Chris Nixon
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Kiwi interested in defence/ foreign policy, history, climate change, gaming, film & media. 🇳🇿🏳️🌈 Masters in Strategic Studies, BA in IR + History from VUW.
Wellington City, New Zealand
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This channel has been covering WW1 and now WW2 week by week in "real time" for the last 10 years. Absolutely wild they're not bigger on You Tube.
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The riots in Kenya are giving us some of the hardest images of the year.
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So wild that there's straight up an African front to the war in Ukraine.
Meanwhile in Africa.
Ukrainian GUR captures Wagner POW
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Very funny some UK Labour people I follow on here being annoyed Labour are being barred from some upcoming pride events. The very first thing the new Labour Health Secretary did was cave to a bunch of transphobes! It makes perfect sense to me.
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Can't wait for these two to meet on opposite sides of the Police line.
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Also they've had a New Zealand flag in frame for every single episode for years.
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> Ireland considering NATO membership
"As Sweden and Finland have chosen to dispense with their neutrality policies in favour of NATO membership, Ireland too must face up to reality of European security as it is, not as we wish it to be. Despite fierce opposition, the Tánaiste will address the Dáil later this week."
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75 years ago today the official Japanese surrender document ending the Second World War is signed. This is one of the most important pieces of paper in human history and New Zealand has to write in our own name because Canada missed their line.
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@adriaeln
I know people that to this day will bring up the fact that you can't hit your kid anymore as a reason why they dislike The Green Party
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The most New Zealand moment of the 2020 election had to be where John Campbell and Hilary Barry, two of the nation's most preeminent journalists, just got progressively more wasted as they covered the election because everyone knew who won in about the first three seconds.
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My MP when I was discovering my sexuality, now Deputy leader of the Nats.
“[homosexuals] are now saying they want to be treated the same as other people. In my view, the sad fact is—although some will find this difficult to take—they are not the same”. - Gerry Brownlee
#nzpol
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Your friend who works for the government does not "know" we are going in to Level 3 or 4. I'm your friend who works for the government and I can tell you they haven't told us shit. We elect politicians to make the decisions, we just translate those decisions in to action.
#nzpol
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@BoisvertRich
They have an entire sub series that's basically "Fascism bad. Democracy good." And in certain elections the choice is obvious. Fully support what they do.
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This is in Wellington, New Zealand.
I hate Americanisation
I hate Americanisation
I hate Americanisation
I hate Americanisation
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Found what is likely the first physical use of the new King's Cypher and Crown in New Zealand.
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This house just sold in Wellington for $800,000.
I do not foresee ever owning a house in my life time in the city I live in which is also the only city my industry exists in.
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Jacinda is on campus at Vic today.
I do not think that any Prime Minister in our history could have drawn a crowd of students like this.
#nzpol
#NZElection2020
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@AltHistCody
Why do people think this was bad? It fits entirely with the tone of the franchise. The previous film had Elton John playing himself fighting robot dogs in a 1950s Americana diner deep in the Thai jungle.
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This is such a dog whistle when you know what the Christchurch Call was set up to prevent.
The Christchurch Call had noble intentions, but history tells us we should be wary of governments and corporations colluding to decide what information people can and can't see.
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@dbseymour
Māori history isn't "left wing ideas". It's just the history of this country. What are you on?
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He really championed the rainbow community when he voted against the conversion therapy ban at first reading.
He's white, male, rich & Christian. He's also championed gender pay equity and the rainbow community. Environmentalists rate his climate change credentials.
Can a man some thought might join the Labour Party lead National to victory at the next election?
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"Those Pride events are controlled by The Greens!"
You don't need to be controlled by The Greens (who are pretty cooked in the UK, I'm not defending them) to see the pretty obvious reason why Pride wouldn't want Labour there.
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@AlexanderAuty
Sometimes, the tankies are right. Although weirdly, in the comments, the guy seems less blood thirsty than your average NAFO account.
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@_sn_n
I made this exact joke in my headline for my headline in the university paper for the 2017 election 😭
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Got unreasonably offended by an Englishman who said the Kiwi thing of going to the shops bare foot was disgusting. Sir you may leave.
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"tiny New Zealand"
Jacinda Ardern has put tiny New Zealand on the map in her five years as prime minister, becoming a global icon for left-leaning politics and women in leadership, even as she struggled at home with the economy and COVID restrictions
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Can't wait for the Waterloo scene in the Napoleon movie this week so I can stand up in the theatre and declare that You Can't Beat Wellington on a Good Day.
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Americans every three years discovering we have seats in Parliament reserved for Māori is always hilarious.
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The Special Boat Service after they retake the hijacked oil tanker in the English channel in 9 minutes:
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Kīngi Tūheitia VII has met with King Charles III. He presented Charles with a blue and gold tartan representing the colours of the Kiingitanga and the seven waka that carried Māori to New Zealand. Charles was also awarded the highest honour in the Kiingitanga Royal Orders.
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@nikicaga
If it's just a shooting club, it's pretty normal worldwide. Shooting is an Olympic sport.
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One thing I miss about being overseas is "I'm from New Zealand" was niche enough of an icebreaker to make friends or score a date, now I need a personality or looks.
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@MardyMillennial
Wasn't really something I was contesting but even our Government didn't make a blatantly transphobic policy announcement on like, day 1 as if it was some sort of major priority for the Government and they've just been waiting to be elected to implement it ASAP.
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So cool to see it's going both ways, French troops guarding Buckingham and British troops guarding Elysee.
Exciting peek into rehearsals for historic event at
@Elysee
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@ColdstreamGds
& French troops prepping for the first foreign guard change at French presidential residence. Impressive adaptation to French commands and flawless parade execution. Monday's event promises grandeur! 🇬🇧🇫🇷
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Holy fuck, why are people ripping in to Jacinda over not going to the D Day event? New Zealand did not participate in the invasion as a national force. There were Kiwis in the British forces but that's it! John Key didn't go to the 70th and I don't remember people mad at that...
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@schmaxelio
Ensuring indigenous people always have representation and a voice in the supreme law making body of the state no matter what is something that makes me very proud of my country.
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Today I learned the most 1980s New Zealand thing ever. The New Zealand Police used to have some corporately sponsored patrol vehicles in the 1980s. They would display the company name and everything. Nightmare stuff.
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Lmao Christchurch is so fucked, why does town have a dress code?
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New one of these just dropped
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I fully understand this. No need for me to read. Thanks though. 💜
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Realised I did not actually own a single piece of rainbow clothing so rectified that before getting to Sydney.
Featuring the World Pride Moustache™️.
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People of New Zealand, this is the one time in our lives where we can go to a Queenstown that has not only no foreign tourists, but no Aucklanders either. Take advantage of that.
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No, the thin blue line is not a hate symbol. Get your American Twitter takes out of here please. Must every New Zealand issue be looked at through the lens of American culture and politics?
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Here's a before and after for
#ComingOutDay
. One thing I think straight people need to understand is that you don't come out once. Every single new group of people you meet, you have to make a conscious decision on whether or not you can come out to them. It never ends. 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🏳️🌈
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@dbseymour
Niue is Covid free and an Associated state of New Zealand that we partially govern. New South Wales is not Covid free and a part of a foreign country. Really seems like something a Member of the New Zealand Parliament should know but hey that's just my opinion.
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Simply cannot get over how cool this photo of RNZAF Skyhawks with the Concorde is. I can't believe I only found it recently.
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The whole time I've been a political nerd I've always wondered why the Liberal Democrats in the UK even exist. Now I get it.
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With the City Gallery closing, Wellington is now a capital city with no town hall, no central library, no city art gallery.
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I'm back to being a white guy in front of a flag wearing a tie, therefore my opinions are once again respected by international relations Twitter
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Stop liking this and go subscribe to their channel!
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The shortest serving PM in history got to be the PM who spoke at the funeral of the longest serving Monarch in British history.
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Not to sound like a NIMBY but the creeping chain stores on Cuba Street are depressing. Cuba is meant to be weird. Soon the only unique thing about it will be that it's a pedestrianised street.
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Covid Alert Level 2 combined with absolutely abysmal Wellington weather has meant I have been able to spend my Saturday lying in bed playing Halo drinking Lift Plus and eating chocolate, something I have not done in years. If that isn't a silver lining, I don't know what is.
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The pro passenger rail people gluing themselves to the road in front of my bus so I have to walk to work 🙃😩
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Things that are "woke" according to the Nats at the moment:
- Affordable housing
- NCEA
- Photography
- The New Zealand Police
- The New Zealand Army
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I just witnessed a gust of wind blow a civil servant's papers out from under his empty craft beer on a table at a Cuba St pub and in to the water at the bucket fountain.
We have reached peak Wellington people. There is no going back.
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I don't think this country is really working the way a country is supposed to work.
Buses to replace Wellington trains most weekends for the next '10 to 15 years', due to a backlog of renewal work needing to be done.
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So the man that attacked James Shaw was allegedly yelling about the United Nations migration pact. This is what can happen when certain groups blow issues out of proportion and lie to the public about them to score cheap political points.
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A man, a sailor, an officer, a husband, a war hero, a prince. You, like many others saved the free world. Rest in Peace.
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I have since been informed that it was perhaps only John that was drinking and that Hilary was just on a bit of a sugar rush from jet planes. Equally as Kiwi, much more wholesome.
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"Wellington Victoria University of Wellington"
Way to make us look like a cheap polytechnic
@GrantGuilford
. NO ONE wants this. Imagine what we could be talking about to make Vic better at this University if you didn't waste time and A LOT of money on this.
#stickwithvic
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@instaDG
@DeptfordWife1
British person go one thread on politics without being transphobic challenge (impossible)
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Still can't tell if it's funny or embarrassing that the leading news site in this country is just called "Stuff"
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I'm not really drastically effected by the pay freeze but I can tell you morale took a very noticble hit at work today among colleagues.
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I'm in the bush ONE NIGHT and there's a Coup attempt in Russia.
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I'm asked *a lot* "Why do we we even have a Defence Force?" This is why. It can and does save lives. Seeing an aircraft with a Kiwi painted on it and an arm with a Kiwi patch on it taking them to safety is something these people will never forget for the rest of their lives.
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Absolutely devastating, just found out two of my ancestors were convicts transported to Australia who moved to New Zealand after their sentences were completed. It's not the convict part that bothers me, it's that it sort of makes me part Australian. 🤢
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The Official Information Act is a pillar of our democracy but unfortunately it also means public servants no longer write like this in official reports.
“The building might be allowed to stand as a sad joke, regarded with kindly humour and tolerance."
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@derpo377
Tbf the scene where he talks about it was some of his best acting in the whole movie.
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Every year someone writes this and every year it makes less sense than the last. Our country has this outdated obsession with pacifism, we've never been pacifist and we never should be. I think standing up for what is right in the world unfortunately requires a military.
Opinion: There are plenty of examples of national security that are more appropriate and effective than the military. It’s high time Aotearoa New Zealand considered the alternatives.
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Hey I actually do not like you guys and think you exist purely to platform the far right.
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A Minister for Auckland? Sounds like DIRECT RULE FROM W E L L I N G T O N
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Me normally: The benign strategic environment era is over. New Zealand needs to rethink our defence policy and our relationship with the world super powers.
Me when an American criticizes New Zealand foreign or defence policy:
@Kiwi_Force
@MingAutocrat
Bro y'all are pretty bad, having you guys in five eyes while you're the friendliest anglo country to China and you won't let us base anything nuclear there
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