Perfect!

Snort

I can use it in a sentence:

Humpty Dumpty’s choppelganger runs New Zealand.

I cope by systems - and at work people think I’m super onto it. Only because of SYSTEMS!

The annoying thing about “rich people” claiming they already pay more tax, is that they got rich
1) while being supported within an economy where all that public infrastructure they depend on is paid by the population - and never properly “charged”
2) while “cleverly” gaining a competitive …
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Screenshot of a tweet by The Halfway Post (@HalfwayPost) satirically reporting that Kash Patel is threatening to sue anyone who calls him "J. Edgar Boozer," a play on FBI founder J. Edgar Hoover. No image or video is embedded.

Oh that's a good one!

The current NZ gov response to fuel crisis does seem to be tracking long the lines of that Hemingway quote:

"How did you go bankrupt?"
"Gradually at first, and then suddenly"

I'm worried that by the time we reach the 'suddenly' phase, the gov won't have prepared the population enough.

#nzpol

It is the problem, he’s so unfiltered it could be true ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Is it real ?

… in a competitive world.

But if you’ve gained your wealth supported by an economic system, paid for by others, and now you are indirectly harming that system - you need to come to the party and help maintain it.

You have enormous economic resources - but how about community & common good?

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… they naturally impact others lives in the opposite direction. People struggle. Governments lose their broad revenue pool & then start to harm the economy by underinvesting and underfunding and it becomes an endless cycle.

I’m not saying that improving your business is wrong - it’s necessary…
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…. advantage over others - off shoring production, speculating, introducing technology to improve productivity - not necessarily wrong, but it harms the population by removing income opportunities or increasing prices (eg housing)

So, while improving their own wealth / standard of living …
2/

The annoying thing about “rich people” claiming they already pay more tax, is that they got rich
1) while being supported within an economy where all that public infrastructure they depend on is paid by the population - and never properly “charged”
2) while “cleverly” gaining a competitive …
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Because you should take the money Govt spend off people who don't have it any more?

“I see a huge issue in sentencing here in New Zealand for sexual violence - the sentences are not reflecting the severity of the crime.”

That is 100% what is happening - if perpetrators get convicted at all, and if reporting happens given our “justice” system/consistent enabling of sexual violence.

Cars and vans bobbing in flood water in an Edwardian suburban street.

"Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it"

Or till the background is the street you grew up in. Hits home.

Infrastructure Commission to oversee major projects under new government plan The government it is shifting oversight from Treasury to the Infrastructure Commission.

It wasn't Treasury that made you announce $50 billion worth of trophy roads we can't pay for, and the Infrastructure Commission has already told you what a bad idea that is. I don't think either of them are the problem here. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Good. What NZ had for a bit before tobacco lobbyists were installed in parl. #nzpol

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Yep - unfortunately kiwis are too stupidly conservative.

It’s all so “am dram” in its execution.

Does feel very contrived / wag the dog - after the confidence vote yesterday.

Chris Luxon can’t face resigning - so he’s attacking Winston hoping Winston will pull the carpet from the coalition.

Luxon then steps down on his own accord (in his mind) and lets a snap election snap.

Who would want to be in power as the fuel crisis hits?

This is the most perfect moment ever to use that gif.

The comments from both senior ministers on RNZ's Morning Report signalled the election campaign has well and truly begun, with Willis also saying Peters was "mischief-making". She went on to say that Labour was "choosing to get into bed with the party that referred to Indians choosing to come to New Zealand as a 'butter chicken tsunami'". Willis' comments were on the weekly Morning Report political panel alongside Labour's Tangi Utikere, who she accused of being in a party that was "courting exactly the same concerns that New Zealand First are trying to whip up" in regards to the New Zealand-India free trade agreement.

Nicola Willis, in coalition with NZ First, accusing Labour of jumping into bed with NZ First and using racist comments made by her coalition partner, NZ First.

Definitely satirical

When I used to work for a local Pt Chev business - they had a branch over in Wolverton Rd. I biked to work in Pt Chev and had to go to Wolverton to do stock checks. I told my boss I could get there faster than him in his car - so we did it one day. And I won - but I apparently cheated with an ebike

Yeah.