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Disinterested posted:Sounds like the New Zealand I spent a few months in back in the day. A nice place but drat there is some backwards poo poo going on. In the last decade? A massive shift to US style personality politics requiring party leaders pretend to have no aspirational qualities. A general mean spirited gently caress you got mine attitude encouraged by the global financial crisis, price gouging by collusive oil companies, and a hosed real estate market that is hell bent on misery based profiteering. One positive side effect of the beigening is that the centre right parties focus all their bigotry on the impoverished, as they are much less likely to vote then any other minority. As a result they are not as anti woman/lgbt/non white as a lot of their overseas equivalents. Farmers are still mostly idiots.
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Varkk posted:http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/business/64891314/Workplace-rules-erode-any-future-for-farming Holy poo poo.
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Jan 15, 2015 21:24
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*uses extremely exploitative and illegal labour practices, including child labour and the indentured servitude of illegal immigrants. *receives never ending tax breaks, grants, and other government financial support. *inherited farm from parents, hasn't touched a crop or animal in a decade. Mostly just masturbates to Leighton Smith while phillipinos at the mercy of work visa renewals effectively pay for the right to work. *Owns 7 holdens, 2 boats, and shares in 2 utility companies. *always votes national because "those bleeding heart faggots are too soft on loving dole bludgers and foreigners mate". *Drinks Speights, beats wife as outlet for tension caused by repressed homosexuality.
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Jan 15, 2015 22:45
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fong posted:you don't know very much about farming That's as may be, having spent 7 years cleaning up messes made of people's lives through exploitative and illegal employment practices has given me little regard for farmers complaining about employment law. To be clear, this wasn't my actual job but the practices were so pervasive I had to wade through it a couple of times a week. And I think you kinda missed the point about the obnoxiousness of a massive recipient of government assistance being so aggressively anti someone else receiving the same.
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Jan 16, 2015 09:30
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Tax credits, regulatory exemptions no other business gets, a publicly funded political advocacy wing. It is pretty funny the actual cash subsidies got canned by the Nat government federated fuckwits is still desperately pushing.
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Jan 17, 2015 00:22
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LIBERTARIANS: irrefutable proof of Dunning Krueger.
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Jan 17, 2015 04:49
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Lol at Nick Smith claiming Christchurch having the highest number of consents issued in the last 7 years as a win. Finally replacing a few of the thousands of earthquake hosed houses isn't really progress.
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Jan 18, 2015 23:29
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Ardennes posted:Yeah thats quite a bit more than LA (I would say 400-600k), what is a common wage for a service industry job in NZ? If anything that seems pretty comparable to DC/NYC/SF but Auckland is part of a considerably smaller metro area. Service industry would be $14 -$20 an hour, the vast majority being at the low end of that. Tips are rare as gently caress. Increasingly you are unlikely to be guaranteed any hours in a week.
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Jan 19, 2015 04:14
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gently caress this gay government
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Jan 19, 2015 08:53
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:They're not gay, that would be alienate their voter block. Lol if you don't think John key beigely panders to the pink vote every chance he gets while his south Auckland mps vote against human rights for reasons of "community culture" just like labour.
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Jan 19, 2015 09:13
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^ I would hope so too, I just don't think John sees it as a problem.
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Jan 19, 2015 10:02
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:New Zealand Politics - WarpedNaba arrested on domestic terrorism charges Does it count as domestic if the victim exclusively serves foreign interests?
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Jan 21, 2015 05:46
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That is some remarkably on the nose brand synergy.
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Jan 21, 2015 07:01
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Exclamation Marx posted:Maybe it'll be good news Ahahaha Hahaha Ahahaha "Enjoy these new toll roads which should ease congestion. I'm not sure how as public transport will remain hosed. Oh look, we have a surplus from the tolls, let's lower the top tax rate" *John Key and Bill English cum so violently that Deborah Cone Hill drowns. That is literally the only way good news comes out of tomorrow's announcement.
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Jan 22, 2015 09:57
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There's always the off chance they prove useful and popular and turn an actual profit. Obviously if this happens they will immediately be sold to an offshore company which triples fares, fires 90% of the staff and spends literally nothing on maintenance or upgrades until the service literally falls apart. The sale price will be under two years operational income
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Jan 23, 2015 03:32
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:excuse me but the only people unsafe in cars and other vehicles are teens??? Who do you think keeps running members of the Sons of Accountancy off the road?
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Jan 26, 2015 11:20
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klen dool posted:I thought you were kidding. Then, I read the article. Because NZers overwhelmingly voted for National. Well, I mean, a slight majority. Well, a slight majority of the lowest voter turnout ever.
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Jan 27, 2015 11:23
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Vagabundo posted:Hey guys, we have Year 9 kids this year born after 9/11 and the first-gen iPod. That was your "oh gently caress, I'm old" bit of information for today. You bastard
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Jan 29, 2015 02:49
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On my phone so can't link but I'm really enjoying everyone (including the police lol) freaking out about masked, armed gangstalkers at Parnell train station based on what is clearly some lovely viral marketing for a lovely student film.
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Jan 29, 2015 03:43
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Butt Wizard posted:There's been more than one complaint over the last few weeks if I'm reading that article properly. http://m.liveleak.com/view?i=589_1422342736 Definitely lovely viral marketing.
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Jan 29, 2015 04:18
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Holy poo poo the comments. "My dad would just beat them up, Kevin. Baby".
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Jan 29, 2015 04:27
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Wandle Cax posted:Marketing for what Infotainment? A lovely student film. Read the liveleak post.
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Jan 29, 2015 10:33
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Someone needs to snap a photo of him crying while drinking a shandy. Gone. E: or just acknowledging domestic violence is bad.
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Jan 31, 2015 23:49
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John key is sunk cost fallacy pressed into human shape and wrapped in a skin made of smug
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Feb 3, 2015 06:43
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Dear Nz authorities, I hope John Key dies.
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Feb 13, 2015 06:56
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:Soon or at a natural rate? *dials 11 and hovers over the 1 key* Immediately. 
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Feb 13, 2015 09:49
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Exclamation Marx posted:
He's pretty badly ethically disabled tbf.
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Feb 14, 2015 04:57
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focal ischemia posted:y'all know making fun of sports fans and people who join the military just reeks of class-ism right? Sportspeople are/are inviolably linked to the upper class in nz.
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Feb 15, 2015 12:18
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Wandle Cax posted:He said sports fans, not sports people. I guess politicians don't plea fealty to the all blacks / any other sports team that wins then?
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Feb 16, 2015 00:18
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Butt Wizard posted:I'm not sure I agree here - you can think war is wrong but you can think poo poo-heads like Isis are worse. Where does your obligation to society lie then? To help stop the bad guys or to make a point about war by not going? Kind of weird to end on that statement after dividing the world into goodies and baddies a la GIJoe.
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Feb 16, 2015 10:30
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Yeah, the issue is that "the machine" isn't some abstract alien entity, it is literally just enough people following your bullshit "meh, gotta make a living" philosophy. To use your example, if enough people did say "I won't mine coal, as I'm morally opposed to the consequences" or even "because it would be nice for humanity to survive", the coal industry would collapse. Unemployment rates are the grease that keeps the wheels of being a loving rear end in a top hat turning.
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Feb 16, 2015 19:16
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Slavvy posted:I'M HERE AGAINST MY MORAL WISHES *rips off a stream of .50 cal* Keep going I'm almost there
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Feb 17, 2015 03:18
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Lol jokes I wasn't even oppressing you as subhuman. Smile for the western leader! 
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Feb 23, 2015 03:04
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We live in a 21st century capitalist democracy. Equality is having everything you hold dear about your identity used to market bullshit. Seriously.
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Feb 23, 2015 23:18
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I really appreciate how much Barnaby Weir sounds like 'buyer beware'. It's kind of like his parents built in a warning label.
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Feb 24, 2015 11:14
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Challenge him to a duel for his daughter's hand.
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Feb 28, 2015 04:43
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Drape yourself in the American flag, wink, lean in, and slowly and quietly ask "mouth or south?"
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Feb 28, 2015 05:19
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Defile his mother's corpse with your feces and seed.
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Feb 28, 2015 10:29
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Well, phrase the above as a question I guess. "How stoked are you that I just. .." etc
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Arglebargle III posted:Is NZ a good country? Can I come some time? My hobbies include misanthropy and being alone. BTW why is half the Star Trek thread in here? We basically live in an ongoing civil war between artists and farmers. Every 9 years the balance of power flips from one to the other. Right now the farmers are at the pinnacle of their turn. In short this means the economy, quality of life, quality of governance, respect for human rights, infrastructure and employment are all hosed due to unbelievably myopic thick shitedness. If you are American please don't say "it's literally lord of the rings!!!11!!" when you arrive. The cultural cringe will make the testicles of any New Zealander in earshot ascend into their stomach. But at least it's not Australia.
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