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homeowner 39 22.41%
renter 69 39.66%
stupid peace of poo poo 66 37.93%
Total: 174 votes
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Smithersnz
May 10, 2005

We freaked out yesterday. Let's just freak in tonight
Soiled Meat
The real question is where are the conservatives

quote:

Of the parties outside Parliament the Conservative Party of NZ is 1.5% (up 0.5%)

godammit.

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puchu
Sep 20, 2004

hiya~
I would like the non-race-baiting party to win please

A human heart
Oct 10, 2012

BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:

So now we have two right wing parties as our two main parties? Cool.

How did this post from the 80s get here?

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



puchu posted:

I would like the non-race-baiting party to win please
Good news, they're up 0.5%.

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

At this point, post-Don Brash National would have an awesome track record on race stuff, much better than Labour, if it weren't for that pesky inequality that they refuse to acknowledge fully.

Like seriously, we went from Labour's Foreshore & Seabed and Urewera Raids, and Don Brash's Orewa speech, to a settlement with Tuhoe over te Urewera. That's a pretty big about-face.

voiceless anal fricative fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Jul 18, 2015

puchu
Sep 20, 2004

hiya~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lMzPWgPn3M

My fav bit is at 3:40

Also Colmar Brunton put a poll out that said Labour went up 1% after the racebaiting thing? I had hoped that they would die but eeeeeh

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free
The newest character in Street Fighter is a Super Saiyan Maori with an NZ stage (filled with sheep)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9ci3LlyAeE

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



How insensitive. It's spelt Nga Kāri.

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
Aside from the stage, absolutely nothing suggests that he's Maori.

Which, given how loving worthless Capcom is at everything, means he's Maori. :shepicide:

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
So it's not just me who thinks this is pretty tame, right?

http://www.3news.co.nz/nznews/video-andrew-little-snaps-over-chinese-buyer-data-questions-2015072112#axzz3gUCfRShX

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



I am concerned that some people, because of their Chinese ethnicity, have felt singled out by our press-release about how people with names of Chinese ethnic origin are ruining Auckland.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
remember when 3 news secretly filmed Asian people at a house auction while Gower intoned over it

http://www.3news.co.nz/politics/calls-for-controls-on-foreign-home-buyers-2013022818#axzz3gUCfRShX

Ghostlight
Sep 25, 2009

maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me



No because I don't watch 3 News, but it's kind of hilarious that it took only two years for Gower to go from going out of his way to frame the Green's foreign ownership policy in anti-Asian terms to browbeating Labour over their foreign ownership policy already being framed as anti-Asian.

Jaguars!
Jul 31, 2012


Some district councils let their speed limits expire. Central gov't is legislating to retroactively keep all speeding tickets valid. Bastards.

puchu
Sep 20, 2004

hiya~
"I'm not racist" - the Andrew Little story

xiw
Sep 25, 2011

i wake up at night
night action madness nightmares
maybe i am scum

Cpig Haiku contest 2020 winner
Labour people are melting down on the blogs over this too, its' quite impressive.

https://dimpost.wordpress.com/2015/07/21/politics-and-the-real/#comment-138438

WarpedNaba
Feb 8, 2012

Being social makes me swell!
So a guy in the bar, about his 60s, up and says to his mate that 'I don't care that National's giving the country to the Chinese. Better than Labour giving it to the Beneficiaries."

God forsake this country.

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

WarpedNaba posted:

So a guy in the bar, about his 60s, up and says to his mate that 'I don't care that National's giving the country to the Chinese. Better than Labour giving it to the Beneficiaries."

God forsake this country.

looks like we have become a mighty host

a mighty fine host that is

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Is this some kind of record for a person going from an internet darling to a dumbfuck asswit in the least possible time? Like, a couple of months is a drat good lap time, I've never seen it happen so quickly before.

SuperiorColliculus
Oct 31, 2011

WarpedNaba posted:

So a guy in the bar, about his 60s, up and says to his mate that 'I don't care that National's giving the country to the Chinese. Better than Labour giving it to the Beneficiaries."

God forsake this country.

Somehow wrong from both ends at the same time.

Truly a middle Niew Zillud opinion.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
Blind populism is what you do when you (still) don't have a cohesive set of ideas to promote

Butt Wizard
Nov 3, 2005

It was a pornography store. I was buying pornography.

Exclamation Marx posted:

Blind populism is what you do when you (still) don't have a cohesive set of ideas to promote

The dumb thing is Kiwibuild is so close to being an actual, credible proper Labour policy. And yet they persist with it in its current form.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.


Butt Wizard posted:

The dumb thing is Kiwibuild is so close to being an actual, credible proper Labour policy. And yet they persist with it in its current form.

There have to be Labour people saying this stuff. Is it just the party leadership believing their own hype or what.

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.



:rip:

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




ACT member?

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I guess the bribe wasn't big enough.

puchu
Sep 20, 2004

hiya~
Serco are extremely bad

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




Why? Didn't they gently caress up? How can you be mad if you gently caress up?

Moongrave
Jun 19, 2004

Finally Living Rent Free

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

How can you be mad if you gently caress up?

This is one of the most common human reactions m80!

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
Sercowned

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/70525388/government-takes-over-sercorun-mt-eden-prison

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Binkenstein posted:

Days behind, but Riccarton.

6 houses being built, 2 being renovated, 2 just "empty".

I've heard of riccartoin!

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




Key JR for PM the level headed blokes bloke just hanging on the beach with his chum as we all do

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
Benefit raise has been delayed until next year, "to give people chance to make submissions on tougher work tests"

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




unexpected

puchu
Sep 20, 2004

hiya~

puchu posted:

Serco are extremely bad

Have you nerds read that post on reddit where some guy who said he's a former inmate told a bunch of stories about his time in prison including the organised fighting in Mt Eden

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




Have you nerds been into NZ prisons before partial privatisation? I mean my own personal point of view is that incarceration for profit is morally dubious, but it wasn't the perfect shining system under govt control either. So...

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
lady at work tells me prisoners can do phds in prison for free. she is pissed off

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

Have you nerds been into NZ prisons before partial privatisation? I mean my own personal point of view is that incarceration for profit is morally dubious, but it wasn't the perfect shining system under govt control either. So...

I think they should stop the privatisation, and also improve the public ones

SurreptitiousMuffin
Mar 21, 2010
We don't want criminals becoming doctors.

That's how supervillains happen.

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Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




Prisoners have become doctors behind bars, then become sympathisers to the incarcerated but with academic weight to support them.

Which is great as we are supposedly an advanced civilisation or some poo poo but you know, killing people, stealing poo poo that ain't yours or beating the poo poo out of people ain't cool and has an effect that requires at least a sense of adequate justice.

But others who come out of prison with formal education are less likely to cave someone's head in for doing something trivial so who gives a poo poo if they get it for free.

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