Hipango needs to lose her job. However, we know that this won't happen - conservatives know that they can get away with whatever they want without repercussions now. Optics used to be a huge thing for politicians - that definitely isn't the case any more.
The thing that I find astonishing about the anti-vax lot is their certainty that if they do get COVID it will be 'mild' for them.
Yesterday saw this, posted from Canberra, AU:
"Neil Bolton @NeilBoltonRSPL
From my paramedic daughter: None of the vaccine skeptics seem to be treatment-skeptics. Every single one of my unvaccinated Covid patients blindly accept being pumped full of various drugs when their own life is tangibly on the line."
Antivaxers everywhere and there's Hipango getting the attention she deserves. In my corner of Auckland the Upper Habour Local Board voted for mowing 8000 plants that volunteers planted over three to five years at Sanders Reserve the Chairperson there also has a Degree in Deflecting. A strange way to get the year started.
Jan 10, 2022·edited Jan 10, 2022Liked by David Farrier
Kia ora e hoa. We met when you came to Wintec in Hamilton to talk about your mahi. I was lucky enough (as a Wintec staff member and part of the Waikato Film Hub) to be able see your presentation to students and have lunch together.
Somewhat ashamed to say I only recently subscribed to Webworm late 2021. Being a relatively new subscriber to your blog, not to mention a Euro male, I wasn't aware of Lonely or the views of their founders. Glad I got to read your pieces on them from 2020 until now. As a vehemently pro-vax, pro science supporter, anti-conspiracy theory and BLM ally, I really appreciate the work you're doing. All of this is really just my long winded way of saying keep doing what you're doing. Keep fighting the good fight (against misinformation, bigotry, and the 'isms). Kia kaha! Arohanui.
First, I am so very glad(? Not sure that's the precise adjective i need) that the conversations from your last post were helpful to you. I can honestly say that they were quite helpful to me as well. I truly do not understand how you cultivated such a lovely corner of the internet service, but you have successfully done so and I think that we all appreciate it.
Oh god, the subject title of this post just immediately makes me so sad for your dear country. However, I can't read the whole thing at the moment.
Because. I have to admit to you that you were right about Dexter. Mea culpa. I have not watched the finale yet, but a lovely Trumper twit went around gleefully searching strangers' tweets about the show with the sole purpose of spoiling the whole thing. So I've been sufficiently punished.
Anyway this entire comment is an irrelevant tangent but once I'm able, I am very keen to read about this fascinating new individual you have found.
Our work starting enforcing federal government rules about masks today. The week leading up to it was filled with people griping and complaining. One man, who passed out twice and nearly died at work (covid), quite possibly was responsible for a few others at work getting covid, got in my face and said, “you made a huge mistake getting vaccinated.” This otherwise lovely man, turned ugly by something so basic. It’s just sad. The misinformation isn’t funny, or cute, it’s downright dangerous and I’m growing weary of indulging and quietly ignoring the ignorance.
Curious regarding your thoughts on this just released BBC podcast: "The coming storm"
"QAnon and the plot to break reality.
A year on from the Capitol Insurrection in Washington DC on 6 January 2021, Gabriel Gatehouse journeys into the dark undergrowth of modern America. He's looking for the origins of the story that drove the crowds to storm the heart of US democracy. From conspiracy-soaked barrooms in 1990s Arkansas, via spies in hotel rooms in the shadow of the Kremlin, to anarchic chatrooms on the early internet, this is a search for the answer to one big question: did this just happen, or is somebody trying to break reality?"
David, ā bit off topic but regarding mis-information, the last story in this 'More or less' talks about QANON misuse of valid 'missing children' statistics
Have you notice that, when spoken, anti-vax sounds very similar to anti-facts, which is, indeed, an accurate description of these people!
“Marjorie Taylor Green harping on about some bullshit”
Best photo caption ever. I LOLed
A fusion of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kellyanne Conway in her pattern of shameless minimisations when caught out on deceptions when you also include the false quote she attributed to Jacinda Adern against farmers which when Hipango was caught out doing, she deflected claiming it was "a construction of key words aligned with Jacinda Ardern". Now that’s some serious ‘alternative facts’ right there. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/whanganui-chronicle/news/whanganui-mp-harete-hipango-defends-posting-false-jacinda-ardern-quote/KCSZNP4NMHAGAT6SJEG6STXDH4/
Tellingly, Judith Collins, then leader of the National Party, refused to criticise her for it deflecting by arguing politicians should be allowed to say whatever they truly believe (even if defamatory and deceitful), which is the same deflection that Republicans in the US have often used to excuse Trump’s repeated lies. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300116953/election-2020-judith-collins-refuses-to-condemn-false-quote-posted-by-her-mps
Hipango needs to lose her job. However, we know that this won't happen - conservatives know that they can get away with whatever they want without repercussions now. Optics used to be a huge thing for politicians - that definitely isn't the case any more.
The thing that I find astonishing about the anti-vax lot is their certainty that if they do get COVID it will be 'mild' for them.
Yesterday saw this, posted from Canberra, AU:
"Neil Bolton @NeilBoltonRSPL
From my paramedic daughter: None of the vaccine skeptics seem to be treatment-skeptics. Every single one of my unvaccinated Covid patients blindly accept being pumped full of various drugs when their own life is tangibly on the line."
https://twitter.com/NeilBoltonRSPL/status/1479762789044391936?s=20
That MP and her fellow nutters should just start a new political party called Gaslighters NZ. But that would be far too honest.
Newsroom reposted this Jo Moir piece which adds some interesting political context in their 'best of the year' / summertime news recyclomatic:
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/national-party-all-out-of-love-for-returning-mp
Antivaxers everywhere and there's Hipango getting the attention she deserves. In my corner of Auckland the Upper Habour Local Board voted for mowing 8000 plants that volunteers planted over three to five years at Sanders Reserve the Chairperson there also has a Degree in Deflecting. A strange way to get the year started.
Kia ora e hoa. We met when you came to Wintec in Hamilton to talk about your mahi. I was lucky enough (as a Wintec staff member and part of the Waikato Film Hub) to be able see your presentation to students and have lunch together.
Somewhat ashamed to say I only recently subscribed to Webworm late 2021. Being a relatively new subscriber to your blog, not to mention a Euro male, I wasn't aware of Lonely or the views of their founders. Glad I got to read your pieces on them from 2020 until now. As a vehemently pro-vax, pro science supporter, anti-conspiracy theory and BLM ally, I really appreciate the work you're doing. All of this is really just my long winded way of saying keep doing what you're doing. Keep fighting the good fight (against misinformation, bigotry, and the 'isms). Kia kaha! Arohanui.
First, I am so very glad(? Not sure that's the precise adjective i need) that the conversations from your last post were helpful to you. I can honestly say that they were quite helpful to me as well. I truly do not understand how you cultivated such a lovely corner of the internet service, but you have successfully done so and I think that we all appreciate it.
Oh god, the subject title of this post just immediately makes me so sad for your dear country. However, I can't read the whole thing at the moment.
Because. I have to admit to you that you were right about Dexter. Mea culpa. I have not watched the finale yet, but a lovely Trumper twit went around gleefully searching strangers' tweets about the show with the sole purpose of spoiling the whole thing. So I've been sufficiently punished.
Anyway this entire comment is an irrelevant tangent but once I'm able, I am very keen to read about this fascinating new individual you have found.
She wasn’t there for Freedom of Speech, she allowed herself to be censored by Luxon.
Thank you for writing so clearly about the growth of disinfotmation David.
Part of this reminds me of when NBA player Kevin Durant got busted using burner accounts on Twitter haha! https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/kevin-durant-defends-burner-twitter-account-during-warriors-career
Our work starting enforcing federal government rules about masks today. The week leading up to it was filled with people griping and complaining. One man, who passed out twice and nearly died at work (covid), quite possibly was responsible for a few others at work getting covid, got in my face and said, “you made a huge mistake getting vaccinated.” This otherwise lovely man, turned ugly by something so basic. It’s just sad. The misinformation isn’t funny, or cute, it’s downright dangerous and I’m growing weary of indulging and quietly ignoring the ignorance.
Curious regarding your thoughts on this just released BBC podcast: "The coming storm"
"QAnon and the plot to break reality.
A year on from the Capitol Insurrection in Washington DC on 6 January 2021, Gabriel Gatehouse journeys into the dark undergrowth of modern America. He's looking for the origins of the story that drove the crowds to storm the heart of US democracy. From conspiracy-soaked barrooms in 1990s Arkansas, via spies in hotel rooms in the shadow of the Kremlin, to anarchic chatrooms on the early internet, this is a search for the answer to one big question: did this just happen, or is somebody trying to break reality?"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001324r
David, ā bit off topic but regarding mis-information, the last story in this 'More or less' talks about QANON misuse of valid 'missing children' statistics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bgn2rw