Aotearoa Newzealand Politics: Roads of National party significance

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Lobsterpillar: Feb 4, 2014

Charles 2 of Spain posted:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511160/kaipara-mayor-s-mum-with-broken-hip-waits-2-point-5-hours-for-ambulance
Waiting two hours for an ambulance seems pretty bad, I'll just Google who the mayor is surely he's in favour of more funding for it...

Mayors don't decide the funding for health services as far as I'm aware, I'm not sure why you'd shoot yourself in the foot by being against it when its not really your main corner

# ? Mar 8, 2024 07:43

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# ? May 12, 2024 17:33

Slavvy: Dec 11, 2012

quote:

Act Party leader David Seymour came a cropper on his electric bike in Auckland's Parnell on Sunday, and says he got a lot of help from passersby - but one onlooker was not quite so supportive.
Seymour was cycling on Parnell Rd after leaving the Holy Trinity Cathedral’s Commonwealth service in the early evening.

“I just didn’t see a car. It wasn’t their fault, they had right of way. So I slammed on the brakes and realised I was going to cartwheel over, but I also realised I was still going to hit the car so I slammed on the brakes harder and over I went.”

Seymour says he did not hit the car, and the people in it stopped and came back to check on him. “They were mortified, but it wasn’t their fault.”

He was unhurt other than the shock and a sore wrist that he hoped would heal quickly. A number of people turned up to check on him, bringing out water and offering him a ride home.

However, there was one negative reaction to his plight.

“While I’m sitting on the traffic island in a state of shock, some guy comes over and starts filming me. I thought ‘that’s a bit weird’ and then he says ‘you know what, sometimes you get exactly what you deserve”.

“In a [British] accent, he said ‘look what you’re doing to Māori, you’re just a trust fund baby who’s out of touch with reality.”

“I thought ‘I am Māori, and I don’t have a trust fund’.”

# ? Mar 11, 2024 05:34

klen dool: May 7, 2007; Okay well me being wrong in some limited situations doesn't change my overall point.

This motherfuckers whakapapa is his great-great-great-grandmother from waimate north and he grew up in Northland and barely went to a marae. He may have Maori ancestory but he's not loving Māori.

He's no more Māori than I am an Orkney Islander.

# ? Mar 11, 2024 06:24

redleader: Aug 18, 2005; Engage according to operational parameters

klen dool posted:

This motherfuckers whakapapa is his great-great-great-grandmother from waimate north and he grew up in Northland and barely went to a marae. He may have Maori ancestory but he's not loving Māori.

He's no more Māori than I am an Orkney Islander.

# ? Mar 11, 2024 06:50

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

he's a politician so it's public record that he has trust funds but mentioning that would require a journalist to not simply serve as the megaphone for a crapitalist

# ? Mar 11, 2024 07:01

Slavvy: Dec 11, 2012

I just liked the idea of Seymour going over the bars on an e-bike like the lazy unskilled piece of poo poo he is

# ? Mar 11, 2024 07:29

Spyderizer: Feb 18, 2004

I'm not going to wish the man actual harm, but I'm not going to pretend a blooper real of David Seymour repeatedly getting hit by a car and looking directly at the camera like there's got to be a better way wouldn't be funny.

# ? Mar 11, 2024 08:39

Robo Captain: Sep 28, 2013

klen dool posted:

This motherfuckers whakapapa is his great-great-great-grandmother from waimate north and he grew up in Northland and barely went to a marae. He may have Maori ancestory but he's not loving Māori.

He's no more Māori than I am an Orkney Islander.

Seriously? For all his talk about being Māori I assumed a parent or at least a grandparent.

# ? Mar 11, 2024 09:11

Deep Glove Bruno: Sep 4, 2015; yung swamp thang

Well now you know that it's impossible for him to do anything bad to Māori. If the US had this rule like it would also be impossible for like 60% of white americans to do anything bad to Black people. Handy!

# ? Mar 11, 2024 09:14

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

bad takes

# ? Mar 11, 2024 09:17

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

i'm pretty sure the one-drop rule was imported directly from the us

# ? Mar 11, 2024 09:18

Serephina: Nov 8, 2005; 恐竜戦隊
ジュウレンジャー

Robo Captain posted:

Seriously? For all his talk about being Māori I assumed a parent or at least a grandparent.

That's the great thing about claimed ancestry; it propagates fully forward. One parent of his was Maori, so he's Maori (blue eyes and all!), as will be any of his children.

If someone wants to gatekeep that it's sure as gently caress not gonna be me and my white rear end.

# ? Mar 11, 2024 09:20

Slavvy: Dec 11, 2012

Spyderizer posted:

I'm not going to wish the man actual harm, but I'm not going to pretend a blooper real of David Seymour repeatedly getting hit by a car and looking directly at the camera like there's got to be a better way wouldn't be funny.

He didn't even get hit by the car, he flipped himself over the bars trying to avoid the car. Which indicates he could've easily stopped in time but that would involve not being a useless oval office

# ? Mar 11, 2024 09:20

klen dool: May 7, 2007; Okay well me being wrong in some limited situations doesn't change my overall point.

Also I do not believe for a second that he had a crash, then a British guy said he was being mean to Maori and he thought to himself "but I am Maori how could I be mean to Maori" that's way too convenient a story

# ? Mar 11, 2024 09:33

Deep Glove Bruno: Sep 4, 2015; yung swamp thang

Ghostlight posted:

i'm pretty sure the one-drop rule was imported directly from the us

the one-drop rule in the US doesn't have a corollary that lets right wingers claim one drop ancestry as an excuse for backing racist policies. they're way more likely to just hide it

# ? Mar 11, 2024 09:40

Lobsterpillar: Feb 4, 2014

Slavvy posted:

He didn't even get hit by the car, he flipped himself over the bars trying to avoid the car. Which indicates he could've easily stopped in time but that would involve not being a useless oval office

I wonder how far you need to be going to flip over the handlebars.

# ? Mar 11, 2024 11:58

Deep Glove Bruno: Sep 4, 2015; yung swamp thang

Lobsterpillar posted:

I wonder how far you need to be going to flip over the handlebars.

I know this: slower than you'd think

# ? Mar 11, 2024 15:01

Slavvy: Dec 11, 2012

The slower you go the easier it is, especially with hydraulic brakes which he undoubtedly would've had. Just a perfect example of unearned power on an levels

# ? Mar 11, 2024 18:24

kaiwero: Aug 22, 2006

As he no doubt has no skill in riding a bike, he most likely grabbed a whole handful of front brake and stacked it.

Easy enough to do if you don't have any skills, but also easy enough to avoid by doing the bare minimum of learning/training.

# ? Mar 11, 2024 18:54

Progressive JPEG: Feb 19, 2003

probably full suspension too, making it even easier

# ? Mar 11, 2024 19:30

voiceless anal fricative: May 6, 2007

Stop trying to prove that Seymour isn't Māori. It's gross and pointless and immaterial to whether or not he loving sucks or whether or not the policy he's ramming through on his 8%-of-the-vote rear end "mandate" is going to directly cause death and misery for Māori.

# ? Mar 11, 2024 19:48

Confusedslight: Jan 9, 2020

voiceless anal fricative posted:

Stop trying to prove that Seymour isn't Māori. It's gross and pointless and immaterial to whether or not he loving sucks or whether or not the policy he's ramming through on his 8%-of-the-vote rear end "mandate" is going to directly cause death and misery for Māori.

# ? Mar 11, 2024 20:05

Ghostlight: Sep 25, 2009; maybe for one second you can pause; try to step into another person's perspective, and understand that a watermelon is cursing me

fart tory is correct.

# ? Mar 11, 2024 21:36

sebmojo: Oct 23, 2010; Legit Cyberpunk

i am nodding firmly at nationals $3 billion dollar handout to landlords, they've been doing it hard and this will tip the balance into make new zealand a country we can all be proud of

# ? Mar 11, 2024 21:38

Saros: Dec 29, 2009; Its almost like we're a Bureaucracy, in space!

I set sail for the Planet of Lab Requisitions!!

As a country we have gotten mighty slack at doffing our hats to our betters, this will help change that and return suffering landlords their dignity.

# ? Mar 11, 2024 23:22

klen dool: May 7, 2007; Okay well me being wrong in some limited situations doesn't change my overall point.

I'm not trying to say seymour isn't maori, I'm saying he is as maori as I am an orkney islander - and no one should listen to me when I try and direct orkney island affairs

# ? Mar 11, 2024 23:29

Gnome de plume: Sep 5, 2006; Hell.
Fucking.
Yes.

Slavvy posted:

And that man's name was
Albert Einstein

# ? Mar 11, 2024 23:36

Charles 2 of Spain: Nov 7, 2017

* Arapata Einstein

# ? Mar 11, 2024 23:41

Solus: May 31, 2011; Drongos.

Spyderizer posted:

I'm not going to wish the man actual harm

I am

# ? Mar 12, 2024 00:58

slinkimalinki: Jan 17, 2010

voiceless anal fricative posted:

Stop trying to prove that Seymour isn't Māori. It's gross and pointless and immaterial to whether or not he loving sucks or whether or not the policy he's ramming through on his 8%-of-the-vote rear end "mandate" is going to directly cause death and misery for Māori.

# ? Mar 12, 2024 01:33

alpaca diseases: May 19, 2009

Spyderizer posted:

I'm not going to wish the man actual harm

ban this sick filth

# ? Mar 12, 2024 11:56

Progressive JPEG: Feb 19, 2003

NZ research in a nutshell https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511648/callaghan-innovation-wants-to-cut-staff-focus-on-money-making-projects

It's simple... just predict what will make money and only do that

# ? Mar 13, 2024 22:04

exmarx: Feb 18, 2012; The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.

# ? Mar 14, 2024 06:35

redleader: Aug 18, 2005; Engage according to operational parameters

Progressive JPEG posted:

NZ research in a nutshell https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/511648/callaghan-innovation-wants-to-cut-staff-focus-on-money-making-projects

It's simple... just predict what will make money and only do that

the last time a western government gave a poo poo about funding research was 1945

# ? Mar 14, 2024 07:17

mweb: Mar 14, 2019

Hey, long time no login over here.

Just checking in from abroad, in the USA its pretty nuts right now. Looks pretty poo poo in NZ too rn but still several octaves different level of difficulty

# ? Mar 14, 2024 08:00

Saros: Dec 29, 2009; Its almost like we're a Bureaucracy, in space!

I set sail for the Planet of Lab Requisitions!!

Don't worry we are still 5 years behind UK politics which is like 5 behind the USA. The gap is closing though we have all the same right wing think-tank trash people starting to poo poo up the political process in a big way.

# ? Mar 14, 2024 08:08