Scapegoating me

That's ultimately what I think the Wellington Greens did. All my so-called friends that are involved with the party basically never liked me in school for being a smartarse that was usually right.

Particularly in the film paper. Like, I was among the better music students, but as a film student, I was on a whole other level.

Everyone in Wellington has typically thought my politics were provocative, so that didn't really change when I came out. For example, I famously lost a friend by suggesting that safety is a state of mind (and that fat people would be accepted before trans people).

What's changed is that, unlike them, I've been doing non-fiction movies and journalism since I left uni. My ideas about people and policy have matured as a result, and now AMPP's policy manifesto seems to have become a document that a lot of activists and wonks think represents a united left-wing view. -

I think it was easier for those people to believe Stephen's crazy accusations or the rumours that were spreading about the weed club trannie than to actually discuss my plans, my fashion sense, and the motivations behind my videos.

If you'd interrogated me with the vigour that you have since early 2023, pollies, a lot of the misperceptions that resulted in me being treated like a creepy stalker probably would've been cleared up in 2020.

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One of my favourite laments is that people tend to instantly believe and listen to my brother, while it takes me ages to get people to listen to me. Things are changing, but that was generally the pattern. Btw, I didn't think that Stephen's C.A.T Substack post was misinformation, though I did think it was a bit silly.

He cited references. But yeah, he doesn't take meds, and I do.

There is a satirical edge, but one of the right-wing tomes that he's a big fan of is Decline of the West by Spengler. Stephen's style isn't really a parody of the alt-right: that's just the way that he always is.

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I deeply resent being blamed for Chloe's mental health problems. We're not together in any conventional sense, so shouldn't that responsibility fall to the Greens and her family?

If I was told to apologise for blabbing about her meltdown, I would. Presumably, if I was wrong and she didn't have a public meltdown at the tangihanga, I'd have been emailed by the party or interrogated by the mental health people again.

As I say, I wouldn't have known if I hadn't been told. All this back channel shit is getting real old, real fast btw. The pretence that I'm not being closely spied on by the media, the politics scene and by the spies is pretty much impossible to maintain now that we've all seen The Dakumentary.

Via the back channel, I'm fairly sure that the vibe was that she'd been involuntarily held for a day or two, and then she was still under a CTO for a week or something.

I'm not sure if she has a history of psychosis, but it wouldn't surprise me.

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I should put the boot into Labour more, but their lack of enthusiasm as an opposition means that they're not really in the news all that much (outside the politics section, I mean).

Plus they've been much more consistent supporters of my rights than the other parties, except for TPM. Trans politics aren't really a major item on Labour's agenda, but they're totally on-board with the struggle.

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My message to the Greens would be that, instead of scapegoating me as the cause of all your woes, it might be worth it to examine why certain groups are leaving the party as other groups swarm in.

I mean, my total lack of interest in becoming a party member is something that pisses off most of the people that follow my antics. Why do you think that is?