nomad546
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@secondzeit Trump has a personality.
It's hideous and increasingly senile, but it's there.
This schlub?
He's a LinkedIn post in a suit.
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@SimonCourtACT Well, I'll be protesting against genocidal nation states and... uh.. protesting against Lion Monarchy?
Glad to have your permission.
You hold absolutely no authority to grant or rescind that permission,
but it's the thought that counts.
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Antisemitism has no place in New Zealand.
Parliament today has rightly condemned it - something that should unite us all.
Free speech protects the right to debate and protest.
It does not extend to targeting people because they are Jewish.
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New Zealanders don’t know how far Labour will go on tax, because Chris Hipkins is hiding it from them.
One thing is clear: Labour will try to bring in as many taxes as possible if they are elected in November.
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@chrisluxonmp Boilers in schools...
We're facing a diesel supply shortfall and after weeks of thumb twiddling your big response is...
Boilers...
There are these things with lots of wheels that deliver all sorts of things, including the things that replace boilers.
Kind of important.
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As we navigate the global fuel crisis, our Government is ensuring that schools remain open and students stay engaged in their learning.
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@SimeonBrownMP "in the country" is a certainty
"on its way" is a possibility
It doesn't surprise me that a Nat finds it perplexing when someone giving a chicken headcount fails to count the chickens yet to hatch.
Misrepresenting possibility as certainty is the Nat M.O.
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Awful politics from Labour.
Despite NZ’s fuel stocks remaining within normal levels, they are continuing their scaremongering campaign regarding a serious issue.
Labour has purposefully omitted the fact that an additional 25 days of diesel is also on its way to New Zealand.
Fluctuations are normal as ships come and go, and fuel levels are roughly the same as they were a month ago.
Kiwis deserve better than a Labour Party actively catastrophising an issue and putting unnecessary fear in the minds of Kiwi families.
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@KiddSpade1 The biggest handbrake is racism.
Everything else is downstream.
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Pretty much every populist problem in NZ is solved by having a population of 15 million, making Winston Peters the biggest handbreak to prosperity in the country
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what the fuck is this man
Palantir@PalantirTech
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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@NZNationalParty Internal polling must be in the toilet if you're breaking out the beneficiary bashing.
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National is getting people off welfare and into work.
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@BonnieGlaser @jamespomfret Must the US lock Taiwan in as a vassal in perpetuity?
If reconciliation occurred you'd still have South Korea and Japan to function as "unsinkable aircraft carriers", so it's hard to believe this is a matter of strategic importance.
Are you truly that afraid to take an L.
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I told @jamespomfret that China's information warfare against Taiwan “creates an environment in which China can more easily win support, because its strategy really is to lower morale, instill a sense of psychological despair, convince people they have no future in being autonomous and their best option is to join up with China” reuters.com/world/china/ch…
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@BonnieGlaser @AngelicaOung @jamespomfret That would be an ideal outcome.
Hong Kong as a Special Administrative Region has thrived.
I know it might be hard for you to accept this, but we aren't in the later half of the 20th century anymore. The US isn't the stable superpower it once was. It's impulsive and flighty.
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@AngelicaOung @jamespomfret You seem to want Taiwan to end up like Hong Kong. BTW, the US is more reliable than you think. It's all happening under the radar. You just don't see it.
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@AmbChina2NZ This is really what our leadership deems is a sensible deployment of our limited military aeronautical capacity?
In the midst of unprecedented international economic and diplomatic turmoil they decide it's prudent to irritate our primary trading partner?
Insane.
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Incredible footage of Ukrainian soldiers using a rifle to shoot Iranian Shahed 136 drones out the sky aboard a Soviet era Yak-52 training aircraft.
Insanity…
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@TullamoreJew_ When your entire ideological identity is tethered to this dissonant cuckold's bargain, the question of who is fucking your wife ceases to be a relevant factor.
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@TullamoreJew_ It's because they are dissonant cowards.
They are cuckolds.
They know they are cuckolds.
They don't have a cuckoldry fetish.
They lack the will to confront the cuckoldry.
They insist they are proud to be cuckolds.
They centre their identity around being cuckolds.
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Funny thing I kept seeing is places with these things but a noticeable absence of British or ulster loyalist flags. Even here localist nationalism can be subsumed into the mission of chud globalism
yeshiva frat leader@TullamoreJew_
Yep I'm in east Belfast alright
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@davidmdraiman @rogerwaters @Billy You are a superfluous gonad.
You draw smarmy appeals to politesse about you like a scrotum, as if it ought to alter your vile and vestigial nature.
But you remain naught but a swollen irritation that drags along in the dirt behind the species.
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@davidmdraiman @rogerwaters @Billy No.
You don't get to play coy here.
This isn't a "disagreement" within the realm of civil discourse.
You explicitly endorsed a genocide.
You knowingly signed your name upon the very means deployed to that end.
You revel in your zealous debauchery.
You are forever stained.
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An open letter to @Billy:
Dear Billy Corgan
How are you? It’s been too long. @davidmdraiman Someone forwarded me this chap’s appearance on your podcast. I’d never heard of him. Anyway, it turns out he has heard of me. It seems he has a problem with me standing up for human rights, particularly the human rights of my brothers and sisters in Gaza who are being slaughtered in a genocide by the armed forces of the Nazi racist, pariah state of Israel. You, being the lovely fella you are gave this little piece of shit a chance to clarify or even modify his position. He did. He is a psychotic racist Nazi pig.
I’m told, Billy, he writes messages on bombs before the IDF drops them on civilians in Gaza. Enough said. I will continue to work with all my brothers and sisters all over the world in the movement to demand equal human rights for all human beings, irrespective of their religion or ethnicity or nationality. If you, my friend are wondering if I want a conversation with this obnoxious little prick? The answer is non merci Billy, life’s too short, he can inhabit his tiny corner of hell without the benefit of my love and truth.
Love
R.
PS. @Disturbed ? 😂👍Er? Yeah! Just a bit!
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