Let terms like white supremacy, extermination and genocide remain where they lie buried – long ago and far away.
OPINION
How would a government determined to exterminate its indigenous population behave? Ask the Namibians. Or, more specifically, ask the descendants of the Herero people.
Namibia, formerly the colony of German South-West Africa, became a mandated territory of the Union of South Africa (a British dominion) following the First World War, before winning its independence (with Cuban military assistance) from the apartheid-driven Republic of South Africa in 1990.
New Zealand First and National are not right-wing parties. Their willingness to engage in economic interventionism and steal each other’s policies places them both firmly left-of-centre.
Are all promising things that will only come back to hurt them later. None of them has an emotional appeal that both creates and soothes anxiety.
Attacking Pauline Hanson is a very dumb thing to do.
There’s a big difference between mediocre electoral conjuring and genuine political magic.
A Jewish book a Roman nail, and two thousand years of blaming the wrong department.
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The word for today is… catharsis (noun) - 1a: purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art b: a purification or purgation that brings about spiritual renewal or release from tension 2: elimination of a complex by bringing it to consciousness and affording it expression
For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
