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klen dool posted:I don't think people are dumb for not knowing that Taiwan and China have beef I mean, neither do I. If someone tells you you're from a country you have no knowledge of, you'd just be like, "oh cool, where's that, what's it like there" or something else equally mundane and harmless. Not, "gently caress you, there is no such thing as being 'Taiwanese', it's Chinese".  e: God drat it new page. Sorry for making the start of the new NZ thread about China...
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It is just more evidence of Chinese influence across all sectors of our society and politics. https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/104330488/nz-soft-underbelly-for-china-infiltration-of-intelligence-network--canadian-report
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The fear of a yellow planet is the inevitable drift of Aotearoan politics.
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Top-secret report uncovers high-level Chinese interference in Australian politics https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/05/28/17/38/chinese-communist-party-interference-australian-politics It's quite worrying that both Ardern and English dismissed Ann Brady's research into this. Time to start learning Mandarin, boys.
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truther posted:Time to start learning Mandarin, boys. It's too hard. I'll just wait until my life literally depends on it.
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Look I'm not gonna pay for Mandarin lessons today when there'll be free state-mandated Mandarin lessons tomorrow.
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Yeah, sure, I'll learn Mandarin. Granddad started learning Japanese in the early nineties and look at the mileage he got out of that. (He actually used it a fair bit when he took a trip to Nara with my Uncle, although his choice of pronoun could've used work)
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exmarx posted:https://twitter.com/henrycooke/status/1003827020634062849 And only one union rep too :/ Give it 10 years and they'll be getting John Key to lead a task force on GCSB powers
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exmarx posted:E tū is a union Oh true Still I really expected the SFWU to get a spot, since their agreement is probably going to be the model for the new law
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I'm the worker bargaining cooperatively with my employer to ensure my wages are at an appropriate level for my job neoliberal misunderstanding that that is the currently existing structure which has done nothing but deliver low wages as any consideration that the natural condition of worker and employer under capitalism is necessarily adversarial due to the inherent power differences of those bargaining positions and that workers must be raised up rather than treated equally is tantamount admission that capitalism is inherently flawed and that organised and legally empowered labour unions are necessary for it function properly.
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bike tory posted:Oh true
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exmarx posted:E tū is a union Pretty decent one too, they managed some bitchin' collective agreements with some of my clients, guys there get top $.
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bike tory posted:Oh true EPMU and SFWU merged in 2015 to form E tū 
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Imagine being Jim Bolger, making it all the way to the loving top then 15-20 years later realising that what you did while there was a mistake.exmarx posted:EPMU and SFWU merged in 2015 to form E tū loving eh I've been out of NZ for too long
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I can’t wait until the current National Leadership start trash talking Bolger.
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bike tory posted:Imagine being Jim Bolger, making it all the way to the loving top then 15-20 years later realising that what you did while there was a mistake. Taking his 9th Floor interview at face value, that's exactly what has happened. Maybe he heard Shipley's interview prior to his and thought "there is no way in Hell I'm coming across as siding with that idiot"?
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Mrs Bolger was a teacher at my primary school. She taught us about mmp. That's my Bolger story.
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Bolger visited my primary school when I was 8. I was pretty happy about it but my dad tried to tell me about why he was a bad person.
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bike tory posted:Imagine being Jim Bolger, making it all the way to the loving top then 15-20 years later realising that what you did while there was a mistake. My reading was that he thought the reforms he did were necessary, but that there was no reason for those reforms to be considered The Only Way things can be done forever after, let alone be taken even further.
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cptn_dr posted:http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1806/S00047/new-conservative-building-the-right-bridges.htm I reckon there's at least a solid 5% of voters who fall into that socially conservative, fiscally conservative group and at the moment National are sharing them with NZF. If National were smart they'd gift these guys an electorate seat somewhere and make themselves a new coalition partner.
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I guess it's my own fault for reading the Herald, but gently caress me if Hosking doesn't piss me off every time he opens his mouth. It's incredible to me to see someone so wealthy ranting about nurses demanding more than they were offered when - considering the work they do - they really aren't compensated that well.
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Slavic Crime Yacht posted:I guess it's my own fault for reading the Herald, but gently caress me if Hosking doesn't piss me off every time he opens his mouth. It's incredible to me to see someone so wealthy ranting about nurses demanding more than they were offered when - considering the work they do - they really aren't compensated that well. On NBR Rodney Hide is arguing for the introduction of a poll tax and forced labour for those too poor to pay it. Some people just exist to annoy others.
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Hillary 2020 posted:On NBR Rodney Hide is arguing for the introduction of a poll tax and forced labour for those too poor to pay it. lol because NZ's history with poll tax was really successful and a good thing to reintroduce Slavic Crime Yacht posted:I guess it's my own fault for reading the Herald, but gently caress me if Hosking doesn't piss me off every time he opens his mouth. It's incredible to me to see someone so wealthy ranting about nurses demanding more than they were offered when - considering the work they do - they really aren't compensated that well. Relatedly, NZEI are currently debating whether they accept the ministry's offer of ~2.5% per year pay increases (with the biggest increases at the bottom of the payscale). They went in asking for 16% over four years. I'm hoping they hold out like the nurses are
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I turned on the car radio this morning, and it was tuned to zb somehow instead of radioactive and in the space of 2 mins hosking said that kiwibuild was fraudulent, as was labours intention to go into like river, and he said the word crap and bollocks. Now, i am no stranger loving strong cunting language - I quite national enjoy the odd bloody swear. But it just sounded so hosed. I don't know why.
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If only sports cars would disintegrate on impact, instantly killing the driver.
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This part is the worst to me:Some smarmy idiot posted:We like nurses, but 9 per cent is testing the patience of many of us who haven't seen 9 per cent in our lifetimes, far less now. Sure thing Mikey, you're on minimum wage too right.
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We need a home-grown "Dirty Jobs with Mike Hosking" show. I'd love to see him trying to do the jobs of the people he shits on.
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Smithersnz posted:This part is the worst to me: That was what annoyed me so much about it. When the gently caress has he ever struggled for anything?
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Slavic Crime Yacht posted:That was what annoyed me so much about it. When the gently caress has he ever struggled for anything? When he tried to get into a pub in New Market that was closed for a private function, and still couldn't get in despite screaming "don't you know who I am?" at the top of his lungs.
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Slavic Crime Yacht posted:That was what annoyed me so much about it. When the gently caress has he ever struggled for anything? I'd say alcoholism, but that'd be presuming he ever fought it.
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Slavic Crime Yacht posted:That was what annoyed me so much about it. When the gently caress has he ever struggled for anything? I hear he struggled keeping his car on the race track.
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