NZCookerWatch
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NZCookerWatch
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Exposing the liars, grifters and hot take makers as we head towards the 2026 election.
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@NuZillund @MurfittTauranga This was forced by Government and will happen at every council. Thinking this is just Wellington is why you people need to get off Twitter and go outside once in a while.
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@MurfittTauranga It's always new taxes with the left
It's never spending restraint or making tough trade-offs
Wellington deserves everything it gets. They voted for this.
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Andrew Little has announced that household water costs will significantly increase. Up to $6,000 per year over the next 10 years. He appears uneasy, stressing "under the law". What are your thoughts?
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@NZFreeSpeech Half a million Kiwis? It is comical this is your Atlas/Elon funded priority. How many signatories do you have hahaha
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The Courts of New Zealand have stopped posting updates on X, shifting instead to a platform with only a fraction of the reach.
When government moves to platforms “for the few,” it leaves over half a million Kiwis behind.
Public service means serving everyone.
Sign the petition: ow.ly/K6Ek50YzuxF
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@PronouncedHare @secondzeit 'Free speech oriented platform' is ridiculous. How many of those free speech loving followers were bots? How many were in NZ? Acting like this is some kind of Tiananmen Square uprising is hilarious.
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I wonder if you can wrap your head around this. Not overly confident but we can give it a go maybe. A lot of the liberal turning away from X - including by your own employer - occurred in the wake of it becoming a free-speech oriented platform.
Those institutions, including Stuff, preferred it as a platform that censored disfavoured views.
In that way, deliberate decisions by institutions to cease using X have become seen as an indication of disapproval for free speech and in favour of controlled speech.
The free speech union exists to promote free speech.
I really wonder if you can surprise me here Phil.
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Three tweets in a row about this? And nothing about Julian Batchelor?
How is this one a free speech issue?
🗣 Free Speech Union ✊@NZFreeSpeech
The Courts of New Zealand have stopped posting updates on X, shifting instead to a platform with only a fraction of the reach. When government moves to platforms “for the few,” it leaves over half a million Kiwis behind. Public service means serving everyone. Sign the petition: ow.ly/K6Ek50YzuxF
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These proxy NZ First and ACT accounts will literally turn anything into a smear. Where are the pretend freedom fighting women?
Suit and tie@Suitandtie9999
And on a much lighter note…. It’s interesting to see the leader of the Opportunity Party following distinctly non-political accounts on her official authorised Instagram account — such as “Girls Get Off” and “Hot Dudes Reading”. “Girls Get Off” is a New Zealand sex toy company that promotes fast and discreet delivery. Their content features sex tips and product highlights - along with links in their bio to more detailed tips and positions. Her authorised account also follows the very popular “Hot Dudes Reading” page, which has over 1.3 million followers and specialises in photos of attractive men posing while pretending to read books.
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Even neoliberal junk tanks are calling it what it is - privitisation doesn't work and requires constant bailing out by taxpayers.
New Zealand Taxpayers' Union@TaxpayersUnion
This is corporate welfare, plain and simple. Taxpayers are footing the bill and the risk while millions are funnelled into privately owned companies.
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Posting AI generated rants on multiple platforms every hour of the day is completely normal 🤣
Matthew Horncastle@matt_horncastle
Socialism is a mental illness. Stop trying to steal from other people.
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Iceland consistently ranks as one of the wealthiest, happiest, safest, most free states in the world.
Kathleen Stock@Docstockk
Jaw dropping read. Iceland sounds like it’s gone completely nuts
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@TheMoonIsInMeee @PronouncedHare No it isn't. Point to the law please. Sadly I've been blocked for this hahahaha
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@NZCookerWatch @PronouncedHare This pressure is literally illegal. you understand? ILLEGAL!!!!!
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When my grandmother was 99 she had a pacemaker fitted. They flew her to Wellington for the operation.
Before they went the guy asked her if she wanted to be resuscitated. She said yes.
The guy then asked her again, explaining that it can cause quite painful injuries. She was a completely capable woman of full mental capacity and said yes she understood and please resuscitate her if she needed it.
He then asked her a third time, telling her that her quality of life might be different.
At that point, my grandmother turned to my father and asked “What does he want me to say?” and Dad then intervened telling the now very defensive guy to knock it off.
That kind of low level pressure happens in the health system every day.
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The Public Service Act requires open, accessible government. Abandoning major platforms, and losing up to 98% of your audience in the process, does the opposite.
That’s why we’ve raised the Courts exit from X with Minister Nicole McKee.
We need to remind the public service that they don’t get to retreat from the public. They are required to meet New Zealanders where we are.
✍️ Sign the petition: ow.ly/uINt50YzugQ
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I've been on this cesspool breeding ground platform not very long but this is one of the funniest things I have ever read. It is simultaneously insane, obviously ragebait, pointless, meaningless and funny. I strive to be this cooked.
Liam Hehir@PronouncedHare
When my grandmother was 99 she had a pacemaker fitted. They flew her to Wellington for the operation. Before they went the guy asked her if she wanted to be resuscitated. She said yes. The guy then asked her again, explaining that it can cause quite painful injuries. She was a completely capable woman of full mental capacity and said yes she understood and please resuscitate her if she needed it. He then asked her a third time, telling her that her quality of life might be different. At that point, my grandmother turned to my father and asked “What does he want me to say?” and Dad then intervened telling the now very defensive guy to knock it off. That kind of low level pressure happens in the health system every day.
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@adnanbelushi @winstonpeters To a room filled with no one under 80 🤣
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@winstonpeters This guy is showing more than Luxon and he is 80
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Just finished a great meeting in Blackball this afternoon.
Packed hall with a great response.
On to Westport tomorrow for another public meeting at 1pm for an important election announcement.
If you’re in the area we will see you there.
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It is so funny that this is used by people on here to prove a point when all it does is use selective, uncontextual neoliberal talking points.
Grok@grok
Rent controls (e.g. 2% caps) lower rents for sitting tenants short-term but reduce new supply, conversions to owner-occupied, and maintenance incentives. Result: shortages, lower mobility, declining quality, higher unregulated rents. Empirical studies (San Francisco expansion, Cambridge decontrol, meta-reviews) confirm net harm to overall affordability and availability for most renters long-term.
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@grok @NZMAGAMike So you use a tiny sample to determine the outcome for a different country? Any other examples that aren't from already incredibly overpriced housing areas?
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Rent controls (e.g. 2% caps) lower rents for sitting tenants short-term but reduce new supply, conversions to owner-occupied, and maintenance incentives.
Result: shortages, lower mobility, declining quality, higher unregulated rents.
Empirical studies (San Francisco expansion, Cambridge decontrol, meta-reviews) confirm net harm to overall affordability and availability for most renters long-term.
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Retards need to go do an economics course at a university not controlled by communists. #WokeMindVirus
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@NZCookerWatch Rent controls make it worse for renters. Do you understand the outcomes when ever they are implemented?
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Neoliberal hatemongers of Twitter complain about media bias but won't question a foreign millionaire actively taking over a Kiwi media company #nzpol
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@DevinMynett @NMowbray23 I wonder how many employees they have in the British Virgin Islands?
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@PronouncedHare Please provide the correct wealth and asset value of the Anglican Church. Are you saying they do not have enough money to pay for the church and taxpayers should?
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Show me someone who says this about the Anglican Church and I will show you somebody who knows much less about property, finances and trust law than they clearly think they do.
Infideliter 🇳🇿✖⚖✖🇳🇿@Infideliter2022
The Anglican Church in New Zealand has a nett asset value of over $2.8 Billion. More than enough to pay for this themselves. Why should tax payers fund any of this at all?
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