November 21, 2024 - Personal blog of Rick Giles

A New Commissariat of Education Control

By NZB3

It was a weird meeting last night¹. I expected information about Hipkins’ next tactical move. I expected Nikki Kaye and 2 other MPs to be charismatically fanning and converting the audience’s outrage toward support of the National Party in their fight to stop the Minister of Miseducation from creating a Commissariat of Education Control. Instead […]

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July 31, 2019

Double Up or Nothing Going Down?

By NZB3

Next time a concert, no, two concerts, need to be cancelled don’t say it’s because of poor ticket sales and lack of interest.   Say it’s to avoid “double up.” Brought to you by the genius Police PR team. No amount of cute police dogs or strumming guitar constables can come up with any better […]

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July 30, 2019

Petition of Jessica Quinn

By NZB3

Two things I know about Millennials: They’re obsessed with Victimhood (preferably someone else’s that they can champion) and with throwing tantrums to get Big Brother to grant their wishes. Never has this been more clear than in this latest example of Jessica Quinn’s petition… “Now is when I ..figure out what to do from here […]

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July 30, 2019

Disarming the Youth

By NZB3

God Defend New Zealand because we are certainly not. Our only hope is that foreign nations hungry to expand don’t read our newspapers. This article should be in the Real Estate section. “Students will no longer be able to hold or shoot army guns at school under new government guidelines.”- July 2018 Yummy unguarded, under-populated, […]

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July 29, 2019

Countdown’s Latest Victimhood Culture Act

By NZB3

Watching this tennis match between the outgoing Victimhood Culture and the incoming Slave Culture is pretty interesting and changing everyday… In the great collective unconscious human zeitgeist something is cooking and we’re counting down to it. The passive whipping boy Honkler evolved into Scepticism Culture some months ago. The Victimhood Masters lashed out with escalation including […]

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July 27, 2019

“Storm X, they can’t stop us all”

By NZB3

So here’s clear meme signal that our mainstream culture needle is set to Slave. The initial “Storm Area 51, they can’t stop us all” impulse has morphed in the last few days to four other iterations that I’ve been able to easily find. And that’s just New Zealand! What the hell does it all mean? […]

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July 26, 2019

Honour Culture Dispute Resolution

By NZB3

You know my secret hack for thinking about personality, history, and culture. If you have not been reading along then here is a quick reminder before we get to the story of the Samoan toilet fight… Honour Culture: Perceive problems as personal and solve them personally. Hands on. Warrior culture. Constant concern for their reputation […]

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July 25, 2019

Oh No, Anarchists!

By NZB3

Fairly on the mark, although the esteemed cartoonist has a different bent on property relations. How can a true anarchist insist that others abolish property per se? You try it your way, let others run society their way, and we’ll see who pisses off Elon Musk first.* — * Existential Comics has been picking fights […]

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July 23, 2019

Agree With Us Or You’re White

By NZB3

This racist statement is made without irony. Here a premise, ‘racism exists’, is defined not by the nature of what it is but by the political identity of those involved. Does not repair to evidence, does not seek to convince or persuade. Does not appeal to the reader’s intellect.   It sets up race-based in/out […]

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July 19, 2019

The Situated Nature of Social Reality

By NZB3

Here an institution (eg ‘apartheid’, eg ‘racism’, eg ‘sexism’) is defined by not by the nature of what it is but by the political identity of those involved. To those who of us with post-Enlightenment minds this picture exposes a simple nonsense. How can the woman in this picture be against ‘sexism’ when she’s privileging […]

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July 18, 2019