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nothing will ever happen to our housing stock
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Mar 13, 2023 01:27
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If Labour needs them for a coalition they bargain the same way NZ First does - by agreeing to form a coalition with someone so that a government can be made. The fact that the Greens won't form a coalition with National doesn't mean it's not leverage because the leverage would still be that Labour needs them to form a government. IMO they just historically underuse this leverage because the alternative is a National government that will actively undermine and reverse their policies rather than a Labour government that might throw them whatever beans Winston will allow.
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Mar 14, 2023 03:38
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Every single election we get the punters telling people not to vote for Greens because they're economically dangerous or whatever, then they talk about how the Greens should just eat crow and side with big boy National, then it's about how weak the formed coalition with the Greens is and how Labor can't make any mistakes because of how fragile all those partnerships are. It's all just dumb window dressing to the core message which is that the party who actually wants to do progress shouldn't be in power because progress now comes at the expense of the rich and powerful. But believe it or not the Greens aren't the only party in Parliament who don't want a National government and are willing to work with others to prevent it.
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Mar 14, 2023 05:07
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winnie 'the scorpion' peters
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Mar 14, 2023 05:25
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i have a coworker who is in his thirties and votes for national because his parents told him to when he got the vote.
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Mar 15, 2023 04:07
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Apocalyptic
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Mar 17, 2023 21:50
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Zero, people made that money through their own hard work and society didn't contribute at all because it doesn't exist outside of individual actors in a shared vacuum.
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Mar 17, 2023 22:05
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Third-way ideology fundamentally precludes thinking critically about tax because one of its core premises is that private industry is better at providing services, ipso facto, the government should offload services to private industry and not need more than a bare minimum to fund oversight by captured regulatory groups.
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Mar 18, 2023 00:37
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i am specifically referring to third way economics, an ideological alignment that labour ministers have specifically named when discussing their goals and frames of reference for policy, citing foreign politicians very well identified with third way economics such as bill clinton, and tony blair; espousing the values of private and public sector partnership in the structure of the economy wherein the public sector seeks a more passive role in favour of the market-driven efficiencies of the right rather than the more active role the socialist left sought at the time.
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Mar 18, 2023 01:35
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klen dool posted:Maybe this is a silly question but why can't a coalition hate each other guts? What if we are put into a position where the only viable govt is Nat/Green for some reason. Is that even possible? Is that why there is a 5% votes threshold to stop that scenario? it is very possible to have a coalition that hates each other but our government is structured around being stable, ensuring you can deliver votes for your policies; something that is somewhat more difficult when the votes you're relying on want to see you suffer. a government that couldn't rely on its majority would quickly see the opposition calling for a no confidence vote.
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Mar 19, 2023 09:34
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Fool me once, shame on me, fool me... can't get fooled again.
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Mar 21, 2023 02:31
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🌈 Neoliberalism 🌈
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Mar 22, 2023 21:24
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the motivation is that they see all the same things wrong with the world that everyone else sees but where a leftist sees capitalism as the cause of poverty they see the poor as the cause of criticisms of capital. because societies and systems don't exist, only individuals labouring under frameworks of restriction like "you can't say the n word" or "what do you mean i have to pay you not to work for four weeks"
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Mar 22, 2023 23:09
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:Good morning
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Mar 23, 2023 00:33
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brown out here admitting nobody's ever invited him to an industry conference so he has no idea how they work
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Mar 23, 2023 05:38
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you get what you paid for and some dumbass paid $1 for it
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Mar 24, 2023 07:42
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Can't believe Eggs Malone is out here serving us sunny side up.
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Mar 26, 2023 07:08
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Oh, just like Luxon sits down and talks to everyone who disagrees with him.
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Mar 26, 2023 07:24
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Mar 26, 2023 09:31
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Human rights are for winners - Michael Wood.
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Mar 28, 2023 01:07
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To all white cis men, I say I'm sorry. Sorry you're responsible for most of the violence!
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Mar 28, 2023 04:18
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i think someone left a kettle on
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Mar 28, 2023 06:22
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"this whole company is doing so badly" - yeah, tova, i don't know if you noticed this while doing all your reporting but mediaworks has had its head underwater for like a decade now, so pardon me if i don't join you in surprise that they're jettisoning a radio station that hasn't turned a profit since it started.
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Mar 30, 2023 02:31
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Acab
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Mar 30, 2023 05:57
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Wafflecopper posted:I have a ... friend
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Mar 31, 2023 10:37
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have you ever tried rearranging something that doesn't exist
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Apr 3, 2023 05:56
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ACT has announced their policy platform for this election. Spoiler: it's Māori bashin' time https://www.act.org.nz/press-releases/free-press-3-april-2023
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Apr 3, 2023 22:36
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If only we could like, take some money from those who have a lot, rather than just blaming the people working in the economy we built where if people don't work they die.
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Apr 5, 2023 04:36
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Captured market economics. Inflation is caused by too much money in the system. The prevailing economic theory is that you want some inflation because it helps with debts and incentivises investment, but you don't can't have too much and you want it predictable because otherwise people would lose faith in the currency and it would devalue. Now, employment is a market. Just like all market goods, the price of an employee is dictated largely by supply and demand. When unemployment is "too low" then the price of an employee (theoretically) rises commensurately. This is, in my opinion, not very true because our economic system is predicated on the majority of people not being in the position to market themselves and often surviving simply from lowest bidder to lowest bidder; and almost nobody's wages are adjusted on a day-to-day basis in response for the demand of their labour so they will be locked in at a price dictated sometime in the past. When inflation is going too high, economists look to all their metrics to see which ones will extract money from the economy. If you increase unemployment then the supply of employees to be hired goes up and the price of each unit is suppressed. This is how you extract money from unemployment, because those employees hired at suppressed rates will be at that suppressed rate probably until they move jobs, which is harder to do when there's a lot of cheap employees. High unemployment means lower wages. Lower wages means lower spending power. Lower spending power means less money circulating in the economy
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Apr 5, 2023 05:26
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ghahraman looks like she'd be fun to gossip with.
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Apr 6, 2023 11:31
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look, i'm sure that local councils are any minute now going to start rigorously applying the national policy statement for freshwater 2020 and we'll see a huge turn-around in water quality. i mean, the only other alternative i can see is to move local freshwater assets to some kind of - and i'm just spitballing ideas here - larger central management agency to ensure standards are applied equally across electorates.
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Apr 12, 2023 07:26
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I'm told the Scene apartments are very affordable.
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Apr 12, 2023 21:20
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Xik posted:Imagine being tech support for that fuckwit
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Booty Pageant posted:i just remembered from a friday night banter, me and a mate have come to the conclusion that we're all just a bunch of soft cunts
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Xik posted:Time is an integral component to how modern civilization works, you can't opt out of it and expect to interact with the rest of it.
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I don't arrive on time for my office job and they don't ask me to because then I leave on time.
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Bill English also spent the entire decade he was finance minister trying to run NZ as a low-wage economy as part of a plan to attract foreign investment in industry. Oh hey, and John Key despite all his "high wage" talk also directly destroyed worker and union protections that enabled them to actually bargain for those high wages. The reality is that the vaunted low-wage economy never came into effect because no international company wants to locate their low-wage jobs in a corner of the world where all those gains would be immediately eaten up and exceeded by shipping costs but we still got the low-wages.
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