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Infotainment! posted:Death blow.
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May 4, 2015 20:28
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Infotainment! posted:So you deeply believe new zealand should not become a republic? You are saying a historical thing happened, which it did not. I'm telling you you're wrong. I have no strong feelings on the republican debate. The monarchy's role is purely symbolic at this point, so who cares?
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May 4, 2015 21:00
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Infotainment! posted:Of course they're synonymous, as used in conjunction with the metaphor I used earlier of the body writhing. You do understand that an empire doesn't literally die right? That the use of the iconography of "death" is a metaphorical representation of an empire ending/falling/declining. newtestleper posted:But it wasn't off the cuff. You were challenged and stood by it. The logic isn;t self evident, and it's not even close to correct. It's not correct to the point that the years known as "Britain's imperial century" started 100 years after you said the empire ended.
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May 4, 2015 21:59
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I wonder what a "stalled economy" looks like. Maybe it's a prime minister who hasn't managed to deliver a single surplus in his entire time in office.
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May 17, 2015 10:44
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I had a job overseas that would've trained me to do a job that the nation sorely needs, but thanks to John Key's policy changes meant to curb "DOLE BLUDGERS TAKING HOLIDAYS IN BALI" I was forced to return home and do another degree so I can continue sucking off the government teat for four more years, and eventually become the mid-level Wellington beltway bureaucrat this country deserves. The evil of dole bludgers/graduates trying to work in lower-paying fields and countries has again been curbed. I met John Key once. Dude sweats like a paedophile in a playground. He is permanently moist. There is a miasma around him. Nick Smith too. All the Nats I've met have sweated and smiled too much. It's unnerving. I'm not going to suggest they're aliens dressed in human skin but the thought has occurred to me.
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May 17, 2015 11:37
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I get to meet Winston tomorrow. Anything I should say to him?Somfin posted:Aw, gross, that means he's been touching young girls' hair with moist, clammy hands. John Key's entire life is a fart in the elevator of god.
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May 18, 2015 03:11
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Ivor Biggun posted:[e] SurreptitiousMuffin, if you run into a lull in the conversation just ask Winnie what he thinks of that
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May 19, 2015 01:49
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Results: cantankerous, folksy, still puffed-up about his Northland victory, said "not racist but" or equivalent so many times I lost count. He's starting to show his age. Not an attack on the dude, but it's written all over him that the engine is winding down a little. It'll be interesting to see how that goes.
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May 19, 2015 03:27
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Yeah that was the thing. He picked up speed eventually, but he was definitely a bit doddery and wheezy to start out with. I almost felt bad for him. Tomorrow I'm gonna be on Backbenchers. I have been warned not to call Collins "crusher" to her face, and now that it's in my head I'm gonna have to try really hard not to.
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May 19, 2015 05:00
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Goon does not understand jokes, hyperbole. News at 6.
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May 20, 2015 02:23
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echinopsis posted:welp they must be some lovely fuckin' jokes if they are exactly the same as what I read on facebook and here people talk, or see on twitter etc.  quote:maybe 
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May 20, 2015 04:09
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Nah I didn't manage to get on camera. Kinda disappointed honestly. The people with the huge weed signs were constantly blocking my view. 
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May 20, 2015 12:23
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Jesus Christ, Andrew Little is already a loving disaster. That budget speech he gave was a total mess. I've already resigned myself to dealing with Key's smug face and horrible sycophants until Jacinda passes the magical barrier of "old enough to be PM".
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May 25, 2015 22:59
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Not quite a majority iirc, but more percentagewise than any other party except NZ First.
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May 26, 2015 04:01
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We had Dr Jian Yang come in and speak to us today. His thing was basically "Chinese people like the National Party, and also other Chinese people. I am a Chinese person in the National Party. Chinese people vote for me because I am Chinese in the National Party." I did like his bit about how he "replaced" Pansy Wong because there needed to be a Chinese person in the party. Also, we had Todd Muller yesterday. He was surprisingly charming, and willing to admit that National totally dropped the ball in Northland. SurreptitiousMuffin fucked around with this message at 07:26 on May 26, 2015 |
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May 26, 2015 07:21
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WarpedNaba posted:Eh, Tokenism's the same no matter what right-wing party you dress. Whether or not he's pro-Beijing is what gets my attention.
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May 26, 2015 07:34
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"I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes." - Winston Churchill
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May 26, 2015 21:39
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Ghostlight posted:The Master's tools cannot dismantle the Master's house, which is exactly why I advocate for violent Marxist revolution of the proletariat instead of participating in society to make it better. If anything, I actively try to make society worse so that others can realise the only real option for change is not by democratic participation but through armed and violent resistance followed by systemic purges of the upper class.
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May 31, 2015 10:52
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Benevolent Dictator John Key.
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Jun 1, 2015 03:49
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I remember NCEA Social Studies. It was almost entirely focused on Maori history and the Treaty. That would be okay if it was covered in any sort of comprehensive detail, which it never was. If anything, it really watered down and underrepresented the British aggression in terms of things like the Lands Act . My knowledge from high school social studies is "British showed up, signed a treaty with the Maori in 1840, we gave women the vote because we're awesome, cut to now."
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Jun 2, 2015 21:32
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Butt Wizard posted:I remember going into the Lands Act stuff in 7th form but that would have been only because we did the NZ History syllabus instead of Tudor England or whatever the other choice is.
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Jun 2, 2015 23:06
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Yeah, poo poo. I ended up covering a condensed version of it in first-year law and that was a real adventure in learning to hate my country and my heritage. It's just case after case of "lol gently caress the mareeys" until you get to maybe the mid 70s, at which point it becomes case after case of furious "gently caress THE MAREEYS" and then you get to the present and everything is still a hosed up mess, and even our ostensibly left-wing party still don't give a poo poo about our indigenous people. I remember Foreshore and Seabed but I was too young to understand it. Looking back, holy poo poo Helen Clarke what the gently caress. Labour are responsible for both the Black Budget and Foreshore and Seabed and I really don't know how to feel about that.
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Jun 3, 2015 00:47
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A good week for JK; in this amazing video if I didn't know better I could swear our Top Bloke PM is trying to invoke Wi Parata to explain why the crown doesn't give a poo poo about native title, which is hilarious because it's the most horrifingly racist verdict in the entire history of the country. Also it's almost 150 years old and has been overturned numerous times. quote:In the 1877 Wi Parata case, which involved Māori land at Porirua, Prendergast ruled that the courts lacked the ability to consider claims based on aboriginal or native title. He described the Treaty of Waitangi as ‘worthless’ because it had been signed ‘between a civilised nation and a group of savages’. In his view, the Treaty had no judicial or constitutional status because Māori were not a nation capable of signing a treaty. Since the Treaty had not been incorporated into domestic law, it was a ‘simple nullity’.
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Jun 16, 2015 00:01
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But is he a  oval office?
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Jun 30, 2015 04:38
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Somfin posted:We'll welcome them as liberators.
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Jul 4, 2015 04:44
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:Wonder if jk is at the rugger right now, necking down some tui and eating some quality burgers Everybody knows jk would only eat Georgie Pie pies. He's that much of a top Kiwi bloke.
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Jul 4, 2015 10:11
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Man imagine if NZ had a large Chinese population that had been in the country for most of its history. I'm sure they would appreciate being considered foreigners because they kept their family names.
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Jul 13, 2015 07:17
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My High School Principal was called Mister Ching but he was white as gently caress. Like, he looked like a dad from a 50s sitcom. He was one square-glasses buzzcut cardigan wearing dadjoking motherfucker. Mister Ching is the reason your house is so expensive.
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Jul 13, 2015 07:59
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It makes me uncomfortable that the people making these decisions use words like 'baddies' in interviews.
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Jul 14, 2015 03:07
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WarpedNaba posted:Google 'Eco - Eternal Fascism'. The national party is an enormous group of inbred bastards, but they don't quite hit the markers for fascism. Yet.
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Jul 15, 2015 02:48
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I'm reading a whole lot of poo poo about 'Ecofascism' now and it's pretty hilarious. "I CAN'T VENT SMOKE FROM EVERY ORIFICE 24/7 THE LIBERALS ARE LITERAL NAZIS".
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Jul 15, 2015 04:30
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We don't want criminals becoming doctors. That's how supervillains happen.
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Jul 25, 2015 09:56
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Put John Key in prison, make him fight Winston. Broadcast to the nation, finally balance the budget. Pls elect me for pm I got this poo poo on lock
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Jul 25, 2015 13:02
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Privatise the police.
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Jul 26, 2015 04:34
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I'm just gonna go with Swampland here and say "don't y'all dare have 300 posts in a single day and it not be about John Key's horrifying demise in a hair-pulling accident." you got me so excited
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Jul 28, 2015 01:04
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quote:The fact that I was compelled to take a breathalyzer test is certainly on the low end of the spectrum of potential civil rights abuses. The spate of deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of American law enforcement in recent months, and now the death of Sandra Bland, casts a shadow on the notion of what it means to live in the land of the free. Nonetheless, a minor infraction is still an infraction. And in New Zealand, their approach to catching drunk drivers gives law enforcement the authority to act based on the assumption that people are guilty before proven innocent.
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Jul 28, 2015 11:08
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Getting pulled over for speeding is exactly as bad as the systematic racism that gets black folks gunned down by the very people who are supposed to protect them. Don't believe me? Well have you heard of this thing called the Corpus Juris Civilis? Justinian would not have stood for this. Also Mabo v Queensland 1992, and the general vibe of the thing, you know? I rest my case.
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Jul 28, 2015 11:48
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I'm from Nelson. You may now reassess any positive thoughts you had about it.
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Jul 30, 2015 09:08
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Nick Smith is a ferret wearing a mansuit. I can't believe nobody else has spotted this yet. He even smells like one. His main opponent is Mike Ward, who bikes around town on a horizontal bike because that's apparently better for the environment. Also it makes you much harder to see in traffic. Mike Ward has been almost-run-over so many times I'm losing count.
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Jul 30, 2015 11:07
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Notice that her hair is carefully shorn. She knew JK was coming, and she came prepared.
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