fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 22hIt tastes even better after a day in the fridge. Her korma is great too. 110
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The context is that it's one of VFFs key campaigns and loads of their activists have been actively involved in NZF since just before the last election. 100
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think the material reality of a deadly pandemic conflicted with his big brained horseshit. He knew the only alternative to owning that was denial, doubling down and ascending into conspiracy tinged waffle. 110
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When their peers keep saying they are wrong and fail to give the recognition they think they deserve, they start reaching for conspiracy/corruption as the explanation and find a more sympathetic audience who will tell them how special they are. Public or professional citicism speeds things along. 121
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Frustrated police say they are being met by a wall of silence from the local dogging community" 000
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Schofield was really quick to go on RCR to express his 'concerns about academic freedom', free speech and wokeness, knowing full well that audience would hear it as an endorsement of VFF, his mate Thornley and NZDSOS' despicable behaviour. 000
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Weird how all these 'respectable' Hubermanish types flirt with SCAM and pretend not to know they are talking to rabid COVID conspiracy mongering antivaxxers. 110
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Even if they win, Labour hasn't tried to get support for a progressive programme while the far right have built organisation and comms capacity So I expect they'll soon be back in COVID mode, where the govt is essentially an illegitimate, existential threat and that will bleed into the discourse 010
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Isn't this just what used to be known as a "wingnut welfare" scheme. 000
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026They don't seem to answer emails, which isn't ideal if they want people to get involved. 110
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The latest iteration/front group for the Voices for Freedom led cooker coalition Fun fact: The US version 'MAHA Action' is run by Dr Assem Malhotra who lies a lot eg he claimed the GB Royals got cancer from the COVID jab t.ly/ruWL9 The VFF coalition toured him around NZ fundy churches in 2023 000
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I think that when it came down to it, the govt showed it could actually protect people and ensure their basic needs were met. People were happy about that in an emergency. But since it wasn't prompted by a wider agenda or social movement, it was dropped asap and not presented as doable afterwards. 130
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Schofield signed the COVID Plan B letter with Thornley who then forms NZDSOS. One of the main NZDSOS doctors is a founder of the MNZH Trust. Schofield pops up as an advisor. Small world isn't it? 041
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This gives people permission to ignore all the evidence that contradicts their beliefs if they are motivated to do so. I think you can often trace that motivation back to political ideology and then to perceived material interests. 001
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It's "facts from people you trust to give you accurate information" which is why 'They lied!' (based on lying about what They said) and unwarranted join the dots generalising (eg from falidomide) ie 'you can't trust medical professionals' was one of 3 key antivax messages identified by the CCDH 100
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I think you should look at the PreCure people at auckland uni who have been friendly to RCR too. 020
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026'We could've stopped COVID with vitamin D' is a myth NZDSOS and Sue Grey still propagate. 181
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Meanwhile the health service was nearly overwhelmed by vaccine preventable flu, rsv etc and a hiring freeze. The solution is get people vaccinated and hire nurses with taxpayer money, which goes against everything VFF stand for so we get this. 030
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026'metabolic health' types at Auckland Uni who are VFF network adjacent will also see this an opportunity to flog their diabetes cures. Food faddism seems to be a gateway to cookerdom. Claire Deeks first met Simon Thornley when she was promoting herself as an expert on nutritional guidelines. 120
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Essentially it's payoff to the VFF network eg NZDSOS and the quack medicine sector for providing NZF with a new cadre of not-going-to-die-soon activists. The aim was always to infiltrate public health and get taxpayers money to subsidize their horseshit. The Hubermanish.... 121
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I just noticed that the person on the left nodding along and pretending to believe this cooker conspiracy shite is none other than Pierre Kory. 010
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Make every trip to the bog a choose your own adventure Quest by adding '?' to both. 000
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026What do you call it when 'brilliant' people make stuff up and apply their ruthless critique to one group's actions when (at best) they also do an eye roll, 'well I guess he is a bit of a character' and shrug when their political allies/friends do much worse things. Complicated (unlike stupid you) 000
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The best part of the Charlie Kirk story is that the RW movement he helped create is incapable of "carrying the flame" because falling out over weird conspiracy theories about his death is more profitable. 000
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026One Friday night I was relaxing with a few beers when our cat went on a rampage. We got a severely mauled baby mouse roughly every 20 mins. I'm not aware of us voting, but evidently its my job to put rodents out of their misery. I had to use a brick. By number 5 of about a dozen I was in tears. 010
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Dunno, but it sounds like a lot of clever people have been working really hard to be able to prove people like me (colourblind) have got it wrong, again. 010
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026youtu.be/zUoT5AxFpRs?...youtu.beIn 1975 No One DiedYouTube video by Freethinker1885 020
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026After the 1973 coup the Times published a columnist saying they "hope and pray our armed forces would intervene to prevent such a calamity as efficiently as the armed forces did in Chile." Finding out about that confirmed some suspicions I'd had, but it was still a bit of an eye opener. 010
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026What paper gives the best comparison of myocarditis risk after COVID, vax vs unvaxxed for the 12 - 17 age group? 100
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I dunno. I remember what the early 80's when the racists were marching, Thatcher was talking about swamping, tabloids were stoking a black mugger panic and using the Pword or making jokes about Indians smelling of curry was normal And I've heard kiwis do that last one in the 21st Century 010
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026www.path.net.nz/donate-volun...path.net.nzDonate-Volunteer — PATH 010
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I believe tumeke cycle space take them. They are based at gribblehurst community centre. And bike hub in mt roskillhttps://www.path.net.nz/donate-volunteer 110
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I got offered a choice of 3 in nz. All made for the latest strain but different eligibility, manufacturing process and cost. The adjuvanted one costs more if you are under 65. 120
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026These people are too dumb to know what those flags mean. And if you tried to explain they'd accuse you of causing trouble. 010
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Bit pedantic. I meant we're social creatures because we evolved from apes and our kids are dependent for ages. And we struggle to meet our material needs for sustained periods without cooperating with others unlike, say, bears. So most people would struggle being totally alone. 000
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Humans weren't designed to live alone and the outcome of trying has probably been broadly the same throughout history. 100
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It's good to know who is behind this stuff because they try to give the impression their views are quite widely held but not recognized as such. But in reality it's a small network, with a declining number of very shouty supporters, who continuously recycle the same material and talking points 020
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026During the pandemic I found out someone quite prominent in the antivax community was a Starseed who ran weekends for kids in her posh house in town. Idiot parents were apparently prepared to pay big bucks to fill their kids with delusions about being Very Special Aliens, aka catnip for bullies. 120
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026If he gets elected you will get a more blood and soil fascism, openly antisemitic with more coherence and less incompetence. And stronger because he'll sucker in anti-woke leftists by talking about "restoring the status of the traditonal working class" (ie white, males) 000
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Boo fucking hoo. Imagine how it felt to be clinically vulnerable and likely to die from COVID. Dealing with pricks who wouldn't follow basic public health guidelines because they didn't like "being what to do". Fucking babies. 220
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026In our household have been floating fair tribunals for everyone on TV with "Real Housewives of..." vibes. (I get to decide who qualifies) They could choose asset confiscation and exile to an island with ok amenities or do a full time caring jobs. No mucking about or they get sent to the island. 060
fatbongo @fatbongo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The synthesis is "we can all agree that only sheeple believe the official story" It's best when they start calling each other controlled opposition because you sometime hear juicy details about missing funds and abusive behavior. 010
