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People who for employment must write a certain number of words about a topic of their own choosing every week tend towards speciousness
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Random reminder than if your apocalypse team does not include weavers, knitters, and sewers, you're probably going to die of hypothermia before you get a chance to build your Viking longhouse and all that other shit
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This is why we opposed Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern. Not out of hatred for free expression; not out of hatred for centre-right politics; but out of hatred for extremist white nationalism.
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On to the Newshub final. Boss business from Lisette Reymer: "This election result was so clear that I was able to film this package weeks ago before flying back to NZ"
We won't appreciate these magnificent bastards until they're gone
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The NZ government has deployed dihydrogen monoxide against the protesters! Absolute monsters
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The Aotearoa I live in is the one where a Viking-looking dude like me can roll up to the local mosque and the Imam greets me with "kia ora brother" and a hongi
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Do not carry the killer's water by sharing his shit. Videos, social media statements, manifestos, anything. Even if you're doing it for what you suppose are good reasons. Don't. This is 101-level stuff.
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Today Auckland rejected the expectation of asymmetrical civility.
The idea that queer and trans people are obliged to be civil and give a fair hearing to the people who just want to demonise and eliminate them.
Nobody has an obligation to participate in their own elimination.
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The PM nominating a woman who is actually called Cindy as her boss is an absolutely world class trolling of a certain demographic
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Two years last Friday since one of the all-time great NZ photos was taken, byStuff's John Kirk-Anderson
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Honestly a two-class system where you can join the "upper" class simply by doing something that is free and takes 20 minutes twice is a squintillion per cent better than every existing class system in human history
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Trans friend of my kid had always been very anxious and reserved. Tonight saw him for the first time with new name, clothes, haircut &c and he is almost unrecognisably more chipper and cheery than ever before. Let kids be who they are
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Luxo not knowing how much jobseeker is, it's not just glib and out of touch. It's sloppy. He just hasn't bothered to acquaint himself with the basic facts and reality of his policy. It's the $60 grocery shop again. He hasn't learned the lesson, and his advisers haven't made him
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Some truly cooked shit on Morning Report earlier. Protesters calling the police violence yesterday NZ's darkest day, as if the people who owned this entire country were never forcibly driven off their land by invading armies. The education system has failed these people terribly
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My old man went to borstal. Dead at 25. Fuck each and every one of the people who keep on bringing these failed ideas up. Never again.
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Isn't it a bit suspicious that we keep winning this though
New Zealand named world's least corrupt country for third year straight
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Pour one out for the bravest and most visionary policy response to a crisis by any NZ government, that saved the greatest number of lives of any action of our time
Could it have been better? Certainly
Could it have been worse? Look at almost any other country in the world
Breaking: New Zealand’s final remaining public health requirements relating to Covid-19 will drop at midnight tonight.
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Dear everyone going "John Key cooked a BBQ too, no big deal". Yes. He cooked for/with a prince, the All Black captain, and other big-noters behind the gates of Premier House.
Jacinda cooked for the ordinary public at Waitangi. If you can't tell the difference then I got nothing.
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Andrea Vance is just saying what we're all thinking
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For a while it was very fashionable for right-wingers to emphasise Simon Bridges' first-class education at LSE and Oxford with Jacinda Ardern's humble Bachelor of Communications from Waikato. And it's a fair cop; no comparison.
But what's her greatest strength? Communication.
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I think a lot of newly elected local govt leaders are about to find out how much of what they hate about local govt is structural and systemic and not amenable to executive discretion or "I would simply" solutions
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It seems really clear that this -- NZ's most complete tsunami evacuation response in a long time -- is directly linked to the high level of trust & confidence in govt emergency communications that derives directly from responses to the Chch quakes, March 15, and COVID-19
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The fucking stupidest thing about the Santos story, even if you think the punishment fits the crime is that we are also deporting his kid AND his wife, who is a nurse working in a understaffed DHB in the middle of a pandemic.
All for $1600. Fucking pay people. Let them eat.
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Simon Bridges is still pulling 1000 comments per hour on his post. Here are the most recent. They're coming in faster than anyone can read them, and anything up for more than a few hours has the sort of engagement numbers you can't buy even if you want to. It's incredible
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Conventional wisdom (including mine!) was that Jacinda standing down would be bad for Labour polling. What the polling bump proves to me: the former PM, as she did in 2019 with Chch and in 2020 with the rona, understood something that hardly anyone else understood and acted on it
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I made pies for dinner and the 7yo said they were tino pies and I tell you what Aotearoa, reo Māori lessons at primary school really work
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So. For two years the National Party has been knowingly harbouring an abuser and silencing his victims, all the while lecturing the country about how Metiria's historic misdeeds made her unfit to be an MP, and Labour's summer camp sex abuse made them unfit to govern.
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Nothing is funnier to me than a bunch of right-wing blokes going "if the PM can't stand the heat she should get out the kitchen" as if the woman who led us through 15 March and now this is uncomfortable with pressure
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Killer point by the president of the Principals' Federation on National's education policy: the 15 year olds who are underperforming now are the kids who went through primary school under National's previous round of education reforms
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Leighton Baker owns this dumb shit now. When all you've got to say is "well they only drove ONE car into the police line" you're well fucked
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What Gluckman found is that recidivism was so close to 100% that these programmes were worse than restorative justice, worse than prison, worse than doing nothing. That they created cohorts of violent men who would go on to terrorise their communities again. That's the outcome.
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Lot of people who hate the public service have absolutely heroic expectations of what the public service can achieve in eight minutes based on a random email
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Imagine being a political party and going to Queenstown for your caucus retreat to highlight your frugality and commitment to financial austerity
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If Campbell Live still existed, they would get Tristram Clayton, Lachlan Forsyth, and Natasha Utting in three different kinds of vehicle to make the "Corona Run" with nary a piss nor a refill just to put all the speculation to bed once and for all
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The fact that there's little evidence to support many of the govt's interventions is the point. The govt sees its role as disrupting the rational, evidence-oriented policy process in favour of things that feel righteous, because expertise is woke. The antagonism is the purpose
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Tories: there is no way that retailers in the grocery sector will pass on GST cost savings to customers and it is cynical to believe they will
Also Tories: landlords will definitely pass on cost savings from interest tax cuts to tenants and it is cynical to believe they won't
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Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux unable to find anywhere to hold their Auckland rally as "private venues are unsuitable or have declined to host them". THE MARKET HAS SPOKEN
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It's always important that we hold a candidate who has suffered sustained physical harrassment at her home during the election campaign to account for her inability to read the mind of the most recent old white guy who turned up uninvited
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It's appalling how "they're literally throwing shit" seems to produce a more reliable repugnance than "there are literal Nazis there with nooses". I am appalled. I mean don't get me wrong, shit is yucky and throwing it is bad. But it's not an existential threat to democracy is it
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My family is breaking me out the hospital for ice cream but my moon boots mean I can't get pants on so my wife brought me one of her skirts to wear
Turns out skirts fuckin rule. Might become a skirt guy for real
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Look at Australia. Early easing of restrictions to relieve pressure doesn't buy you anything except much longer pseudo-lockdowns. And eventually riots because the length is what makes it intolerable, not the severity.
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First reading vote of NZ gun control law passes 119-1. This is how it's done. Any questions?
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Brace for all the "see gun control doesn't work, we should just give up and arm everyone" takes from the stupidest people in the country
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Since they keep picking these troglodytes on purpose, nobody's forcing them to do so, at some point we are obliged to conclude that this is just who the National Party is
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Imagine having done so little and still having such monumental self belief that you just pull rank on Ashley Bloomfield like that. Maybe he can read an org chart, but he can't read a room. Unfit to serve
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As you vote, remember: he came to NZ from Australia because our gun laws would let him commit this crime.
Two parties in our Parliament oppose the reform of those laws. They are not culpable for his actions, but if they get their wish, they may yet be culpable for future acts.
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As far as "greatest New Zealander ever" goes it would be hard to beat Kupe, who got here from eastern Polynesia more than five hundred years before Europeans figured out how to reliably calculate longitude
The grave of Ernest Rutherford is in Westminster Abbey, with Newton, Darwin, Maxwell & Faraday. He has every right, as the greatest New Zealander ever, to be spinning in it. And his neighbours too.
The cowardly betrayal of science by the NZ Royal Society is beyond contempt.
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Today he has been found guilty.
Time for name suppression to lapse so voters can know which party employed a paedophile as a senior officer.
The name suppression system exists predominantly to protect the wealthiest and most powerful members of our society from the full consequences of their actions and it must be comprehensively reformed
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They're so close to figuring out why society exists
In todays episode of ShitShow, we have the anti-mandate/anti-vaxxers talk about issuing their own food “pass” to differentiate themselves from other protestors not doing their bit (“duty”) for ShitsVille
#Convoy2022NZ
#Clownvoynz
#GoHome
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With electorate races turning on 2, 4, 20 votes any attempt to restrict voting on efficiency grounds (such as by banning on-the-day registrations to speed up the count as ACT has proposed) should be understood as an attempt to gain advantage by disenfranchising opposition support
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Important to note for those struggling to keep track that the Prominent Auckland Businessman sexual abuser is different from the Prominent Auckland Political Figure sexual abuser (alleged)
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Pretty amazing that the National Party, less than 24 hours from declaring that it will make law to treat criminals differently based on their membership of a social group, sees such a problem of principle in treating sick people differently based on membership of an ethnic group
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So. Earlier polling showed ~30% support for the protest among the general NZ public. I would like to see that question asked again
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Well. Turns out the person who did the political home invasion is a National Party guy
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I handed my gun in at the buyback on Friday. I got paid for it today. The NZ Police run a major risk of making every single other government agency's remittance department look at best like incompetent fools and potentially like malicious nay-payers
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The Luxo statement is just incoherent. There is no dispute about one person, one vote. Māori electorates do not grant extra votes. TPM does not advocate for additional votes for Māori. It's simply an appeal to the base prejudice of his followers.
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Willis this morning: if I were finance minister I would simply not have inflation
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Presumably towing firms' reluctance to tow illegally-parked vehicles even with Police protection because they sympathise with the parkers will be taken into consideration the next time WCC tenders for towing contracts
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Carry a personal locator beacon. They weigh nothing and you don't notice carrying one.
The cost a few hundy and that's a lot of money. But less than an hour of chopper time. if you use it and it saves your life, the manufacturer will usually replace it free.
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If the polls hold, the whole election results rests on the Greens getting back in. If you are wavering, vote for them. Shit is really real.
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9yo listening to Checkpoint while we ate dinner.
"Who is this guy?"
"Bill English. He used to be the Prime Minister. You remember the debates?"
"Oh, yeah, he wants to make poor people sleep in their cars."
Kids, man. Don't get on their mean side.
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The final proof that identity is politics is that even the people who think they hate identity politics do identity politics
A new annual tradition began in Parliament today, with Mark Cameron winning special permission for rural MPs to wear gumboots in a show of solidarity with farmers.
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"Opponents of cannabis legalisation say the amount people can buy each day will make life worse for heavy users" like, motherfucker, do you know how much you can buy each day NOW? As much as you like. Literally as much as you can. Pounds and bales. Fuck these fucking people.
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Lot of BA in economics and BCom/LLB holders doubting the expertise of the PM's Chief Science Adviser because she only has a DPhil from Oxford and 30 years of science-policy expertise behind her, not even counting the team of researchers in that office
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Every now and then some right-wing crank tries to make the argument that people who support trans and queer rights are the real minority and it is just pretty much never true in any country remotely like ours. This is the latest and strongest confirmation
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The cornrows shit show at King's illustrates why it is important for people like Rawiri Waititi to hold the line against honkey conformism and the arbitrary power of the prefect-headmaster cabal
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This seems to effectively mean that to go onsite for work purposes at any school or educational facility, or any medical or care facility, you will need to be vaccinated. This is a lot wider than just teachers and carers. Very good.
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Repeated jokes by David Seymour about the Ministry for Pacific Peoples, followed by a couple of random punters turning up to hassle them
Attacks by National against the CTU followed by a random threat significant enough to lock down their building
It's not great is it
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The fact that Simon Bridges thinks Maureen Pugh -- an anti-science, anti-vax crank -- is fucking useless actually raises my estimation of his judgement.
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Luxo and Stanford's solemn words about the ROyal Commission into Abuse in State Care are all well and good, but until they commit to scrapping the latest iteration of it (their boot camp scheme) those words should be regarded as hollow
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So the govt has shut down the economy, and is pulling 87% approval for doing so. About 8% disapproval. So ole Tory mate in your feed who hasn't stopped pissing on about the govt being dysfunctional? That person is among the most extremist 8% of the country. Calibrate accordingly.
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This is the official
@DrJinRussell
Appreciation Thread. Do a tweet about what Jin's work has meant to you during this here miseryscape.
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Ten thousand lives saved as a straight-line consequence of a government policy decision led by the PM is probably more than any PM outside of wartime can claim just on its own, not even considering the concomitant economic and social benefits. She done good. One of the real ones.
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National is having a week so bad that the retirement of an MP who is possibly a deep-cover CCP spy is hardly even going to make the 6 o'clock news
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When you are outnumbered more than 10 to one by people you have baselessly slandered as paedophiles and rapists and they let you walk away, that's usually considered a good outcome
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Jacinda Ardern's genius is in being able to effectively communicate that she understands some people will disgree with her, but they can go and fuck themselves, without needing to say the last bit
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The filthy secret behind each and every variation on the "he were a man of his time" apologia is that, in that time, in every time, there were men and women who did not hold those abhorrent views; who said so, and whom the eopnymous men ignored or ridiculed or marginalised.
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Few people have done more for NZ than Jeanette Fitzsimons, or with deeper grace and humility. A genuine quiet hero in a field full of braying big-noters
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"it's pretty hard to have a contest of ideas [with National] when they don't seem to have any" is quality bants from the Chipster
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"You can't go to a kindergarten without hearing te reo, even if there's not a brown face within 50 miles." Brash thinks there's a 50-mile radius area in Aotearoa where there are no brown faces. A literal fantasy world for white supremacists.
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Pretty amazing that after five years out, two of them during a world-changing pandemic, against an ambitiously reformist govt, the Nats seem to have not one single original idea. It's tax cuts, welfare bashing, and laura norder again with a new face. Seems like a nostalgia kick
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Now let's hear from the New Zealand Herald, a paper literally founded in order to promulgate popular support in Auckland for Grey's invasion of the Waikato
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Hosking's "Māorification" bit is basically a rewrite of a 2011 ACT campaign ad written by noted conspiracist cranks Lindsay Perigo and John Ansell which is still up on the NZ Herald website now
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Looks like the Free Speech Government is going to make a habit of calling for the heads of people who say mean things about them on the internet
Who could ever have predcted this
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A hate-merchant turned up today with Nazis on her side trying to intimidate Aucklanders in their own city and got away totally unharmed. The only injury I have seen reported was to a Green MP, inflicted by one of the hate rally's supporters. Important lessons for everyone here
I am ashamed of how some of my fellow NZers behaved today. Utterly disgusted. Instead of debate, they willingly chose oppression and mob rule. They then celebrated that as a good thing, because they happened to agree with the mob.
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Maybe we should have a referendum to decide whether ACT is allowed to stand for parliament
After all, that's democracy, right
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The PM regards merely doing her job as not a Labour advertisement and while that is entirely accurate, she remains the best advertisement for the Labour party in my lifetime
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Here's an example. This is just insane, a nominally-conservative government led by nominal-conservatives gutting its own knife-edge budget and throwing out decades of precedent to retrospectively grant extraordinary tax refunds to a client class
It's day three of this government
Landlords are set to receive backdated tax breaks in an accelerated decision by National — and the policy is tipped to cost $3 billion.
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I think many of you will agree that this is an extremely restrained response
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It's extra cute how the people who are most concerened about the rallies breaching L2 seem mostly to be the people who already want to go L1
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Give Marama Davidson Oranga Tamariki because if she can't fix it, it can't be fixed
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Dear Paula Bennett, if you are worried about people making money selling weed to kids under a future hypothetical decriminalisation scenario then I have some bad news for you about the last 50 years or so
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