Usually their hot topics are bitching about housing and simping for TOP but these days I’ve noticed a lot more posts to the extent of “labour sucks and now I have no choice but to vote for national >:(”. Unsure if this reflects a general change in sentiment or if certain parties are spending their excess donations on buying out accounts. Worth mentioning I’ve noticed inflammatory topics posted by accounts that have been dead for years.
There’s a few things that happened after the fact to make the Marama thing blow up a lot more, the first was her “apology” was more of a “what I really meant to say was”. She never directly acknowledged a lot of what was in that statement.
The second one was, whether by incompetence or malice, the mods deleted a number of posts on the topic before it finally gained traction, meaning that by then, people were pissed
I think it’s also why it gets brought up so often as well, it has definitely become a running joke.