It looks like it's headed that way, but it's still unthinkable.

Ni hao and Thank you, I appreciate your insight into how dictatorships happen. I have studied a bit about Mao and how an attack on the educated is a slippery slope.

It's a significant voice standing up to the dictatorship, which is pretty much here already.

I have just been suppressed over on twitter for speaking in calm rational terms while Maga tweets are running rampant on this issue. Hard not to believe the thought police is now on X among ordinary people.

It's all you've got at the mo bro. That and brave judges.

*precedent.

I don't think people really knew how to respond, ie Columbia, but thank God Harvard is standing up because it sets a precident.

I still hope they will be out in the next elections. As obnoxious as they are now.

Me too. Used the free text boxes to say we do not need
Grenfell Towers, leaky homes, Pike River, CTV building, Mosque terrorism, ruin of Mackenzie high country and Canterbury rivers, not to mention workers rights, health... it goes on and on across all aspects of life. We need researched expertise.

Or maybe on the other side of the world

Sorry to hear that. It's a mind virus and certainly not the woke version.

I hope so. The world is so sad right now.

The Trump hat speaks volumes.

Yes taking time to watch the birds coming and going is well worth taking the time to sit still and appreciate their world.