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So, how can Aotearoa support Canada in its trade war with America? Its our fight too. We need collective defence against this bully. we accept that principle in military conflict, and we should accept it for economic conflict as well.

Billionaires don’t vote. They donate insane amounts of money. We just have the vote. We need to learn to not give a fuck about them like they don’t about us. They don’t care about you or your vote. They can just donate money and get whatever they want.

Trevor Farmer & Mark Wyborn donated over $750k to Nats/Act/NZF. They own Wairakei Pastoral with 1000s of dairy cattle. Wairakei fought Waikato Plan Change 1 for years as it limits water pollution, but lost in court in June. Nats/Act/NZF say they will now legislate to block Plan Change One.

And this, "A former mayor of Tauranga says warnings about the landslide risk on Mount Maunganui never reached him in his 12 years at the helm." Report after report after report not even buried, just, "not fowarded" What ELSE is getting the same treatment? Because it IS

Former Tauranga mayor says he wasn't warned about landslide risk amid damning review

A former mayor of Tauranga says warnings about the landslide risk on Mount Maunganui never reached him in his 12 years at the helm.

rnz.co.nz

As a matter of military history, conventional air campaigns aimed at punishing the civilian population always fail. People who persist on calling for this are just confessing that killing people makes them feel powerful, and they don't care whether it achieves anything or not.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Rep. Rich McCormick on Iran: "We should've taken the gloves right from the beginning and hammered them. You have to make it absolutely miserable on their populace."

So often what are called “culture wars” are one set of people saying “please can we live without perpetual persecution” and another saying “no, f*** you” but the press considering the latter group have “legitimate concerns” and must be perpetually platformed

At some point someone has to stand up and go "Ok everyone shut the fuck up. You all didn't want Three Waters, so you've got this now. This is what you voted for. It's going to be expensive because Things Cost Money, and you've all underpaid for decades because of political cowardice".

There is a terminally furious class of mostly white middle or retirement aged people in this country who are incensed that they've spent most of their lives freeloading on the infrastructure of the generations before them and are being asked to contribute towards replacing it.

This is a very welcome development (Stuff paywall, sorry): Opportunity is scrapping the Board veto power over caucus, thus bringing the party into line with accepted norms. Ian Lees-Galloway is flagging further constitutional changes next year #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

‘Valid concerns raised’: Opportunity scrapping board’s veto power over caucus

The party has called a special general meeting following queries from The Post.

thepost.co.nz