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Focusing on new initiative spending being lower is also a nice way to highlight how much less your government is doing.
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May 1, 2015 07:30
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Slavvy posted:I know next to nothing about this gloriavale stuff but Isn't the guy in charge a convicted sex offender? I think it was the previous leader, when they were based in Canterbury. After the arrests etc they moved to the West Coast to distance themselves / start again.
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May 1, 2015 08:46
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open24hours posted:they're on an ancient phone and I can't get them off. Yeah, getting things over 12 years old off isn't really a thing for Gloriavale.
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May 1, 2015 09:22
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Vagina Jones posted:I think it was the previous leader, when they were based in Canterbury. After the arrests etc they moved to the West Coast to distance themselves / start again. Pretty sure he served his sentence, changed his name and is back in the middle of the community.
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May 1, 2015 10:51
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ftw Vagina Jones posted:I think it was the previous leader, when they were based in Canterbury. After the arrests etc they moved to the West Coast to distance themselves / start again. The guy who founded them back in the 60s is still the leader.
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Any Western Springs College alumni here? The school has been trying to complete a rebuild project since 2011 (when I did a practicum there), with almost all buildings bar the S Block near the back of the school badly in need of either renovations or a total rebuild. They were promised the financial resources by the MoE, but officials have dragged their feet since, and it is now at the point where the board and parents have told Ministry officials to go gently caress themselves. The straw that broke the camel's back has been the Ministry's decision to omit the full rebuild from the list of options to be presented to cabinet, despite the fact that it had been made clear by the community that that was their preferred option, and the now broken promises that were evidently made by officials that it would be included in the list of options. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/68207960/school-rebuild-delays-cause-anger-at-western-springs edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 22:00 on May 2, 2015 |
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May 2, 2015 21:43
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The Re-Judithing
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May 3, 2015 02:07
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Exclamation Marx posted:The Re-Judithing I guess Audrey Young has been talking to her, then. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11441957
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May 3, 2015 02:56
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May 3, 2015 03:50
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May 3, 2015 06:12
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I once wondered 'What is it that drives the national party to treat the public like children and then gently caress them in the rear end?'. I now know the answer to my question 
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May 3, 2015 06:28
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It's OK guys, Key singling out a woman for repeated harassment was not sexist because he could have been tugging on a bloke's ponytail, presumably while having a beer with him. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/68235578/john-key-ponytail-pull-not-sexist
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Vagabundo posted:It's OK guys, Key singling out a woman for repeated harassment was not sexist because he could have been tugging on a bloke's ponytail, presumably while having a beer with him. I could've been groping a guy! I didn't, but I could have! I could've been catcalling at a handsome dude! Sure, it was a lady this time, but you don't know, maybe next time I'll pick a guy and tell him he's got nice legs! Just because I paid my female employees less than male employees, that doesn't mean anything! Hypothetically I could have paid them more! It's possible! It could happen!
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May 3, 2015 22:30
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I haven't watched all the footage of me touching hair but all I can say is it's a world where you touch things. No biggie.
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"At the end of the day, the average Kiwi voter blah blah blah." I have been thinking about why this has picked up so much traction, and it's really the first thing that Key has actually been directly implicated in. Even all the Dirty Politics stuff was about people around him being involved and Key was only just skirting the borders of it (although, to be honest, if you're perpetually surrounded by people who are doing dirty poo poo "without your knowledge," then you're either naive, ignorant or lying - none of which are qualities that should be present in a head of state IMO). Sooner or later, you're still going to start to smell like poo poo if you surround yourself with it.
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May 3, 2015 22:36
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"I didn't mean to be", "it wasn't the intent", etc is the same defence as always in cases of sexism or racism. That's why he didn't stop when she told him to, or when his wife told him to, and actually only realised she didn't like it when he confirmed with her (male) co-worker. Nah, not sexist.
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May 4, 2015 00:32
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The other bad stuff has been incremental, we haven't had big austerity cuts or anything. So it's apolitical (or less political) things like being a hair-touching weirdo, or if he was to push hard against public opinion with the flag, that kinda stick in the public consciousness.
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May 4, 2015 01:05
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Ben Rachinger has put a bunch more stuff up on his blog since it was last linked here.
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May 4, 2015 01:12
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Are the subsequent chapters written any better than the earlier ones?
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May 4, 2015 01:17
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mirthdefect posted:Are the subsequent chapters written any better than the earlier ones? https://medium.com/@benrachinger/the-hacker-and-all-the-pms-men-part-eleven-2f3322a0b22a This one is worth reading. He says he's 'time-pressed' but it's the most readable entry yet.
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May 4, 2015 01:20
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mirthdefect posted:Are the subsequent chapters written any better than the earlier ones? He alleges that he was paid to hack The Standard, but still appears to be an innocent lamb stumbling through the world of Dirty Politics https://medium.com/@benrachinger 
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Exclamation Marx posted:He alleges that he was paid to hack The Standard, but still appears to be an innocent lamb stumbling through the world of Dirty Politics That was pretty strenuously denied by Farrar: quote:I was not the organiser of the party, and was not a party to the conversation. Yet Hager published this as fact. It is reasonably defamatory as various people have smeared me over it. http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2014/08/how_hager_got_it_wrong_on_the_princess_party.html
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May 4, 2015 01:31
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mirthdefect posted:Are the subsequent chapters written any better than the earlier ones? He's deaf apparently, on top of being an uber nerd, so I doubt it.
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May 4, 2015 02:19
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Ratios and Tendency posted:He's deaf apparently, on top of being an uber nerd, so I doubt it. It does actually make sense that his writing would actually be a bit off because of that, due to the quirks in NZ Sign. I guess his writing style comes off as a bit odd because English wouldn't actually be his first language.
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May 4, 2015 02:52
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Butt Wizard posted:That was pretty strenuously denied by Farrar: "As a Republican" He's an American now?
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May 4, 2015 05:48
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:"As a Republican" As in nz should become a republic. You know, rather than a vassal state of an empire that died three centuries ago officially ruled over by an inbred and provably mentally deficient monarchy.
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Infotainment! posted:As in nz should become a republic. You know, rather than a vassal state of an empire that died three centuries ago officially ruled over by an inbred and provably mentally deficient monarchy. But then we'd have to get new money and a new national anthem and actually write up some kind of binding legal document for the people in the country. More effort than it's worth
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May 4, 2015 05:54
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:But then we'd have to get new money and a new national anthem and actually write up some kind of binding legal document for the people in the country. As if John Key doesn't have drawers full of song lyrics about how rad he is and note designs featuring his face. The tppa already took care of the last problem.
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Butt Wizard posted:That was pretty strenuously denied by Farrar: Is the joke that he didn't deny going there for the purpose of date-raping-late-teen-to-twenty-somethings, or am I missing something?
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:But then we'd have to get new money and a new national anthem and actually write up some kind of binding legal document for the people in the country.
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Infotainment! posted:As in nz should become a republic. You know, rather than a vassal state of an empire that died three centuries ago officially ruled over by an inbred and provably mentally deficient monarchy. The British Empire died three centuries ago?
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The Sin of Onan posted:The British Empire died three centuries ago? Yes.
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The early 1700's? Please explain your unique yet strongly held views on this subject
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newtestleper posted:The early 1700's? Please explain your unique yet strongly held views on this subject Maybe he's a dog, around 1945ish could be 300 in dog years.
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Vagabundo posted:It does actually make sense that his writing would actually be a bit off because of that, due to the quirks in NZ Sign. I guess his writing style comes off as a bit odd because English wouldn't actually be his first language. Nah he's just a bad writer. Deaf people write just fine, its not like written and spoken English are much alike at all.
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newtestleper posted:The early 1700's? Please explain your unique yet strongly held views on this subject
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May 4, 2015 19:59
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Infotainment! posted:The independence of the United States was the death blow (60 ish years isn't too bad for internet hyperbole), the body just writhed around for a bit on the way out.
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Because it's not like they still controlled India and significant parts of China or anything. Death blow.
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