give a man a fish and he'll look at you suspiciously and ask what happened to the chips

Regular viewers will know that I had serious doubts about the 'recovery' well before Trump decided to cause global chaos (and trading opportunities for his buddies). Suffice to say, today's unemployment data is GRIM! Let's have a look... Unemployment rate vs the guesses of clueless ghouls. [🧵 1/n]

At some point we — all of us — have to have a serious conversation about priorities. We can't just keep squeezing corporate profits out of everything and insisting everyone just make do somehow.

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 18h ago

Older Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite

Now the English is an official language of New Zealand I expect all posts to use your, you're, there, their and they're correctly.

'For Hickey, there is a deeper structural challenge. “You’ve got an economy which just doesn’t know how to operate without house prices rising”.' #NzPol

As unemployment hits 11-year high, how does it look under the hood?

Bernard Hickey breaks down the numbers released today.

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Hello NZ govt 👋, maybe this is a better approach than building more prisons & punishing beneficiaries? Hard to argue with the numbers #nzpol

Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 10h ago

Unemployment at its highest level for 11 years, did I see? And THAT INCLUDES THE COVID AND LOCKDOWN TIMES. Thanks to the Ardern government that protected jobs and businesses at the time.

Textes from Sisyphus: UGH You are not goinge to BELIEVE what just happenid AGAYNE 🪨

Tamatha Paul in general debate talks about a homeless man dying on the streets of Wellington on Monday night in the freezing cold. This regime has a body count #nzqt

The purpose of colonies is the transformation of local resources into off shore wealth and Winston Peters is a good little servant of empire

Oh, I see, he’s hoping we will think our own o&g would be cheaper? lolololol our own food is grown here but priced according to international markets, any NZ o&g will still be super expensive.

Fucking winnie banging on about having our own oil and gas - even if this wasn’t an environmental and climate change nightmare, even if the corporations did find o&g, how would this actually help cost of living?

Shouldn't that be "right-wing" Free Speech Union? Same writer, same paper, but only the tax group gets called out as "left-wing" huh? (And if your response is everyone knows the FSU is right-wing: a) they do not, and b) some people think the Nazis were socialist because of their name.)

Daily Indignation@dailyindignation.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Oh are we identifying the ideology of lobby groups now? That's great! I look forward to the NZ Initiative, Free Speech Union, Taxpayers' Union, and every bank economist being called right-wing in the headlines of their numerous self-generated stories from now on.

Hey Siri, who was in power when unemployment was last this horrifically high? … The same people? But I thought they were good at the economy?

RNZ News Feeds@rnzrss.bsky.social · 15h ago

National backs its policies as unemployment rises to 11-year high

It’s just like Kiwi culture then. A few privileged bastards do what they want while everyone else gets hassled by the cops

Act party lying to public. #NzPol

ACT's 'visually misleading' post: Is it a graphic or a graph?

An ACT Party post about the gap between new medicines funded in Australia and New Zealand is "visually misleading," according to a statistics professor.

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Thank goodness that's over. #nzqt

Stop asking double-leg questions, you fools. Too easy for the Minister to answer only one of them. #nzqt

Willis listing Labour policies again. Breaks the rules. No consequences. #nzqt

Willis gets away again with referring to another party's policy during her answer. Brownlee MIA. #nzqt

Brownlee finally gently encourages Winston to consider removing himself, but no action taken. #nzqt

Luxon gets away with 'rejecting the characterisation of the question' from Marama Davidson rather than answering it. #nzqt

Luxon says govt does not need to apologise to China. #nzqt

Luxon admits he has not had any conversations with Chinese leadership since Winston's racist outburst. #nzqt

Shane Jones now going into bat for his boss. #nzqt

PM says NZ relationship with China is in good shape. Doesn't mention their ambassador complaining to MFAT over Winston's racism. #nzqt

Brownlee now claiming it would not have been right to eject Winston for his answers today because X-Nan still had supplementary questions. #nzqt

Points of Order being raised about Brownlee's lack of enforcement. #nzqt

Winston now claiming that he did not say what he said. #nzqt

Brownlee finally disagreeing with Winston. #nzqt