Over the past few weeks NZers have been told it’s apparently fine for the political editor of our state broadcaster to call a gay man a “faggot” because it happened a year ago & discussing it is supposedly “political”. Now we learn a recent former Labour staffer was behind a TikTok account using homophobia as a punchline.
At what point are we allowed to acknowledge that homophobia comes from the left & the right? Either slurs & anti-gay abuse are bad, or they aren't. The selective outrage is tiresome.
I made a personal post about my divorce and no less than three strangers took the time to correct my spelling in the tweet. Please get a life and learn how to connect and engage with other humans on this journey we are all on.
"The possibility of the US supplying Pacific countries with fuel was raised in his discussion with Rubio and Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau."
Helen Clark condemned @winstonpeters for going on this trip. Time she left governing to those in Govt.
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At the risk of courting controversy answer me this.
How (apart from its increased storage capacity) would having the Marsden point refinery operating make a blind bit of difference to our (non critical) fuel status?
It's fitting that 🇳🇿New Zealand's national bird is the kiwi:
Because like the kiwi bird which was isolated with no predators, it lost the ability to fly and became easy prey when threats arrived.
New Zealand imbibed the luxury belief that geography equals security, that "international order" is a given, and that someone else (the US or Australia) would always come to the rescue.
Then when Chinese naval task forces started conducting live-fire drills near its waters and aggressively militarizing islands nearby, it finally woke up.
Today New Zealand's army is small, while their navy barely has any fighting vessels left; their air force has NO fighter force whatsoever.
This situation was really supercharged under the former PM Jacinda Ardern. Not only did New Zealand cuck itself by with pacifist posturing, it also indulged in her favorite ideological program, implanting DEI in every domain, and adopting the "Maori ways of knowing" in science curricula (lmao).
Then Adern abandoned the country, took her family, and went to Australia (LMAO).
Now, New Zealand has to build its armed forces practically from scratch.
New Zealand is learning, late, that in a contested world, hard power still matters and predators don't respect flightless birds.
This is the consequence of electing people drunk on idealism.
Now, the NZ government is pledging billions to recruit personnel, buy helicopters, drones, anti-tank missiles, and boost spending toward 2% of GDP. It's a necessary correction, but rebuilding combat capability from near-scratch will take decades
"When he was police minister, crime went up. When he was education minister, attendance rapidly declined. When he was prime minister, debt exploded. He screws up everything. If he opened a funeral parlour, no one would die "
😂😂 – David Seymour on Hipkins.
Remember how they praised that fascist witch for locking down New Zealand 🇳🇿 during Covid, and turning it into a North Korean dystopia?
She destroyed her country, and now flees herself.
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