I'm really proud to announce that I've been appointed as a lecturer in criminology at Auckland Uni, starting this year 🌱 I'll be joining
@kendra_c__
,who started today as a lecturer in social work!
When I was an undergrad at the university of auckland they put up posters saying there would be a puppy petting session and when you went there to see the puppies it was drama students wearing dog collars 🐶🐶
Harvard actually has no therapists, just goats. If you are depressed all they have are goats. Each goat has a 3 month waitlist for a 15 minute session.
Hate knowing that not only could every renter buy a house, every renter actually IS buying a house - we are servicing a home loan, covering rates, and paying for repairs. We just don't get to KEEP the house - someone else does because they had capital and we didn't.
our daughter's first language is Māori, which doesn't use gendered pronouns. because she has two mothers, she's still getting the hang of "he" and "him" in English so absolutely everyone - her grandfather, our male cat - is "she" for now 😭
having parents whose first language isn't gendered is so funny bc yeah they misgender me but they also misgender the dog, strangers, friends, and other family members
New Zealand's containment strategy is actually effective as hell. A lot of Americans are being petulant and saying it's ridiculous for us to lock down after one case was detected, but we did and today we found 4 cases. Tomorrow likely more.
Grocery stores need to be brought to heel over food prices. This isn't 'inflation' because it isn't caused by monetary oversupply. It's just price gouging and we know that because we can literally see that they're all reporting surplus profits.
Elizabeth II did not "preside over decolonisation," colonised peoples shot enough British soldiers that the costs of imperialism outweighed the benefits and we won our freedom. Elizabeth was not a gracious liberator, she was a hated foe who we overcame in armed struggle.
As a Māori person, watching the brutal violence Israel unleashes almost entirely on civilians gives me a window into how the world saw the colonialist butchery of my ancestors. We, too, were decried as primitive and violent by the people orphaning our kids as the world watched.
Texas is basically a small Soviet Republic at this point, with neighbors spying on neighbors, hoping to collect a cash bounty, in addition to being an apartheid state for nonwhite voters. What woman or POC could possibly feel safe there? To say nothing of the gun proliferation.
Every American genius standing on 600,000 corpses needs to recognise that containing the virus has let us live almost entirely normal lives for the last two years. Lockdowns haven't just prevented the spread of covid, they've literally cancelled the pandemic.
Sorry, there's a colony in the Pacific literally called American Samoa and I'm supposed to be worried that China is the superpower that is exerting an unethical and nefarious influence on our region?
Colonialism relies on the ideological cover that Indigenous people have no right to self defence - anything we do to resist being killed is used as justification for killing us. Israel is shelling Gaza like the British shelled Ruapekapeka, killing because we refused to just die.
Showing up, saying "I'm a sub btw", destroying the economy, killing the reigning monarch, stealing twelve thousand dollars in luxury bathrobes, then retiring. I'm mutuals with like twelve women on here who would have done the exact same thing.
we literally give landlords money because they had enough money to buy property and they get to just hold us hostage for it............. like they get money for having money......................
Many Americans don't seem to get this and start barking about our iNdIvIdUaL lIbErTiEs as though 1. The right not to die of a preventable disease is paramount 2. The containment strategy hasn't let us hang out in huge groups more often than they have anyway.
The ideology of individual freedom showing yet again that it's completely internally contradictory: the people demanding their individual rights during a global catastrophe are the ones ending up with the fewest individual rights.
“The Royal Navy is ending its century-old tradition of having Chinese servants on warships amid fears that they could be forced to spy for Beijing. Hundreds of Chinese laundrymen have worked on Britain’s warships since the 1930”
America has four hundred military bases and more than 100,000 soldiers stationed in the Pacific. We need to renew the movement of sovereign, Indigenous nations for a nuclear-free and independent Pacific or risk our ocean being reduced to a staging ground for imperialist wars.
Cuban trade with the USSR was really interesting. The trade agreement between Cuba and Comecon was not set by the exchange values of the goods involved but by the equivalence of labour time. This meant commodities produced in one hour of Cuban labour-time were exchanged >
Man, come on. I'm Indigenous - my connection to the land isn't innate or essential. It's cultural, a consequence of my society's material reliance on land stewardship being reflected in its ideology. Indigenous people tend to care about ecology and do it well but we aren't elves.
t4t is like incest. it would probably happen if two sisters were stuck alone in an attic for 25 years and it wouldn't be good or okay but the victims deserve pity, not anger.
to be clear on Israel's historical situation, it is currently liquidating the population of an immense ethnic ghetto it has kept under full blockade while begining a war on two fronts against neighbouring countries. just in case anyone wanted to draw any historical parallels.
Meanwhile I've been going to work for the last year, which involves sitting in an enclosed space with 600 strangers. I've been able to go to a bar. I've been able to go dancing. As in China and the other sane countries, none of this has required mass death on the American scale.
At this point I'm not sure which is funnier: Brianna Wu being a nominally stealth trans woman who can't stop crawling back into trans community shitfights or Brianna Wu actually being a cis woman and just memorising the Harry Benjamin Syndrome diagnostic criteria for no reason
Posie Parker and her supporters, including the racist domestic terror group Action Zealandia, have been totally driven out of her Auckland venue. We're having a trans rights rally instead lol
Israel decided they could do an armoured advance into Gaza with no infantry support (this is usually considered insane) because their tanks are fitted with a system called Trophy that shoots down an incoming projectile. So Palestinian resistance soldiers just... shoot them twice.
Isn't it crazy that the "wisdom passed down through the generations" these European anthropologists identify in Indigenous societies always happens to totally coincidentally justify those anthropologists' preconceived worldviews.
When Sanders is ratfucked out of the candidacy I hope his supporters will have a place in the revolutionary organisations operating in the US. This can be a fantastic opportunity to pipe people out of electoralism and into revolutionary politics.
I think clowning on polyamory is probably stealth-reactionary at best, and the decision to run a big story making fun of these people is part of a broader effort to reinforce the heterosexual nuclear family as the only valid form families can take.
I felt bad for Alec Baldwin before I learned he's the producer of the film and the producers expelled union set workers 6 hours before the shooting because they were concerned about safety.
@cooIboobs
I hate to share this with you but part of becoming an adult in Fremen culture means learning not to nut when you fuck, so the answer is literally that they hold it in 💀
This brilliantly illustrates a point that abolitionists can only make rhetorically: we can't reform this institution because the actual individuals who make it up are themselves personally and politically opposed to any kind of improvement or accountability.
I’m black. I’m a cop. I’ve also had hours of de-escalation training.
With that said:
No matter your color, mental status, prior condition, or mood, if you run at me with a knife, I will shoot you. Many times.
The end.
#Philadelphia
#phillyriots
#BlueLivesMatter
I just don't think this is a coherent position with regards to public demonstrations. The purpose of them is exactly that - to demonstrate that we represent popular will. They're an ideological display of strength that relies on visibility, they don't work if we hide them.
New Zealanders: have you noticed that American media and politicians are blatantly lying about our country just because our covid strategy makes them look kind of bad? Can you imagine what kind of lies they must be telling about countries that actually threaten America's empire?
@britishmuseum
You have no legal provenance for this item because it was stolen during the Land Wars by the Pye family. It belongs to Aotearoa and you need to return it. I know my saying this won't make you actually do it, but I'm hoping to contribute to the destruction of your reputation.
Liberalism turns into fascism because it presents you this framework - electoralism as the horizon of the political - and calls anyone who wants to go beyond it an extremist. The correct answer to a Hitler vs Mussolini election is to destroy the government.
for commodities produced in one hour of Soviet labour-time. This affirmed the universal dignity of humans, but it also directly attacked the imperialist strategy of uneven exchange by which cheap labour in underdeveloped countries is superexploited.
Stalin... owned a gunblade... Stalin owned a gunblade. There was a gunblade... and it was the property of Josef Stalin, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union......
people on twitter are like "you don't need to read Marx, read Ruth Wilson Gilmore instead" when she literally said, TO ME, like two weeks ago, that Vladimir Lenin rules and more people need to read "What Is To Be Done?"
@Esqueer_
@dnbrgr
Bizarre to see forums that were awash in child exploitation images a few years ago appointing themselves the moral guardians of childhood.
Make no mistake: the propaganda blitz is to prepare us for war. Our responsibility as revolutionaries in the core is to reject any call for us to unite with the ruling class in defence of our nation or its allies. The enemy is at home, the enemy is the capitalist class.
@scumbelievable
If someone was like 'yea I'm systematically purging all references to eating food from my life' we'd be like hmn sounds like you have issues with food that go beyond how eating is represented in media
My family is made up of a toddler, a teacher, and a social worker and the Greens are offering us a tax break three times higher than what National is lol
As Lenin explained a century ago, market competition inevitably leads to market victory, and victorious firms will necessarily use their positions to pursue their interests by maximising profits in this way.
I don't get why social democrats in the West don't love the parliamentary socialist movements in Kerala or Nepal or Bolivia or Venezuela. If I thought we could vote out the bourgeoisie and I saw electoralists actually winning elections, I wouldn't shut up about how cool they are.
This manifested as trade terms which massively favoured Cuba and this helped the country to not only survive the US blockade, but also begin its slow climb up from the colonial immiseration the Spanish and US occupiers had forced on it.
It also shows us that the Soviet economy was not just nominally but also functionally distinct from the capitalist nations. No comparison can be made between them.
what's up with guys like Graeber and Varoufakis who are so desperate to argue that capitalism has become feudalism, but whose definition of feudalism is completely ahistorical? capitalism has always been hierarchical and managerial like this, it's nothing like feudalism.
david graeber observed this too, and he said that to lay this phenomenon solely at capitalism's feet was to miss a big part of the picture, and that the way the managerial class has grown and organized itself is something much more akin to literal feudalism
@MattsBestTweets
@spacetwinks
when I visited as a child in the late 90s/ early 2000s they were still showing a Police Academy stage show so I think its fair to say that Austen Powers will be making us horny baby until the sun burns out
i can't stand how much shit in life is a scam. i can't believe we have to survive under conditions of just being absolutely scammed, day in and day out, for our whole lives. when you die they scam your family on the coffin too.
Parker's refusal to return because she was afraid of being met with a public demonstration of the unpopularity of her ideas shows how essential community mobilisation is. It is an urgent tactical priority that we figure out how to mobilise like we did the next time he ilk try it.
@hele_mill
@SusiB348
Housing is a right and everyone should have a home for life. Nobody should be able to use the threat of homelessness to extort others into paying them. Landlordism is totally unethical and should be abolished.
Here in Auckland three to four thousand people have marched to the American consulate to demand an Israeli ceasefire and humanitarian aid into Gaza. The world stands with Palestine against Israeli terror and US imperialism.
I deposited a bound copy of my master's thesis in the university library today! Ya girl got first class honours on it and now I'm going back this year to do my doctorate on the history of capitalism and mass incarceration 🌱🌿☭🌾🌳
New Zealand just cancelled our funding of the UNRWA. This monstrous crime is being perpetrated literally days after the highest international legal body ruled that the zionist entity is plausibly committing genocide in Gaza. We are aiding the genocidaires, we are participants.
Thousands of people have been marching across Aotearoa for SIXTEEN WEEKS calling on this government to exert pressure to stop the massacre of thousands upon thousands of Palestinians. Our govt has responded by bombing Yemen for blockading Israel and cutting funding to UNRWA.
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull/Posie Parker was reportedly egged before counter-protesters flooded the gazebo. She has now been evacuated from Albert Park without speaking.
📷 RNZ / Jordan Dunn, Rayssa Almeida
It's not that there's no evidence that boot camps work, it's that this country operated a youth borstal system for decades and it was an industrial child rape machine that is literally the subject of a royal commission of inquiry right now.
When the Socialist Republic of Vietnam needed to put people in lockdown to contain COVID, it ensured people got free deliveries of nutritious food and necessities. When the rotten settler-state of Australia locks down the poor, Muslims get pork and mothers don't get baby formula.
Phil Twyford, a Labour MP, just tried to give some mealy-mouthed both-sides-are-bad speech at the Auckland Palestine Solidarity rally, refused to condemn the occupation, and lost control of the crowd so thoroughly he rushed out under police escort lol. Free Palestine bitch.
I fucking want vaccine passes. My daughter will not be able to be vaccinated for years, I do not want to risk her health because a tiny vocal minority want to be able to wander around while potentially highly infectious. Where's my choice in this?
In awe of Võ Nguyên Giáp's life. He was a history teacher in Hanoi and one day he decided he was sick of colonialism so he just became a general and proved himself to be one of history's greatest military geniuses, crushing both the French and American empires in Vietnam.
It is an error to begin by asking "what actions are morally justified in decolonial struggle." Decolonisation is a response to colonisation - it can only come after the fact. What we need to ask is "what actions have been made historically inevitable in decolonial struggle."
A teacher berated a trans student citing his own personal religious beliefs. That's not acceptable behaviour! It's not okay for teachers to tell students they're sinners for fuck's sake.
@KirkMMaxey
Commodification of housing means that even if it were possible for many people to "just save up" they would be competing with speculators who monopolise the buyer's market and drive up prices. The result either way is the concentration of housing in a minute class of investors.
The Iraqi PM just said Trump called him after the embassy protest to ask Iraq to mediate negotiations between the US and Iran. The Iraqi government invited Soleimani to meetings in Baghdad, at which point the US murdered him. America used the Iraqi government to set up an ambush.
The crucial point here is that all of human society could be like this. Indigenous peoples aren't good at preventing ecological disaster because of magic but because our societies tend to treat ecology as vitally important - a tendency that everyone can and should share.
I truly get what people who say that we have a special relationship to land are saying and why they're saying it. But treating this as a mystical and innate thing strips Indigenous peoples of the specific material history that gives us this relationship and treats us as magical.