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Humankind will never be free until the last tech billionaire is strangled with the entrails of the second last tech billionaire.

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@SikotiHamiltonR Definitely overtones of "wokester"! Interesting exchange here: https://t.co/frrpc8p1Tq "The hard face man with the monkey shave and non-conformist conscience"

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@SikotiHamiltonR That's always been my assumption: Non-conformist religious zealot, usually in the company of a huge and humourless woman. I could be wrong, but it doesn't look like racist depictions of Jews I've seen from cartoons in this period.

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@SikotiHamiltonR Are you sure the stock wowser is stereotypically Jewish? I mean, are there other early 20th cent. cartoons that explicitly depict Jews in this way? The visual implication in other cartoons is that the wowser is unmanly and I would have thought that was enough to make him "alien."

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@WillSweetman @PaulBrislen Thanks! I have followed you, and that *may* make it possible to DM (shows how marginally adept I am as a Twitter user).

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@PaulBrislen If you've got any left, I'm keen to escape this place.

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@SikotiHamiltonR When John Paul II visited in 1986, they gave this whakapakoko centre stage at the outdoor Mass at Auckland - I think as a kind of apology for the insult done to Patoromu Tamatea, the original carver. That was almost 40 years ago, and things seem to be going backwards now.

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@SikotiHamiltonR In my experience, Evangelicals are adept at ranking and prioritising their hatreds. This leaves a lot of room for tactical alliances with the enemies of my enemies.

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@BeeFaerie My students told me I had to do Barbenheimer. But I’ve decided to Oppenbarbie just to be contrary.

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@MediawatchNZ Perhaps the longest-running column by one writer. The “Civis” column in the Otago Daily Times has been running for at least a century - though presumably not with a single author.

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@dorhamidbar I read that one of the producers grew up in a fundy church, so was open minded. But the trailer looked unpromising. What a pity.

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@swannynz @publicaddress I'm not sure where the worries about gradient come from. During the Bike the Bridge protest, I saw tiny kids on tiny bikes make their way over the bridge with no great effort - and with a lot of joy. When did adult Aucklanders get so soft and cautious?

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@MattThiessenNT @emilygathergood @profsamperry I remember it in New Zealand in the mid-1980s. It came along with praying in a half-hearted American accent. Evidently, God understands that better.

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@byroncclark The problem is that, both inside Catholicism and outside it, people have a very simplistic understanding of the complexity of a religion with over 1 billion members. Insiders tend to sugar-coat or deny the malignant elements, while outsiders tend to dwell on them.

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@byroncclark Their approach reminds me of the much-circulated definition of conservatism, which:

“... consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

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@publicaddress Also an excellent podcast companion https://t.co/8SuPKlbrKh

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@publicaddress This is the language of the New Apostolic Reformation strain of Pentecostalism. Many of its leaders have been deeply involved with Trump and the 6 Jan insurrection. Some great background for journalists (and others) can be found here: https://t.co/7NbhLBF91w

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@BeeFaerie All things considered, I think I'm glad I missed your Wordle tweet on the Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord.

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@BeeFaerie Good advice, though.