@AngelaAntunovic This is powerful stuff.

Perhaps we should ask them. Are the Greens represented here?

@AngelaAntunovic @bananabob

Kia ora! I'm an #NZGreens member, and one of the co-convenors of the Green Geeks network for techie people.

As far as I know there are no Green MPs currently using Mastodon, but there are plenty of members. I’m currently working on a position paper on social media which will advocate for a presence here. It's a classic challenge for any progressive organisation though: do you spend your time on building the world you want to see or on engaging with people in the world as it is? The answer always needs to be a balance of both, but at the moment we need to reckon with the fact that the raw numbers of users are stacked against spending time on Mastodon. Especially during an election year, it's a hard case to make for a very busy media team.

I’ll be emphasising that Mastodon users are disproportionately going to be people who’d consider voting Green, and look for ways to get started. In the meantime, we can make sure members have a visible presence.

@AngelaAntunovic @bananabob On the ad… my impression is that everybody within the NZ Green Party is very aware of what Zach Polanski and the England/Wales Green Party are doing. Likewise with Zohran Mamadani in NYC. I think there's general enthusiasm for an economic populist campaign.

There's a challenge though: conditions in the UK are different. They're at a historic point where both of the traditional large parties have been thoroughly discredited with the general public, and most people feel exactly the way that ad describes.

While I personally feel that way about New Zealand, I don't know that the exact same message would resonate here with people who aren't already Green voters. I think many are more likely to think "this government sucks, let's go back to Labour” than “Labour and National both suck, how do we get out of this mess?” So I think the general spirit of the ad would work here, but the specific message needs to be different.