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Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

I’m a very strong free speech advocate but

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exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
even looking like a tiny little guy in your selfies ftw

Spyderizer
Feb 18, 2004
In better news

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/515491/1news-poll-new-zealand-first-out-labour-greens-te-pati-maori-could-form-government

Obviously it can go in any direction over the next 2.5 years but...LOL.

Come on monoterm, let's go!

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



it is way too early to start edging

Serephina
Nov 8, 2005

恐竜戦隊
ジュウレンジャー
That is way, waay to early to even thing about.

redleader
Aug 18, 2005

Engage according to operational parameters
it's not fair to punish national for the poor economy over these past the years, since they were so hobbled by the decisions of the previous government and by their own coalition partners. they need another term to get new zealand back on track

Confusedslight
Jan 9, 2020

Ghostlight posted:

it is way too early to start edging

It is never too early to start edging

carrionman
Oct 30, 2010
It's wild, outside of failchildren writing op eds I've not heard a single person talking positively about the gov. And I work with people who hated labour with a passion.

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









The handout for landlords/cigs for kiddies after all/fire the public service so rich people can have another $20 a fortnight was an incredibly potent triple play, everyone is still recovering

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

You'd expect this poll result tbh. They're ramming through all their unpopular poo poo now, then next two years are just going to be claiming credit for the reversion to the mean on crime stats, school attendance, inflation etc etc while ignoring the ongoing slide in quality of life created by underfunding and underinvestment.

Lobsterpillar
Feb 4, 2014

voiceless anal fricative posted:

You'd expect this poll result tbh. They're ramming through all their unpopular poo poo now, then next two years are just going to be claiming credit for the reversion to the mean on crime stats, school attendance, inflation etc etc while ignoring the ongoing slide in quality of life created by underfunding and underinvestment.

Reversion to the mean or, failing that, counting crime stats in a different way that excludes certain categories. Or just not counting/recording them.

Content to Hover
Sep 11, 2009
Sort of wonder if capital gains or another wealth tax will be the deciding factor in the next election. If Labour do it, the scaremongering will be easy. If they don't, then they wouldn't have the budget to implement any significant change. Also they will hopefully shed votes to the left.

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

https://twitter.com/120Aotearoa/status/1785160818642088274

lol

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
https://i.imgur.com/Eu9sFnP.mp4

🔈🔉🔊

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang

we've got rich psychos, psychos who imagine themselves to be rich, sadist rich guys, simply evil rich guys, exploiters in it for the love of the game, satan, building 7, the zika virus, uhh... farmers

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









Deep Glove Bruno posted:

we've got rich psychos, psychos who imagine themselves to be rich, sadist rich guys, simply evil rich guys, exploiters in it for the love of the game, satan, building 7, the zika virus, uhh... farmers

lol

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

The Rabbi T. White
Jul 17, 2008





The gently caress is this?

https://x.com/straydognz/status/1785206406532256109?s=46&t=q99ALAWI16YrA73c6OANjw

Ratios and Tendency
Apr 23, 2010

:swoon: MURALI :swoon:


Poor Chris :(

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

Lmao

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW9Q8xKI-WI

Content to Hover
Sep 11, 2009

RNZ posted:

Public sector job cuts: All Stats NZ staff offered voluntary redundancies

When the numbers prove that you are wrong, get rid of the statisticians.

Spyderizer
Feb 18, 2004
It has been 0 days since the last Green Party incident.

Confusedslight
Jan 9, 2020
Francisco will come in and save the day.

Deep Glove Bruno
Sep 4, 2015

yung swamp thang
what's the greens stance on cloning if it's strictly limited to chloe swarbrick?

exmarx
Feb 18, 2012


The experience over the years
of nothing getting better
only worse.
lol at helen just brushing off the idea of anne marie brady as someone worth listening to

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018936640/former-pm-helen-clark-on-aukus-pillar-two

Spyderizer
Feb 18, 2004

Spyderizer posted:

It has been 0 days since the last Green Party incident.

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

love that the media are now just airing the petty grievances of any psycho who has had an argument with JAG in the last decade

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/welli...HLMLPPT2CCJQTY/

https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350266923/more-incidents-involving-green-mp-julie-anne-genter-claimed

Confusedslight
Jan 9, 2020
Maybe it's not a total loss that our media industry is crumbling

sebmojo
Oct 23, 2010


Legit Cyberpunk









voiceless anal fricative posted:

love that the media are now just airing the petty grievances of any psycho who has had an argument with JAG in the last decade

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/welli...HLMLPPT2CCJQTY/

https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350266923/more-incidents-involving-green-mp-julie-anne-genter-claimed

It's a city/regional councillor in the second one, idk if I'd call that "any psycho". I can't read it, what are they claiming?

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

sebmojo posted:

It's a city/regional councillor in the second one, idk if I'd call that "any psycho". I can't read it, what are they claiming?

lol that you think being on Wellington regional council means someone isn't a psycho. If you aired every argument that a politician in Wellington has ever had you'd run out of ink.

quote:

Woolf alleged an incident in 2019 where he was photographing an event, in a personal business capacity, outside Parliament. Genter was attending as associate transport minister. Just a few months earlier Lets Get Wellington Moving had been launched, sparking heated debate about cycleways and mass rapid transit.

Woolf said Genter “came right up to my face and complained bitterly about the slow progress with the city council and the cycleway implementation. I had to tell her three times that I wasn’t there as a councillor, I had two cameras around my neck, and that I was there as a photographer.

“There was a sense, if I can put it in context, I felt that she was coming from a heavy-handed perspective where she could influence me.”

i.e. she came up to him, a politician, and had an argument about politics and he didn't like that someone might challenge his psycho beliefs that cars should be given all the public space in our cities

Progressive JPEG
Feb 19, 2003

just say the magic words and you aren't a politician for the purposes of that conversation

Charles 2 of Spain
Nov 7, 2017

DJ Fred Again recalls a time when she came up angrily asking him to walk instead of drive

carrionman
Oct 30, 2010
So the Buller council won't release a report into mismanagement of funds, but says everything is fine.
Cool, cool.

Spyderizer
Feb 18, 2004
Ok, the down turn that florist is seeing might not entirely be cycleway related.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/9AgdxXh8ZDZbow3o/?mibextid=oFDknk

voiceless anal fricative
May 6, 2007

Spyderizer posted:

Ok, the down turn that florist is seeing might not entirely be cycleway related.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/9AgdxXh8ZDZbow3o/?mibextid=oFDknk

Yeah she's pretty infamous in the community for being a psycho, especially about cycle lane poo poo. The sort of person who gets called a "robust critic of the council" by people who are too polite to call out her unhinged behaviour.

Even worse, the car parks and cycle lane she's complaining about weren't even outside her shop, despite what all the media outlets have repeatedly reported. They were across the (four lane) road. There is still parking and a loading zone out the back of her shop on Adelaide Road, but the street outside her shop has always been dashed yellow lines and that hasn't changed.

I can't imagine what JAG thought she was going to achieve going into her shop to talk about cycle lanes tbqh. Rookie electorate MP mistake which she'll hopefully take to heart if she survives the dogpile. Stay the gently caress away from the cookers and psychos in your electorate.

Progressive JPEG
Feb 19, 2003

the cooker flower shop has had a bicycle in the window display for years

Lobsterpillar
Feb 4, 2014

Progressive JPEG posted:

the cooker flower shop has had a bicycle in the window display for years

I think you'll find that's a non-functional bicycle, its just about mandatory that florists have some sort of rustic (rusting) bicycle as part of a display. Consider it more of a head on a pike than a promotional thing.

I can only assume that JAG was initially ignorant of her views, or knew of them but thought that they could have a reasonable discussion about it.

Saros
Dec 29, 2009

Its almost like we're a Bureaucracy, in space!

I set sail for the Planet of Lab Requisitions!!

Like most Greenie / leftist true believers JAG is right, knows she's right and probably believes in something like the the innate goodness of humanity leading to the position that people that are wrong about climate issues are mostly so due to simply not understanding the situation.

JAG is getting a rough education in what we forums dwellers have always known, most people are scum and can't be reasoned with.

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Varkk
Apr 17, 2004

voiceless anal fricative posted:


I can't imagine what JAG thought she was going to achieve going into her shop to talk about cycle lanes tbqh. Rookie electorate MP mistake which she'll hopefully take to heart if she survives the dogpile. Stay the gently caress away from the cookers and psychos in your electorate.

I saw someone defending JAG on twitter say she didn't go in to the florist shop to talk about bike lanes. But apparently popped in to get some flowers for someone she was visiting in hospital. The florist lady started berating her about the bike lanes and she argued back and then pulled out her phone.

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