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@winstonpeters @SeanPlunket Absolutely 💯 Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not a manual.

It has been reported that police have recently visited Renee-Rose Schwenke about a so-called 'offensive' social media post she posted. Not threatening, not inciting violence, just that it allegedly offended someone. If this report is true, this is '1984 thought-police' level overreach. It should seriously frighten every New Zealander who believes in freedom of speech. This is not about whether this particular post was offensive or not. There will always be personal responsibility and consequences for people voicing their opinions that are viewed by some as tasteless or gormless or offensive - but those consequences should not be by way of a police visit. No one has the right to not be offended, nor do they have the right to be protected from having hurt feelings. In fact it is precisely the right to be able to offend which is the foundation of freedom of speech in our country. This has happened overseas with more regularity where social media posts, opinions, views, expressions, and even jokes are now deemed offensive by some authoritarian power and have been met with threats from police, arrests, or even convictions in court. We never thought we would see this happen here and it has a chilling effect on where we are going as a country. As Oliver Wendall Homles Jr said, freedom of speech also comes with responsibility of speech - you cannot falsely yell 'fire' in a crowded theatre without there rightly being a consequence. We already have laws around 'responsibility of speech' ranging from defamation to incitement of violence, and that is important - but people's freedom to have their own free opinion is something which should be aggressively defended. We don't all have to agree with each other's opinions, but we should all fight for each other's right to have them. This is the essential foundation of our free democracy. If we start to accept this kind of overreach by police to curtail individual freedom of speech, our democracy will fall into the type of totalitarian oblivion that will destroy our country.

@TeslaBoomerMama @farzyness @TeslaBoomerPapa wonderful news

We just saw the meds is Santa Monica for the first control after chemo and radiation: It's gone 💪 Clean and clear Bravo @TeslaBoomerPapa

@gaye_ess @Alergic2Serfdom

@Alergic2Serfdom Very likely. Well said.

It wasn't hard for National to maintain the support they had at the 2023 election. They just had to stay the course and deliver on what they campaigned on. They just had to read the room and see the things that people were passionate about, and what they were worried about. They didn't. They continued to dive into left positions on many issues. This has been all their own work. The people who voted for them in 2023 would have voted for them in 2026. Their voters are not woke, and they don't want woke policies. The claims that they are Labour Lite have only increased. Luxon is weak and will not give a strong emphatic response on any issue he is questioned on. He thinks that fence-sitting and being non-committal is safe. He thinks that impassioned statements on things that kiwis are passionate about is dangerous to his popularity. The opposite is true. He has run a huge risk by not doing this, and now he is paying the price. From 38% of the vote in 2023, they are now polling in the high 20s to low 30s. They have jeopardised the success of the coalition with ignorance, pride, and forgetting the voters who put them there. #nzpol

@aniobrien @DailyMail Picts?

@DailyMail Um to who?

Independent Scotland would pay REPARATIONS for 'colonialism', says Green candidate (who also wants to abolish prisons) trib.al/5l9f9Df

@scottmelker @LindseyGrahamSC 100% Politicians advocating for war should be the first ones on the front lines.

The first boots on the ground should be @LindseyGrahamSC

Yes.

@Coltheman1 @Suitandtie9999 @spidercatnz talkback is engagement farming to sell advertising they love to spark outrage, because it gets attention don't expect balance turn it off

It’s now been six hours since the NZ Herald reported Chris Hipkins received a Cabinet paper indicating he knew of the advice regarding potential risks of a second Covid-19 vaccine dose for teenagers at a time when tens of thousands of them had yet to get a follow-up jab and Stuff, RNZ and the Post have yet to mention it.

@friedberg Hot Take from @friedberg 's Hot Take: Governments should be held accountable. Seems like the thing that governments do most efficiently is avoiding accountability for their actions.

it’s not political and should not be partisan to ask “where did all the money go?” California’s functional bankruptcy threatens the nation and should be a front-and-center state and national discussion. ignore the bs. this is what matters.

@bobmccoskrienz @AgentSmith_NZ walking away from where your audience goes for news doesn't seem like the smartest play for a media organization maybe consider what your audience preferences are, instead of trying to indoctrinate them

QUESTION: The NZ media is on its knees - trust issues, financial issues (unless bailed out by taxpayers), rapidly losing customers to social media... And yet they're happy to walk away from engaging with 1.2 million followers on a platform (X) because they don't like the politics of the owner. So given that a jury has just found Instagram’s owner Meta and YouTube negligent for operating a product that harmed kids and teens and failed to warn about those dangers... ...will all these virtue signalling media outlets pull their accounts from these platforms? Or is this all just performative and simply confirming their inherent bias. You probably already know the answer to that eh

@DillonLoomis Elon doesn't do sitting on councils, posturing and sucking up. He does building stuff, not wasting time and energy on meaningless bullshit.

Elon NEEDS to be invited to be a part of this council

@gaye_ess @Filhab3 maybe a contender for the Darwin Awards

@Filhab3 IKR? Tosser.

Retrieve copper? He was fucking stealing it and got zapped the fucking idiot

@pbeisel @Uber thank you for standing up and doing the right thing @pbeisel

Uber @Uber Today I witnessed quite a scene involving an Uber driver in downtown San Francisco near UCSF. Two women were waiting for their ride. The driver pulled up on the opposite side of the street. They were signaling for him to make a U-turn and pick them up where they were. It was clear one of the women had Parkinson’s or some kind of neurological condition—she was shaking noticeably and appeared to be the one trying to manage the ride on her phone (they were outside the Neurology building at UCSF). It wouldn't be proper for her to cross the street given her condition. I stepped in. I motioned for the driver to roll down his window and asked why he wouldn’t come around to pick them up. He claimed the woman was being disrespectful because she was gesturing at him. I pushed back: if you won’t even roll down your window, how exactly is she supposed to communicate? From there, it escalated into a shouting match. He was clearly offended by what he saw as “entitled” behavior (ironic since he was the one acting like a King), and didn’t appreciate me stepping in on behalf of his customers. I walked over to the women and suggested they cancel and call another Uber. But he wouldn’t release the ride—he just sat there. I told them not to get in the car with him, but they were already thinking the same thing. Honestly, someone like that shouldn’t be interacting with customers at all. And situations like this are exactly why services like Uber are vulnerable to autonomous rideshare like Tesla Robotaxi. Who need to interact with an asshole like this (correct word)? The whole thing was pretty disgusting. I hope they reported him, though I wouldn’t be surprised if nothing comes of it. I walked away pretty angry.

@AgentSmith_NZ @Amelia558rs @Mistysmom1 it's clickbait for engagement farming, and you've contributed to it by responding so have I 😊

@Amelia558rs @Mistysmom1 Screwdriver bit. But more importantly: Why are you asking the internet and not your husband?

I found this small item in my husband's pocket. Does anyone know what it is?

@PatrickChristys @EndWokeness not yet

Do we think the left might be waking up to the fact they’ve been a bit naive?

@JimmysSeafood @AgentSmith_NZ @Variety well said

@Variety Go fuck yourself

Chuck Norris Was a Great Action Star -- but Politics May Overshadow His Legacy variety.com/2026/film/opin…

@SeanPlunket makes him look more of a simp than he does already take a look over the ditch to see how well it's working for Albo

Why on earth do politicians bother posting such disingenuous virtue signalling rubbish to prove their dei credentials?