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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 1h

#NZpol So, Campaign 26 so far is basically Luxon not knowing how to back out of stupid statements his Ministers make about the Greens, only to fuck that up too by blaming another party altogether... And Willis making unbelievable tax "scenarios" and getting caught AGAIN? So... the f'n usual then?

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#NZpol The State of Things. Part of the outcome of all the broader underfunding of the health system and its various constituent parts is the distinct lack of help for support workers themselves... and those looking after other family members w/o support. Difficulties can easily compound rapidly.

thespinoff.co.nz

The cost of being: A part-time worker caring for an elderly parent

'I would once have described us as comfortable, but incessant cost increases are eroding security.'

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#NZpol I wonder if "the news" could ever take it upon itself to prat on less about "How much will 'tHe LefT' cost us doing This Thing" and try "What would it cost us if we DIDN'T?" Leaves Oppo poli's free to run w/ how much the current lot cost us RIGHT *NOW* by stopping *good* policy. It'd help.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#NZpol In sum, part of what I alluded to 3 years back... "Weltanschauungskrieg" or World View Warfare: a *starting point* for this govt. Sane ideas being *deliberately manipulated* into existential threats. Chris Rufo, Martin Sellner, Brian Tamiki, David Seymour: all working *the same playbook*.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#NZpol An oldie from The Other Place... but a Goodie too. Because this is the world we're having to fight our way out of. The kind of world Seymour, Luxon Peters think is "just how it is". Yes, the kind of world that will simply accelerate even more *if they get back in*. So *vote them ALL out*.

A tweet from Twitter from the account "L Ron Mexico" which reads:

Being a fan of a billionaire must feel like walking around a casino you don't own and hooting like a badass every time the house wins, licking the urinals, calling the trash can "sir"

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#NZpol That's good to note, though I hope that's a specific vector rising for wanting this current govt OUT. Traditionally, sure, the Left have basically benefited from O/S votes - hence the drive to slice up enrollment dates this year - but *don't rely on it*. *LOCAL* TURNOUT *STILL IMPORTANT*.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#NZpol TBF I don't think Luxon munches on anything but the bones and flesh of poor people. He should tone it down and simply call Luxon a total cunt, a gibbering idiot spewing verbal diarrhea, led by a leash on his shock collar by a yapping shit of Deputy and an old fart clinging off the side.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#NZpol And "the market" itself will simply operate on the rules *we* do *or don't* allow. It's not magical. It's something literally set up and run according to rules *we* as people, institutions, govts *decide* is "good". And where it serves no good purpose should... be... changed... accordingly.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#NZpol While ACT and National (and their most devoted bases) won't find issue with keeping people in the dark, I guess one could possibly hope other not-quite-so-decided voters may ponder how that attitude translates to not telling them everything in other areas. Like their *real* plans for us all.

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Campaign Cut-through: Lobbying reform gains cross-party support, but National and Act stay silent

Comment from Otago University: A new public health survey reveals which political parties back lobby registers and donation caps, while National and Act fail to respond

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#NZpol "She 'took the findings very seriously' before adding there were things she disagreed with" Of course, as going by the record. which is full of her not taking these things seriously, she disagrees with reality. Let's hope voters take it seriously enough to deliver a govt... that delivers.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#NZpol FOR THE LOVE OF SANITY Can someone, ANYONE, get on that fucking gogglebox they call television, and fucking dismantle this fucker live on debt, the state of our books, how govt finances ACTUALLY WORK, and what can be possible if RWers didn't constantly give OUR money TO FUCKING RICH CUNTS.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#NZpol Ah, about our RW fundies in govt currently setting policy to do with, hmmmm, poor people, sick people, those in need and always resolutely admonishing the Poors that they're "bottom feeders" and need to be directed in the Ways of A Good Life by upstanding Christians with impeccable morals 🙄

An idyllic scene as a 50's era family gathers round to hear Business Daddy preach... what is he preaching? Rubbish of course.

Ergo, his son (who may or may not be Max Key after he leaned out the window and yelled "Real men ride women" at a passing cyclist) asks:

"So if the Bible or our leaders tell us we should help poor people, help heal the sick, respect others, not lie, take some personal responsibility and certainly not use the Lord's name in vain when caught not doing any of it... why do we support National?"

Business Daddy replies:

"Oh Billy, we don't actually practice these things. We only preach them!"

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tomorrow's front page 📰 New satellite pictures lay bare Israel's destruction of Gaza

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#NZpol Correct. Typically from the RW direction, with their fetish for "security!", "law!" and "ORDER!", these utterances are often openly abused as policy trojan horses *for more heavy handed policing* if plebs don't "behave" appropriately. And we already know they're 100% shit with AI oversight.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#NZpol TL:DR Stupid quips from Brown and Seymour about shifting burden to taxpayers instead of "high earners" who I guess should simply pay it off... in an economy set up to *keep* wages LOW, bursting with *their own* handouts, where sackings and underfunding core needs is... "what grown-ups do".

rnz.co.nz

Labour promises to write off 10% of some student loan balances

Labour is promising to write off 10 percent of eligible student loan balances, as it launches its election campaign.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#NZpol Just 2 Things: 1. This story *should* be bloody normal... The basics? Person Promises Stuff... Rich People Object... BUT People Elect Person to Do The Stuff... Person ACTUALLY DOES IT. 2. "The only thing that can beat organised money is organized people". So can WE do *THAT* on Nov 7?

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#NZpol If the phrase "belongs in the fiction section" sounds familiar, yes, it's the same BS when "Dirty Politics" was released ⏬ Williams and Farrar withdrew *slightly* from speaking/ slots then — riiiiiight up until they got asked back *AGAIN AND AGAIN* to give 'insights'. Rinse BS, Repeat BS.

Two stalls set out and a crowd gathers. One stall displays "Comforting Lies", the other "Unpleasant Truths".

The former is manned by Jordan Williams of the TPU and yes, that's David Farrar, and yes, that is the pic of him dressed as Jimmy Saville, the pedo, and yes, it's weird anyone would dress up like him even as a joke, even weirder this happened *after* he was outed for being a pedo.

But then again, David may just want to feel more comfortable at those "Princess Parties" he helped oversee (VOMIT). Makes the "meat on legs" as one attendee put it easier to catch Davey?

Jordan Williams expounds and exhorts his (faux) ignorance of anything and dishes out words like "It's all lies" and other BS to the crowd.

On the other side, a lonely figure mans the "Unpleasant Truths" stall, with three of Nicky Hagers books showing: "The Hollow Men", about the then-Brash led National Party and its underhanded tactics in tandem with the Exclusive Bretheren (among others), "Dirty Politics" which covered the Key-led National government and the dirty machinations of Jordan Williams, Simon Lusk, David Farrar, Cameron Slater and others... and lastly, the latest release, "Dirty Work", featuring, again, Jordan Williams and David Farrar as more principle players this time.

And of course... the media, and assorted hangers-on, are readily publishing excuses and diversions of course, because, that's... what they do.

LINKS TO THE BACKGROUND OF THE BOOKS BY HAGER

The Hollow Men
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Men_(book)

Dirty Politics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Politics

Dirty Work
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Work_(Hager_book)
Dirty Works

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#NZpol Hey Simeon, you fuckwad, complain all you like about "the expense" of this, that or the other damn thing, but when *your own govt partner* spent "gazillions" on *its* pet Ministry, and your Party promotes uncosted taxcuts, donor kickbacks, fast tracking policy then having to rewrite it?!

A still from Black Adder II, showing a quote from the series underneath the suitably contemptuous gaze of Edmund himself, in my mind basically commenting on the state of Simeons intellectual firepower... or lack thereof, COUGH.

"The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr Brain has long since departed"

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Simply put, we screwed up,” the company said in a statement. “...While these mistakes weren’t intentional, that doesn’t make them okay.” Simply put, someone in a position of power decided to use it and MADE them cough up. Otherwise, they'd still be happy to be fighting it off, quite intentionally.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#NZpol I'd have thought that although many outlets certainly think their paywalls justified, why *so much* of what the public *needs* to know (and in an election period in seems particularly pertinent one would think, given the actual *issue*) is subject to gatekeeping when so much BS fluff isn't 🧐

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#NZpol "Don't vote for the Left, they harm your kids!" and other fictions the Right sold people in '23 (and continue to). And the people folded their arms, said "Yep, I think the kind of govt that always fucks essential services and communities up has the most sensible plan"... And the kids? Oh.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#NZpol TL:DR version is: Simeon doesn't really care about misleading people, the PM "confirmed Mark Mitchell was police minister when the crimes in some of the footage took place, but said National was being "very focused and very honest" They *won't* stop this sort of BS until they're voted OUT.

rnz.co.nz

National attack ads against Labour use crime footage from government's own term

National is defending the use of footage showing violent crime under its own government in attack ads against Labour.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#NZpol INDEED. Important for anyone wary of undue influences *on any govt*, but especially so given the intent of the current parties ruling the roost in *this* admin. Influence pipelines was a big subject within a lengthy post of mine t.ly/4wba4 some 10 yrs ago, so, looking fwd to reading this.

An extract from an article posted by Ōrauariki Wellington School of Business and Government, covering a recently available Report into Lobbying.

Extract reads:

"The point that this report presses is not that lobbying itself is the problem. Indeed, as one former ministerial staffer argued: “The only way decision-makers can do their work is if they are hearing from people.” Lobbyists can articulate the views of neglected groups and bring much-needed information into the political system. But when lobbying is opaque, self-interested, or reflecting large imbalances in resources, it can run counter to the public good. As one former public servant put it: “The lobbying is intense and the capture is rife.”

ORIGINAL SOURCE REFERENCE
https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/business/research/researchers/more-featured-researchers/vested-interest-lobbying-in-aotearoa-new-zealand

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#NZpol I mean, personally, prob more connected to work that AFAIK Nicky mentioned starting around the Panama Papers era? State being compromised by dirty ops, the clandestine funding that underpins it, shady AF donors, being part of that Intl Investigative Journo consortiu... Oh. Oh I see. COUGH.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#NZpol If the goal is to simply load us into a blast furnace just in case they *do* get kicked out, Oppo parties pledging to only shave off some of the edges *still gives them a permission structure* for the broad overall intent. It then becomes an acceptable *floor*. That's simply unacceptable.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#Kikorangi Sunday Mind Cleanse There's no bat this time BAHAHA, so my first 3 are my usual, 4 and 5 are my 'options'... Hoiho (Yellow Eyed pingu) Tawaki piki toka (Eastern Rockhopper pingu) Kārearea (native Falcon) Tarapirohe (Black-fronted fern), and... Koekoeā (Long=tailed cuckoo) CLOSES 5pm

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Bird of the Year ‹ Forest & Bird

Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year recognises our unique birds and with each vote you give them a voice.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#NZpol I really wish more people *did* understand how normalised just ignoring (actual) experts, much less publicly announced policies, really is. And that even if any individual journos do their best, and many do, things being institutionally skewed is a huge impediment to serious changes here.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#NZpol Does Nicole Grigg and this govt actually think they're fooling anyone here with their vomiting up some PR about fairness, financial freedom blah fucking blah in regards to Suffragettes?! Do they realise some of those suffragettes would have very happily punched them in the face for this BS?

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#NZpol Just gonna say, I had a huge tussle with some plonker at an Event who insisted they be allowed to sell shit and it was "just simply unfair" they couldn't. Nope, it isn't unfair at all to deny a potential provider w/ dodgy/no Certs to potentially cause PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES at public events.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#NZpol "Cry me a river". Well, that's... one way of looking at it? So maybe I'm just gonna leave this other way of translating what he just said floatinh around here... for NO PARTICULAR REASON.

People Today: Politics today is so divisive, never used to be this way!

Norman Kirk to his caucus as opposition leader: "I'm not like any of you bastards. I hate every member of the National Party and all that they stand for."

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#NZpol Needed the temporary brain interruption to the mess that is our world, before, no doubt, stepping *right back in*... so reading this was a good move. And now I have the word "Petrichor" to deploy too, very useful, because... well, it's all in here, thanks @anneleise.bsky.social 👍

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#NZpol Here's the approach I expect: "A terrible situation, yes, but he's a good bloke, I've met him - but look, understand this: the system will work, just give it time as people get used to throttling poor peop... I mean people causing trouble, *just* to the point of blacking out and no more."

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#NZpol Just taking a cursory glance at "the news" (apparently) on the way somewhere, I notice a red ticker across the Waikato Invaders masthead (the NZH to most), thought that's for *actual* alerts, not a US chain opening some stores? But sure, the world is turning to shit, so pretzels it is.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#NZpol Just watched a rep for the Plymouth Institute of Free Enterprise talk up "the US CoL/retirement crisis!". Would it surprise you it's exactly the same RW BS promoted here, *100% in sync with what ACT gets off on in particular*? TO BE CLEAR we are in *global* push against sanity by the F/RW.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#NZpol The one benefit with ACT is they're not afraid to show you they're complete cunts. So that means we all KNOW what we're dealing with. The bad thing about ACT is... they're unafraid to push legislation like cunts too. So *that* means: KICK. THEM. OUT... or people, it *will* be happening.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#NZpol I know those like David Seymour will simply shift goalposts CONSTANTLY as he *always* tries the updated versions of these arguments — but it all comes back to basics: *his* rejection of JUSTICE is what's driving the wedge he purports to decry. But maybe you'll dissuade potential ACT voters?

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"She's got great genetics. I have to tell you, great genetics. Got great blood. I'm a big blood person. I believe in blood..." The level of Goddamn Fucked Up the world we live in now means that's not dialogue from some B-grade vampire movie, that's the US President. Everything is just total farce.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#NZpol Honestly, go FUCK yourselves. Sure taxing carries consequences, but *especially* when lying that you won't increase them and then increase them, or when *over-taxing the poorest and middle-income earners* to make up shortfalls CAUSED BY *NOT* TAXING THOSE WHO F'ING CAN BUT *REFUSE TO* PAY.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#NZpol When we talk about influence, donors are obvious. But soft influence works too: tall tales in the staffroom, the spreading of BS by "trusted sources" that become "yes, but I heard from..." WHO MOFO, WHO?! See, *this* "chatty, word-in-your-ear-mate BS is how a lot of *that* BS gets roots.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#NZpol So, watched this full interview... gotta say has some *great* lessons on how to communicate policy, even turning those barbed q's into chances to INFORM how even complex moving parts CAN work together. BLITZED policy q's... all while doing an explainer on Why Shit Ain't Working. Smashed it.

youtube.com

Greens vow to break up supermarket duopoly, set up publicly owned 'KiwiMart' | RNZ

YouTube video by RNZ

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#NZpol Okay, so, with Parties like ACT - RWers in general giving the ol' "No, we *believe in climate change*, But, we've got time. Ya know - technology will save us!" - is it's all just about DELAY TACTICS. They KNOW it's serious. But, madly, some *are* still hoping to literally just *outrun it*.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#NZpol I'm sure Nicola Willis et al have this info too, so, let's be clear: amplifying hysteria in the NZ public just bc it's an election by selling us the 'bEcAuSe GoVt DeBt!' line as The Big Reason for MORE layoffs, selloffs ("not considering till 2nd term", hello 2nd Term!) is? B-o-l-l-o-c-k-s.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#NZpol This line, “What I'd say to you is the ACT Party has been very successful at influencing the direction of this government without having to declare bottom lines...” ...flags a massive danger to ALL IN THIS COUNTRY. Literally *celebrating influence YOU HAVE NO DEMOCRATIC MEANS TO CURTAIL*.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#NZpol A very problematic side effect to making everything "personal" and "focused on the individual" has been individualising any problems too, *including systemic ones*. Way easier to just fault/vilify bene's for "just being difficult", no *real* explanation/examination of circumstance needed.

Excerpt from RNZ article "Ministry of Social Development payment errors topped $2.5m, thousands affected - review" by Lauren Crimp.

It reads:

"The WEP problem was first raised on 30 April by an MSD staffer, the review said.

Staff and clients continued to raise it over three months, but were told the system was operating as intended under the legislation, "which was technically correct".

They appeared to be individual client concerns and MSD did not identify a wider pattern, it said."

ORIGINAL ARTICLE REFERENCE
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/1324932/ministry-of-social-development-payment-errors-topped-2-point-5m-thousands-affected-review

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#NZpol Make sure you're enrolled NOW NOW NOW.. Can we make sure this launderer of fascist cuntery DOES NOT RETAIN POWER OF ANY SORT OVER THIS COUNTRY on that day? If you've been apprehensive watching the FR rise globally, well, we can *help put their biggest cheerleader here straight in the bin*.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#NZpol Oh, Seymour The Disingenuous absolutely KNOWS we've used trade sanctions in this way. What concerns me is: 1. He's the current Dep PM (bad enough), yet somehow... 2. Despite this BS, managed to spew it out WITH NO FACT CHECKS. Which any reporter could've and should've done *on the spot*.

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Alan (not ekshully a B'Stard) @alans-world.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#NZpol "These groups didn't win an argument last night. They got some footage for their own channels, and they cost a room full of local voters the chance to question the people asking for their vote." The "got some footage for their own channels" is ALL these groups have ever been interested in 😡

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Dig a little deeper into Google Gemini's racism 'fix' following the 'alone with a Muslim' outrage, and the outrage may deepen... 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYoV...

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'Racist' Google AI? Gemini's 'Being Alone with a Muslim' Answer Sparks Fury | Firstpost America

YouTube video by Firstpost

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