi.bsky.social · 1d

8.40am NZ Time

The Conscience, with Will Alexander and Ava Mulla from Ōtautahi onboard, are nearing where previous flotillas have been attacked by Israel

Keep amplifying Gaza
Help keep us safe
Tag media and politicians

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#NZPol

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TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 1d

They've all been bought and paid for, to all appearances, with as you say a few notable exceptions

TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 1d

The current government seems determined to more than singe the treaty, they appear to want it to go up in flames completely

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Peace Action Ōtautahi @peaceactnotautahi.bsky.social · 1d

🔥 It’s go time e te whānau 🔥 Come down to Te Pae NOW to blockade the Aerospace Summit and keep space for peace!

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TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 1d

#nzpol please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please can we have these ghouls voted out?

og1858.bsky.social @og1858.bsky.social · 1d

#NZPOL
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Poll: Controversial pay equity changes could cost coalition the 2026 election

The survey, released by the Public Service Association and the Council of Trade Unions, found that more than a quarter of voters who backed the coalition parties in 2023 opposed the reforms.

www.stuff.co.nz

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TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 2d

Once again I have forgotten to include the tag... #nzpol

TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 2d

Another thing to complain about, their email to contact for complaints is hidden behind a fucking paywall

Scrolled screenshot showing the method of complaining to the NZ Herald being behind a paywall

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TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 2d

That comes to about 1.7% of our total population. Almost 1 person in 50 nationwide on strike at the same time #nzpol

Kieran @nug.monster · 2d

that's ~90,000 people striking, for those of you not good at maths

TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 2d

That's what's annoying me, everyone is yelling about it being a protester and then there's been the whole OneNZ ad thing, but no proof that any protesters were in any way actually involved. The protest outside his house was last Thursday and the window was broken on Monday. To me, no link...

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TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 2d

To being a protester? Or just to breaking the window?

TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 2d

Is there any actual evidence that it was a protestor that broke the window yet? Or do we just have Winnie's word for it (and the sign that was left, I'd expect that to have been published far and wide by now if it said what he says it did)

TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 2d

Is there any actual evidence yet that it was a protestor that did it?

I likewise would have expected there to be photos of the sign to be everywhere if it said what Winnie is claiming

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TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 2d

*on the property

TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 2d

But smashing the window as an act of political violence probably wouldn't have any further illegal act intended on the , so burglary wouldn't be a valid charge to bring against them

TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 2d

They've charged someone with burglary, which says to me it wasn't politically motivated and Winnie is just leaping at the chance to bash the Greens some more

TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 2d

No idea, but if they're charged with burglary (even if it gets downgraded to attempted burglary), that says to me that it wasn't politically motivated and Winnie is seizing on a convenient break-in attempt to push the protest-limiting changes they're touting at the moment

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TheBobbicus (he/him) @thebobbicus.bsky.social · 2d

They've now got someone charged with burglary over the window, but Winnie is still blaming Greens inciting violence

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