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@JulietMosesNZ So you don't even grant Palestinians the dignity of having a day of remembrance for an event in living memory during which close to a million of them were violently forced from their homes, whole villages destroyed, thousands massacred. They just aren't people to you are they?

You can immediately tell whether someone prioritises narrative over truth by how they talk about “Nakba Day”. That’s what they’re doing if they omit to tell you it’s the day that Arab leaders rejected the UN’s two state solution that would have seen an end to the civil war between Arabs and Jews and given them each a state, by starting a war of annihilation when 5 Arab states attacked the Jewish state, and lost. The war part is like kinda material. No one would have been displaced and stateless had the Arab leaders accepted the UN’s two state solution of 1947. So “Nakba Day” is the day that commemorates the humiliating loss and consequences of a war that they started, and that some parts of the Arab world, and certainly the Palestinian leadership, still haven’t accepted they lost, and still think they’re fighting. The Palestinians aren’t unique in being displaced by war. It’s a very sad but typical consequence. It happened to tens of millions of people in the 1940s alone. What is unique is that they still - and their descendants several generations on - are considered refugees, even if they live in “Palestine”, and even if they have citizenship elsewhere, and believe they have a “right of return” that one will day be fulfilled.

@JulietMosesNZ Hey Juliet, Israeli airstrikes killed 7 Palestinians yesterday including 3 children. They bombed a refugee camp by the way Do you think Israel will ever decide that they don't need to continuously murder kids?

I highly recommend this whole podcast about THAT NYT opinion piece. A few things among many that emerge: - it was not a good faith effort to get to the truth - the role of the highly-resourced, highly-orchestrated NGO industrial complex in feeding propaganda to credulous ideological-laundering media in a self-validating loop - this plays into the hands of not just those who want to destroy Israel but also the extremists like Ben Gvir and to the extent that there needs to be improvement and accountability in the Israeli prison system (as is surely the case and is in every prison system) it undermines efforts towards that good faith conversation (see first point)

@damienmgrant Claiming Damien Grant is a libertarian has the same vibe as being a stupid fucking retard

Claiming Ardern wrote the best non-fiction book of 2025 has the same vibe as claiming Kim Jong Un scores perfectly in a round of golf.

@SonofOmahu Why do you give a shit? You know the reason, it's a religious exemption. Get a fucking life and worry about yourself you pathetic fucking loser.

Hastings Boys' High School has strict uniform and grooming rules. No head wear and all the boys must be clean shaven. Unless....

@matt_horncastle This is twitter man, most people just insult stupid freaks like you because it's fun.

The left wing people that insult me… How long until you realise that I do not care… I do not value or want your opinion..

@SimonCourtACT We commemorate those who died killing fascists on Anzac Day

What parent would want their child protesting next to adults with signs stating ‘a murdered fascist makes no noise. I’d shed your blood to save the world.’ These students should be in school.

@MattWalshBlog I hate you but agree

Another point about our cultural decline. We started watching the show Widow’s Bay. It’s really good. Fantastic writing. Perfect blend of comedy and horror. Last night’s episode was legitimately one of the finest episodes of television I’ve seen in years. If this same exact show came out in 2002, we’d probably remember it as an all time classic. But in 2026 most people haven’t even heard of it. It’s a blip on the radar. Another piece of content in the endless sea. You see it, or you don’t, and then it’s forgotten. It’s not that good stuff isn’t made anymore. It’s that even when good stuff is made, we don’t have any shared experience of it. There’s plenty of good music you can find on Spotify, recent stuff, but you experience it in your little algorithmic silo. Almost nothing breaks containment to become a bonafide cultural phenomenon. That’s what made Project Hail Mary so unique. Severance maybe also achieved escape velocity. But even in those cases the escape is fleeting. For the most part we experience the culture through the narrow pathway constructed for us by the algorithm. It might intersect with other people’s pathways, but only briefly. When we feel nostalgia for the Before Times, this is why. It’s not simply that we had a “better” culture back in the 90s or whenever. It’s that we had a culture at all.

@connan_james @matt_horncastle Do you actually spend your days worried about that? Like, are those thoughts actually rattling around in your head? If so, your life fucking sucks.

@matt_horncastle they will take everything you own and send you to the gulags

Fight the left like your life depends on it. Because it does. There is no limit to what they will take from you because they think you are owned by the state.

@matt_horncastle Settle down you fucking weird freak

@LeeJ286731 @Larry_D0g @matt_horncastle If you can't grasp the point he's making... I dunno man

@Larry_D0g @matt_horncastle You’re comparing a drunk builder to a homeless person?

A homeless person in Auckland CBD punched my friend in the back of the head, left him unconscious, stole his watch. I would just put them all in jail. I am sick of suicidal empathy destroying our country. Assets owned by the New Zealand government (footpaths, parks etc) are not the place for people to openly do drugs, abuse the public, interrupt business and sleep. Go to a shelter or go to jail. That is how an adult runs the country. (To the lefties about to call me names, I do not care)

@SouthernMoa @aniobrien Yea I don't think they'll just grab her twitter avi ay.

@sgmorgan @aniobrien They clearly have access to her socials. It’s not like they need to be high res tiffs for radio.

It is next level petty for media to use a photo of me that is about 8 or 9 years old when I have lost more than 60kg. Really mature, guys.

@JulietMosesNZ @psycho_milt Hey Juliet, what about all the evidence supporting the claims?

@psycho_milt George Orwell: “One of the marks of antisemitism is an ability to believe stories that could not possibly be true.”

This “report” is clearly labelled “opinion”. It cannot be both a report and an opinion. And because it’s labelled opinion, it is important to ask why, and what editorial and investigative standards have been applied. As to which, the link below provides more information.

@aniobrien @dpfdpf Fuck me, the two things are clearly not comparable and I'm absolutely sure you recognise that.

My thoughts exactly. I own everything I write. I have made a choice to do so and sometimes that means I have to endure weeks like this one where faceless arseholes treat me like shit. But I can hold my head high knowing I don't hide and I am confident enough in my beliefs and opinions to express them openly.

The sensible views of the NZ left activists: Ani O'Brien writing under her own name, about an incident involving two journalists is dirty politics. A former Labour staffer anonymously running an account that portrays the Prime Minister fucking a pig is absolutely fine.

@rosey_nz It says former staffer. Can you not read?

How many other troll accounts do Labour staff run?

@aniobrien I'm outraged by all the politicians that support the killing of tens of thousands of children!

Ok this is outrageous. In NZ our media freaked out about candidates who were anti-fluoride in water or didn’t have the covid vaccine. This is actually insane for a party to stand someone like this though.

@DetectiveDick4 @green_td @aniobrien How could it not have been? It was a precise, double (or triple) tap strike on a location that was widely identified (on Google Maps, for example) as a school.

@green_td @aniobrien Are you saying the bombing of the school was intentional? I.e. you’re explicitly saying the US and Israel performed a military strike with full knowledge the result would kill 165 girls? Cause that sounds a little crazy to me 🤷‍♂️

@JcKh_ @MR0808 I was just referring to a comment on the original thread showing the same brand of scales in the same position showing different results. Wondered if he'd tried it.

@sgmorgan @MR0808 Do...do you think scales measure weight based on leverage?

@curmudgeon_12 @Julie_nzkiwi Julie just made this shit up. The Greens didn't say this

@Julie_nzkiwi Aren't most ducks introduced? How can that be a taonga. Are sheep and cows also taonga?

The Green Party is calling for a ban on duck shooting. "Parera (duck) are taonga to iwi across the motu. Shooting is a clear breach of Te Tiriti" - Marama Davidson "We are particularly concerned about rainbow tamariki parera (duck) who will be most affected" - Chloe Swarbrick