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Ghostlight posted:Unions are bad because they subvert the power of the meritocratic business owner class, and a pooling of power to production workers is of course the requirement for a communist revolution and then we'll all be the USSR with broken factories and lines for bread because idiot factory workers don't know how to run a stockmarket. The USSR was good actually.
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I preferred the Russian Empire.
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Oct 12, 2015 00:51
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There is a real cognitive dissonance going on with free market libertarian, capitalists business types not like unions - I mean, what's more capitalist than giving money to a group that will perform a service for you? Even ayn rand was cool with insurance which essentially free market socialism ffs. What the gently caress is wrong with these people?
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Oct 12, 2015 01:11
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Unions impose rules on you and in some cases require membership so it's actually more like a tax, which as we know are always bad due to not being dictated by the market.
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Oct 12, 2015 01:18
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klen dool posted:What the gently caress is wrong with these people? Someone once told me something is really really really bad and now my entire identity rests on this being true regardless of any arguments or evidence to the contrary, however persuasive.
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Oct 12, 2015 03:04
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Slavvy posted:Someone once told me something is really really really bad and now my entire identity rests on this being true regardless of any arguments or evidence to the contrary, however persuasive. Same but the opposite opinion and now I hate you
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Oct 12, 2015 03:51
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Ghostlight posted:Unions impose rules on you and in some cases require membership so it's actually more like a tax, which as we know are always bad due to not being dictated by the market. Like a country club, or golf club, or a marina, or a gated community. Also, unions sometimes have competing unions.
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Oct 12, 2015 04:11
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All of the former are good because they are privileged status symbols for the elite. Market competition between unions is double bad because it requires the existence of multiple unions which, as discussed, are bad.
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Oct 12, 2015 04:16
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This is the cover, see that the PSA & Andrew Little are double dodgy: He's begging for it to be serialised in a newspaper à la Ashcroft. Basically he desperately needs money and is facing two or three defamation cases that he's likely gonna lose.
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Oct 12, 2015 04:17
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Ghostlight posted:All of the former are good because they are privileged status symbols for the elite. Market competition between unions is double bad because it requires the existence of multiple unions which, as discussed, are bad. gently caress you're good at this. I think you might be rich.
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Oct 12, 2015 04:19
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Slavvy posted:Someone once told me something is really really really bad and now my entire identity rests on this being true regardless of any arguments or evidence to the contrary, however persuasive. Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me, I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed, she was looking kinda dumb with a finger and her thumb in the shape of and L on her forehead.
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Oct 12, 2015 05:01
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Something that hasn't been mentioned: Wikileak's copy of the TPP agreement text has a specific requirement for us to implement the 1991 UPOV convention (or sui generis equivalents), extending the period for which legal persons can literally own plants as intellectual property from 15/18 years to 20/25 with stricter rules on exemptions from our current 1978 commitments.
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Trade Minister Tim Groser acted unlawfully in withholding some information about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the High Court has ruled. Anti-TPP activist and University of Auckland academic Professor Jane Kelsey and others sought a judicial review of Mr Groser's decision to reject an Official Information Act (OIA) request for eight categories of documents which related to the 12-nation trade deal. In a judgement released this morning, Justice David Collins said Mr Groser failed to follow the rules set out in the Official Information Act before refusing her request. "When the Minister refused Professor Kelsey's request, neither he nor his officials assessed each piece of information requested against the criteria in the Act for withholding official information. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11528361
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Oct 13, 2015 01:02
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Punishment for the unlawful activity: a deadline longer than the delay the unlawful activity was intended to cause.
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Oct 13, 2015 01:28
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OIA and the Bill of Rights Act need some real teeth to reign in such activities.
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Varkk posted:OIA and the Bill of Rights Act need some real teeth to reign in such activities. National will just make it retroactively legal.
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Oct 13, 2015 01:51
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Yeah are the cops gonna go round and arrest groser? Maybe he'll end up in court?
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klen dool posted:Yeah are the cops gonna go round and arrest groser? Maybe he'll end up in court? Good one.
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Oct 13, 2015 06:28
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At last some good news about the referendum 
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Oct 13, 2015 06:29
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3News.co.nz is running a story with the following byline: "Labour is swallowing an enormous, filthy, stinking, rotten, maggot-infested dead rat called the Trans-Pacific Partnership." Once you click it you discover it's actually an opinion piece by Gower, but....really? http://www.3news.co.nz/opinion/opinion-labour-swallowing-tppa-rats-2015101316#axzz3oIhrN027
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Oct 13, 2015 07:39
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Good god. How is it we live in a universe this loving terrible and crap?
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Slavvy posted:Good god. How is it we live in a universe this loving terrible and crap? That's a parody article.
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Oct 13, 2015 08:28
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Yes.
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Slavvy posted:Good god. How is it we live in a universe this loving terrible and crap? A human heart posted:That's a parody article. Which article are you guys talking about? The Civilian one or the Paddy Gower one?
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Oct 13, 2015 09:15
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Paddy Gower is a parody of a political journalist.
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Lancelot posted:Paddy Gower is a troll doll that has been animated by an evil right wing wizard
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Oct 14, 2015 04:36
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So it appears a large part of the surplus comes from underfunding special needs education in secondary schools.
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Oct 14, 2015 07:45
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National achieved a rockstar economy surplus* by cutting public spending?  *rockstar economy surplus good for 6 weeks of debt servicing only
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Oct 14, 2015 08:02
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Remember when we had a surplus under a government that didn't do illegal things then make it legal afterwards?
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Oct 14, 2015 08:20
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Was that the "NINE LONG YEARS UNDER A LABOUR GOVERNMENT" that the current one keeps
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Oct 14, 2015 08:32
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:Remember when we had a surplus under a government that didn't do illegal things then make it legal afterwards? Well, they did do that, but not as often as the current government.
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Oct 14, 2015 08:52
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Ghostlight posted:National achieved a rockstar economy surplus* by cutting public spending? They are probably using the same accounting tricks which the music and movie industries use to deny a greater share of the profits to the artists. In the meantime the economy itself has chocked on its own vomit in a cheap motel room.
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Oct 14, 2015 09:52
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A more dignified ending than the Neo-Liberal Carradine Plan.
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Ghostlight posted:National achieved a rockstar economy surplus* by cutting public spending? The funny thing is that I'd say that if National hadn't put through so many tax cuts they would have been back in surplus years ago.
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Oct 14, 2015 21:29
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On a good note, at least award-winning and likely satanic and/or gay agenda supporting book "Into the River" has been released unrestricted.
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megalodong posted:On a good note, at least award-winning and likely satanic and/or gay agenda supporting book "Into the River" has been released unrestricted. Did you read the dissenting opinion by the President of the Board of Review? quote:Sex is portrayed as very pleasurable at the time even if Devon ultimately regrets his actions. It is treated as an animalistic fun activity. quote:Irresponsible sexual activity simply for pleasure should not be engaged in by any teenagers, particularly those as young as 13. It does not equip them for adult sexual life; it may often be physically dangerous. It may contribute to youth suicide when a “relationship” breaks up, and it is not conducive to concentration on academic studies.
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Ghostlight posted:National achieved a rockstar economy surplus* by cutting public spending? It's not just that they're cutting public spending, it's where they're cutting it from that's hosed up.
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quote:Irresponsible sexual activity simply for pleasure should not be engaged in by any teenagers, particularly those as young as 13. It does not equip them for adult sexual life; it may often be physically dangerous. It may contribute to youth suicide when a “relationship” breaks up, and it is not conducive to concentration on academic studies. This reads like it comes from a 1960's parenting handbook. At least they made the correct decision regardless.
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Taitale posted:Did you read the dissenting opinion by the President of the Board of Review? animalistic fun activity is going to be the title of my power electronics album
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