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Steve Ballantyne

@stevetheskeptic

Ex-tech journo, TV writer, editor etc. Antifascist.
If I am not for myself who is for me?
And being for my own self, what am 'I'? And if not now, when?

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Auckland Mayor Brown issuing a warning on RNZ about more crappy weather: “Our concern is…” Oh, fuck off, you useless excuse for a human. We’ve already seen you’re not “concerned” about anything except the money, and most of us regret ever voting for you.

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Ps: If you want to know what I mean, try Googling “Wayne brown royal commission” for some background reading about our illustrious mayor. So much of this stuff was available before the election, and yet people still voted for him…

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Eleanor Catton just gave the philistines at “Taxpayer’s Union” a well-deserved kicking on the Kim Hill show this morning. Good on her!

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She goes on to explain why she’s removed herself from social media. And looking at the wreckage of my Twitter feed since Elon Musk screwed it over, I can’t help but agree.

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8396 new cases of Covid this past week! I don’t think this pandemic is over at all – in fact, the Australians appear to be doing better than us now. 32 dead, too.

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Naturally, the Nats response to a proposed pumped water system for storing renewable sourced energy is an automatic no. There really is no end to the short-sightedness and refusal to invest in the future from this bunch of dimwits. #NationalUnfitToGovern again.

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Nicola Willis tells Nathan Rawere on RNZ that we should allow Pom anti-trans campaigner into NZ to spout her vicious bullshit in the interests of “liberal democracy”. Nah, that’s not actually how free speech works, unless you’re a Nact fan or an actual Nazi.

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No free speech for Nazis – we’ve already seen where that goes, and we don’t need to go over any of that again. Apparently Luzon and Willis disagree with me on this. I’m not at all surprised. They’re both knowing and wilful defenders of the “right” to deliberately tell lies.

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Anybody care to bet on Luxon declaring some time soon that the government’s plans for five new Auckland harbour crossings (pick one) are a waste of money and his Nact government will surely cancel whatever is chosen? And build more motorways? Just you watch…

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How can I persuade Twitter to stop sending me crap from Sean Plunket, which they cheekily label “For you”? Plunket’s squalid opinions are definitely not “for me”. And by the way, I wish Elon Musk would push off too.

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BREAKING: AOC calls for right-wing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be impeached after it was revealed that for 20 years he has been accepting private jet and superyacht travel as well as luxury resort vacations from a Republican megadonor — she says the "degree of

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The way Twitter works under the Musk regime (dysfunctionally) how are we supposed to feel any confidence that, e.g., a demand for the resignation of the mayor of Auckland will get any traction?

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BREAKING: The attorney for E. Jean Carroll torches Donald Trump in the closing arguments of the defamation and rape trial. "He didn't even bother to show up here in person," said the attorney. Trump previously vowed that he would testify to prove his smears against Caroll but

BREAKING: The attorney for E. Jean Carroll torches Donald Trump in the closing arguments of the defamation and rape trial.

"He didn't even bother to show up here in person," said the attorney. Trump previously vowed that he would testify to prove his smears against Caroll but
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BREAKING: Trumper Matt Gaetz is hit with devastating news as reporters reveal that the House Ethics Committee just reopened its investigation into the allegations that Gaetz “had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid her to travel with him.” But it gets worse for

BREAKING: Trumper Matt Gaetz is hit with devastating news as reporters reveal that the House Ethics Committee just reopened its investigation into the allegations that Gaetz “had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid her to travel with him.” 

But it gets worse for
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Am I the only person who finds Nicola Willis peculiarly loathsome? She’s just been on National Radio telling us essentially that it doesn’t matter her party has no clue about how much it costs to imprison someone, in her evil voice reminiscent of a smug Nazi schoolgirl. Hateful.

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I have been tracking all of the Truth Social Posts by Donald Trump and the Tweets and statements by President Joe Biden for the last 30 days. While President Biden talks about record job growth and an Infrastructure bill that is rebuilding America while providing billions of new

I have been tracking all of the Truth Social Posts by Donald Trump and the Tweets and statements by President Joe Biden for the last 30 days. While  President Biden talks about record job growth and an Infrastructure bill that is rebuilding America while providing billions of new
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@MartyTa94849826 "Instead his campaign is all about him. "To Hell with America and Americans. Just elect Trump so he can get his revenge” Is what Donald Trump promises."