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Scott

The world witnessed more transgender violence yesterday when a swimmer named Riley Gaines, who had to compete against the biologically intact male swimmer Lia Thomas and share a dressing room with him, was attacked by a mob, punched twice and had to be protected by the police for several hours.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/more-trans-violence.php

This follows hard on the heels of the transgender mass murderer at the Nashville Christian school, the assault on Posie Parker in an Auckland Park by transgender activists and a grossly underreported case of a 19 year old male who calls himself Lily and has been arrested after threatening schools and charged with two counts of criminal attempt to commit first-degree murder.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/another-trans-mass-murderer-stopped.php

Isn’t it about time that we stopped affirming transgender and actually realised it is a mental illness?
And on the broader front, isn’t it time to stop affirming these deviant cults? Because transgender appears to be a cult. I would say Drag Queens is a cult as well. I would say climate change is a cult.

Wouldn’t it be better to observe the Christian holidays and spend an hour a week in church? Because this is what happens when people abandon their faith. They embrace a cult.
When people abandon Christianity they don’t get more reasonable. The trans-people are not reasonable. This climate change doom and gloom is not reasonable.

I would say to my fellow New Zealanders if you spend an hour a week in church then the world would be a lot less crazy place.
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April 8, 2023 8:02am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Sorry you are conflating two separate things. I am an atheist. I embrace reason and science.
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:57am
  - Swifty
    
    Kiwiblog’s Easter wouldn’t be Easter without the Prophet of Masterton extolling us all to repent and join his flock.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:02am
    - Che Guava
      
      What does it even mean to say that “transgenderism is wrong” on a liberal (i.e. non-religious) worldview? If liberalism is essentially about licentiousness and people doing what pleases themselves, how do you approach disagreement about transgenderism?
      
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      April 8, 2023 11:28am
      - Dave
        
        If liberalism is essentially about licentiousness and people doing what pleases themselves…
        
        That’ a mighty big supposition, even two mighty big suppositions, while (usually in these debates) assuming facts not in evidence with regard to the implied religious alternative.
        
        Moreover, you might need to define ‘transgenderism’. Dressing up as/pretending to be the opposite gender is one thing; claiming ‘rights’ to women’s sports, prisons, restrooms, and chemically or surgically altering children’s bodies raise other issues.
        
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        April 8, 2023 2:14pm
  - Matt Long
    
    Sorry, if you embraced science you would be an agnostic 😊
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:16am
    - Che Guava
      
      Science is indeed a very valuable activity, but it is strictly limited to questions of cause and effect between material objects. That’s it. It’s optimism about telling us much about what it is to be human and about values and ends is misplaced to say the least. Like Kant showed with regard to the limits and contradictions of our faculty of reason, science eventually runs up against itself and shows itself to be of limited value beyond surface descriptions of things. But Scientism is a secular religion for some.
      
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      April 8, 2023 11:34am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Short “de-waffled” version; We don’t have the answers for everything at the present time. However, science (as in the scientific method) is the only tool we have for eventually confirming what is. You’re welcome. 😑
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:28pm
    - slijmbal
      
      @Matt – sorry that’s just not true. There is literally zero evidence of a God, never mind a Christian one. Spent ~ 15 years at Catholic schools including a Jesuit one and even they admit there is actually no proof of a God. It’s all a matter of faith.
      
      Thinking there ‘might’ be something that exists without any evidence is completely unscientific.
      
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      April 8, 2023 11:46am
      - Don Beckett
        
        You obviously didn’t look into all the evidence – and I would dispute your claim that the Jesuits say there is no proof of God.
        
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        April 8, 2023 1:15pm
      - Matt Long
        
        An agnostic admits that he doesn’t know if something is true or not, when it comes to metaphysics that is about as far as pure science can take you.
        (Others might argue that science proves intelligent design but science certainly can’t disprove the existence of God. )
        
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        April 8, 2023 4:12pm
  - Centrist
    
    I embrace reason as well and the evidence of numerous Old Testament prophecies fulfilled in Christ, the evidence of the empty tomb, biblical archaeology, changed lives, and miraculous events, leave just one viable outcome.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:20am
    - Cinematic
      
      Or so a lot of people thought pre science.
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:32am
      - kowtow
        
        What is “pre science”.
        
        The ancient world had lots and lots of science .
        
        Their own science . Unlike today’s that so many scientists claim is “settled” like a faith belief or neo religion for this so called secular age.
        
        How did the ancients build the pyramids , measure the Nile floods and come up with maths to figure out area after same , build tunnels over great distances to carry water ,aque and via ducts that are still standing or align those neolithic monuments to the stars ?
        
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        April 8, 2023 1:32pm
    - Swifty
      
      As with all revealed religions you’re just taking their word for it.
      
      Like old ‘Mo, that he had multiple visits from Gabriel who imparted the Koran to him.
      
      Totally up to you, but, sorry, not good enough for me.
      
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      April 8, 2023 12:29pm
  - Mike
    
    Widogast
    You might not have realized that Scott is an evangelical believer in the Bible as literal truth and thus impervious to reason. He is armored against reason and science with God’s Truth,
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:32am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Mike – you mean like a man believing he’s a woman?
      Interesting.
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:42am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Reason yes, of the intellect.
    Science – a man made discipline to learn & understand the natural world through observation & experimentation.
    There are things beyond nature and our understanding.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:33am
  - Che Guava
    
    “I am an atheist. I embrace reason and science.”
    
    This implies that you are a materialist (i.e. that everything that exists exists in a spatio-temporal realm called “nature,” the subject matter of science), yet the laws of logic (and therefore reason as well) aren’t material and have no spatio- temporal location. Logic is immaterial. But the laws of logic exist objectively and are not mental constructs, they are built into all existence itself: If anything exists, then it is true that it exists and false that it doesn’t exist – that is a logical statement that applies to everything. Truth and falsity are logical values.
    
    Secularists cannot consistently make sense of laws of logic. In your atheism and materialism, all is physical. But laws of logic are not physical. They have no material substance, and no particular location in space. So laws of logic necessarily cannot exist in a materialistic universe. Yet materialists continue to use laws of logic, despite the fact that they cannot make sense of them. Secular thinking is contradictory, and therefore cannot be consistently true. This is a glaring inconsistency typically unnoticed by those who reject transcendence of the material.
    
    Your atheism and materialism is circular: “I rely on reason and science (alone), because reason and science tell us everything there is to know.”(using a logic that you cannot use, btw). But says who? You’re just begging the question.
    
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    April 8, 2023 11:24am
    - ISeeRed
      
      “Something can’t come from nothing…except (my) God” is obviously a self-serving and inconsistent argument.
      
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      April 8, 2023 12:44pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      The big clue to humans being very far from understanding the nature of reality is the fact of consciousness.
      
      What or who is receiving and perceiving the signals of the senses. A kind of meat circuit board??? THAT is the nexus of a person’s consciousness? HOW?
      
      It appears we simply can not know what it it’s all about or we are not meant to know.
      
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      April 8, 2023 3:34pm
  - Che Guava
    
    Funnily enough, liberal “reason” tells us that if we are all without any essence and that we are each just collections of completely physical atoms existing in the void with no intrinsic end, then “gender transitioning” is a perfectly legitimate proposition. I don’t see how people can even have any intrinsic dignity or worth in a materialistic and atheistic worldview, because what would such value propositions even mean in that case?
    
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    April 8, 2023 11:39am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Problematic fact. Trans people are not “transitioning” into the opposite gender. They are transitioning into a cosmetic simile (and a very poor and unappealing one when it comes to “bottom surgery”).
      
      Be kind to people who are different? Sure. Let it all stop right there.
      
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      April 8, 2023 3:38pm
- tedbear
  
  If you put male hormones in a female body or female hormones in a male body without replacing the parts that naturally produce hormones, in a short space of time the person(s) involved would be driven insane plus very likely suffer incurable diseases.
  
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  April 8, 2023 10:12am
  - mawm
    
    Do you have something, anything, to back up your claims?
    
    Is there any evidence that those who use hormones in an attempt to change gender are not insane to begin with and only become insane afterwards? We know if they are left wing they are far more likely to self-identify as having been diagnosed with a mental illness.
    
    Specifically what incurable diseases do they suffer from? Cancers? If so what cancers? Or what diseases?
    
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    April 8, 2023 3:55pm
    - tedbear
      
      I did say “very likely”.
      But since you ask, there’s the risk of breast and prostate cancer, bone and heart disease arising from high estrogen levels.
      
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      April 8, 2023 5:43pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  This is Riley Gaines testifying to a congressional committee about how competing against Lia Thomas, a 6’4″ tall swimmer, with male genitalia intact, affected her and other female swimmers, and just as importantly, how demeaning and embarrassing it was to have to share changing facilities with Thomas.
  
  https://twitter.com/i/status/1644408382919516209
  
  She is an incredibly brave young woman, and I suggest that the video of her being attacked by Trans activists yesterday and held hostage will do the trans movement significant harm.
  
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  April 8, 2023 10:23am
  - leoj
    
    Well, bravo, then.
    
    The trans movement needs to be put in their place.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:31am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    We can but hope Tony, but what a tragedy that such a brave and talented young woman has to be attacked like this for people to wake up and realise what an evil cult this really is.
    
    I expect Lord Coe double-checks he has all doors and windows locked at night too.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:32am
  - thirteenstars
    
    For those needing a boost, here’s Matt Walsh engaging a transgender medical professional.
    
    Insanity and shining rationality all at once:
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuOjm9n94ZQ
    
    File these things away, people. You want to beat the bastards back? Get smart. Learn the arguments.
    
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    April 8, 2023 12:19pm
- Loddenthinks
  
  Agree 100% with your first four paragraphs.
  
  The last four are nothing to do with the topic.
  
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  April 8, 2023 10:51am
- igm
  
  It is an extension of perversion.
  
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  April 8, 2023 11:00am
Simon

Clown world is losing badly. The tranz thing is terrible over reach. Sign of desperation?

Russia / China alliance although vile govt they offer a sane economic alternative to Clown World.
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April 8, 2023 8:06am
- artemisia
  
  BRIICS. So far, quiet talks happening. It is not just Russia and China.
  
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  April 8, 2023 10:02am
  - mawm
    
    There are rumours of them floating a gold-backed currency. Hmmm, might be a good investment.
    
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    April 8, 2023 3:57pm
    - Jim
      
      Yep the US temporarily suspended theirs in 1971…oopsie greenback free fall is a coming.
      
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      April 8, 2023 8:16pm
Mike

Happy International Romani Day!
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April 8, 2023 8:06am
- Burtland
  
  happy lame day from boring Mike
  
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  April 8, 2023 10:34am
  - Pineapple Lumps
    
    Oh look two obligatory downticks – wonder who gave you those Burtland?
    
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    April 8, 2023 3:44pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Romani – nominative/vocative masculine plural
  
  Who knew that Latin declensions had their own holiday.
  
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  April 8, 2023 4:19pm
  - Mike
    
    Romans go home!
    
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    April 8, 2023 4:54pm
Chuck Bird

The Herald thinks men who claim they are women should bump real woman off the podium.

Editorial: Does gender diversity belong in sport? Hint: Yes

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/editorial-does-gender-diversity-belong-in-sport-hint-yes/HXJPWCOTYVDRTOUYKHF3Q4LZEI/
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April 8, 2023 8:08am
- slightlyrighty
  
  When will people who think like this realise that where sport is seperated along gender lines, it is done so for BIOLOGICAL reasons, and not for IDENTITY reasons.
  
  I weigh 99KG. If I Identified as weighing 79kg, could I play restricted weight grade rugby?
  
  If I was a heavyweight Boxer, could I identify as a bantamweight and make a career out of that division?
  
  At a Biological level, we are who we are. If you are a biological male, and transition to Female, there are certain things you cannot do. You can live a life as athentic to your beliefs as possible, but you cannot circumvent the biological.
  
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  April 8, 2023 8:17am
  - Burtland
    
    rivers and mountains are getting the legal status of a person
    – does that mean we can now self identify as a mountain ?
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:41am
- Matt Long
  
  $1uffed thinks Christian holidays are irrelevant in a place called aoteoroa and should be replaced.
  https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/131697830/is-it-time-for-aotearoa-to-move-away-from-christianbased-holidays
  
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  April 8, 2023 8:21am
  - Mike
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    I agree. We should move away from northern hemisphere midwinter and spring festivals and embrace our own seasonal rituals.
    
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    April 8, 2023 8:24am
    - Widogast Corwin
      
      What seasonal rituals would they be?
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:09am
      - Ghost
        
        New Zealand freedom day, the historic day New Zealanders celebrate the resignation of dictator Ardern?
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:31am
      - Mike
        
        We have very good customs around the winter solstice and spring equinox. For the former, I would suggest bashing together the existing statutory holiday for the King’s birthday and Matariki. Plenty of rituals for everyone there. For the latter, move the New Year’s second holiday and Labour Day (include Rā Maumahara as well) to late September, and use the spring rituals that have nothing to do with religion – chocolate, rabbits and eggs).
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:45am
      - Widogast Corwin
        
        “We have very good customs around the winter solstice and spring equinox.”
        
        No we don’t. You are making stuff up. Who is “we”?
        
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        April 8, 2023 11:39am
      - Widogast Corwin
        
        “include Rā Maumahara as well)”
        
        Who knows what that is?
        
        Sorry you are living in a fantasist world.
        
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        April 8, 2023 11:40am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Wouldn’t go quite that far on Adern Ghost. I’m happy she resigned and certainly celebrated at the time! Understand the sentiment but I’m more for just let her fade. I wish her well in her personal life (as long as she doesn’t get involved in inflicting more communist/woke/divisive crap on people).
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:42pm
      - Pineapple Lumps
        
        Festival of the Troll?
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:45pm
    - Centrist
      
      This time of year (late March – April) is one when we remembering self sacrifice – firstly Christ’s death on the cross and later the ANZACs and other members of the armed forces on the 25th. It is a solemn and sacred time.
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:27am
      - Mike
        
        Seems to be a very long period to set aside for grief.
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:46am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        As does the tedious obsession and propagandizing about stuff that happened approx two centuries ago in this country Mike.
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:45pm
      - Mike
        
        The obsession with Anzac Day is only about 100 years old.
        
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        April 8, 2023 4:20pm
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    I am an atheist. However I think that preserving Easter and Christmas holidays is important. New Zealand cannot just abandon traditions around which society has evolved.
    
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    April 8, 2023 8:39am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      I’m a Christian, and I completely agree.
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:59am
    - Che Guava
      
      I agree, but how is it that “traditions” can matter or have any significance whatsoever to a materialist like yourself? Everything is all just atoms, isn’t it?
      
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      April 8, 2023 11:48am
      - Widogast Corwin
        
        Sorry that went over my head.
        
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        April 8, 2023 1:04pm
      - Che Guava
        
        That’s a common malady of the atheist. The idea of “tradition” would seem to reflect the existence of non-material values, and if you are an atheist and materialist, you cannot consistently assert value statements.
        
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        April 8, 2023 1:28pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        The fact of consciousness does not seem to give pause to most atheists. It’s not proof of the existence of this or that deity. It is a strong clue that reality may not be what it seems however.
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:47pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I don’t see what is wrong with Christian holidays at all.
    I am not a man of faith but respect those who have faith.
    Asking Kiwis if we should move away from Christian based holidays is downright cheeky. It is none of their business, move on.
    Freedom is what this land is all about. Let us not forget all gave some, and some gave all, for our Freedom.
    
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    April 8, 2023 8:46am
    - Mike
      
      Freedom to ask if people want to change their holidays.
      
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      April 8, 2023 8:54am
      - graham
        
        In the same way that we were asked if we wanted Matariki?
        
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        April 8, 2023 9:05am
      - Widogast Corwin
        
        Ask away. Take a poll on whether folk want to abandon Easter and Christmas.
        
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        April 8, 2023 9:10am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Mike – it’s a completely moronic question. People who are faith based will not stop celebrating or remembering their traditionally important dates. Nor should they.
        Otherwise get rid of them all and we’ll just work through. Here’s the list.
        
        New Year’s Day
        Day after New Year’s Day
        Waitangi Day
        Good Friday
        Easter Monday
        Anzac Day
        King’s Birthday
        Matariki
        Labour Day
        Christmas Day
        Boxing Day
        
        Or if we give them all Maori names will that be acceptable?
        
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        April 8, 2023 9:17am
      - kowtow
        
        clan
        
        Best of all is Sunday . The biblical day of rest .
        
        Funnily enuf our days of the week named after Norse gods , and as they’re not Christian no one ‘s “offended” . Funny that.
        
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        April 8, 2023 9:28am
      - Pineapple Lumps
        
        Freedom to troll as well
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:46pm
    - pdm
      
      Easter and Christmas are far more relevant in my and my families life than Matariki.
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:08am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Matariki is part of the revival of a cruel oppressive pagan culture.
        
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        April 8, 2023 9:20am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Matariki is just the Maori name for the constellation
        Subaru.
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:15am
      - Don Beckett
        
        Yes, but it is implication of the stars being ‘spirits’ that incorporate the pagan culture.
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:37am
      - Che Guava
        
        If all cultures, and therefore presumably all cultural practices, are equal, then why does it matter if our holidays are inherently Christian in nature? Because cultural relativity is yet another blatantly contradictory lie that is intended only to subvert existing institutions.
        
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        April 8, 2023 11:52am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Matariki means it is time to plant some seed, or change the oil in your Subaru.
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:18pm
      - MCōs
        
        Suit yourself
        
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        April 9, 2023 1:15pm
    - Bloody Dago
      
      Stuffed keyboard warriors dribbling on with their Marxist dogma….pathetic
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:16am
      - Inandout
        
        BD, stuff etc are a dying medium.
        
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        April 8, 2023 9:37am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Don’t read it. Starve them.
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:45am
    - Paulus
      
      Remember our own main Festival and Public Holiday is called Matariki.
      This has been know for many more centuries than Maori around the World.
      Maori did not invent it, but as usual purloined it from elswhere.
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:36am
  - Taieri
    
    Replaced? By all means. Perhaps with Ramadan? Or even better, make all holidays working days. This will make sheeple real happy…
    
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    April 8, 2023 8:46am
    - artemisia
      
      Why not abandon public holidays completely and give working folk an extra 12 or so days leave to use how and when they like, subject to the usual agreement with the employer. No mandated trading restrictions, no penal rates.
      
      (Never going to happen, but hey freedom to ask if people want to change holidays. Why not eh Mike.)
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:17am
      - Albert_Ross
        
        Precisely! By all means celebrate Easter (etc) if you want, but to the extent that you’re also requiring me to observe it – eg, by not allowing me to go to the shops, or requiring me to take days off work when I don’t want them and so reducing the number of days off work that I can take when I do want them – no, thanks.
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:07am
      - Taieri
        
        Why not abandon public holidays completely and give working folk an extra 12 or so days leave
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        If there’s no reason to observe Christian holidays anymore, there’s no logical reason to replace these holidays with anything else.
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:26am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Unions won’t allow it. Double time and triple time and all that shit.
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:17am
    - sirknz
      
      We could then participate in this as part of the ‘champion team’…
      
      https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/site/ramadan-bombathon.aspx
      
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      April 8, 2023 1:00pm
  - oldpark
    
    @Matt Long 8.21am .
    
    They are a week to late for April Fools. Seems they are the Fools. Or maybe people who get their paper delivered are the fools.
    Seems they want to Cancel Christian Holidays?Yet no sign of them cancelling home Delivery Charges for Good Friday . Yes no Paper on that day . Yet they still gouge unsuspecting home delivery participants as if they received a paper on that day.
    Could that be called a “SCAM” .Asking for many many friends .
    
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    April 8, 2023 8:52am
  - peterwn
    
    Good Friday is NOT a public holiday in Italy!!!!!!!! Churches there often hold their Good Friday services in the early evening.
    Personally I think we should ‘fix’ the Easter break. The complicated formula to determine Easter is rather arbitrary. This is especially as some churches and countries use a similar formula meaning Easter is a week or so different from what we are used to.
    
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    April 8, 2023 8:55am
    - pdm
      
      Does not seem to be in many places with Stock Markets operating throughout the world on Good Friday and I assume Easter Monday.
      
      Therefore Just another working day throughout 95% at least of the world.
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:10am
    - rangitoto
      
      The formula is pretty simple. The Sunday following the first full Moon after the vernal equinox.
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:21am
      - peterwn
        
        But that is not the formula which is used. A rather complicated formula is used which is supposed to give the date as the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox, but it is not exact and often gets it a week out.
        
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        April 8, 2023 12:13pm
    - Taieri
      
      Churches there often hold their Good Friday services in the early evening
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      “Good Friday is a day of fasting within the Church. Traditionally, there is no Mass and no celebration of the Eucharist on Good Friday. A liturgy may still be performed and communion, if taken, comes from hosts consecrated on Holy Thursday. Baptism, penance, and anointing of the sick may be performed, but only in unusual circumstances. Church bells are silent. Altars are left bare”
      
      https://www.catholic.org/lent/friday.php
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:32am
      - Mike
        
        That’s just one of many versions of complicated and often contradictory Paschal rituals.
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:49am
  - rouppe
    
    If they are serious about moving away from Christian holidays then they should be more agnostic about it.
    
    They should also promote abandoning Matariki, and publicly celebrating – and funding – other festivals such as Diwali
    
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    April 8, 2023 8:56am
    - Ehlana
      
      We’ve had decades of sidelining Christianity in the name of inclusion, which would seem to coincide with declining Christian faith in New Zealand. Perhaps the two things are not unrelated?
      
      If constant promotion of abortion, homosexuality, transgenderism, etc. , is done specifically to normalise those things and make them more acceptable, is it not likely that constantly ignoring what were majority beliefs will have a similar effect in making them less acceptable?
      
      Stats NZ indicates about 1.3million Christians in the country – does anyone think that is reflected in say, funding from NZ On Air for programmes showing this aspect of NZ life? Or Auckland Council support for Christian celebrations?Contrast that with their decorations for Matariki, Diwali and Chinese New Year.
      
      Whether or not you are Christian, it would seem our celebrations of diversity have a huge gap in them.
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:43am
      - Mike
        
        A better measure of the number of Christians would be a count of regular church attendees.
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:51am
  - WaynelSexton
    
    End Christian holidays and bring back cannibalism. It was obviously racist to get rid of it.
    
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    April 8, 2023 8:58am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      You are Maori right?//
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:19am
    - Mike
      
      Christian worship is already a cannibalistic ritual. In particular, the pope won’t recognize you as a Christian unless you specifically believe you are eating Jesus’s flesh and drinking his blood at least once a week.
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:53am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Did you in the past consider yourself a Christian Mike?
        
        A reasonable understanding of the bible would inform you that this is not what Christians believe.
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:50pm
      - Mike
        
        Are you not familiar with Catholic doctrine?
        
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        April 8, 2023 4:22pm
  - Nookin
    
    As I read the article, 38% identify as Christians and that is enough to scrap Christian based holidays. Fair enough. As I read the room, there is diminishing support for the monarchy in NZ so let’s scrap the Kings birthday. The government is re-writing the treaty so let’s just put Waitangi Day on hold while we see if the finished product is worth celebrating.
    Can we really, in good conscience, celebrate Labour Day when hospital staff are working 12 hour shifts while other industries are clamouring for the 4 day working week?
    If respect for the beliefs of 38% is not enough for a public holiday, are we going to re-think Matariki?
    
    And what about this “Aotearoa” lark? Is this based on sound research and polling or is it just the part of the Public Interest Journalism Fund deal? Are Ngai Tahu on board with the renaming the whole country with the name given to the North Island?
    And if Stuff don’t believe in Easter, why didn’t I get a paper yesterday?
    Then again, maybe I am just a bit grumpy.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:05am
    - Mike
      
      [Mod – deleted]. On the positive side, the weekend Dominion edition was a bumper read today, and there is cricket and rugby to watch today.
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:55am
- sirknz
  
  Create an open division. Let anyone compete against anyone. If there’s no difference between men and women then there’s no problems with this.
  
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  April 8, 2023 8:23am
- Lee C
  
  In 1759, Mary Woolstoncraft wrote:
  “I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”
  
  Look how far we have evolved as a society.
  
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  April 8, 2023 8:26am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  The USA swimmer Riley Gaines has been campaigning to keep biological men out of women’s sports. While giving a speech in a San Francisco university yesterday she was attacked by a violent baying mob.
  
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11949057/Terrified-Riley-Gaines-ambushed-screaming-trans-activists-physically-attacked-her.html
  
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  April 8, 2023 8:33am
  - All_on_Red
    
    The Trans community do seem to be quick to resort to violence
    https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2023/04/06/breaking-another-would-be-trans-mass-shooter-arrested-n1685197
    
    Say, do you think there could be some mental issues going on here?
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    April 8, 2023 8:44am
    - Ghost
      
      It’s obvious he had a mental illness when you read the condition of the house he was living in
      
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      April 8, 2023 8:59am
      - Matt Long
        
        And when they said they were trans.
        
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        April 8, 2023 9:23am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        I wonder how I would be regarded if I identified as superman and went everywhere in a superman cape and speedos? I’m sure many young boys do identify as that!
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:53pm
      - Ghost
        
        Give it a try, but I can confirm having tried that as a child, I didn’t achieve flight when jumping off a roof…..
        
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        April 8, 2023 4:09pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Perhaps the drugs they take to assist in transitioning exacerbates their underlying delusions.
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:08am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Clearly.
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:20am
  - Taieri
    
    biological men out of women’s sports
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    Are there any other men than “biological”?
    
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    April 8, 2023 8:47am
    - CJames
      
      I don’t know Taieri. I have seen a lot of references to what “real men” do or don’t do, which implies not all men are one. Remember it was in the book “Real Men don’t eat Quiche” which I have around somewhere. Must dig it out to read with my bacon and egg pie for lunch.
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:11am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        “Real Men don’t eat Quiche”
        It’s a topless egg pie, not quiche.
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:21am
      - Loddenthinks
        
        True story – my Dad once asked the waitress for a “quickie” to my Mum’s horror.
        
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        April 8, 2023 11:03am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Lodden – how did that work out for him? Asking for a friend, you understand.
        
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        April 8, 2023 4:26pm
    - Paulus
      
      I understand that there is only one Surgeon in New Zealand who does full transference surgery and he is on demand, as he only does a limited number each year – possibly only one operation which is why the funnies are complaining.
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:41am
  - Matt Long
    
    They’ve been doing that since Lot lived in Sodom.
    
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    April 8, 2023 8:49am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    These mentally ill people need to be arrested, charged and jailed.
    The straight girls/women are being punished for something that is not their doing.
    Sure, it is going to mean more protests and fighting, but the playing field needs to be leveled up. These thugs do as they please atm.
    Why would girls/women bother to compete when mental men just spoil it?
    Who are the main sports body controllers? Have they been infiltrated by mental males?
    
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    April 8, 2023 8:55am
    - Ghost
      
      Why should they be charged Steve? Are they breaking the law? The sporting bodies allow them to compete, it is the sporting bodies that need to change the rules.
      
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      April 8, 2023 8:58am
      - Hollyfield
        
        Ummmm…pretty sure that ambushing and attacking someone is breaking the law.
        
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        April 8, 2023 9:31am
      - Ghost
        
        I’m answering Steve’s post about Transpeople in sports
        
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        April 8, 2023 9:34am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I would say partly right Ghost.
        The sporting bodies need to be cleaned up or be responsible for charges.
        
        Breaking the Law?
        Disturbing the peace, also known as breach of the peace, is a criminal offense that occurs when a person engages in some form of unruly public behavior, such as fighting or causing excessively loud noise. When a person’s words or conduct jeopardizes another person’s right to peace and tranquility, that person may be charged with disturbing the peace.
        https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/disturbing-the-peace.html
        
        In other words, if you piss someone off, you will suffer. 🙂
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:28am
      - leoj
        
        …..or the “real” women stop participating.
        
        If they refuse to compete, it will make a mockery of the trans efforts.
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:41am
      - Ghost
        
        I don’t think they’d need to leo, seems to be more sporting bodies banning Trans woman from their woman’s events.
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:51am
    - sirknz
      
      Women are the ones who need to fight this one for themselves. If they don’t want biological men in their sports and spaces, they need to boycott their sports if there are any competing.
      
      If they don’t fight this right now, then the outcomes are on them.
      
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      April 8, 2023 1:50pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        My argument is why should Women have to fight?
        It is Woman’s sport not transistor’s sport.
        Cowards who can’t compete against ‘real blokes’
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:22pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Will the likes of Willie Jackson and Nanaia Mahuta make a move to have Trans Clans included in their Co-Governance Model?
    I wouldn’t put it past them eh?
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:09am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Didn’t Willie Jackson feel uncomfortable around gay men?
      
      https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/02/young_labour_vs_willie_jackson.html
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:54am
      - Nickc2
        
        Have Willie and Robbo had a fallout?
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:56am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      If it gets them votes, they will do anything.
      Today’s Labour are not the Labour of yesteryear. Maori Party? Did it exist in yesteryear? Or only the racist Maori Seats.
      
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      April 8, 2023 3:25pm
- Philview
  
  There was a Stuff article last night talking about the likes of Sean Plunkett trying to introduce the culture wars to NZ. This is laughable. The Government has spent the last 3 years ramming through legislation focused on the culture wars and substantially shutting down any opposition.
  
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  April 8, 2023 8:48am
  - emmess
    
    The cultural Marxists invade, and you are blamed for starting the culture wars for noticing whats happening.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:07am
    - emmess
      
      Informative video here on the origins of cultural Marxism
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYpLKPJADms
      I think most of us here know of it and some basic facts, but this ties it altogether.
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:36am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    It’s had one positive spinoff. Stuff asked Christopher Luxon what a woman is, and he gave a very succinct answer:
    
    We asked Christopher Luxon how he would answer the question and he said “pretty simple: adult female human”
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:20am
    - emmess
      
      Generally accepted to be adult human female
      But near enough, it’s a pass mark.
      
      https://www.zazzle.co.nz/woman_noun_adult_human_female_for_feminist_t_shirt-235279443446528211
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:42am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Hilarious that he answered that way. I believe the reason is he heard David Seymour give that exact answer to Plunket on The Platform and wasn’t immediately attacked – literally or figuratively.
      
      Pretty sure he would have hesitated or deflected otherwise. Just my opinion.
      
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      April 8, 2023 11:06am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      He has been asked several times now, but the usual subjects rubbish me for reminding them he had already answered when first becoming leader
      
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      April 8, 2023 1:49pm
  - graham
    
    These Stuff snowflakes don’t half get wound up when someone asks a straight-forward, simple question.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:21am
  - Janabelle
    
    This year, 12-16th June will be Pride Week Aotearoa in all schools ranging from early childhood to secondary. They will be having a range of activities and lesson plans to educate the children on celebrating the LBGTQI+. Don’t understand why Stuff blaming Plunket for the culture wars, the truth is the culture wars are here and will be in your local school in 2 months brought to you by the government.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:28am
    - Taieri
      
      They will be having a range of activities and lesson plans to educate the children on celebrating the LBGTQI+
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      If LBGTQI+(everything else) is a normal human behaviour then there’s nothing to celebrate about it. Do we celebrate non-LBGT etc.?
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:36am
    - Pineapple Lumps
      
      Schools in Auckland already had a Rainbow week in term 1. Psychological warfare on young people continues.
      
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      April 8, 2023 4:00pm
  - Swifty
    
    It’s a tactic you see in NZ more and more.
    
    Just like that if you oppose race-based laws then YOU are the racist.
    
    If you oppose trans-women in women’s spaces then YOU are the misogynist.
    
    Etc etc.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:32am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    It’s why I don’t bother going to any of them. Apart from the fact, if we starve them of views we starve them of the oxygen they need to survive. Don’t give them the time of day.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:37am
  - Pineapple Lumps
    
    Noticed how this term “the culture wars” is just popping up now and is being used to describe conservative voices challenging the trans-activist narrative. It is clearly the trans-activists that have been the aggressors waging war on our culture.
    
    It is chilling to see how many of these radicals have been imported into NZ – Shaneen Lal, Golriz, Menendez, Eli Golbenstein etc. Lals thinking about wanting to destroy our current heteronormal society hasn’t prohibited him from being awarded a pseudo-gong.
    
    More chilling is how readily the aggressors have been given access to political or media platforms. And how the MSM has heavily promoted their narrative.
    
    It has the fingerprints of globalist activism all over it. Unfortunately NZ has become their test market for how to destroy a nation. The most powerful tools in the ideological war are in the globalists hands.
    
    We are going to need to start fighting harder to defend our ideals or the inmates will be permanently in control of the asylum.
    
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    April 8, 2023 11:00am
    - Pineapple Lumps
      
      Downticker – please share your thoughts. How do you see this situation?
      
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      April 8, 2023 1:33pm
    - Ghost
      
      I wouldn’t even say these are trans-activists. The destruction they are doing towards the gay and Trans community seems pre-planned. Their access to politicians, media, companies shows there is far more to this. It’s actually sad to see the hate thrown towards the communities because of these people who are destroying what those before them achieved.
      
      When I look at what’s happening in the USA, teachers allowing children to dress up in school and take on a different gender without the parents knowing you see this is an agenda to confuse, destabilize. Books for children teaching sexual acts. Don’t blame these kids we see in the news turning to violence. We’ve had huge investigations into sexual abuse in the church and state, that will be dwarfed in years to come with how children are currently being brainwashed and abused.
      
      There is an agenda playing out but I think if you trace it back you’ll find the same people behind antifa blm are pushing this
      
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      April 8, 2023 1:56pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Ironic isn’t it? Back in the 60s and 70s the problem was women trying to be men to gain a competitive advantage (cheat) in sport. Mainly East Germans, but as we found out during the ensuing couple of decades, it was rife throughout the world.
  
  Now it’s men who already have the hormones and testosterone that those people tried to imbue who are trying to cheat women.
  
  Once you are an adult, do what you want in your private life, do what you want to your body, but do nothing that will negatively impact others.
  
  You are very negatively impacting others. Stop it. Get on with whatever it is you are doing and leave others alone. We’ll leave you alone. Promise. But the more tantrums you throw, the more you’ll be ignored. Nobody will want you anywhere in their circles.
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:08am
- alloytoo
  
  This why, when the bird died and I no longer needed to line the bottom of this cage with NZH editorial, I declined their offer of free subscription
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:32am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Hipkins tried to bump women off the podium last week, and man did he look like a pansy
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:55am
- Loddenthinks
  
  Paywalled. Didn’t really want to visit in any case but never in a million years would I reward the publisher by paying to read their drivel.
  
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  April 8, 2023 10:57am
- nathie
  
  The MSM are, again, on the wrong side.
  
  We need to keep calling them out until they finally “get it”!
  
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  April 8, 2023 11:21am
Tom Hunter

I see there was some debate here yesterday about a noted US Foreign Policy commentator, John Mearshiemer, and his take on the Ukraine War:“Yes, I am aware of Mearshiemer’s view. He is wrong.”.

I haven’t agreed with all – or perhaps even much – of Mearshiemer’s analysis over the last twenty years, but after reading this article in the Claremont Review, Why Are We In Ukraine?, I think the following comment about him should be noted:

Mearsheimer is skeptical of idealistic crusades, such as the one in Iraq that George W. Bush drew the country into in 2003. He is also skeptical of the idea that America has permanent moral commitments that transcend national interest, including the alliance America has maintained with Israel across the decades. To Mearsheimer, the American strategy of rights- and democracy-promotion since the end of the Cold War appears largely foolish and self-defeating. On the one hand the architects of that policy hold Mearsheimer in low esteem—Bush and Trump advisors no less than Obama and Biden ones. On the other hand Mearsheimer has been, over the two decades since the Iraq invasion, far more often right than wrong.
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April 8, 2023 8:10am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Mearsheimer is one of the most intelligent geopolitical analysts out there. He does to the “Russia invaded Ukraine without reason” debate what Matt Walsh does to the “What is a woman” debate. Shows it for the ludicrously irrational position it is.
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:45am
- Master Mariner
  
  Yep, At least 2 decades he has been warning this will end in war ( Mainly encroachment East ).
  
  And right he is.
  
  Also the escalation of the War with NATO and how Russia will act.
  
  Very sound reasoning,
  
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  April 8, 2023 10:02am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Master Mariner – he’s the one who has been the most accurate in his reasoning and predictions for some time now. Pointing this out isn’t “supporting Putin”, it’s accepting reality.
    It’s looking pretty grim right now for Ukraine, though apparently their is an offensive in the offing from them very soon. Tragic.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:51am
- virtualmark
  
  America has a long-standing internal debate between (a) America-first isolation and (b) America-led global engagement. This has been the case for over 100 years.
  
  The isolationist argument is that America should ensure its own national security, and not be drawn into external wars.
  
  The engagement argument is that America is a values-led nation and society and needs to protect and advance those values globally.
  
  So view Mearsheimer in those terms … that it seems he is from the isolationist camp.
  
  The difficulty for the isolationist camp is that history has shown that eventually foreign difficulties and strife become so significant and large that even an isolationist America is drawn into them – and that by the time America does get involved the work needed to sort the situation out is extreme. WWI and WWII are both simple examples of this. So history says that the isolationist argument that “Leave them to fight their own fights, we’re fine over here by ourselves” doesn’t actually work.
  
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  April 8, 2023 12:48pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    virtualmark – please list me the conflicts post WW2 that the US was drawn into. For the most part they started them.
    
    Start with Iran and the overthrow of Mossadeq because he had the cheek to nationalise their oil and take it away from the US and European companies. How were they drawn into that?
    What about Vietnam? If you accept the encroaching of communism as a valid reason then you have to accept the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
    
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    April 8, 2023 3:27pm
    - virtualmark
      
      Clan, I agree.
      
      Since WWII it’s been the “engagement camp” that have dominated US foreign policy. And their military is structured to support that offshore expeditionary focus – they have a military designed for offence, not defence.
      
      In the last 5-10 years though the GOP in particular has swung more back to that American isolationist posture that you saw prior to WWII.
      
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      April 8, 2023 4:37pm
- Ra Henare
  
  Tom,
  You have to forgive Wayne for his comment.
  Yes, I am aware of Mearshiemer’s view. He is wrong.”.
  
  The author of that line, suffers from a God complex.
  He doesn’t have the humility to say “In my opinion”, he is wrong.
  
  It is a trait of his to give his opinion without saying its opinion.
  
  Maybe having been a Minister of the Crown surrounded by yes men made him truly believe he is the podium of truth.
  
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  April 8, 2023 2:17pm
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    It is implied in the statement that it is my opinion. Sure I didn’t actually say it was my opinion, but self evidently it is that.
    I do think the Ukraine situation is quite different I that of the Middle East. Just because the US was wrong on Iraq doesn’t mean it is wrong on Ukraine. I have already explained my reasons why I think that, so won’t repeat it.
    
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    April 8, 2023 4:33pm
dubya

Trans women choosing the name “Emily” just seems like a recipe for punishment after the Little Britain skit…
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April 8, 2023 8:13am
Gravelroad

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-trans-activist-mob-that-came-for-swimmer-riley-gaines/

Why are so many trans activists intent on using aggression and violence in pursuit of their personal desires and ambitions?
Men seeking to change gender to women can have surgery, and put on women’s clothes and make up, but many cannot seem to change what is inside their heads.
Another case of “I am entitled to be a woman because I am special – but you are not.”
Until activists are willing and able to calmly debate the issues like ordinary people, they will not get the recognition and respect they are so desperate to achieve.
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April 8, 2023 8:16am
- pdm
  
  Must be the male hormones exerting their dominance Gravel.
  
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  April 8, 2023 8:21am
  - sirknz
    
    Might makes right?
    
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    April 8, 2023 8:24am
- Mike
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  I wonder if there could have a calm debate on Kiwiblog. What d’ya reckon?
  
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  April 8, 2023 8:25am
  - Cassandra
    
    Try an edit, mike. Whadya reckon?
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:10am
    - Mike
      
      Orsum.
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:58am
  - Matt Long
    
    [Mod – deleted, don’t go down that path]
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:28am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Mike – you don’t do debate, you do trolling, but you’re fucking good at it, I’ll give you that.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:47am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      CM, good at it? Exceedingly tiresome and repetitive more like it.
      
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      April 8, 2023 3:17pm
      - Mike
        
        You’re just jealous, coz you don’t live in NZ anymore.
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:26pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        I’m jealous that you live in NZ and I don’t?
        
        Righto.
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:59pm
      - Pineapple Lumps
        
        How good would it be if your next pseudonym was “Mike in exile without internet”?
        
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        April 8, 2023 4:03pm
      - Pineapple Lumps
        
        Some new slogans for us all to embrace:
        
        Trolls rights are human rights!
        
        Troll posters are real posters.
        
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        April 8, 2023 4:05pm
- Spam
  
  If men want to be women, then let them.
  
  What I don’t understand is why the most important thing to them is to compete at top level sports. Surely if they’ve been so unhappy being trapped in the ‘wrong’ body, their primary goal would be to just live peacefully as their chosen gender. Why sports?
  
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  April 8, 2023 8:27am
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    In the case of Lia Thomas, the USA college swimmer it is opportunism. He was ranked at number 600 odd as a male swimmer. But number 1 as a female swimmer.
    
    Many people have no idea of the gulf betwen post puberty female athletes and male athletes. If you look at female Olympic champions in athletics, those women would be beaten by hundreds of their male counterparts. In the USA typical high school make champion athletes would beat female Olympians in the same events.
    
    There is an excellent study that presents the data across all athletic events. You can probably find it by searching.
    
    Of course, as usual, no New Zealand journalist can be bothered doing 30 minutes of research before parroting on about the value of gender diversity in sport.
    
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    April 8, 2023 8:53am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      You would have thought the point of participating in competitive sport, or any kind of competitive activity, is to set yourself challenges and push yourself to improve. You do that by competing with people at your own level and striving to get into higher levels so you can compete against people better than you. There’s no challenge and no satisfaction in beating people who are at a disadvantage to yourself.
      
      Could Sam Whitelock beat me in an arm wrestle? Absolutely. Would he want to? No, it would be no achievement on his part and a total waste of his time.
      
      If trans people really loved their sport they should be pushing to be allowed their own class, or even to compete against bio men.
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:16am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Lia Thomas has intact male genitalia, as female swimmers discovered, to their horror, when forced to share a changing room.
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:23am
    - cas
      
      Irina and Tamara Press were 2 Russian athletes of the 60s who won Olympic medals, were thought to be inter- sex or male and who retired just before sex verification became mandatory.
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:32am
    - I remember when
      
      Yes World Athletics seems to have made the right decision for the right reasons.
      
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      April 8, 2023 2:30pm
  - rouppe
    
    If they so badly wanted to be women, they ought to remove that which most clearly defines them as men.
    
    Very, very few have, or will. They haven’t done any transition. It’s a performance. And when they don’t get the applause they feel they deserve, they turn violent.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:00am
    - Hollyfield
      
      “they ought to remove that which most clearly defines them as men.”
      
      The problem with that is the very significant risks involved and ongoing health issues, so many trans people choose to have only “top surgery” and not “bottom surgery”.
      
      A genuine trans person who has gender dysphoria and living their life as the opposite gender I have no issue with. The problem I have is with people who are self-identifying for non-genuine reasons. Whether it’s to gain an advantage in sports or college scholarships, or as an opportunity to gain entry to women’s spaces for predatory purposes. And we can’t tell who is genuine and who is not.
      
      The activists say they are not safe in men’s bathrooms. I can understand that. But they refuse to acknowledge that women do not feel safe with some self-identified “trans women” in their bathrooms. We don’t know which ones are the dangerous ones. The more violence and threats there are from the activists, the more we are concerned about our safety with trans women in our bathrooms. Until the activists are ready to have a conversation which does not include violence, the issue will not be resolved for either side.
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:44am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Because you can get sports scholarships; sports sponsorships; access to really good coaches, trips to far- away places, and medals to hang around your neck.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:38am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  If we look at Kellie Jay Keen, her views are compelling and she is articulate. I have seen two trans activists debate her. It just becomes a train wreck. In both cases the activists became explosively angry.
  
  I think that explains the violence and gaslighting. These people don’t have any chance of winning a rational debate with her. So they call her a Nazi. In turn that gives them a licence to physically attack her.
  
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  April 8, 2023 8:46am
  - Hollyfield
    
    What is interesting on Kellie-Jay Keen’s Youtube videos is how many supportive comments there are from people, both men and women, who specifically say they are from NZ. Guess the left’s campaign backfired on them.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:58am
    - Widogast Corwin
      
      And yet Michael Wood described Kellie Jay Keen as having ““inflammatory, vile and incorrect world views”.
      
      Utterly astonishing that he can be referring to the same woman.
      
      I think the most likely explanation is that Michael Wood has literally no awareness of her views and is just gratuitously attacking her. For reasons.
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:10am
      - Swifty
        
        The more I see and hear from that man the more I dislike him.
        
        He’s no leader.
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:18am
      - Nickc2
        
        Incorrect World Views eh?
        Perhaps Michael Wood would care to inform us of what correct World Views are?
        IMO, he’s a slimeball.
        If anyone on KB knows this slimeball, perhaps they would care to ask him to come on KB and explain to the great unwashed what Correct World Views he holds.
        That’ll set the Pigeons amongst the Cats eh?
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:48am
      - Pineapple Lumps
        
        No Woods is partnered firmly to the “trans women are real women” ideological Marxist group. Maggie Pies posts of partner Julie Faireys Twitter has shown this to be the case.
        
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        April 8, 2023 11:09am
      - Tony Stuart
        
        Her world views are only “inflammatory, vile and incorrect” because they differ from his. But he is a Cabinet Minister in the Labour government, so therefore, in his mind, his views are correct, and he won’t hesitate to use the platform a Minister has to push them.
        
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        April 8, 2023 11:17am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Widogast Corwin – here’s a short but excellent video of Matt Walsh debating a trans person and “mother”.
    They wanted to confront him.
    
    He wipes the floor with them using logic common sense. This is why they get so angry and violent.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgXPd-iOu18
    
    Even this trans person – who wanted to debate so was undoubtedly prepared – couldn’t answer “what is a woman.”
    They can’t use reason and logic so resort to tantrums and bullying. This will cause the demise of much support for them and their cause and so it should.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:56am
- hmmokrightitis
  
  Yup, violence is now OK, supported in this country by the media and government ministers – depending on what you believe anyway.
  
  Can our PM tell us what he (assuming he is a he) believes a woman is? Maybe that’s why he is now single, he didn’t know? Did he replace a woman? Did his ex have womb (often a giveaway that someone is a woman I hear).
  
  Best debate I’ve seen so far: asking an EMT if turning up to a trans persons call and being told they were pregnant…what should they do?
  
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  April 8, 2023 8:52am
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    I briefly listened to RNZ news yesterday..I was half listening to some story about health services in Canterbury for “pregnant people”. This is what energises Kellie Jay Keen. Erasing women.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:36am
    - Hollyfield
      
      What I find worse than “pregnant people” or “chest-feeding” is the move to call women “menstruators” or “people with a vagina” or “people with a uterus”.
      
      Here’s my perspective. If a trans man is pregnant, due to still having female reproductive organs, and he wants to be called a “pregnant person”, fine, call him what he wants. If he wants to “chest feed”, fine. I don’t care. What he is called is not important to me. That’s his business.
      
      But don’t tell a woman that she can’t be referred to as a “pregnant woman” and that she can’t “breast feed”.
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:56am
      - Swifty
        
        Well said.
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:17am
    - Taieri
      
      I was half listening to some story about health services in Canterbury for “pregnant people”
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      And the places where “pregnant people” go to conclude their pregnancies are now known as “birthing units”. No maternity hospitals anymore…
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:39am
    - ISeeRed
      
      Yes I heard a news story on The Breeze the other night start with “Those who are pregnant and parents. ..”
      
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      April 8, 2023 1:29pm
  - Matt Long
    
    I notice that the SF authorities appear to have a stand off and support the violence attitude like the NZ ones.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:42am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    I see the media are trying to suggest silly questions like what is a woman won’t have any bearing on the election. Well I suggest Hipkins patheticism may well have lost home a lot of women votes, why do the same media think it is essential to ask Luxon ffs
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:00am
- grumpy
  
  Because the men in dresses are bigger, stronger with psychological issues. Just like the causes of domestic violence in the “normal” community.
  
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  April 8, 2023 8:53am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Here is an idea. Why don’t these transistors have their own sports code?
  Not good enough to compete in real men’s sports, taking real woman’s sports away from women, so play their own game against themselves.
  Or are they just cowards?
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:00am
  - Widogast Corwin
    
    BTW something I have never come across. A biological woman who has become a trans man wanting to compete against men.
    
    I wonder why?
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:37am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      That would start WW3 for the transistors.//
      
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      April 8, 2023 12:18pm
    - Ghost
      
      There are a couple of Trans men competing professionally
      
      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_people_in_sports
      
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      April 8, 2023 12:22pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Even in snooker. Yes it is a sport. Hitting balls around like golf and cricket.
        When was the last time you saw a 147 from a Woman?
        Men are still rack in more. Here is something I had never seen before. Sure it is practice and not a tournament. You guy should have put his cue away after she passed 67 – unless he was banking on snookers.
        This girl’s CBC (Cue Ball Control – that is the white one) is really good and not overdone.
        Gender? Well Men still make more 147s than Women.
        Have a look, this is very good. Sorry about the URL rubbish, I did not know where to stop deleting.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeZPXU6pKSs
        
        [Mod – link fixed]
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:44pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @ Mod. Thankyou for that. I honestly did not know.
        Usually I find a question mark, and after some ‘ocid’ or ‘utm’ stuff.
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:57pm
  - Nickc2
    
    They want straight people to pay for it.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:54am
- Southern Raider
  
  Best comeback I saw was a video of a presenter being challenged by a transgender EMT. The EMT claimed all transgender people with medical issues should be taken seriously by medical staff as they have legit needs
  
  The presenter responded with “what happens when a transgender person with a penis presents to hospital emergency ward claiming to have a miscarriage”
  
  The transgender EMT had no comeback
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:00am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Oh boy – here comes WW3.//
    
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    April 8, 2023 3:50pm
- peterwn
  
  Ordinary (ie biological) women are a major potential political force. Jacinda won a landslide in the last election because she appealed individually to many ordinary women. One would think that women collectively would have the political clout to ensure the rights of ordinary women are upheld (particularly with regard to washrooms and sport), but regrettably they do not. I think Chris Luxon would be very vocal about upholding the rights of ordinary women if he considered it would translate into votes for his party. However there would be many considerations influencing how women vote and supporting this right would not be a priority for many women. Therefore why rock the boat since the objective is to win the forthcoming election. Possibly given time sufficient ‘influencers’ will develop among ordinary women that their rights in these areas will be protected.
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:13am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    So is that confirmation from Luxon that what Hipkins said is the same across the board – if he doesn’t have a pre formulated (fabricated) response to a question he won’t go there?
    
    I am probably politically naieve. But I believe that if someone in politics spoke up honestly and said what most of us know deep in our hearts to be true, they would capture far more votes than they might lose. This reliance on “focus groups” is insane. People will often say what they think they are supposed to say. Like the Emperor’s New Clothes, sometimes it takes just one brave voice to state the obvious.
    
    The moronic idea that we have to ask “what is a woman” seems to me to be an ideal time to speak out and damn the shrieking idiots trying to claim the impossible.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:06am
    - Gravelroad
      
      @clan-
      In the end, voters in an election are going to support the politicians they think/hope will support them.
      Today we have politicians who are prepared to ignore the views of a large majority just to fit in with the aggressive demands of a very, very small minority.
      That is a very puzzling state of affairs for many who just lead law abiding, mind your own business lives out here.
      Why are politicians so afraid of losing the votes of a few people who are obsessed with gender issues?
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:27am
      - Paulus
        
        Not so – I assume you mean by “support them” you mean throw more money at them.
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:50am
    - Che Guava
      
      What’s even the point of winning an election if doing so requires a complete abdication of the truth? The truth has ultimate value in itself, so it shouldn’t be discarded in order to win an election. If you’ve got to espouse lies and to refrain from speaking the truth to win, then you’re completely fit to govern anyway.
      
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      April 8, 2023 12:27pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    @peterwn-
    All the women I have talked with recently, young or old, and without exception, have offered the opinion that Mr Hipkins came across as an absolute dithering tool with his response to the “what is a woman” question.
    Without exception.
    Changed their perception of him – markedly.
    Perhaps Mr Luxon might like to reflect on that.
    (Admittedly these are just “ordinary women” out here in the provinces, not aggressively Marxist academics, public servants or media celebrities who talk about sexual and identity politics 24/7).
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:08am
    - peterwn
      
      “Perhaps Mr Luxon might like to reflect on that.”
      This would be something that he and Nicola would frequently reflect on. Perhaps their best tactic is to go easy for the moment and bring this in issue closer to the election. Assuming your first sentence is an accurate reflection of the situation, then it seems that Chris Hipkins is unintentionally assisting National with this. Chris L and Nicola may as well let Chris H carry on with this, so they can devote their time to other important issues.
      
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      April 8, 2023 12:25pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Poll out today has Hipkins losing considerable ground on his previous favourables
      
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      April 8, 2023 1:52pm
      - Widogast Corwin
        
        Sorry you are looking for a ray of hope in a dark cloud:
        
        “For the first time since August 2022, the Centre-Right cannot form government on its own and neither bloc has a majority. This means that the Māori Party holds the balance of power.”
        
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        April 8, 2023 2:13pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @WC.
        You think Winstone First may join the Maori Party?
        Would they let him?
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:53pm
  - Che Guava
    
    What’s even the point of winning an election if doing so requires a complete abdication of the truth? The truth has ultimate value in itself, so it shouldn’t be discarded in order to win an election. If you’ve got to espouse lies and to refrain from speaking the truth to win, then you’re completely fit to govern anyway.
    
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    April 8, 2023 12:25pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      Unfit to govern ????
      
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      April 8, 2023 1:32pm
      - Che Guava
        
        Absolutely. If you cannot tell people the hard truths they may not want to hear, or if you go out of your way to deny them or to even assert falsehoods, then you’re not fit to lead anything. Getting elected for the sake of it and at any price is self-negating.
        
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        April 8, 2023 1:44pm
ClanMcleod

Sunak in the UK can be commended for some common sense moves to implement a solution to what has become an idiotic “problem”. The whole gender circus.

On Tuesday, it emerged that the Government had asked the equalities watchdog for advice on changing the wording of the Equality Act to specify that it protects “biological sex” rather than “sex”.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) recommended that such a change would “bring legal clarity” in eight areas, including sports and single-sex areas.

Sounds eminently sensible.

Sex is not “assigned” at birth, sex is defined at birth by x and y chromosome make up with an miniscule number of exceptions.

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/04/05/equality-law-to-be-changed-to-protect-women-by-clarifying-sex-is-biological/

This action by the UK will clarify this and will make life so much easier for sporting bodies and other organisations.
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April 8, 2023 8:31am
- Swifty
  
  So refreshing to see.
  
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  April 8, 2023 10:09am
Lee C

I’m compiling a list of songs to send to Stuff with the recommendation tht they have no place in modern Aotearoa. these will include:
“She’s a Woman’ (The Beatles)
“Woman is the Nigger of the World” (John Lennon)
“She’s a long-Legged WOman Dressed in Black.” (Mungo Jerry)
“It’s a Man’s World” James Brown.
“Brown Sugar” The Rolling Stones.
and of course, anything by Led Zeppelin.
But we can keep “Girl ,You’ll be a Woman Soon” (Neil Diamond)
“Show me you’re a Woman” (Mud)

Any additions welcomed.
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April 8, 2023 8:33am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Good move Lee C. Ask them to do a big spread and leave the bloody comments open!
  
  “She’s Always a Woman to Me” Billy Joel.
  “I am Woman” Helen Reddy.
  “Man! I feel like a Woman” Shania Twain.
  
  I went searching for ‘Woman’ songs and came up with a lot of sleazy hookers!
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:09am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Alice Cooper’s “Only Women Bleed” – would probably cause a stir, might result in a lot of self harm so needs to be banned instantly…..//
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTx6S4kXbXc
  
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  April 8, 2023 10:09am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Brown sugar has already been canceled by the yanks, the stones just don’t play the song in their concerts anymore.
  
  Brown sugar is about meeting a black slave, but the song is all about letting her be accepted as just a woman as opposed to a black woman, from what I remember, the song is anti slavery
  
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  April 8, 2023 10:10am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  What is a man? The Four Tops
  
  https://genius.com/The-four-tops-what-is-a-man-lyrics
  
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  April 8, 2023 11:17am
- plc
  
  Lola….
  
  “I know what I am, I’m a man…..and so is Lola”
  
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  April 8, 2023 11:21am
Suze Wainwright

Dude (looks like a lady) by Aerosmith can become aotearoa’s national anthem
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April 8, 2023 8:42am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  For R. T. Rower a Te Reo version is required
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:10am
  - sirknz
    
    Te Reo version is required
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    Ehoa, cuz looks like my missus
    
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    April 8, 2023 2:08pm
Chuck Bird

Interesting interview

Piers Morgan vs Stormy Daniels | The Full Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj_YlLKSYi8
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April 8, 2023 8:45am
- grumpy
  
  Let’s pretend it was true that Trump shagged Stormy all those years ago. Presumable everyone was happy until he ran for Preseident. Then Stormy and her crooked laywer saw an opportunity for a shskedown which Cohen saw off with a payout.
  Surely she is the criminal and should be facing extortion charges?
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:08am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    What’s wrong with shagging a hooker?
    Hands up those who haven’t.
    This is not 1923.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:15am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      He’s not being charged with shagging a hooker.
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:28am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        No one can say what he is being charged with
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:14am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        @G the giant,
        
        He is charged with indirectly paying a hooker with Election Campaign funds.
        Yet another Dem based witch hunt. Anything to stop Trump from the yuge landslide win.
        
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        April 8, 2023 12:23pm
      - virtualmark
        
        No, he’s so far been charged with concealing payments in connection with another crime. The indictment doesn’t (have to) detail what that other crime is – although the court case will. It’s likely that other crime will be some variation of electoral fraud and/or campaign finance laws.
        
        I do expect more charges will come closer to the court date (at this stage the DA just needs to show enough to get the process underway, but won’t want to show his full hand to the defence any earlier than necessary).
        
        Note that the common thread to most of Trump’s legal and impeachment problems is his willingness to pervert elections. Whether it’s paying off people to hide unsavoury info, blackmailing Ukraine to investigate Biden, asking Georgia to “find” votes, or inciting a riot to stop Biden’s election being confirmed … it’s all about messing with the system so that he can stay in power.
        
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        April 8, 2023 12:55pm
    - Matt Long
      
      Was there a shortage of hookers in 1923?
      Not sure why that year, and no I haven’t given hookers any patronage.
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:32am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Well you missed out there Matt.
        I have, but never while I was in a relationship.
        
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        April 8, 2023 12:25pm
      - Ra Henare
        
        Matt.
        Haha, like most men, you have paid for sex!!
        One way or the other.
        
        Just imagine. You had to pay for a nice romantic dinner and expensive wine. Just to get your leg over(maybe).
        
        Yip yip, that is what it is. Paying for sex.
        
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        April 8, 2023 2:44pm
    - MCōs
      
      The issue isn’t whether or not he (or you) had sex with a sex worker and paid for the pleasure
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:42am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        He was being shaken down by a criminal in exchange for avoiding political embarrassment. She is an extortionist.
        The argument is about whether or not he was involved in paying her off. Who cares? It’s a gross use of the legal system to try an influence an election. That action should be deemed illegal.
        
        US politics is a circus, mind you, so is NZ’s.
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:12am
      - MCōs
        
        The issue is where the money came from
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:54am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Correct MCos.
        The issue is the origination of the funds.
        You do know that this Bragg dude has been after Trump since before 2016?
        So have many others, including Mary Trump.
        Here’s something for you and others to wade through, enjoy.
        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2022/feb/07/donald-trump-list-legal-cases
        
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        April 8, 2023 12:30pm
    - RichardX
      
      Steve Otto(North Shore)
      What’s wrong with shagging a hooker?
      Hands up those who haven’t.
      This is not 1923.
      
      APRIL 8, 2023 9:15AM
      
      Is this another talking point you are repeating or did you come up with this gem of a non sequitur yourself?
      
      Trump’s legal issues are not because he shagged a hooker and committed adultery, again.
      
      His legal issues stem from the payment that was made to hide the fact he shagged a hooker.
      
      Maybe you should ask him why he chose that path?
      
      Could it be that the political supporters he was courting believe it is wrong to shag a hooker?
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:45am
      - grumpy
        
        You mean his lawyer paying out for a shakedown. Sure, that is illegal (for Stormy)
        
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        April 8, 2023 9:49am
      - All_on_Red
        
        The FEC determined no affect on the Election.
        https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/04/06/fec-commissioner-to-bragg-we-already-concluded-no-crime-took-place-pal-n542077
        
        This article might help…
        https://amgreatness.com/2023/04/05/seven-things-you-dont-know-about-the-stormy-daniels-hush-money-case/
        
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        April 8, 2023 10:39am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Don’t engage with trolls, Steve.
        
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        April 8, 2023 12:31pm
      - Che Guava
        
        To seriously believe that Trump’s issues, either now or at any time over the last 6 or 7 years, have anything to do with whether he has or hasn’t committed any offence is incredibly low-level. This is a political matter, not a legal matter. Almost anyone involved in US politics could, if the Feds and Justice system were sufficiently motivated and inclined, be charged with some offence or other, whether high level, or low level as in this case.
        
        The point here isn’t at all the outcome, the point is always the process and the hinderance and distraction provided by the process.
        
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        April 8, 2023 12:39pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        The dems are going to have their asses bitten hard. They asked for it.
        
        Their records are now being forensically examined.
        
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        April 8, 2023 4:07pm
    - grumpy
      
      There are two things that are criminal;
      – Extortion. There have been many local cases where a hooker has asked hugely less in hush money.
      – Trumps taste in hookers (if true)
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:47am
    - mawm
      
      Not I, but there has never been the need either.
      
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      April 8, 2023 4:13pm
  - Paulus
    
    Why has she not paid the large fines and costs that were given against her in her defamations of Trump as awarded by the Courts ?
    Cos she ain’t got any dough as her Lawyers have taken all she has, so she needs more.
    Whole thing smacks of US legal system.
    Many years ago when working in the US system there any case against a US organisation by an overseas company the judge gave new laws and interpretaions to ensure that the US always won and the laws were changed.
    Can cite huge cases there.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:58am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  How much did she charge?
  Serious. She is on the take from any sources.
  I watched the start. A bit of crossing and uncrossing the legs going on.
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:14am
  - grumpy
    
    Probably no charge. An investment for future earnings.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:51am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      An IOU?
      
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      April 8, 2023 12:32pm
  - Albert_Ross
    
    And still seriously not relevant.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:16am
Tomtoddy

The elite dislike democracy. Democratic processes are nuisance value, giving idiots and the unwashed far too much influence. The plebs should be grateful to the learned for their superior understanding and erudite leadership.

Occasionally things go to custard for the hoi polloi. Berliners, reflective of all Germany have just voted “Nicht auf meiner Uhr” – ‘not on my watch’ to a European initiative to be 100% carbon free by 2030.

Only 18% of voters wanted the tougher target. That is an overwhelming kick in the goolies for the climate tzars. Can you read, Jimmy? Are you listening Marama?
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April 8, 2023 8:49am
- kowtow
  
  More to the point , is Luxons listening , or just following , blindly.
  
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  April 8, 2023 8:57am
  - Matt Long
    
    The only way voters will reject Zero Carbon by any date is if they see personal pain in it for them , seeing as the majority of political parties in NZ support zero carbon, and our regressive MSM is pushing the narrative, it’s unlikely to be a vote winner to oppose it this year.
    Maybe after the power cuts, poverty and deaths of vulnerable people and the rise of alternative media we’ll see a change.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:37am
    - Widogast Corwin
      
      Exactly. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe by 2040 we will all be driving affordable EVs, including minimum wage workers in south Auckland. All the electricity necessary will be produced by renewables. It will be affordable electricity. Magic technology will have slashed methane from agriculture.
      
      Carbon zero will have been achieved without any material impacts on energy security, energy affordability, and on agriculture. Indeed the Government’s current goal of doubling agriculture exports by 2040 will also have been achieved, despite wholesale replacement of sheep and beef farms by pine forest.
      
      I don’t buy any of those scenarios.
      
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      April 8, 2023 9:46am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      If everyone in NZ suffered the same effect as the farmers around Tolaga Bay do after every storm, then they might start questioning the economics of rushing to C-Zero.
      
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      April 8, 2023 11:25am
  - alloytoo
    
    The latter. Nationals energy policy is rubbish
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:54am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    kowtow – or just following orders – if his WEF connections are correct.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:14am
- Tomtoddy
  
  Come to think of it, is there anything as crassly stupid as trying to be carbon free within 7 years???
  
  Only someone as ridiculously childish as a Greta- idolizer could buy that nonsense.
  
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  April 8, 2023 8:59am
  - rouppe
    
    Those that do think that ought to try make themselves carbon-free
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:04am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Childish as a Greta-idoliser.
    
    Wow, I wonder who you mean??
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:20am
  - Taieri
    
    is there anything as crassly stupid as trying to be carbon free within 7 years???
    ——————
    
    Can there be anything as crassly stupid as trying to be carbon-free within any time frame?
    There can be no life without carbon…
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:22am
    - kowtow
      
      Basic science that the so called followers of the ‘settled science” just don’t get .
      
      Every breath you take …….. I’ve been watching you ………
      
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      April 8, 2023 10:39am
- Stellaboxer
  
  Tomtoddy Jimmy and Marama don’t care this is NZ so you won’t get to vote on it. Even if you did they would ignore the result if they didn’t like it. Remember the vote on reducing the number of MPs ?
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:06am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  But but but – aren’t we being exhorted to live more like the Europeans do in Copenhagen, Dublin, Amsterdam, and yes, Berlin?
  
  Though, not Paris at the moment, since they bummed e-scooters.
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:14am
  - Paulus
    
    Not private e-scooters though.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:59am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  For the Elite, take a look closer to home Tom.
  http://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi
  It is all there, a Coup happening under our noses.
  NZ will go from Democracy to Tyranny if not stopped.
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:18am
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Mabe they’ve figured out that Net Zero ain’t about fixing the climate (I don’t get why they ever thought it was, when even the likes of John Kerry tell us that the climate won’t be changed by going Net Zero).
  Or maybe they’ve figured out that warmer is better, and ‘cheap’ ruinables ain’t cheap.
  Maybe they’ve figured out that just about every other problem they have to deal with is more pressing than the non-existent ‘climate crisis!’.
  
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  April 8, 2023 1:01pm
- Ra Henare
  
  TT.
  Just a tad of mis information there. You sure you are not a 1News Reporter?
  
  only 18% of voters….?
  
  A small majority, 50.9% of voters, did support the motion. However, overall turnout was less than 50% and not enough people voted in favor of the motion for it to become law.
  
  To pass, it would have needed majority support, and the support of at least 25% of the eligible electorate.
  
  Roughly 442,000 people voted in favor and roughly 423,000 against; Berlin has just over 2.4 million eligible voters.
  
  https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-climate-referendum-falls-short/a-65127166
  
  ie Most Berliners didnt care one way or the other.
  
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  April 8, 2023 2:48pm
Littletramp

It’s hard to discern whether the current censorship (just the last week or so) on most platforms (You Tube/ Twitter/ Substack/ Instagram / Tiktock, etc) is politically influenced, or a fight for eyeballs/revenue by the platforms themselves but boy is it evident.
They don’t want you to know about or have alternate opinions on Covid/Russia/Opec/Climate Change/ Trump/Inflation/Transgender/homosexual crap/election processes/Big Pharma influence.
“The times they are a changin”.
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April 8, 2023 8:55am
ClanMcleod

The terms “misinformation” and “disinformation” have been the primary tools used by the government and their favoured narrative control managers, the mainstream media. This was an attempt to shut down any dissenting voice during the 3 years of the disastrous covid response.

The creation of aptly titled “The Disinformation Project” was the cherry on the top of this completely ludicrous notion. Go to their website, it is an embarrassment but they take themselves seriously.

Freddie Sayer from Unherd interviews Jacob Siegel on the topic.

Disinformation is a means by which the Government in cooperation with private tech companies and civil society, NGO groups, censors, uses extra-legal means to censor political discourse around issues like Covid vaccinations, lockdowns, the elections. And in the U.S., it’s a free-for-all. It’s a blank cheque to censor anything. So on one level, disinformation is ostensibly censorship in order to protect national security. In a larger sense, that machinery of censorship is not opportunistically looking to erase certain things from the public record that are unflattering to political elites. It’s actually rather more than that. It is a means of governance. It is a system of power. It is its own system of power, outside of the formal, official — in the U.S., constitutional — means by which the Government is supposed to operate.

This is an extremely dangerous method of deflecting or shutting down criticism for anyone to use, let alone a government.
It has led to massive distrust in many institutions. Mainstream media and journalism is in the gutter, and rightly so.
Refusing to acknowledge any opposing point of view just because you have the money and the power to do so is a road to totalitarianism. It never ends well.

It’s not simply that they are wrong or pernicious, or that this reflects corruption. They actually drive people crazy. They deranged the political system. They ruin the ability for people to engage sanely and transparently in their own politics.

This is the NZ Ardern and her ideologues have created. Their blanket refusal to acknowledge or permit any dissent has now spilled over into other policy areas. Anyone disagreeing with ANYTHING is one or all of a “misogynist, racist, transphobic or far right nazi”.

It is dangerous. We need rational adult discussion, not meaningless labels and ideology.

Wonderful, adult analysis. Worth reading and watching in full.

https://unherd.com/thepost/jacob-siegel-the-great-disinformation-hoax/
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April 8, 2023 9:00am
- emmess
  
  We need Twitter tags on all NZ mainstream media that it is state affiliated
  Can someone tweet Elon?
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:12am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    emmess – one of the few people I pay to read, Eugyppius, is scathing of Twitter in his latest post.
    
    Fuck Twitter, seriously. Substack is better.
    Musk has actively made it worse. If I have to leave it, I will.
    
    Apparently Twitter are on the defensive due to Substack starting a thing called ‘Notes’ which is similar to Twitter.
    
    Recently, Twitter has rearranged its code, such that links to Substack cannot be liked, retweeted, or commented upon. This is very likely an act of retaliation upon Substack for daring to announce their coming Notes feature, which (to be honest) looks like a somewhat better version of Twitter.
    
    https://open.substack.com/pub/eugyppius/p/fuck-twitter-seriously-substack-is?r=u4qo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
    
    Interestingly the other Substack I pay towards – el gato malo, took a similar view.
    
    the side of censorship is never the side of civilisation.
    
    the cure for wrong speech is always free speech.
    
    “Twitter’s a war zone, if somebody’s going to jump in the war zone, it’s like ok, you’re in the war zone, let’s go.” Elon Musk – 2018
    
    https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/bluebird-bans-are-back
    
    I’m hoping that it is Twitter management that made this decision and Musk will reverse it. Otherwise I think his investment in Twitter will go further down the toilet.
    
    You can’t claim to be protecting the public square if you’re stopping people from speaking in it.
    
    I’m one of those “permanently suspended” from Twitter for posting the truth. Oh well.
    
    [Edited – Bold fonting your entire post is discourteous and unnecessary. mod.]
    
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    April 8, 2023 12:01pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Apologies mod, it was a hypertext error, not deliberate.
      
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      April 8, 2023 3:40pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Stuff nails its colours to the mast.
  
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/300847589/letter-from-the-wellington-editor-we-will-not-contribute-to-hateful-discourse
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:16am
  - graham
    
    These days, I have no interest in reading anything from Stuff. I pretty much gave up when it became quite clear that they are more interested in promulgating their own agendas and crusades than in reporting actual news.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:32am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      My head does not hurt now that I hardly click on the links.
      
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      April 8, 2023 11:14am
  - I remember when
    
    “We will not contribute to hateful discourse.”
    
    Still failing to understand the gap between providing the facts, allowing reasoned discussion and what is being published.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:33am
  - Nickc2
    
    What they are saying is that they will control the narrative as directed by their paymaster, the current Govt.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:35am
  - Inandout
    
    The same outfit that shut down all climate discussion that questioned the mantra.
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:41am
  - grumpy
    
    Truely evil……
    
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    April 8, 2023 9:54am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Don’t read them. Don’t give them oxygen. It is the only way they can be shown that they have this wrong. If they won’t allow alternative opinion then they are supporters of totalitarianism.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:17am
  - emmess
    
    Stuff
    WARNING: State affiliated media
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:31am
    - kowtow
      
      Regime funded propaganda.
      
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      April 8, 2023 1:56pm
  - oldfella
    
    I look forward to hearing the always-excellent Karl du Fresne get stuck into this. He’s a former editor of The Dominion, and it’s a pity people of his calibre are no longer in charge of our MSM.
    
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    April 8, 2023 11:10am
- graham
  
  The terms “misinformation” and “disinformation” have been the primary tools used by the government and their favoured narrative control managers, the mainstream media. This was an attempt to shut down any dissenting voice during the 3 years of the disastrous covid response.
  
  Not forgetting the term “conspiracy theorist”, which these days seems to mean “anybody who doesn’t 100% agree with everything the MSM spouts”. In other words, people who commit the heinous crime of actually thinking for themselves and asking awkward questions.
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:28am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    graham – as reinforced beautifully by the Stuff comments discussed above.
    
    We have published some, but I’ll be honest, most of the letters we received were not fit for print. They contained misinformation, spread conspiracy theories and used offensive and abusive language.
    
    The Disinformation Project reports that Parker’s visit sparked a huge increase in online hatred directed towards the trans community.
    
    Of course the Disinformation Project said that, it’s what they do, disinformation. lol
    
    It totally reinforces my post re Jay Spiegel’s comments.
    They throw these labels as a smear. They NEVER discuss, and tellingly, they never define what any of these idiotic terms actually mean. It’s how you know they are lying or pushing a fake narrative. They can’t debate so name calling is all they have.
    
    Always remember that. It’s gaslighting on steroids.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:29am
    - kowtow
      
      ‘The Disinformation Project reports that Parker’s visit sparked a huge increase in online hatred directed towards the trans community.
      
      We will not contribute to this.’
      
      Amazing , how this Disinformation Project carries the new imprimatur .
      
      “imprimatur, (Latin: “let it be printed”), in the Roman Catholic church, a permission, required by contemporary canon law and granted by a bishop, for the publication of any work on Scripture or, in general, any writing containing something of peculiar significance to religion, theology, or morality. Strictly speaking, the imprimatur is nothing more than the permission. But because its concession must be preceded by the favourable judgment of a censor (nihil obstat: “nothing hinders [it from being printed]”), the term has come to imply ecclesiastical approval of the publication itself. Nevertheless, the imprimatur is not an episcopal endorsement of the content, nor is it a guarantee of doctrinal integrity. It does indicate that nothing offensive to faith or morals has been discovered in the work.”
      
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      April 8, 2023 2:02pm
I remember when

Cabinet Minister Kiri Allan has escaped punishment…….while a range of Maori commentators have been quick to endorse her sentiment.

Well, that makes it right then.
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April 8, 2023 9:28am
Bridgenag

COVID deaths up 39% after vaccines rolled out in Ontario Canada
Weren’t the vaccines supposed to REDUCE deaths from COVID? Oddly, there was no press coverage on this. I wanted to make sure you knew about it. Tell your friends.

https://open.substack.com/pub/stevekirsch/p/covid-deaths-up-39-after-vaccines?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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April 8, 2023 9:28am
- Matt Long
  
  So why are OIAs by NZDSOS on the written reports of side effects being refused by the Ministry of Health?
  Because the reports show the vaccine is so safe?
  https://thebfd.co.nz/2023/04/07/tell-me-lies-tell-me-sweet-little-lies-3/
  
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  April 8, 2023 10:01am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    How long can our politicians and media avoid this issue? I can understand why the presstitutes do it, they are getting paid for it, but why are all opposition MPs apparently unaware of this or afraid to talk about it? Bizarre.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:31am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      or afraid to talk about it?
      
      Much too afraid to talk about it before the Election.
      
      Remember hoardes of NZers believe that Ardern saved thousands of lives.
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/131702014/morgan-godfery-arderns-legacy-lies-in-her-style-and-in-lives-saved
      
      That deep-seated belief is NOT going to be turned around in the next 6 months.
      
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      April 8, 2023 11:40am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Pelosi getting her beans from the hecklers.
Thing is, the hecklers speak the truth. WMDs in Iraq.
Pelosi the warmonger. “How many people died in your fucking name?”
Then there is Nordstream, why?
With Nordstream one of four bombs did not detonate. The US went back to finish the job. There were 4 pipes. 1 1/2 inches of steel and 4 inches of concrete. That needs a big bomb.
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April 8, 2023 9:38am
- Inandout
  
  SO, speaking of Pelosi, this murder happened in her well to do suburb.
  https://nypost.com/2023/04/05/cash-app-founder-bob-lee-43-killed-in-san-francisco-stabbing/
  
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  April 8, 2023 9:44am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    He was in a ‘good’ part of the City. Jesus.
    Now if he had a gun, the result would have been different.
    Wonder if it was a ‘gun free zone?’ That is where the coward criminals hang out.
    
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    April 8, 2023 11:21am
- Master Mariner
  
  This says all you need to know regarding who was responsible,
  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/27/un-security-council-turns-down-request-for-nord-stream-inquiry
  
  “Russia has complained it has not been kept informed about ongoing national investigations. Moscow has maintained, without providing evidence, Western nations were behind the explosions.”
  
  Is there a big back lash starting to happen with War against Russia, I think its telling how Germany voted with Net zero 2030, As its all one and the same.
  
  I think its time for Western Leaders to revisit Maslows “Hierachy of needs”
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
  
  And for anyone interested in the “Trans movement” , I find this quite interesting. Ill let you join the dots.
  
  https://www.iflscience.com/universe-25-the-mouse-utopia-experiment-that-turned-into-an-apocalypse-60407
  
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  April 8, 2023 10:34am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Joe said “We could do it I promise you”
    4 pipes 4 bombs, but one did not detonate. Whoever did it went back and finished the job. Speculation? Maybe.
    I am not sure, but the bombs were planted and detonated months after, via satellite.
    
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    April 8, 2023 11:28am
- ClanMcleod
  
  SO – here’s Jimmy Dore on the Pelosi debate and the people asking her difficult questions. Funniest and most honest comment of the event – “you’re a sad old drunk”. lol
  
  https://youtu.be/4eb8OiUBD-I
  
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  April 8, 2023 10:34am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Just for Mike.
Gym Jordan ripping into DA Bragg.

https://leadpatriot.com/guns-blazing-rep-jordan-ripped-into-manhattans-crooked-da-bragg/22554/
Trump is fighting for ‘we the people’ not ‘we the swamp!’
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April 8, 2023 9:43am
- Mike
  
  He doesn’t like being called ‘Gym’. Reminds him of his days covering up sexual abuse.
  
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  April 8, 2023 11:57am
  - Ghost
    
    Stop making disgusting accusations.
    
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    April 8, 2023 12:18pm
    - Mike
      
      Yeah, he claims he didn’t notice it. And if you believe that, you’ll probably believe all his other lies.
      
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      April 8, 2023 2:39pm
      - Ghost
        
        Provide evidence he did. The reason sexual abusers get away with it for so long is because they do keep it hidden. So unless you can provide evidence to the contrary stop making disgusting claims about someone you have no evidence to support
        
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        April 8, 2023 2:44pm
      - Mike
        
        Former wrestling team members David Range, Mike DiSabato and Dunyasha Yetts asserted that Jordan knew of Strauss’s misconduct. Yetts said, “For God’s sake, Strauss’s locker was right next to Jordan’s and Jordan even said he’d kill him if he tried anything with him”.
        You might prefer not to believe that evidence, but it is evidence.
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:28pm
      - Ghost
        
        And there are people who came out and said that Jim didn’t know. So unless he is proven to have known then stop making allegations
        
        Michael Alf, who joined the team in the late 1980s, told The Washington Post that Ohio State’s locker room was “definitely disturbing,” with non-team members using the showers to ogle the wrestlers. While wrestlers joked about issues like Strauss’ behavior, he told the publication he didn’t recall those conversations happening in front of Jordan.
        
        “He’s the most honest person I’ve ever met,” he said of Jordan. “The thing is, if he saw something like that, he wouldn’t have tolerated it. . . . If Jimmy says he didn’t know, I believe him.”
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:44pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Ghost, leave the troll alone. Sometimes fun, sometimes best leave him to wallow in his own shit.
      
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      April 8, 2023 4:05pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The ‘Gym’ bit was just to get your attention Mike
    
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    April 8, 2023 12:34pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Mike you’re happy to piss all over the religious for their “unsubstantiated claims” ad nauseam.
    
    How about you do some self reflection on this malicious and lowlife unsubstantiated claim of yours? Too hard?
    
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    April 8, 2023 3:20pm
    - Mike
      
      Religious claims, of course, can never be ‘substantiated’ as they are by definition a matter of faith.
      Actual allegations against actual people can be substantiated. Whether people believe those allegations will be a more complicated matter, often mixing belief with regard for actual evidence.
      
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      April 8, 2023 3:39pm
      - Ghost
        
        No they can’t. Because that is all they are, allegations that have not been proven, even with one victim saying that comments attributed to him weren’t accurate.
        
        Former UFC champion Mark Coleman says he’s among the victims of a now-dead Ohio State team doctor who’s been accused of sexual misconduct by more than 100 former students.
        
        Coleman released a statement Thursday saying he wants to cooperate with investigators.
        
        He also says that he never saw or has any direct knowledge that Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan knew about the sexual misconduct when he was an assistant coach at Ohio State from 1987 to 1995.
        
        Coleman says previous comments attributed to him about Jordan in media reports weren’t accurate or misconstrued.
        
        Jordan has denied some wrestlers’ claims that he was aware of the doctor’s abuse.
        
        Coleman wrestled for Ohio State in the late 1980s and later was an assistant coach there. He also wrestled at the 1992 Olympics.
        
        https://apnews.com/article/7f386a0d949c43d390023ee616f282d2
        
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        April 8, 2023 3:57pm
      - Mike
        
        I look forward to you applying the same standard to the many allegations aired on Kiwiblog about many other people than your beloved ‘Jim’.
        
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        April 8, 2023 4:16pm
      - Ghost
        
        I’ve yet to see anyone come on to kiwiblog and claim someone covered up sexual abuse. Only you seem to do that. And I don’t really care about usa politics, I do care about people who go around throwing accusations around that can destroy peoples lives
        
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        April 8, 2023 4:29pm
      - Mike
        
        There is a poster here who implied that I was a pedophile for daring to counter the criticism of a US supreme court nominee’s sentencing record.
        And you surely cannot have missed the many, many allegations made or repeated here against many other NZ and international public figures.
        
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        April 8, 2023 5:00pm
      - Ghost
        
        And if I was here then I would have defended you against such accusations. It’s one of the worst things to throw around at people
        
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        April 8, 2023 5:31pm
I remember when

Roger Douglas:
“Cabinet was a real mixture of people who decided that they were going to do the right thing, and if we lost, so be it, but they were gonna do what they thought was right.
I don’t think we have that anymore.”

And being Easter we all said “Alleluia.”
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April 8, 2023 9:49am
- Widogast Corwin
  
  Exactly. I recall Wayne Mapp telling us that there are things National can’t do because they would be a one term government. So what? Do what is required to set New Zealand on the path to be a wealthy and democratic nation. If the people bring back the socialists in three years so be it.
  
  Or maybe you can be leaders and explain to the people what you are doing and why.
  
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  April 8, 2023 10:17am
  - Master Mariner
    
    You can not be a strategic thinker when you are restricted to a reactionary mind.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:36am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Exactly – try and gain power to do things, then be judged on what you did or didn’t achieve. Trying to gain power by fawning to perceived popular opinion is a road to disaster.
    
    It means those who control the narrative control the country, which is why we are in the mess we are in today. It is no exaggeration to state that it is how the Nazis “achieved” as much as they did, they were the masters of propaganda and narrative control, though Ardern’s government improved their methods by a very large margin.
    
    I posted an excellent piece on it further up thread. I’ll be adding another great piece shortly.
    
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    April 8, 2023 10:39am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Make NZ Great Again, by whatever means possible.
    The current bunch have ruined our lovely Country.
    
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    April 8, 2023 11:31am
Tom Hunter

Everybody should take time out to read Matt Taibbi’s, brutal takedown of cable news network MSNBC in relation to the Trump-Russia collusion bullshit. It’s lengthy but detailed and you can certainly abide with him when he finishes with this:

But people who used to be my friends at MSNBC embraced a different model, leading to one of the biggest train wrecks in the history of our business. Now they have the stones to point at me with this “What happened to you?” routine. It’s rare that the following words are justified on every level, but really, MSNBC: Fuck you.
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April 8, 2023 9:57am
- virtualmark
  
  Have you seen Mehdi Hasan’s interview with Matt Taibbi from yesterday?
  
  If so I’m puzzled why you would post this. Hasan comprehensively dismantled Taibbi.
  
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  April 8, 2023 12:59pm
  - Mike
    
    LOL. [gets popcorn]
    
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    April 8, 2023 3:42pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Poor Matt is too trusting. He was ambushed. CJ Hopkins does a good part on it. He agrees with you that it wasn’t a good look.
    
    https://open.substack.com/pub/cjhopkins/p/character-assassination-theater-101?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android
    
    I’ve also seen a video of Jimmy Dore dismantling Hasan. I’ll try and find it for you.
    
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    April 8, 2023 3:51pm
    - virtualmark
      
      Um, Matt Taibbi sent a tweet out about a week ago basically challenging Mehdi Hasan to have him on his show. Mehdi clearly spent the week preparing because he made Taibbi look like a fool.
      
      If you haven’t seen the video of the interview it’s embedded at https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-foundation-of-the-twitter-files-as-matt-taibbi-stumbles-to-defend-it/
      
      So you don’t need to take my word for it, you can watch it yourself.
      
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      April 8, 2023 4:40pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The Merchant of Death warns Trump his life is in danger.
“In the telegram itself, Bout reportedly warned Trump that the Biden administration, or its allies, would assassinate Trump before allowing him to retake the White House.”

I believe him. These Democrats of 2023 have turned into a bunch of desperate nasty bastards. If Trump is assassinated Ron DeSantis falls into place. Joe Biden will be brushed aside and guess who wants to be POTUS so bad? Yes! Crooked Hillary!

https://valiantnews.com/2023/04/viktor-bout-invites-trump-to-russia-to-lead-uprising-against-the-globalists/
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April 8, 2023 10:01am
- Master Mariner
  
  What about Kennedy jr.
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65197673
  He’s a very articulate speaker and very steadfast in the anti Covid movement.
  
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  April 8, 2023 10:40am
  - Paulus
    
    Kennedy Jr will say anything which in the long term he cannot be called wrong when he goes for votes.
    
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    April 8, 2023 11:03am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Kennedy is anti vaccines- ALL vaccines…
    
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    April 8, 2023 12:36pm
    - mawm
      
      That’s not true. He has been looking into information relating to things like autism and the the increase in its diagnosis with increasing number of childhood vaccinations. He has also found research that shows thimerosal, which is used as a preservative, crosses the blood brain barrier. This has been denied but not proven by vaccine manufacturers. As it is a mercury compound and like all heavy metals it will accumulate in the body. This is not anti vaccine but more related to vaccine manufacturers once again either hiding evidence or not doing due diligence.
      
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      April 8, 2023 4:32pm
      - Mike
        
        You’d better hop on the immunization stats thread and defend the government then, as obviously the decline in childhood vaccination rates is not due to a slack government but to the sheeple waking up thanks to RFK Jr’s fearless campaigning.
        
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        April 8, 2023 5:05pm
      - mawm
        
        This coincidentally came up – https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/04/06/robert-f-kennedy-jr-is-not-an-anti-vaxxer-hes-an-advocate-for-truth/
        
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        April 8, 2023 5:38pm
  - virtualmark
    
    Kennedy Jr has zero chance of winning a Democratic primary.
    
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    April 8, 2023 12:59pm
    - Mike
      
      That’s a bit harsh. He could probably win a democratic primary for a seat so heavily gerrymandered that no other democrats want to be a candidate.
      
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      April 8, 2023 5:06pm
I remember when

An article in HB Today (8 April) which highlights concerns of Pakowhai residents.
Includes –
“As this was a national event with a national state of emergency, we are still awaiting the Government to outline its intents regarding an inquiry, our part in this (HB Civil Defence Emergency Management), and how this would impact on any reviews we conduct.
We can provide more detail once we have an update from central Government.”

Does this explain, what a recent visitor to HB described as a simmering bed of discontent about what is happening.
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April 8, 2023 10:30am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/i-told-you-so-will-the-sheeple-of-new-zealand-wake-up-before-its-too-late/

What Hipkins doesn’t want to tell us about three waters:
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/GRAHAM-ADAMS-What-Hipkins-doesnt-want-to-tell-us-about-Three-Waters.pdf

The tip of the iceberg is all we get. What is really going on we are not told.
There is a Coup happening. Wake up!!
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April 8, 2023 10:41am
Nickc2

Sent to me from anonymous.
I’m getting old and I’ve worked hard all my life. I have made my reputation, the good and the bad, I didn’t inherit my job or my income, and I have worked hard to get where I am in life. I have juggled my job, my family, and made many sacrifices up front to secure a life for my family.
It wasn’t always easy and still isn’t, but I did it all while maintaining my integrity and my principles. I made mistakes and tried to learn from them. I have friends of every walk of life and if you’re in my circle, it should be understood that I don’t have to remind you of what I’d be willing to do for you.
However…. I’m tired of being told that I have to “spread the wealth” to people who don’t have my work ethic. People who have sacrificed nothing and feel entitled to receive everything.
I’m tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it themselves.
I’m really tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which, no one is allowed to debate.
I’m really tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of all parties talk like their opinions matter to the common man. I’m tired of any of them even pretending they can relate to the life and bank account that I have.
I’m tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.
I’m upset that I’m labeled as a racist because I am proud of my heritage. I never stole any ones land, the government did that..
I’m tired of being told I need to accept the latest fad or politically correct stupidity or befriending a group that’s intent on killing me because I won’t convert to their point of view.
I’m really tired of people who don’t take responsibility for their lives and actions. Especially the ones that want me to fund it.
I’m tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination, or big-whatever for their problems.
Yes, I’m really tired. But, I’m also glad to be in the twilight of my life. Because mostly, I’m not going to have to see the retched, depressing world these young useless idiots are creating.
And lastly, because even though I shouted from the rooftops, no one listened or seemed to give a damn. You reap what you sow, and so do your children.
No one is entitled to anything. You have a choice to work, a choice to stay off drugs, a choice to make something of yourself. I have nothing to do with your choice. That’s all on you. You are entitled to what you earn.
There is no way these thoughts will be widely publicised, unless each of us sends it on! Surely, the politically correct police censors will try to quiet us.
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April 8, 2023 11:06am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Similar to my thinking.
  I am not a man of faith but I live by my own set of moral standards.
  
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  April 8, 2023 11:48am
- mawm
  
  I agree with everything you have said but will add that I’m tired of successive governments devaluing my dollar to cover for their ineptitude. Three years ago I was confident that I could retire in comfort, that is not looking very likely anymore after Grant’s money printing and Jacinda’s inflation. I have probably lost 1/4 of the value of my savings and real inflation has probably done away with another 1/4 – and it’s not finished yet!
  
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  April 8, 2023 4:40pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Agree.
    There was a time when we were in charge of our own destinies. Now, not so much.
    Our destinies are currently being controlled by a Peters-appointed juvenile Marxist Govt.
    Let’s face it, we had a PM who didn’t even know what GDP was/meant and that’s just one of many things she didn’t have a fuckin clue about.
    
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    April 8, 2023 6:42pm
ClanMcleod

Regarding the use of terms like “misinformation”, “disinformation”, “conspiracy theorist”, “far right, “misogynist” etc etc etc.
The name calling and mud slinging has been a feature that has increased massively during Ardern’s era and the covid nightmare. It was used to other anyone daring question the narrative.

It is now being used aggressively anywhere the government want to shut down dissenting voices.
Generally via the MSM who they are bribing with many, many millions of taxpayer money under various guises.
The PIJF, covid advertising (propaganda) and Disinformation Project being the most obvious sources that come to front of mind.

Author CJ Hopkins has recognised the danger of this and also the problem with trying to defend yourself if accused of being any of these cowardly, gaslighting and idiotic labels.

Worth reading and storing away, especially if you find yourself under attack from anyone using these tactics.

Character Assassination Theater 101

“ … that is precisely how the smear game works. The way it works is, the smearers bait the smearee into defending himself against the defamatory content of the smears. Once the smearee has done that, the smearers have him. From then on, the focus of the debate becomes whether or not the smears are accurate, rather than why he’s being smeared, how he’s being smeared, and who is smearing him. This is the smearers’ primary objective, i.e., to establish the boundaries of the debate, and to trap the target of the smears within them.

If you’ve followed the fake “Labour Anti-Semitism” scandal, you’ve witnessed this tactic deployed against Corbyn, who unfortunately fell right into the trap and thus gave the smearers the upper hand.

No, the only way to effectively counter a smear campaign (whether large-scale or small-scale), is to resist the temptation to profess your innocence, and, instead, focus as much attention on the tactics and the motives of the smearers as possible.
It is difficult to resist this temptation, especially when the people smearing you have significantly more power and influence than you do, and are calling you a racist and an anti-Semite, but, trust me, the moment you start defending yourself, the game is over, and the smearers have won.”

Don’t EVER try and defend against these vacuous slurs and gaslighting. Immediately point out what they are doing. Watch as they instantly scurry for cover once you have pointed this out, especially in a public forum.
You’ve seen it here in KB quite often. One particular troll in particular can be sent packing in a flash when you call them out on it and demand they debate to topic. Poof. Gone. It’s very cathartic.

https://open.substack.com/pub/cjhopkins/p/character-assassination-theater-101
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April 8, 2023 11:24am
- Mike
  
  I saw the words ‘assassination’ and ‘theater’ and thought the link might have something interesting about Lincoln.
  
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  April 8, 2023 12:01pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    You missed the Character bit, then?
    
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    April 8, 2023 12:12pm
    - Mike
      
      [Mod – you can stop your trolling]
      
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      April 8, 2023 2:40pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    I saw the word ‘Mike’ and thought it might be something not interesting about anything.
    
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    April 8, 2023 1:26pm
Ghost

Money Talks: Roger Douglas on losing faith in all the parties – including Act

Roger Douglas, former Labour Finance Minister and co-founder of the Act Party, is plainly unimpressed with modern politics.

“Look at the last 20 years, you tell me anyone, any Government that’s done anything,” he says.

Douglas, now 86, probably has more right than most to make that claim, having been the key driver of an economic revolution in his four years as Finance Minister, from 1984 to 1988.

Article
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April 8, 2023 12:42pm
thirteenstars

Latest Taxpayers’ Union poll:

https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/taxpayer_update_230408

Labour and Labour Lite neck and neck. How does that happen, National? After *everything* that’s transpired in the last five years, most recently Princess Jacinda being dethroned by her own side–a palace coup–the now-obvious recession, falling house prices, nasty inflation, co-governance, Ministerial shenanigans, peaceful women exercising their free speech getting punched in the face by police-supported trans activists?

Neck and neck. Maori Party in charge. Keep talking up those manmade killer cyclones hunting down innocent Kiwis, Mr Luxon, it’ll pay off any day now.
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April 8, 2023 1:26pm
- Tom Hunter
  
  Sad isn’t it. The most hopeless, incompetent shower of shit NZ government in my lifetime and they’re still tracking National.
  
  Still, a nasty recession plus mortgage interest rates through the roof may do the trick.
  
  Although we still await all that National Policy stuff, the only problem being the assumption that people will just love it.
  
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  April 8, 2023 1:53pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Nats up 2% Hipkins favourables well doen
  
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  April 8, 2023 1:57pm
- mogg
  
  Things will change when people realise, vote Labour get Māori/Greens in control
  
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  April 8, 2023 2:00pm
- Widogast Corwin
  
  “For the first time since August 2022, the Centre-Right cannot form government on its own and neither bloc has a majority. This means that the Māori Party holds the balance of power. ”
  
  That would be the end of New Zealand.
  
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  April 8, 2023 2:08pm
  - Swifty
    
    I struggle with people saying “the Maori Party holds the balance of power” when their current MPs have said numerous times they would never go into a National/ACT coalition.
    
    As I don’t believe their MPs have ever (recently) resiled from those statements, and if we are to take them at face value, isn’t their joining with Labour and the Greens a certainty?
    
    Anything else an illusion?
    
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    April 8, 2023 2:37pm
    - Swifty
      
      To me it makes as much sense as saying the Greens could go either way.
      
      It ain’t never gonna happen.
      
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      April 8, 2023 5:57pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      The party has stated recently they could go either way, but They have also said they will fit on cross benches
      
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      April 8, 2023 8:32pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Not true, last poll had Greens Labour winning
    
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    April 8, 2023 8:31pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Idiots backing NZF, TOP and new conservative. Summing to about 5%. On left all votes go to parties that will get into parliament.
  
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  April 9, 2023 2:50pm
Swifty

A.N. Wilson writes an interesting piece on Christianity being the bulwark against modern lunacy and his move from atheism back to being a believer:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11951181/A-N-WILSON-Christianity-bulwark-against-liberal-elite-believe-creed-day.html

Worth a read. I’ve always liked him as a writer.
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April 8, 2023 2:33pm
lifesgood

Seriously? Are there that many half wits in this country? I despair.
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April 8, 2023 2:39pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

The wheels are falling off. Some can see their future:
https://silvercircular.com/top-dem-switches-parties-gives-gop-majority/
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April 8, 2023 2:56pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Some fun.
2 x videos. Second one is bloody funny. “Trump hating wife”

https://libertyonenews.com/sunny-hostin-defends-da-braggs-flimsy-case-against-trump/
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April 8, 2023 3:08pm
MCōs

Today we motored round to the local Pak n Sav.
On the way we passed a large new housing development on Coronation Rd. We had a chance to have a good look as we went by because a roundabout being constructed out on the main road slows the traffic to a crawl.
The houses are just awful. Some of them look like a row of huge upended shoe boxes with no attempt at architectural refinement.
Further along a few k’s in Mangere a number of state houses are being/have been erected on Bader Dr.
While nothing flash at least an attempt has been made to enhance the neighbourhood
In days gone by state houses tended to be dreary, cheap places that didn’t stand up well to privately built homes.
Well there’s some classless stuff coming down the conveyor belts these days.
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April 8, 2023 4:04pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  “Classy” stuff is usually expensive. Median wage battlers can’t afford expensive.
  
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  April 8, 2023 4:12pm
  - thirteenstars
    
    Also building codes and resource consent requirements often dictate the look of a house, acceptable colour schemes, etc. Add in the actual financial constraints imposed by a shocking imbalance between land and improved value, and off-the-shelf is what most must take.
    
    Combined with small section sizes, well, when you drive through a modern subdivision or even a heavily subdivided established area, the effect is of crowding, sameness, and a very uninspiring massing effect, all in shades of grey, beige, green and off-white.
    
    It can be startling to view a house on a realtor’s website and then visit the property. The presentation experts use the best angles and very wide lenses. The reality though is cramped living areas, narrow hallways, en suites that aren’t really en suites (my pet peeve), limited storage space, and a proximity to neighbours that almost makes a mockery of the term suburb.
    
    But that’s NZ under a land-use restriction regime: a country with land to burn, 10% larger than Great Britain with only 8% of the population, yet with similar property prices. Don’t even get me started on what a mere $500k can get you in sunny Florida. Oh, bugger it, here you go:
    
    https://www.glhomes.com/valencia-del-sol/regal-collection/
    
    Check out the detail of what’s included.
    
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    April 8, 2023 5:17pm
- Ghost
  
  Unfortunately it looks like we are going to get those awful state houses on the main road in timaru.
  
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  April 8, 2023 4:13pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Cheap future slums MCos.
  We have them on the Shore. Off Oteha Valley Rd, over at Hobson Point, and even where I live. Houses removed and two story townhouses (are we allowed to call them townhouses?) Hobson Point people may balk, but there is no garage – your car stays out right next to a marine environment. Boat? Fuck that, store your boat in the Westhaven dry stack. Lawn? nope, there is a park down the road for your kids. You know, the park, where the pedos hang out day or night.
  There is a shitload of building happening on the Shore. Where is the money to support this? BIG crash soon and many will suffer – with negative equity.
  Sorry, rant over. Come to the Shore MCos, have a gander.
  
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  April 8, 2023 4:20pm
- mandk
  
  The state houses that have been built recently in the Hutt Valley actually look pretty good.
  
  But it will be interesting to see what they look like in 10 years’ time.
  
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  April 8, 2023 4:20pm
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    April 8, 2023 5:37pm
MCōs

Today I watched the last international T20 game of the season on SkySport, which NZ duly won with a ball to spare. By the standards of the Blackcaps games of late a mundane finish.
It was also the last game by SkySport and one hopes next year’s broadcasts are a vast improvement.
They seemed to have the bare minimum of cameras.
No drones, no handheld cameras and when a judgement call needed to be made whether a ball went over the boundary or someone touched the rope taking a catch – forget it.
I believe TVNZ does the business next year for free.
I don’t know how it’s all going to financed, but there’s nothing like free to air of a major sport to give it a major boost in popularity.
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April 8, 2023 5:43pm
Ghost

A month after the census still over a million people to return their census. Hmmmm, how big was the plane Maggie Pie took to Aussie?
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April 8, 2023 5:43pm
- kowtow
  
  They not on a plane , they’re sitting on a couch smoking wacky backy and no they’re not watching the ads on tv which are clearly racist as they’re aimed at a v ery specific “demographic” , the same ones the racist media pardy said didn’t do their returns in the last two census cycles ……..
  
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  April 8, 2023 6:43pm
Swifty

A little bit of Dickie Betts for you all:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=llBsswEfUsA
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April 8, 2023 5:55pm
Swifty

Hot Off The Presses!

A Worldwide Scoop!

Read All About It!!!

Woman says more money in her wage packet is better than less money!!!!!

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/300847123/businesses-struggle-with-wage-rises-but-it-makes-all-the-difference-to-some

I just thank god we’ve got Stuff in our lives to help us all make sense of this crazy world!!!
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April 8, 2023 6:02pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/300849679/grape-trucks-collide-near-blenheim
Oh dear, another two. That is four this week.
What will the weekend total be ?
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April 8, 2023 7:16pm
Swifty

Something I’d like to see more of in New Zealand:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11951255/MPs-blast-charities-taking-millions-taxpayer-fund-migrant-battle.html

A thorough clampdown on taxpayer-funded charities also doubling as lefty political advocacy groups.

You can be either one or the other.

Pick one.
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April 8, 2023 7:27pm
Ghost

And a classic gets destroyed

A new woke TV show based on ‘Grease’ will reportedly feature a new song about White supremacy, with lyrics about the exclusion of those “Jewish, Asian, brown or Black, single woman or gay, on the wrong side of they.”

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April 8, 2023 7:30pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/maori-at-orewa-want-co-governance-meeting-on-their-marae-i-say-no-not-unless/

For those who missed this yesterday:
GRAHAM ADAMS: What Hipkins doesn’t want to
tell us about Three Waters.

https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/GRAHAM-ADAMS-What-Hipkins-doesnt-want-to-tell-us-about-Three-Waters.pdf
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- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  If you don’t have time to read all Graham wrote, the guts of what he is saying is that the 3 Waters legislation has been drafted in a very cunning and deceitful . It hides the truth. What truth? It gives Maori complete control of all water in New Zealand. They will be able to charge what they like, do what they like, and they cannot be challenged.
  
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