@BeauFrosty @TuiMark8 @PowderPuffPlay Tourism will condemn us to being a backwater, third-world country. We need farming and mining.
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Roger de Laborde
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Roger de Laborde
@rogerdaryl
Former Saffa now a Kiwi. Christian, Husband and Father of 4 girls.
New Zealand Katılım Temmuz 2008
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@TuiMark8 @PowderPuffPlay Tourism is the backbone of this country. Mining is endangering our wealth
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My prediction: NZFirst’s Shane Jones will piss on Sam Neil’s grave by mining in Sam’s backyard
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@LuxonNotMyGovt "covered up", you mean obeyed a name suppression order while it was in place?
Don't get me wrong, Jago should be incarcerated on White Island, but Seymour was obeying a judge's orders around name suppression.
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No coincidence on the same day Tim Jago former ACT Party President convicted pedophile David Seymour covered up charges last election admits to new charge.
Douce bag Seymour hastily announces odious shockjock Paul Henry candidacy as a ploy to distract from filth Jago.
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@sootytweet There are good trade deals and bad trade deals. One that enshrines UNDRIP and the Paris accord is bad.
One that might* force us to invest billions we don't have into India in a short time period is bad.
And that is without the immigration debate.
*depends who intreprets that.
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If we dont trade we go back to the stoneage, and the world is where we trade, is that where NZ First wouldn't have us. We are either on the world stage or back in a flax hut.
New Zealand First@nzfirst
They will sooner see our country go broke in the name of their globalist wacky ideology than look after Kiwis and our country first.
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@PronouncedHare It could be worse; you could be strapped to the wing.
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@ZooNealand We sank one of our 5 warships because we didn't know how to disengage the autopilot and ran into a reef.....yeah, we didn't make the list.
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Erm… they forgot New Zealand
Global Statistics@Globalstats11
Countries Ranked by Their Military, Economic and Political Power
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@MarkHubbard33 Solzhenitsyn found, when commenting about his treatment in the Russian Gulags, that students and academics in the West refused to believe his testimony and were openly dismissive of it.
Other Gulag survivors reported the same bizarre behaviour from so-called academics.
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The West’s downfall.
Universities. From our Enlightenment, how ironic.
That destroyer of civilisation, Marx, won.
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus
Your median professor sits so far left that AOC, Sanders, and Warren would count as moderates in any faculty lounge. Faculty from 55 elite universities form one towering blue spike of ideology far out on the left, density exploding past 6, with virtually nothing on the conservative side. This was built through decades of selective hiring, social enforcement, and the systematic purge of dissent. And because they credential the people who run media, law, government, and tech, the monoculture leaks into every elite institution downstream.
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Lexus says its upcoming all-electric LFA supercar will use vibrations and other sensory feedback to mimic the feel of a combustion engine.
"We’re not just wanting to replicate the sound of the engine: we want to redesign the sound itself so the car feels more alive and authentically connected."
The production version of the car is expected to be unveiled at the end of this year/early next year. Concept unveiled in Dec 2025:
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@AmazonMGMStudio You know why SpaceBalls is so popular? BECAUSE OF THE EXISTING FAN BASE!!!!!!
#SaveStargate
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Spaceballs: The New One: The Teaser Poster.
In theaters April 2027.
San Diego Comic-Con Panel. Hall H. Friday July 24. 4-5pm PT.
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@saltyreigns Sedition should also be reintroduced to our law books.
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@MarkHubbard33 It's like the fake meat companies that keep on failing. When you have the real thing, why would you go for the fake?
There is no way this can compete with the V12 beauty that is the Aston Martin Vanquish Volante
astonmartin.com/en/models/vanq…
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And like all the other elite car companies, Lexus will get their supercar wrong. It's an electric car, it is utterly pointless to fill it with weighty clumsy tech to make it sound like an internal combustion, or 'vibrate'.
Sawyer Merritt@SawyerMerritt
Lexus says its upcoming all-electric LFA supercar will use vibrations and other sensory feedback to mimic the feel of a combustion engine. "We’re not just wanting to replicate the sound of the engine: we want to redesign the sound itself so the car feels more alive and authentically connected." The production version of the car is expected to be unveiled at the end of this year/early next year. Concept unveiled in Dec 2025:
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@MarkHubbard33 Kemi is great. The party she leads, not so much. There is a ton of work to do to get rid of the dead wood
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Kemi is UK’s future.
Julian Jessop@julianHjessop
Andy Burnham already falling behind Kemi Badenoch, whose steady rise continues... 👍
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@RachealMcGonig1 @franks_lawyer And they are allowed to express their free speech opinion that the NZ Women's Law Journal is an embarrassing publication.
Free speech means that you're allowed to express your opinion and I am free to express what I think of your opinion.
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@franks_lawyer Why are people expressing their beliefs an 'embarrassing publication'?
I thought Free Speech believed in free speech.
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Activist: "Farmers are millionaires sitting on land worth a fortune. They can afford the inheritance tax."
Farmer: "How much did I earn last year?"
Activist: "I don't know. A lot, surely."
Farmer: "Twenty-two thousand. Before the tractor broke."
Activist: "But the land's worth millions."
Farmer: "On paper. I can't eat the field or spend it. The only way to turn it into money is to sell it, and then I'm not a farmer, I'm a bloke who used to have a farm."
Activist: "So sell a corner of it."
Farmer: "A corner doesn't work as a farm. You can't run a suckler herd on the bit that's left after the taxman's had his slice. You sell one field, then the next bill comes, then another field. It ends one way."
Activist: "The land only costs that much because you won't sell it."
Farmer: "It costs that much because a hedge fund three counties over wants it for carbon credits and a footballer wants it for the view. Neither of them has ever calved a cow at three in the morning. They set the price. I get the bill."
Activist: "It's still an asset."
Farmer: "It's a workplace that happens to be expensive. You've decided the value of the shop is the same as the wage of the shopkeeper. Come back in February and watch me not be a millionaire in the rain."
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@Wired__One I think it's asinine for someone to live here for 40+ years and not get their citizenship. (I immigrated from SA nearly 20 years ago and have had my citizenship for 12 years now)
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@TheNzRocketeer Yes, because part of immigrating here was investing the time and effort to get that piece of paper that makes you a citizen.
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What of the person born here, who never takes an oath of allegiance as you do in a citizenship ceremony, who takes on their student loan debt and then fucks off overseas.
They live in a different country. They apply the skills we paid for. They pay taxes there, they raise their families there, they live their lives there.
They are not part of NZ culture, they have no loyalty to NZ, they are not part of our nation.
But they get to vote and decide what we must live like.
You think they are committed New Zealanders.
Contrast to the person who's come here from overseas. They have invested all they have to come here. They buy a house, they raise a family, they work hard, they pay taxes - far more than similar Kiwis do. They bring skills, they bring knowledge, but more than that, they bring a desire to be part of New Zealand. They've invested everything, except the cost and time to get that piece of paper.
You say a government piece of paper decides their commitment.
Nah, mate. I value people far more than I value government.
being_a_lefty_is_so_unko@jetgalnz
@TheNzRocketeer Are they dedicated to NZ if they don't want to become a citizen? So all the other countries in the world are wrong?
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@KajensAngel @Lazza_58 @nzfirst I am failing to see your objection to requiring citizenship for voting.
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@KajensAngel @Lazza_58 @nzfirst the point remains. The "people" who have lived here for decades, certainly qualify for citizenship, so why not get it?
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@KajensAngel @Lazza_58 @nzfirst if you have lived here for decades, then you most certainly qualify for citizenship, so why not get it?
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After reading the ridiculous comments on this post that believe I shouldn’t be voting, I will abstain from now on.
Good luck with this, it’s the third world that will be desperately seeking and receiving citizenship… good luck with their votes.
The New Zealand Rocketeer@TheNzRocketeer
Permanent residents number between 800,000 and 1.18 million people. They are people who come here to raise their families, to build our economy, who pays taxes. By and large, they are not a welfare drain on us. They are 32% of our workforce and pay 38% of PAYE. New Zealand First says taxation without representation. Now, you could make an argument that they must change their passport. What does a government piece of paper change to the functional commitment of your life? Fubar is not a citizen, but he stood up in Wellington against Ardern and fought for this country. This feels wrong to me.
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