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merry loving Christmas!
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Dec 24, 2016 19:08
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Ghostlight posted:And on the gripping hand: Gareth Morgan hates cats, so gently caress him and his party. Him floating [universal basic income] is useful, but I'll get someone else to implement it, thanks. Someone who doesn't want to murder half my family. why do you hate tuis and kaka
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Jul 21, 2017 10:07
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:yeah and this is sort of my point. Criminalising cannabis to the extent that we do seems a bit silly, but legalising it will transfer (a probably lesser) burden from Police to the ministry of health, who have already proven that they couldn't control the legal sale of synthetic cannabinoids - how will they cope with what will be sold with the actual thing? synthetics are illegal, they passed a law that said you could sell them if they were proven safe, then changed the law to make it literally impossible to do that because you can't do animal or human testing using synthetics. so instead of having a regulated and reasonably safe market place we have an unregulated black market. it was fairly retarded.
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Jul 31, 2017 01:15
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bike tory posted:They were only unfunny if you don't have a sense of humour They were like a loud nerd yelling the parrot sketch, but politics
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Aug 4, 2017 09:13
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:Two people I know who are left of centre independently told me that they are no longer voting greens because of the resignations. Only two votes, but yeah, not ideal. ...and the echoing laughter of thirsting Gareth Morgans...
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Aug 8, 2017 22:16
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Pararoid posted:Having read an unreasonable amount of Gareth's ranting, I'm pretty convinced he would prefer to work with a National government in any case. 
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Aug 9, 2017 05:11
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exmarx posted:Kind of interesting that ardern & shaw are letting Winston do all the "petty" complaining stuff I think it's clever, Winston can do his dog/bone act and jacinda gets to be above it all. not to mention we've just had an object lesson in What Matters for politicians so everything bill e did is potentially going to be viewed through that lens.
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Aug 10, 2017 06:44
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Varkk posted:Pretty sure that would have been a letter to reader's digest but with Democrat/Republican back in Ronald Reagan's day. http://welcometotherepublicanparty.tumblr.com/
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Aug 15, 2017 04:15
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exmarx posted:It's treating basic consumer choice as activism/a replacement for actual positive change That's fatuous.
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Aug 18, 2017 03:15
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Vulpes posted:For all intensive purposes, you can take it for granite that he's a good guy. owns so brutal you'll need to call teh armed defenders squad
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Aug 20, 2017 00:32
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klen dool posted:It's a joke, intentionally mispronouncing armed offenders squad. never change, nzd&d thread
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Aug 20, 2017 08:32
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Aug 21, 2017 02:38
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oohhboy posted:Some tradie joker just about T-boned me running a hard red missing me by 200ms. gently caress that guy. had that happen a few weeks back in Newtown some idiotic oval office just charging through a red, if I'd been paying like 10% less attention my daughter would be dead.
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Aug 21, 2017 07:24
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El Pollo Blanco posted:Has Morgan ever actually shown how taxing imputed rents will solve the housing crisis, which seems to be what he claims? doesn't it take away the gigantic tax advantage of property? seems straightforward?
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Aug 21, 2017 11:35
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bike tory posted:It's one of those ideas that work in pure economic theory but not necessarily in practice because it assumes people are pure rational actors. Kinda like the entire neoliberal ideology. Well if their ideas are dumb then criticise them, but they seem well enough thought out. Right now you'd be stupid not to buy as many houses as you can get so you get that sweet free money, if you're loaded. Making that less desirable seems a good thing. What are the labour/national equivalent policies for addressing the housing problem?
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Aug 21, 2017 15:29
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klen dool posted:I listened to Peter dunne being interviewed by John Campbell the other day, and he was talking about his approach to drug policy and it seemed really sane and progressive - he certainly wanted to change that. yeah he was actually doing a good job on that, I spoke at a conference after him and he was talking about how much better it would be to have a public health approach and how proud he was that the new legislation he'd sponsored would do that. then literally two days later there was a giant media freak out about stoned maoris and he flip flopped like a pair of $5 Warehouse jandals, it was magical to behold.
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Aug 23, 2017 01:40
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Based on 2014 results, this is a nice presentation of data.
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Aug 25, 2017 00:39
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WarpedNaba posted:Did we not know this already? lookit Knowy "Did we not know this already' McKnowerson over here (I agree it's not surprising at all, just a nice presentation. I'd be really interested in the same chart from this year)
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Aug 25, 2017 02:37
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slinkimalinki posted:Bennett has made a career out of hounding people into making bad choices, so I'm conflicted. have you read the anonymous accusation letter that was floating around a couple of months back? unproven, but nothing very implausible in it. Bennett is a dick.
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Aug 26, 2017 23:21
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:I'm more interested in this Paula Bennett thing tbh I'm all for hounding out another woman who has done well for herself after living in benefits its her turn
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Aug 28, 2017 21:15
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Slavvy posted:Probably the funniest thing I've seen all week. I know geoff and he's a lovely fellow, they should have had him front a lot earlier imo
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Aug 31, 2017 08:08
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exmarx posted:Pity about his dogshit politics lol
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Aug 31, 2017 10:09
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Varkk posted:Internet party was excusable because of Laila and Hone. TOP is just bad. why are we supposed to hate them again?
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Sep 1, 2017 12:16
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so the policies are bad, apart from all the good ones? making rich people pay more tax is an explicit part of their tax policy afaict, for all its not 'realistic'. i've swung back to labour personally, but I like what they've added to the mix, a sense that it's permissible to actually change assumptions and not just tinker round the edges.
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Sep 1, 2017 22:00
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bike tory posted:No it's the particular collection of policies that, as a whole, don't work. Like he wants to drastically reduce returns on capital (specifically in the housing stock) through an imputed rent tax, but doesn't want a capital gains tax (he wants to stop property speculation, but sets out a plan that only taxes owner-occupyers). He wants to increase returns on labour over returns on capital and to decrease income tax across the board (though more so on lower incomes) but has literally no employment policies or mention of increased protection for workers. He wants the government to very tightly regulate the rental market, but also wants to completely privatise Housing NZ. He wants what he calls a "universal" basic income targeted at families with young kids, families with low incomes, and the elderly, but wants to remove paid parental leave, in-work tax credits and superannuation (so these groups would actually get a lot less money). That's just off the top of my head, I cbf reading through his policy documents again to be more specific. The point is, he sets out this inconsistent web of policy that he claims is evidence based, but really he's cherry picking specific policies from specific countries without examining the context of those policies and why they work in the environments that they do. So, like I said, individually a lot of his policies are good, but on the whole it's a mess. thanks, this is a really helpful and thoughtful analysis.
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Sep 2, 2017 06:41
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truther posted:Do not listen to the person telling people it's a waste of their vote. I thought it was a fair read on why someone might not like them, for all that I don't necessarily agree. they are a hail Mary third party without a support base so it's not a big deal either way.
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Sep 2, 2017 08:56
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bike tory posted:I was pointing out the inconsistencies; their basic income ($200/w for three years) is great, but removing paid parental leave (~$500/w for 18 weeks) probably means single parents won't be able to afford to take much time off work, if any because 200/week is not enough to survive on. It isn't misleading to say they're removing paid parental leave because they are, their basic income is not the same thing. but if you're working you'd still get it, you could save it? doesn't seem self evidently absurd. (efb) lol at Gareth entering the culture wars, he will be scalped
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Sep 2, 2017 13:41
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bike tory posted:It's ok, Morgan decided to undertake some thorough research into the Treaty and concluded that actually it's alright. He wrote a book about it. Personally I'm really glad he cleared they up for everyone. he gave a speech about it a week or two back
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Sep 3, 2017 06:17
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El Pollo Blanco posted:Gareth is done after the election, Simmons will take over TOP leadership, it seems. They might actually gain some ground next election. Simmons is a good guy, I've done a bunch of improv shows with him.
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Sep 6, 2017 11:54
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Varkk posted:New poll out and apparently National hasn't polled this low since Bill English was their leader. that's a lol
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Sep 7, 2017 09:21
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do the Germans have a word for metiria tureis emotional state right now?
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Sep 7, 2017 22:43
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Somfin posted:Wow all those facts and all of them are on one side of the national/labour divide hmmmm  lolol
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Sep 11, 2017 10:01
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Midget Fist posted:I really just want to vote for the sweet release of death but I guess I have to vote for a legitimate party. a stake for the heart, a hammer to the head.
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Sep 11, 2017 20:59
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Anybody got a bead on the latest poll results? I thought they weren't meant to drop until 6pm but people are already talking about them. words like 'devastating' and swear words like 'holy loving shitballs' are being used, but that might just be people being excitable.
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Sep 12, 2017 06:59
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El Pollo Blanco posted:How many of them aren't middle-class white men? National is known to be specifically prejudiced against non-white lesbians, it's true.
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Sep 19, 2017 01:08
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Wandle Cax posted:Morgan is such a dummy that even when he might have some semblance of a point he makes himself look like such a dickhead expressing it that nobody will take him seriously. Hiring Plunket as his press guy certainly has not helped his cause either though it has provided some comedy gold on twitter Geoff Simmons does great  in this
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Sep 20, 2017 06:18
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El Pollo Blanco posted:Lol the Reid poll was probably accurate. Editor’s note: As noted above, Mike Joy now acknowledges that he emailed TOP to discuss a statement, and TOP did not use his Facebook post without his permission.
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Sep 20, 2017 08:52
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I think we can't deny it's been an election game and at the end of the day the team with the most points can ask Winston Posters for the trophy
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voted, straight Ban1080 ticket.
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