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MS Butler ๐ ๐ค ๐คฒ
@MarSButler
"Freedom is not the right to do as you please; it is the liberty to do as you ought..." @marsbutler.bsky.social
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MS Butler ๐ ๐ค ๐คฒ ๋ฆฌํธ์ํจ
I reckon let's not send our 25 year old frigates for live bait duty in the middle of someone else's war.
Ukraine has shown how incredibly vulnerable warships are in the drone age. We should rule out sending our sailors into the firing line.
Christopher Luxon@chrisluxonmp
Attacks on fuel tankers and energy infrastructure in the Middle East are leading directly to higher fuel prices for Kiwis. Thatโs why we have joined the United Kingdom and other countries in condemning Iranโs attacks in the Gulf. Iran has forced the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz to ships carrying fuel and other critical goods to places like New Zealand. New Zealand has a longstanding record of working with like-minded partners to ensure open supply lines for global trade. Obviously, any future decision for New Zealand to support multilateral efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz would need to be considered by Cabinet.
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you might be asking why a man who retired in 2019 after selling his company to peter thiel is getting this award, but itโs actually for his brave service in hosting C-suite retreats and five eyes meetings at his queenstown compound, one which has a SCIF
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Rising cost of fuel forces Kiwis to consider alternative transport to save moneyโฆ.. remind me why the govt axed EV subsidies?? rnz.co.nz/news/national/โฆ
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Trump is trying to bully Aotearoa and other nations into mineral deals - which will be stockpiled to feed the US military machine.
Sign the petition to stop that happening now
action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/no-miโฆ
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Still can't get over this,the Minister for Workplace Relations didn't understand the difference between pay equity and equal pay.
Ideological & ignorant she signalled her intent to strip away pay equity for thousands of workers before she'd even had a full briefing on the issue.
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"...Willis has dismissed claims the coalition's pay equity changes amount to an abuse of power... from across the political spectrum... condemned the changes...ย violated the rule of lawย in retrospectively cancelling existing rights and remedies."
share.google/2JzUt7HHVh208Oโฆ
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OIA shows "consequential decisions" in Equal Pay Act overhaul made in just 45min. 6 ministers implemented harder thresholds than officials proposed.
Details, evidence, modelling that informed the most harsh & restrictive changes - "remains hidden" ๐ค๐
rnz.co.nz/news/politicalโฆ
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@KyleDChurch Explain what you mean by 'brute-forced".. it's not clear to me what you mean... ๐ค
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TOP has to be the most brute-forced political party in the country, second only to ACT, and you have to ask why that is tbh
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@GraemeEdgeler ๐ช Hate speech is not free speech.
Having a rate payer funded library holding a function that honours a vile evil doer who threats the world and slaughters his own citizens is ๐คฎdisturbing & disgusting.
@slingshot_the @MayorWayneBrown @AklCouncil
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Libraries support free speech and intellectual freedom.
Members of the community can hold gender critical events. And they can hold pro-Iran events.
Libraries are opposed to censorship.
Ish.@slingshot_the
WTAF???!!! Are you fucking kidding me???!!! Was @AklCouncil aware of this?
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@Liquid_Times Hahaha, I'd forgotten that wee piece of nonsense ๐คฃ ๐
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Do you think David Seymour & Brooke van Velden could sneak through the Strait of Hormuz & bring us back some oil?
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@secondzeit @kaiviti_cam Seems like you're becoming a wee thorn in some thing's side, Philip... ๐ค
Kapai,.. & well said ๐
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@kaiviti_cam Don't we, ultimately, feel alone in this vast dirty politics universe, Cam?
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Success has many fathers whereas dirty politics campaigns are orphans
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@ClintVSmith @nickofnz Ikr, this was 1st red flag for me that Luxon was not PM material. An absolute farce: buy a house (in housing crisis, whilst comm lease spaces nearby!!) to turn into a office.
I bet he's never there! I bet he also claims rent from NZ taxpayers for it!! (cos he's EnTitLeD) ๐
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@nickofnz I'm always gobsmacked the he brought a residential home and converted it into an office, which he now rents to the Parliamentary Service, when there's a shopping complex just across the street where he could have leased an existing commercial space.
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The NZ Prime Ministerโs electorate office remodelled by Greenpeace.
Itโs now Trumpโs new war minerals HQ as Luxonโs new priority seems to be turning NZ into a mining outpost for Trumpโs military agenda.
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You know what, Ani OโBrien? What you and your colleagues dished out to Benjamin Doyle is exactly why people are done with this kind of politics. Donโt expect sympathy now. Smears and personal attacks have real impact, no matter what the so-called โFree Speech Unionโ argues. People are over it. #nzpol
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@chrisluxonmp Puerile, pointless, empty rhetoric.
Maybe look at a new career path, Luxon? You're not a PM. You're a middle manager mouthpiece.
And that's likely because you were shoved sideways when they couldn't get you out. ๐
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If youโre feeling concerned about petrol prices, youโre not alone. We know itโs tough, and the last thing any household needs right now is more pressure on the budget.
While these pressures are global, New Zealand is in a stronger position to handle the impact of conflict in the Middle East than we were two years ago, because of the steps we have taken to rebuild the economy.
We will continue to manage the economy responsibly and support Kiwis through this unpredictable time, delivering the steady economic management needed to minimise the impact on households.
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@actparty Fgfs ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ
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BREAKING: School attendance data is out for Term 4. It's an increase, for the third year running. More kids are showing up for school under David Seymour's leadership.
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@ClintVSmith Surely... ๐ฌ๐
Anyone..?
Any adult in Govt who will pull plug on insane multi billion LNG terminal contract whilst we're in mid of worst global fuel crisis, ever? While biggest fuel /lpg reserve stations are burning!!??
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Surely, our government isn't going to sign us up to a multi billion $ LNG import terminal contract at the same time the world's biggest gas reserve and the world's biggest LNG terminal are on fire
LNG was only modelled to save 0.7c/KWh. Higher LNG prices obliterate those savings
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A well is a hole in the ground from which you draw water, and a boat is a hole in the water into which you pour money
So we should expect the govt to be truthful about how much money to pour in
Especially when they decided to pour so much down the drain
thepost.co.nz/politics/36096โฆ
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@SerenaTNZ Shame Jones is a paid sellout. Pandering to his lobbyists.
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@henrycooke No shit, Sherlock ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ
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Christopher Luxon at his presser today, where he said the fuel situation "could get worse before it actually gets better". Credit: Rob Kitchin/The Post.
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