So true

This was tweeted out by Elon Musk a while back. Sums it up nicely.

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Colville

and worse in New Zealand because we dont really have a right wing, just different shades of left.
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May 21, 2022 3:16pm
- Fentex
  
  That doesn’t make any sense in context. If everyone’s already “left” then the centre isn’t being pulled left, is it?
  
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  May 21, 2022 10:39pm
  - Sean OConnor
    
    It makes total sense. We have a population with left centre and right wing voters, but our political parties are far left, left, centre left, left-and-race-based, and economic right/social left.
    
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    May 22, 2022 5:07pm
kevn

Like a creeping madness = left they go, further and further. Then fall off and wonder why.
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May 21, 2022 3:17pm
- curry4me
  
  Yes Elon Musk nailed it with that graphic.
  
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  May 21, 2022 6:16pm
- Keith White
  
  I don’t really worry about who agrees with me.
  
  If I am correct in my thinking that’s all that matters.
  
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  May 21, 2022 6:47pm
- PaulL
  
  The right are actually going crazy too. So it’s more like both ends are running away from each other, leaving the people in the middle wondering.
  
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  May 21, 2022 7:35pm
  - Sean OConnor
    
    Are we?
    
    We want the same social policy and economic policy we always did. You know, ‘radical’ things like saying men can’t get pregnant and there should be equal suffrage.
    
    The Left has moved so far it’s dragged you with it a little, that’s all.
    
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    May 22, 2022 5:09pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  DPF may be interested to know that the guy who made this chart, Colin Wright (an evolutionary biologist of liberal inclination) had a WSJ article about it and the reactions to it, and since that seems to be paywalled here’s the Powerline guys with excerpts in Chart Wars. Key quote:
  
  The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent called it a “silly chart” that has been “brutally debunked.” His colleague Philip Bump described it as “simply wrong” and an “obvious exaggeration.” Mr. Bump even provided a series of actual silly charts showing “the average ideological score (using a metric called DW-NOMINATE)” and “evaluations of ideology as measured in the biennial General Social Survey (GSS).”
  
  Debunking a cartoon with a chart is like answering a love poem with a syllogism.
  
  Jesus! Talk about butt hurt. He also details his varsity encounters on transgenderism and free speech – and they’ll hate this even worse from the Powerline author:
  
  I should add that at some point in the last year or so, Wright tweeted that despite being a life-long Democratic voter “who has never voted for a Republican,” he was likely to vote Republican in 2024 for any nominee other than Trump. We’ll see if that extends to DeSantis if it comes to be.
  
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  May 21, 2022 7:38pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

As I keep saying, the rabid left have gone so far left they are standing on the edge of the flat earth, frothing at the mouth.
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May 21, 2022 3:22pm
- David Garrett
  
  Oh that’s good Steve…very good indeed.
  
  One major change I have noted since my teens: it was always – and quite rightly – completely unacceptable for a man to grab a woman’s boob – and even worse if the grab was below the belt. But then things started to get complicated…if a woman was wearing – say – a plunging neckline it became unacceptable to look for more than a second or two at said cleavage…now it’s damn close to being an offence to even look – no matter how fleetingly.
  
  I have a 28 year old female friend…entirely platonic… she is quite open that she wears clingy clothing with plunging necklines “because I know my tits look good in tops like that”. Her female friends think there is either something seriously wrong with her, or at least she is some kind of traitor to her sex for being so open and honest.
  
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  May 21, 2022 3:33pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Same with out Thai friend now in Alaska. On Skype when her son was little, she used to say ‘excuse my boobs, I am just changing over feeding him’
    She is now around 36, and we have known her for 17 years. Not many people can go to the other side of the planet, and an Internet friend says “Here is the front door key, we are off to work”
    
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    May 21, 2022 3:43pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      ffs * our Thai Friend.
      btw the little one is now 5, just like another grandson.
      
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      May 21, 2022 3:45pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I wonder if it is some Kiwi-USA thing that we don’t show our cleavage in our working day..
    
    I can never help but notice the degree of exposed bosom by British females on TV – Bettany Hughes, Nigella Lawson, Theresa May, etc
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/17/theresa-may-breasts-home-secretary-cleavage-budget-sexism-westminster
    
    I just wonder how they all don’t come down with chills on their chests.
    
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    May 21, 2022 4:49pm
    - David Garrett
      
      Why, I do declare…never thought I would find Theresa May sexy!
      
      (Hint to younger women: a wee hint of cleavage is often more appealing that the bags half out, which you see down town these days…or so they tell me)
      
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      May 21, 2022 5:29pm
  - rjay
    
    Unacceptable to grab a boob below the belt? Eww!
    
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    May 21, 2022 6:18pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Generally speaking women only want men they find attractive discreetly admiring their physical features. Even if the women is apparently exposing a lot and speaks to friends quite bluntly about the fact. It’s complicated. 😅
    
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    May 21, 2022 6:41pm
- Thought Criminal
  
  The right are being dragged left too. Take Labour lite Luxton.
  
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  May 21, 2022 3:43pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    If only someone would explain it to him!
    
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    May 21, 2022 3:46pm
  - David Garrett
    
    Thought: Luxon is the wettest leader they have had since…well, Key I guess, and he – Luxon – is much wetter than Key.
    
    But whaddya do? My good friend Judith was the opposite of wet and look what happened to her.
    
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    May 21, 2022 4:13pm
    - bjools
      
      The budget speech was good, can’t help but hope, he is holding back for a more appropriate time (closer to the election).
      
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      May 21, 2022 4:19pm
    - Keith White
      
      Wet, dry, no import.
      
      Courage of one’s convictions, is paramount.
      
      Those who fail, fail epically.
      
      Those who succeed, become history.
      
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      May 21, 2022 6:48pm
    - bartman
      
      We need a true centre right party, no religious links, policies that quietly proclaim economic rationality, aim to fully utilise our natural resources, ditch the Waitangi Tribual and all race-based legislation and seats. Just the start.
      
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      May 21, 2022 8:35pm
      - MikeMan
        
        Have a look at the New Nation Party
        
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        May 22, 2022 10:42am
    - slightlyrighty
      
      Funnily enough, David, you may have proved the cartoon correct.
      
      Many on the extreme left still consider Key as evil incarnate. (they can be identified quite easily as they refer to him as “Keys”).
      
      Key is a right leaning centrist pragmatist, and I see a lot of that in Luxon. This is the sort of leader that will get the job done. f the left think Key was too much, you can only imagine what they thought of Judith.
      
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      May 22, 2022 10:04am
    - Sean OConnor
      
      She was a gutless wimp, DG. Maybe you were too much in the bubble to see it. Firearms, LGBTQ, COVID, you name it, she was indistinguishable from Labour. I’m sure she had a focus group dictate her ‘deeply held’ positions on everything. When she tacked right at the end, none of us believed it.
      
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      May 22, 2022 5:13pm
  - Tom Hunter
    
    Sounds familiar:
    
    Contrary to the Left’s hysteria, the “new normal” in the GOP is not Barnette but PC Republicans who, once they gain power, just end up ratifying liberal lies. It is an arrangement liberals should welcome. They propose liberal change and then “electable” Republicans enact it for them. Recall how the “electable” Arnold Schwarzenegger implemented Gray Davis’s agenda more effectively than Davis did.
    
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    May 21, 2022 7:10pm
RockyJ

It’s a bit like the great Mark Twain saying; “when I was 13 I couldn’t stand my father, I was against everything he stood for. By the time I was 21 I was amazed how much the old guy had changed.”
Take me. In my early 20’s I was an active member of the Values Party. We believed some really dumb stuff, like the No growth economy.
After a career working in the real world I now vote Act/National.
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May 21, 2022 3:27pm
kiwikidsnz

The Overton Window model: note the Centre has moved left.
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May 21, 2022 4:03pm
Zack Brando

I watched the 1983 movie Trading Places last night.

It was a very interesting movie. It’s themes explored nature-vs-nurture, race relations, corruption, cooperate greed, class.. with generous amounts of karma.

Though I wan’t alive in 83, I imagine this movie would have been considered leftist for its time.. though I doubt it would be allowed to air today.

Hollywood was obviously pervasive in the 80’s, as such I felt this movie was an interesting snapshot juxtaposed to the “culture wars” of our time.

Though a comedy, I can’t imagine this movie not having had a cultural impact.
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May 21, 2022 4:18pm
kevn

@DG… I think Muller was the worst.
Plus he cost NZ.
Big time.
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May 21, 2022 4:43pm
- David Garrett
  
  kevn: Muller is quite frankly a fucking disgrace, and he’s got a bloody nerve remaining as an MP.
  
  His pathetic excuse when he resigned – that he didn’t understand the pressure being leader of the opposition entailed – was actually worse than pathetic: it meant he had been walking around parliament with blinkers on for a year or more.
  
  Opening myself up to ridicule here…when I became an MP in 2008 I harboured never expressed wishes to one day be a minister…I very quickly concluded that the obvious ones – Justice and Corrections – would probably be too much for my less than robust mental health, but I thought maybe I could do Police.
  
  I was fairly certain I could do the portfolio given out as a pat on the head to well behaved also rans: Minister for Courts.
  
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  May 21, 2022 5:00pm
Phronesis

Those far right extremists and white supremacists that we are warned about now hold the same positions as JFK and Martin Luther King jnr did 60 years ago.
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May 21, 2022 5:51pm
Jim

That certainly does represent the world as I see it too. However sadly I suspect ‘the left’ would vindictively add the word “far” next to 2021 conservative right side of the political continuum.
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May 21, 2022 6:00pm
kowtow

Is the running stick figure the air hostess .
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May 21, 2022 6:07pm
Tom Hunter

Also, one thing wrong with that “chart” is that the Right stays in the same place.

Nope. That centre-section is the Overton Window and when it moves Left, it drags the Right with it, at least in the form of their political parties.
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May 21, 2022 7:16pm
The Big Yolk

That cartoon is only half-right, in America the Trumpian and Christian Nationalist Right are sprinting further to the right at the same speed to the Left’s sprint in the opposite direction. The Centre is now struggling to hold.
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May 21, 2022 7:45pm
- The Big Yolk
  
  I mean, this creep, if elected Governor of Pennsylvania, would openly deny the winner of Pennsylvania in 2024, their electoral college votes, if the winner is the Democrat. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/mastriano-pennsylvania-christian-nationalism-donald-trump
  
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  May 21, 2022 9:26pm
- Sean OConnor
  
  That’s rubbish. They’ve tacked left on gay marriage, crime, race, tariffs, corporate welfare, and overseas conflicts.
  They’re exactly the same as they were 10 years ago on tax and abortion.
  The only major policy issue they’ve tacked right on is immigration.
  
  Why do you think the entire non black working class has shifted to the GOP while the big banks have gone over to the Dems?
  
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  May 22, 2022 5:18pm
James Stephenson

I think my only critique would be that a few years ago, I’d have been standing by Conservative Dude’s right shoulder (as a social liberal and economic conservative) and I now understand what “reactionary” means. In response to the accelerating lunacy of the left, I’ve definitely taken a few steps to the right and have dug my heels in.
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May 21, 2022 8:32pm
- Sean OConnor
  
  I haven’t moved much to the right but have decided that no further compromise is possible.
  
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  May 22, 2022 5:19pm
Muttonbird

The staggering ego of the man has he, himself, as the unmovable centre around which everything else revolves!
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May 22, 2022 6:25am
yossarian

Joe Rogan made an interesting observation. He holds extraordinary power due to the fact that he’s merely engages with both sides of the political fence. He’s had Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard on his show and then would have Ben Shipiro (who he considers a friend) and Candace Owens a few weeks later.

His audience reach is on both sides of the political fence, as he considers himself a libertarian, but also hunts and mocks wokeness, and clearly had no time for AOC (or a certain NZ prime minister for that matter)

He notes that whenever he’s had someone on his show from the right, his leftist fans pile on the outage and send him hate messages. Yet when he has someone on the left, there’s silence from his audience.
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May 22, 2022 8:11am
Lee C

Ironically, this is how I see you sometimes Mr. Farrer.
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May 22, 2022 8:20am
slightlyrighty

Citing the Joe Rogan example, we are seeing a lot of critique being directed at Bill Maher, who quite often calls out the left for its stupidity, and cops quite a bit of abuse from the left as a result.

https://deadline.com/2022/01/bill-maher-fires-back-says-his-politics-have-not-changed-1234922380/

worth a read, and watch the attached Youtube clip as well!
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May 22, 2022 10:08am
dcrane

Great meme. But the picture is a bit complicated in the states because the supposed “left” party, the Democrats, has now become the #1 War Party. The only Senate votes in opposition to the laundering of 40 billion more printed US dollars through Ukraine spending came from the GOP.
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May 22, 2022 10:47am
AJL

I’m… not sure that Elon is a reliable source of information on leftist politics?

According to article: https://www.businessinsider.co.za/elon-musk-sells-the-family-emeralds-in-new-york-2018-2

“A teenage Elon Musk once walked the streets of New York with emeralds in his pocket.”
“We were very wealthy,” says Errol [Elon’s father]. “We had so much money at times we couldn’t even close our safe.”

Also, As Elon has gotten older he has become more and more of a bussiness owner/employer – you know the specific demographic in society whose power left leaning politics is meant to keep in check. (I make no claims on the goodness of doing so, just that that is one of the goals of left leaning politics).

What this means is that Elon kind of started out as princeling, and has slid himself into the demographic that is often most at odds with left leaning politics. This doesn’t reveal hypocracy or even shifting goal posts on behalf of his “fellow liberles”.

It may well have happened! Culture and political movements changes over time! ….. but so do people.
Both those things are okay, and it feels weird having a “haha, stupid woke progressives” post on that.

….

OR it’s just a joke and I shouldn’t take it so seriously and shouldn’t bother to analysis it. That could be the case too.
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