Dan Bishop
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Tall Ship sailor, writer, coach. Teacher and student, always. If I follow you and you wonder ‘why’, it’s to widen our collective perspectives ;)
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Visitor: “The media in New Zealand is nuts. They just lied. They didn’t just exaggerate. They didn’t just extrapolate. They actually lied.”
We don’t have a media in NZ. We have a government-funded propaganda machine supported by a majority who are told by their TVs how to think
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@NewshubPolitics
Newshub, I can prove — like, with facts ‘n stuff — over and over x 100 the times you’ve been the ones spreading disinformation. But I can’t because you, with your reach, control the narrative. So we use what channels we have, which you then rubbish. Own your own mistakes!
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@shaneellall
It’s interesting to see how in this timeline the negative comments suddenly stop. And elsewhere so many people showing that you’ve blocked them. It must be an exhausting, full-time job creating a Twitter validation space after all the thuggery on the weekend
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@shaneellall
KiwiBank lost me and many others. The trans community lost me and many others. NZ lost a ton of cred. You won a thing. At huge cost
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New rules: It’s ok to shoplift IF you face serious pressure at work. It’s ok to step into traffic for a selfie IF you’re holding a protest sign. It’s fine to eat+run if you were also drinking a lot. Or hit+run, for that matter. Justice is now a social debate, laws are just guides
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I’m watching a real journalist in just one province in South Africa,
@DasenThathiah
, reporting a daily stream of violent deaths, to the point he has to take time-outs. Been following him since a murder there in my own extended family just before Xmas.
NZ, take a history lesson
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@SparkNZ
Renounce your support for Lal. So far you’ve haven’t walked back your support for someone who promotes violence and is abusive online
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Two questions for every NZer: Why didn’t the PM talk to the protest, and what purpose do mandates serve. Try and keep your answers civil and just to those two points please. I’m so tired of the hate words here directed at ‘filth’ etc.
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Worth every second
Seymour escalates Treaty Principles debate by posting this video last night. Thanks for all the media coverage Te Pāti Māori.
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It’s not that I’m voting to get National in. I’m voting whatever it takes to get Labour out
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I was born in Zimbabwe, raised through apartheid, left briefly but returned when it became a full democracy. Then I watched as people like me (not indigenous) were removed. It wasn’t just a colour thing, Indian etc people left too. My citizenship (by birth) was revoked and I was
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Noticed AirNZ now announce Christchurch simply as Christchurch
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I’m looking at ~100 off-duty firefighters protesting
#firecrisis
in Wellington CBD. This is happening right now in other Wellington areas, and across the country. Their message to FENZ and government is clear: NZ’ers life saving service is under threat by you, support us better!
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Took us 20+ hours to get 5 stitches for a knife wound. On Sunday Wellington Hospital turned them away — no doc on staff to stitch until 2pm Monday. This am we tried Hutt Hospital — even after long triage, at least another four hour wait. Paid for a private clinic. Good lord nz …
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@aniobrien
@SparkNZ
The bullying I saw at Spark Digital under Claire Barber was so bad I resigned the perm role almost immediately. My manager went through serious mental health issues and my practice lead resigned when I did. The rotation was dizzying. The bullying was studiously ignored by HR
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@1NewsNZ
It wasn’t just the mandates, it was the double standards — my mom died alone but DJs were flown in and thousands of health workers were given exemptions. So I could not care less about this. Post real news
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The biggest lie of the past three years
"There was no compulsory vaccination, people made their own choices"
Gaslighting chump 🖕
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Travelling away from NZ after too many years and reflecting back, reading what is happening in NZ, and talking to overseas residents about their own views of our stance on issues, is leading to a series of delayed ‘wtf’ moments. Our politicians and media are kids in a playpen
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Can anyone point me to another country where the main language is peppered semi-randomly with words from another main language, in official communications? English itself is already an aberration of that sort so it doesn’t count for this enquiry. Asking for a New Zealander …
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A promise of GST-free food won’t made a damn difference to anyone except the supermarket giants.
1. When cashiers were replaced by self checkout, prices didn’t drop. Walk around your store — see how there are so few staff now? They’re costly so they’re halved, while prices just
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I’m confused. ~50% of fuel is tax. Fuel has jumped ~$1 recently, so ~50c is extra tax the gov didn’t write into budgets. Now they’re giving back 25c and funding that ‘loss’ from Covid coffers to a tune of $350M. Where am I going wrong in my calculations or logic, twitterverse?
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The NZ Therapeutics Products Bill is frightening. Covers potentially any *thing* that’s natural+healthy that the gov decides to control. Now or in the future. Way too long to read, but use this link to quickly dip into a few pages. See it for yourself
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Mandates serve no current positive purpose. Disagree? I challenge you to make a logical argument. Betting you can’t, NZ
#NZpolice
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@archer_rs
Haha! My brother, who looks very much like me, is a 30-year-long local of Provence, speaks French probably better than English now. If tourists had attitude he’d probably do the exact same. Beware a Frenchman raised on a diet of Monty Python, The Goon Show and Mr Bean. To
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@shaneellall
It’s over. The world has judged NZ, the trans movement has taken a giant leap backwards, people who were ambivalent are opposed, and everyone is moving on. What an own goal
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@shaneellall
My little buried tweet got 50 likes within minutes. That’s an indicator right there
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Protestors saw 3 weeks through Southerlies, sprinklers 🤣, bollards, a terrible press. Re-energised: a court ruling, new arrivals, a loo, boat, even a wedding. They’re committed, here for the long, long haul. Don’t like it? So easy - tell your gov to start talking
#convoynz2022
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I turned my TV off permanently in 2012, and have not missed it for a second. The onslaught of ads, the dramatic news intro’s, the pregnant reality show pauses. Media training us to sit, obey and consume. Turn off and tune in :)
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@MichaelPSenger
It didn’t say people *are* mutating it to sell vax. YOU said that. Walker said it’s being discussed in detail, acknowledges risk to public, says regulators aren’t really regulators.
@MichaelPSenger
this is a cognitive and ethical heads-up to heavily-propagandised Pharma champions
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I watched the debate. Two highlights:
1. Luxon spoke of measurable targets for gov agencies. Yes, keeping the top ppl to account ‘went away’ for 6 years. No focus.
2. He referred constantly to smarter ways to use money. Yes, we can’t dig down out this hole
Luxon 2 Hipkins 0
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I had dinner tonight next to a medical transcriber, who said that in their first-hand day-to-day experience, there is everyday evidence of serious vax injuries, predictable trends even, which is being kept hidden or obscured in how it’s recorded. I’ll stop there
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NZ, this is what we need in winter!
I spent a day in the middle of Germany in a glass building filled with indoor-connecting-with-outdoor spa pools, thermal pools, three different kinds of mineral pools. Salt scrub showers. Sugar scrub showers. Saunas. Steam rooms. Cafés. And
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The Veritas Pfizer story, a few hours old now, will be a test of mainstream media. How long to pick it up — if they pick it up at all? Pfizer immediately scrubbed Walker from the Internet … almost in time. Your ball, Press
@1NewsNZ
@NewshubNZ
@NZStuff
how fast can you verify?
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3:20 — “you’re being careless with your words and I’m not going to let you get away with them. I’m here to defend all people, Māori, European, Chinese …” Listen to this piece— he knows exactly the mood of this country. Experience
Winston Peters schools Super woke interviewer, singer, activist and Willie Jackson’s ex-wife - Moana Maniapoto.
Bet she thought it would end differently..
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@NewshubPolitics
Let’s try ‘100% safe and effective’ in context with some reporting on the current and very real AstraZ furore overseas. Don’t have to agree, just at least show both sides. Right now we have your story 31 August 2021, expert Graham Le Gros, pushing it hard while we all resisted
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Where is the evidence of pitchforks please. Not going to let this one go.
#convoy2022nz
@nzherald
@1NewsNZ
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~90 people die in NZ daily. Half are aged 80+. Today 7 deaths were ‘with’ covid - but we don’t know how many ‘of’, if any. Stats say this will be a small fraction and an ‘of’ will be in the 80+ group. But Gov/Media find this detail difficult - it doesn’t fit their Fear! narrative
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Tell your critics: Before saying “Another government paper leaked! What a CoC!”, remember that there’s a 99% likelihood it was leaked by people currently sitting within the public service who are critics of the new government. We don’t need partisan civil service saboteurs thanks
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Matt ‘n Matt need bigger venues. Packed room, overflowing stairwell. I popped out and can’t get back in, just too many people. Several hundred. What strikes me most is the crowd mix, a cross-section of age, ethnicities, gender. NZ in a room
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This week/weekend I’ve noticed shops closed when they would be open, shops, restaurants and cafes operating with skeleton staff, and many examples of young, new staff trying to cope. Also empty shelves, more out-of-stock holes in shelves, etc … So again: NZ, are we in trouble?
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Indian restaurant in the Hutt last night, as I’m leaving: ‘oh, and remember no masks, no pass next week! See you again! Big smiles from them, masks already on their chins. They’re over it
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This is a lie. Misinformation. From … good lord, NZ’s own PM. It was one of many told to edge hesitant, scared people towards vax. Can *anyone* defend this? (Besides, of course,
@nzherald
@NZStuff
@TVNZ
@1NewsNZ
because as we now know, their funding controls their reporting)
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UK’s Guardian: “The police said protesters used … homemade plywood shields and pitchforks as weapons and a cord was set up as a trip wire”
@MutchJessica
@1NewsNZ
@nzherald
@NZStuff
I said I won’t let *pitchforks* go. Where is the evidence? You’ve had over a week. RT!
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In the spirit of addressing disinformation on Twitter - a somewhat vocal concern of NZ’s PM - it would be great to see accountability by the PM for the misinformation spread by the PM. This isn’t an opinion, it’s hard provable fact. Propaganda in action folks, media silent
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He has an unarguable point about NZ leadership — the use of power to dismiss, or completely shut down, anything that doesn’t fit the chosen narrative. That shows weakness, not leadership
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@SimonRAnderson
@DanielStar69732
Contrast this with the Posie Parker counter-protests. Thousands shouting down a group and yet no convictions except for a couple (not all) of the actual assaults. We have a serious problem when the rules are leveraged politically and ideologically
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Calm, people just getting on quietly. NZP look a little skittish. Straight after they drove the forklift into the showers and lifted them away, the crew on the ground cleaned the glass and mess and started building new ones. At 1am. Legend
#convoy2022NZ
#EndTheMandatesNow
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@saltyreigns
Makakai, I hope we meet. I work with gov to improve thinking/communication. After today I’m seriously considering this to be futile. NZ is just too far gone. Today we’re looking at ways to pivot to international only. I hope Kiwis realise how *massively* biased NZ has become
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“One thing Ardern ruled out was a vaccination pass within New Zealand – a system in which vaccinated people would have more freedoms, such as access to restaurants and concerts, while unvaccinated people would not” JA interview 7 Aug 21
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If anyone says anything about promoting hate and division, just flick them this: officially funded media-promoted incitement. Unarguable in a logical world, which we’re back to I hope
The author of this poem has been awarded $60,000 by Creative NZ.
They've used taxpayer money to promote hate and division. It's a disgrace.
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National know that with ACT they will have good numbers in a week. They also know that to form the next government, they will have no choice but to negotiate with NZF. And it’s freaking them out completely, because every concession to that manifesto blows another hole in their
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The first time you give something to somebody you create appreciation
The second time, anticipation
The third time, expectation
The fourth, entitlement
The fifth time, dependency.
And after that, if you don’t give it,
You create resentment,
which becomes hatred.
We have to keep
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The very very last line says the study was part-funded by the people who really need you to believe this is true.
Unethical,
@NewshubNZ
You know the majority of readers won’t get past the headline and only a few percent will read to the end. This isn’t how journalism works
COVID-19 vaccines prevented up to 12,000 deaths during Omicron outbreak - study
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The Disinformation Project has ignored the NZ BORA and glossed over NZP’s definition of hate.
In this extract from NZP at bottom, note the difference between crime and incident, and use of the word ‘perceived’.
By these definitions, the PP event (for example) did contain hate
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A few smart people have said this now: Eliminate all PAYE tax in the first tax bracket; Don’t combine two first-bracket incomes to put someone in a higher tax bracket. If someone works two low-paying jobs, they’ve already doubled their cost-of-work. They grow NZ, reward them
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Treating English and te reo Māori as two languages that can be mushed together in official communications is demeaning to both languages, and exclusionary to those who don’t have one or the other. Respect both. Separate documents. I’m ok with New Zealand in the English context
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After 2 years of ‘wave’ preparation, we have one of the biggest waves globally, reduced hosp+ capacity thru mandates, and an inability to work out numbers in hosp+ bc of Covid vs just with Covid. No analysis of comorbidities, no age brackets. Just a hugely divisive Fear campaign
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@Texas_Made956
In ‘94 in the small hours a group of Tel Aviv locals in Jeeps decided to have fun by revving up our NZ/AU/SA/Zim backpacker group camping out on the beach. It went down a bit like this. An Antipodean lesson in FAFO
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@TBifford
@MaverickJagger
Enough with the fake photoshopping. Some ppl here actually believe you. Yes we probably had giants. No they weren’t the size of King Kong
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@stew_rachel
@KiwibankNZ
KiwiBank call agents have all been given special scripts to help them cope with the volume of callers complaining about the NZer Year award decision. But, don’t give them a hard time. Not their decision and the calls are not counted anyway
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@NewshubNZ
So he worked out that the media is mostly agenda-driven, not truth driven, and he played them back. Good man
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It doesn’t hurt to let an opposing view have the last word
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A useful thread on digital currency: in Wellington, new park meters are being installed and only 1 in 3 will take cash.
The thin end of the wedge.
I walked 100m each direction yesterday (400m) searching for a machine but couldn’t use coins. Practically though, what can be
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@NewshubNZ
That’s not in line with international thinking and trends, Newshub. It’s also not in line with data and science. In a more open society we’d call this misinformation. But here, I guess this is part of the ‘single source of truth’ narrative funded by government and pushed by media
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I’ll be straight with you: ANYONE who quotes great lines from history, I’ll RT here. If you can listen to this not as a partisan hearing Peters, but listen as a New Zealander might to Kipling, then no matter what your thoughts, you’ll have filled two minutes well
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@RealLucyLawless
Alright, follow that logic through. The oppositional parties are set up also as a single party. So two choices. You’re (he’s) suggesting that one side would get zero therefore the other near 100%? It’s not stacking up, is it?
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@ScientistBlood
@HatchardMedia
@gfa_nz
Are you sure it’s untrue? Remember he’s already said it’s a comparison with pre-covid, not the preceding year. You seem to be comparing year on year. Genuine question, TIA
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$13.50 for 2 coffees. While just a dollar more than normal for that lovely suburban venue (they had to raise prices, and that’s ok), it was also a kind of breakpoint: I won’t pay that again. I wonder if others are getting to that ‘um, no….’ walkaway point with other goods?
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NZ is full-steam-ahead vitriol, violence and aggression. All the PM had to do was take one first step of *talking* to the protest leaders. Instead we all watched a campaign that deliberately turned it to violence. This was always totally avoidable and always going to happen.
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Ten things to look out for:
1. A media that pushes government messages without challenging them
2. Restrictions on growing diverse food at home or on small farms
3. The disappearance of cash, slowly but surely, in the name of crime control
4. Approval to buy precious metals,
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RNZ have not asked the hard questions that citizens need them to. Independent real journalists have. RNZ have shown bias, v an appetite for the facts. RNZ are gov funded, independents fight every day on their own feet. Keep the label, leave the platform if you must
Including talking to Twitter to have the label removed or revised, or as other public media around the world have done, leave the platform.
Megan Whelan - RNZ's Head of Content (3/3)
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NZ Media are like a bunch of teachers’ pets, needy kids now class captains. Lording the playground picking teams, inventing game rules, deciding who’s popular and who’s not. Opinionated to the max, announcing any counter as ‘misinfo!’, their
#1
goal is to control the NZ narrative
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@moanatribe
The ignorance would also rest with those saying who is and who is not versed in the ToW. And because it’s impossible to judge from such a distance, have you broad-brush judged us all on our knowledge by our surnames and lightness of our photos?
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@nbreavington
@DavidCollard17
Romford! My mom from there. Anyway, to your post: NZ is passing a law now to basically do the same. It’s about control. They say it’s to keep us safe. Ha!
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The tide is turning. Watch the journalists all turn and follow each other this week. The narrative will be ‘how we now all need to get a grip’. The funding must be drying up ;)
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@LuvAgent99
It was a choice for most between keeping your home and job, or choosing body autonomy. Even haircuts were withheld. This is straight-up disinformation from the ‘one source of truth’ vaccine mandaters
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First you’ll find that cash isn’t accepted in stores. Then (also already happening in NZ) you won’t be able to deposit cash into another person’s account, because “Money laundering” excuse. Truth: Cash is harder to track, and gov really wants control of you. And so the squeeze …
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@winstonpeters
The broadcasting portfolio is the key to the rest, if it can be returned to its ethics
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@NewshubPolitics
@NewshubNZ
within 40 minutes you’ve had 1,600 views … and 11 likes. Almost every comment is negative. Read the country
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So many with such strong opinions for and against different sides in the Middle East. I’ve physically been there and as a direct result, I’m for neither. Because ignorantly arguing the points is what globally fuels the aggression — but perhaps you’re witnessing that play out
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@terrasea
I’ve voted left all my life too. There’s no way I’m voting Labour in this time. So according to this thread I’m a divisive right wing nutter. Except I probably walk, talk and act like most of you, bc as a person I haven’t changed. The country changed
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@1NewsNZ
I saw 14,000 active people on X people view this and just 1% of them give it a like. If you’re placing stock in and seeing into people’s thoughts, then what do you think those very real stats say? 99% of your audience (not mine) couldn’t care or don’t agree. Who do we believe?
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@MicheleACourt
We all know exactly what a man is and what a woman is. We also know what a trans man is, and a trans woman is.
What problem are you trying to solve here, Michele? It’s not one of understanding, is it?
I think it’s an attempt to get people to rethink the term ‘woman’. So — no…
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@kristinhallNZ
Here’s a sane, polite reply: media in NZ have lost credibility. They’ve lost trust as a balanced independent Fourth Estate. They themselves stand to harm the uptake of Māori (I’m writing in English so I’m using the right words, if I were writing in Māori I would write ‘te reo’)
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A big lie is told slowly, in parts, turning a little, inching on. Vax will save you from the Big Bad Thing! Now it’s become three vax, and even then it’s still transmittable and you might still get sick with a thing that can be treated at home with lozenges. So: long covid! Fear!
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16 NZ’ers die *daily* of heart/circ issues. Many are preventable. Too big a number? Ok, ~100 drown each ‘normal’ year, ~80 of these are preventable. But this is the worst year since 2015. Too small? How about mental health? NZ, this obsession with just *one* thing is killing ppl
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@jamespeshaw
That’s a very selective reality, James. Zoom out — the broader picture tells a more honest story
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@winstonpeters
In any org and especially in a government, there is an escalation path up and a cascadence of information down. In a ‘war room’ situation like this, immediate full details should be shared, starting at the time it takes to speed-dial a phone. So yes, he has a valid point
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I think someone said it yesterday and I’ll echo it in different words: Some of the NZ wider public are so far down their MSM rabbit holes — I’m encountering more arcane logic and seriously-skewed perspectives that I have to just walk away from. Seriously election-worried
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As a white person in Africa, I saw enough racism, xenophobia (in all directions) to last a lifetime. Now as I see/am subjected to those same patterns in NZ, I’m done with it. No way forward, I’ll mute/block/ignore. Real balanced adults, bring it on. Let’s argue with respect. Dan
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@NewsroomNZ
I was there along with thousands that wouldn’t agree. You gave that small minority the attention they, and the gov, needed to spin this. You ignored the majority. That is exactly what happened, and it was thought through
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@winstonpeters
This was the most professional and truthful of all the campaigns, run against the odds (read: media)
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@drayeshaverrall
All this tweet says is “as health minister I was blind to the real issues — and still am”
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@TwoPaddocks
@jacindaardern
Two classes of society, a falsely-confident vax narrative that unwound as critics expected, a well-trained media. For the first time ever I’ve been embarrassed to be a Kiwi. This isn’t good enough leadership. But I agree we’ve had extraordinary events and she’s embattled
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