StarFiche
@starfiche.bsky.social
Like the sea critter, but harder to read.
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Centrist waffle doesn't appeal to people. Showing that you care about something, that you want to make people's lives better, that you will listen to them and use your position to do it, and unifying "minor" issues under a coherent story about your principles and goals REALLY APPEALS TO PEOPLE
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Centrist waffle doesn't appeal to people. Showing that you care about something, that you want to make people's lives better, that you will listen to them and use your position to do it, and unifying "minor" issues under a coherent story about your principles and goals REALLY APPEALS TO PEOPLE
So how would these kinds of politics play out in AoNZ under MMP?
Well you tell me… or better yet, if you have a good answer, please tell me why any of us would ever want to find out?
@chrishipkins.bsky.social ?
Well you tell me… or better yet, if you have a good answer, please tell me why any of us would ever want to find out?
@chrishipkins.bsky.social ?
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
So how would these kinds of politics play out in AoNZ under MMP?
Well you tell me… or better yet, if you have a good answer, please tell me why any of us would ever want to find out?
@chrishipkins.bsky.social ?
Well you tell me… or better yet, if you have a good answer, please tell me why any of us would ever want to find out?
@chrishipkins.bsky.social ?
Trouble is of course, anyone with any short amount of time to look into what Reform stand for will realise just how little solid ground beyond self-serving power there is.
And now, the UK Greens, who have been the traditional also-rans, led by Polanski, are outpolling both Labour AND the Tories.
And now, the UK Greens, who have been the traditional also-rans, led by Polanski, are outpolling both Labour AND the Tories.
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Trouble is of course, anyone with any short amount of time to look into what Reform stand for will realise just how little solid ground beyond self-serving power there is.
And now, the UK Greens, who have been the traditional also-rans, led by Polanski, are outpolling both Labour AND the Tories.
And now, the UK Greens, who have been the traditional also-rans, led by Polanski, are outpolling both Labour AND the Tories.
But Starmer’s government didn’t do that. It doubled down on the austerity and culture war politics of the Tories. Basically, “Conservatism with Labour Characteristics”.
…and now they look set to be trounced by the populist right, who voters perceive as at least standing up for something real.
…and now they look set to be trounced by the populist right, who voters perceive as at least standing up for something real.
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
But Starmer’s government didn’t do that. It doubled down on the austerity and culture war politics of the Tories. Basically, “Conservatism with Labour Characteristics”.
…and now they look set to be trounced by the populist right, who voters perceive as at least standing up for something real.
…and now they look set to be trounced by the populist right, who voters perceive as at least standing up for something real.
Many in the UK believed at the time that Labour were playing down the idea of standing up for certain values perceived as unpopular with right-of-centre voters they were targeting.
It was believed by many that once in power they would act as a UK Labour Goverment would traditionally act….
It was believed by many that once in power they would act as a UK Labour Goverment would traditionally act….
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Many in the UK believed at the time that Labour were playing down the idea of standing up for certain values perceived as unpopular with right-of-centre voters they were targeting.
It was believed by many that once in power they would act as a UK Labour Goverment would traditionally act….
It was believed by many that once in power they would act as a UK Labour Goverment would traditionally act….
In the last UK general election, which UK Labour saw as a landslide vote of confidence, they took less of the vote than Corbyn did in what they had said was 2019’s landslide catastrophic loss, because under the FPTP system the right split the vote. Every labour seat was won with VERY narrow margins.
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
In the last UK general election, which UK Labour saw as a landslide vote of confidence, they took less of the vote than Corbyn did in what they had said was 2019’s landslide catastrophic loss, because under the FPTP system the right split the vote. Every labour seat was won with VERY narrow margins.
To that end, as profound successes of recent deeply progressive candidates who’ve stood up for real causes with clear communication, AND visibly shown up for trans folk repeatedly:
Plus the recent failure of the Dutch lot Starmer’s lot insisted were proof they were right:
NEVER go ‘Full Starmer’.
Plus the recent failure of the Dutch lot Starmer’s lot insisted were proof they were right:
NEVER go ‘Full Starmer’.
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 AM
To that end, as profound successes of recent deeply progressive candidates who’ve stood up for real causes with clear communication, AND visibly shown up for trans folk repeatedly:
Plus the recent failure of the Dutch lot Starmer’s lot insisted were proof they were right:
NEVER go ‘Full Starmer’.
Plus the recent failure of the Dutch lot Starmer’s lot insisted were proof they were right:
NEVER go ‘Full Starmer’.
The issue of NZ trans human rights was recently subject to a Law Commission review, following from the untested-in-court 2006 Crown Law opinion that trans people are covered under sex discrimination in the 1993 HRA.
The CoC decided to ignore it on the back burner, possibly leaving it for Hipkins.
The CoC decided to ignore it on the back burner, possibly leaving it for Hipkins.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
The issue of NZ trans human rights was recently subject to a Law Commission review, following from the untested-in-court 2006 Crown Law opinion that trans people are covered under sex discrimination in the 1993 HRA.
The CoC decided to ignore it on the back burner, possibly leaving it for Hipkins.
The CoC decided to ignore it on the back burner, possibly leaving it for Hipkins.
The one thing I AM confident of, however, is that NACT1st has just done the political thing to healthcare that the Tories started in the UK and that Wes Streeting saw fit to finish enacting, with added anti-trans bells and whistles.
The Human rights part? Starmer’s Labour is still working on that.
The Human rights part? Starmer’s Labour is still working on that.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
The one thing I AM confident of, however, is that NACT1st has just done the political thing to healthcare that the Tories started in the UK and that Wes Streeting saw fit to finish enacting, with added anti-trans bells and whistles.
The Human rights part? Starmer’s Labour is still working on that.
The Human rights part? Starmer’s Labour is still working on that.
Whether he goes Full-Starmer and starts back pedalling on the concept of trans people as everyday folk who exist in society, deserve decent healthcare, private lives, inclusion, and human rights, remains to be seen.
I suspect (ie, it appears) he’s had advice to stay relatively quiet on the matter.
I suspect (ie, it appears) he’s had advice to stay relatively quiet on the matter.
November 24, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Whether he goes Full-Starmer and starts back pedalling on the concept of trans people as everyday folk who exist in society, deserve decent healthcare, private lives, inclusion, and human rights, remains to be seen.
I suspect (ie, it appears) he’s had advice to stay relatively quiet on the matter.
I suspect (ie, it appears) he’s had advice to stay relatively quiet on the matter.
I suspect he’s ‘doing a Starmer’ on the matter, having, like Starmer, once been a Labour leader targetted with the the anti-trans culture warring “what is a woman” gotcha, his equivocating response to which has been repeatedly brought up as a political attack line against Labour and him personally.
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I suspect he’s ‘doing a Starmer’ on the matter, having, like Starmer, once been a Labour leader targetted with the the anti-trans culture warring “what is a woman” gotcha, his equivocating response to which has been repeatedly brought up as a political attack line against Labour and him personally.
We could never trust Winston before. Same reason.
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 AM
We could never trust Winston before. Same reason.
I mean, “* based on a rendering of some real images. May not accurately reflect events as they precisely occurred.”?
November 21, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I mean, “* based on a rendering of some real images. May not accurately reflect events as they precisely occurred.”?
In my opinion quite the opposite. Comme ci comm ca - these things always come with consequences.
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 AM
In my opinion quite the opposite. Comme ci comm ca - these things always come with consequences.
Sure. And the Celts were there, in their various lands, thousands of years before them all.
November 15, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Sure. And the Celts were there, in their various lands, thousands of years before them all.
Yeah, like I said - when your own region is literally the only world you know, it's going to be called a world flood. Simple.
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Yeah, like I said - when your own region is literally the only world you know, it's going to be called a world flood. Simple.
Can someone please tie them to their chairs before they get a chance to stand up again?
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Can someone please tie them to their chairs before they get a chance to stand up again?
By modern standards, even some of the more powerful bombs used in World War 2 are small by comparison. "Small" is a relative comparator, of course!
Even so, the sheer quantities of ordnance produced by both sides is near inconceivable, leaving so very much of it still to be found :(
War is hell.
Even so, the sheer quantities of ordnance produced by both sides is near inconceivable, leaving so very much of it still to be found :(
War is hell.
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
By modern standards, even some of the more powerful bombs used in World War 2 are small by comparison. "Small" is a relative comparator, of course!
Even so, the sheer quantities of ordnance produced by both sides is near inconceivable, leaving so very much of it still to be found :(
War is hell.
Even so, the sheer quantities of ordnance produced by both sides is near inconceivable, leaving so very much of it still to be found :(
War is hell.
Turns out, when all you know is a given region, a regional flood looks like it covers the whole world...
... and as we now know, regional flooding isn't all that infrequent.
... and as we now know, regional flooding isn't all that infrequent.
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Turns out, when all you know is a given region, a regional flood looks like it covers the whole world...
... and as we now know, regional flooding isn't all that infrequent.
... and as we now know, regional flooding isn't all that infrequent.
The ancient Celts used to gaze spiritually across large bodies of water, which seemed to them as so unfathomably large that the Otherworld must lie beyond them (eg, Avalon/Annwn/Tír na nÓg). That doesn't mean they knew about any further than they could sail.
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 AM
The ancient Celts used to gaze spiritually across large bodies of water, which seemed to them as so unfathomably large that the Otherworld must lie beyond them (eg, Avalon/Annwn/Tír na nÓg). That doesn't mean they knew about any further than they could sail.