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“A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistical philistines, who have brought their “civilisation” with them from England and keep it to themselves like a dog in a manger.”
- Lenin’s impression of New Zealand
Luxon the oafish middle manager who thinks of himself as CEO and knows nothing but business teleology and Hipkins the party man - an apparatchik little rat who rode the conveyer belt from student politics all the way to Labour leader
Interesting that they both converge on basically similar ideologies. ‘We have to cut public spending’
I’m interested in reading about the history of the early NZ Labour Party and the first Labour government. Anyone have a book they would recommend?
They should make Primetimes for other 2000s reality shows. Need a movie about Mike ‘The Situation’’s surveillance induced descent into drug addiction and paranoia or a The Road-esque film about Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie travelling through broken heartland America
There’s a flashback in Primetime that descends into the uncanny supernatural but treated as ordinary in a way that reminded me of Apichatpong Weerasethakul - almost to suggest that he’s a demon tulpa brought into the world to reflect back our desire for blood - this movie cooked
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Organised crime has been used to destroy socialist and communist parties for decades, but we have to work with the most compromised, easy to pay off lumpenproles in the world as part of our left coalition
Incredible pick for campaign trail reading from Hipkins. Not even the most mainstream or critically acclaimed McMarthy so he clearly wanted to read The Road specifically