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all right new zealand folks, how many of you have ever morphed???
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https://twitter.com/AnaSamways/status/904869107769556993 https://twitter.com/AnaSamways/status/905568655395586048 
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Sep 7, 2017 06:53
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new poll https://twitter.com/ColmarBruntonNZ/status/905672628286898176 one thing i haven't mentioned is that this isn't bill english's first election as national party leader – in 2002, he led them to a historic low of 20.9% here he is 15 years ago, driving a tractor up the steps of parliament & losing a charity boxing match  
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Sep 7, 2017 07:26
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Sep 8, 2017 09:53
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liberals are straight up obsessed with toilet paper, aren't they
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Sep 8, 2017 11:20
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R. Mute posted:liberals are straight up obsessed with toilet paper, aren't they if you were that full of poo poo wouldnt you be too 🤔
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Sep 8, 2017 15:59
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mrbradlymrmartin posted:if you were that full of poo poo wouldnt you be too 🤔 
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Sep 8, 2017 23:29
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without toilet paper, how could we post?
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Sep 10, 2017 01:50
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NZPol update: hope was a lie that's gone to die in a $11 billion hole.
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Sep 12, 2017 11:42
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did you guys elect the conservatives lol
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Sep 13, 2017 02:06
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quite stretched out posted:did you guys elect the conservatives lol No, we elected this guy:  Well, not ME, obviously. But some of us did.
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Sep 13, 2017 03:44
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introduce me
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Sep 13, 2017 03:59
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quite stretched out posted:introduce me His name's John. I think he's unemployed now, so I'm sure he he'll have time for a chat. BYO hotdogs, make sure you have a ponytail.
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Sep 13, 2017 09:54
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quite stretched out posted:did you guys elect the conservatives lol You may have confused two different but irrelevant countries
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Sep 14, 2017 06:16
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im gonna be honest i forgot the entire thread after i finished reading it so i took a guess
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Sep 14, 2017 07:01
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I voted overseas and my roommate (American) was impressed by the ease of our voting system Party voted Green/ Labor for Electorate
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Sep 16, 2017 17:15
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Did you guys have the election yet
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Sep 17, 2017 01:22
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actually, everyone agreed that elections were a big mistake and they wouldn't have any more.
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Sep 17, 2017 01:25
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PleasingFungus posted:actually, everyone agreed that elections were a big mistake and they wouldn't have any more. I'm glad
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Sep 17, 2017 01:26
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just read the op jfc !!
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Sep 17, 2017 03:47
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there are just 6 sleeps to go until the election i voted on tuesday (2 ticks act babey!), as did a ton of other people:   labour and the greens are pushing advance voting hard, since obviously they're the parties that rely on increasing turnout. people are also able to enrol at advance polling booths, which is nice. some are predicting that this will be the last election where the majority vote on election day itself. ___ a few more polls have been released, with some wild fluctuations. the two big ones polled over the exact same period and got these results   ???????? polls of polls have the big 2 basically even  one problem is that there are fewer polls than in previous elections, so no one really knows what the gently caress, lol. ___ the labour party has flip-flopped on a promise to implement the findings of a tax review before the next election, after concerted ratfucking from the national party. this comes on the heels of the nats claiming there was a $12bn shortfall in labour's election costings (there wasn't), and that they are going to raise income tax (they aren't): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoIV2TGX1aE this is ardern's first major blow as leader, but i suspect the u-turn won't have damaged her much if at all. ___ rnz has done a series of extended interviews with the major party leaders, they're all quite interesting bill english jacinda ardern james shaw winston peters the biggest highlight is winston peters being unable to weasel away from answering questions when an interview is 25 minutes long. jacinda also does the fascinating thing of saying that neoliberalism has failed, while refusing to do anything to dismantle it. 
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Sep 17, 2017 06:36
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Voted early, as usual. Got a sticker to prove it. It was at the library, so I also got a book on Godzilla. And an apple and rhubarb pie. All in all, a good day out. 10/10, would vote again.
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Sep 17, 2017 11:37
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what sort of influence has disneys moana had on this election
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Sep 17, 2017 17:04
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if labour loses by just a little will ardern get replaced or does she get credit for improving their numbers by so much
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Sep 17, 2017 17:19
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Do you guys vote early by mail or what
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Sep 17, 2017 19:45
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Lawman 0 posted:Do you guys vote early by mail or what legally at any time they can swim into the sea and whisper the name of their preferred candidate to a dolphin, that counts as a vote watch out tho!!! if they are tricked and what they believe a dolphin is actually a shark, that person has forfeited their vote and the shark gets to cast their ballot instead
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Sep 17, 2017 20:07
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Squizzle posted:what sort of influence has disneys moana had on this election none, tho a couple of pasifika mps did criticise it for being racist at the time Badger of Basra posted:if labour loses by just a little will ardern get replaced or does she get credit for improving their numbers by so much i don't think there's any chance she'll get replaced, even if they do worse than what polling suggests. andrew little is credited with unifying their caucus; before him there were endless leaks to media & rumours of leadership challenges every couple of months. helen clark lost in 1996, stared down a leadership challenge, and won in 1999, so it's certainly been done before in recent memory.
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Sep 17, 2017 21:02
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Lawman 0 posted:Do you guys vote early by mail or what there are a bunch of polling places around, i just walked to the one closest to work. we vote on paper ballots, there are boxes for the different electorates in the region, and you don't need to show any id or anything
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Sep 17, 2017 21:07
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Lawman 0 posted:Do you guys vote early by mail or what Real answer: I drove to the local library, handed over a little card with my name on it, got my voting paper, ticked two boxes and was done. It took about three minutes. It used to be you could only do it if you were going to be out of town on the day. Now it's just "You're ready? Sure, here's a form, go nuts." Our voting system is pretty good, seeing as we borrowed it from Germany.
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Sep 17, 2017 21:10
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Distorted Kiwi posted:Real answer: I drove to the local library, handed over a little card with my name on it, got my voting paper, ticked two boxes and was done. See we could get a national ID card but that would require convincing a good section of the population that's it's not the number of the beast
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Sep 17, 2017 21:42
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Lawman 0 posted:See we could get a national ID card but that would require convincing a good section of the population that's it's not the number of the beast Oh we don't have a national ID card. This is just a little bit of card with your details that get sent out to you with info on polling places a couple of weeks before the election if you've enrolled to vote. You don't e even need one, it just makes things quicker.
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Sep 17, 2017 23:30
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National vs. Labour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chMCU5VSuqw
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Sep 18, 2017 03:47
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Also thinking about farting red this year
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Sep 18, 2017 04:07
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some farmers got mad about labour wanting to tax them for the insane amount of water they use & pollution they cause and had a little protest   a famous tractor, myrtle, made an appearance!  here is bill english again, doing misogyny on it shortly before he got destroyed by another female labour leader in 2002 ___ animosity between farmers and the labour movement goes back more than a hundred years. william massey, our worst prime minister, enlisted farmers as 'special constables' during the 1913 dock workers' strike. they bravely rode their horses into unarmed strikers and beat them with batons, enabling scab labour to be brought in. hooray!  
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Sep 18, 2017 07:48
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considering how utterly horrible all farmers are all over the world, it makes you admire mao even more for getting their support
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Sep 18, 2017 11:28
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R. Mute posted:considering how utterly horrible all farmers are all over the world, it makes you admire mao even more for getting their support american farmers were one of the most progressive forces in the country until after ww2. in most countries in latin america campesinos remain some of the strongest supporters of the left. i dont know poo poo about aus or nz tbh, but mostly the first world farmer becoming more reactionary is a very modern development that arose alongside corporate farming, and you still have large swaths of rural europe that vote left and that doesnt even include asia, where farmers were THE revolutionary class (as you mention Mao, but also SE Asia) Sheng-Ji Yang has issued a correction as of 10:34 on Sep 19, 2017 |
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Sep 19, 2017 10:31
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farmers here were traditionally very, very catholic and very, very conservative
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Sep 19, 2017 14:00
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in nz at least, farmers were the people who could afford to buy (or steal) land after immigrating from the uk. farm workers were never highly unionised, and today they tend to rely on cheap, easily exploitable migrant labour.
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Sep 19, 2017 14:14
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how the heck do you even harvest anything without an enormous underclass of non-citizen indentured labor???
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Vox Nihili posted:how the heck do you even harvest anything without an enormous underclass of non-citizen indentured labor??? Enslaved Orcs.
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