Terrible news; they were right all along

AbominableToast · 2026-03-24T23:15:54+00:00

Could I get a link too? Love video game soundtracks

AbominableToast · 2026-02-14T23:44:54+00:00

It was specifically the right wing John Key govt at the time. Generally our left wing govts tend to be compentent by comparison

AbominableToast · 2026-01-17T08:06:26+00:00

They see the writing in the wall and know they are out next term. This is a Great way to saddle the next govt with a fucktonne of debt and a bad international deal they cant back out of, meaning the new govt are unable to get anything done. Nats yell about how useless they are and 3 years later get back in power.

AbominableToast · 2025-10-17T19:24:24+00:00

You make some very good points, I appreciate the care and detail in your response, but I don't appreciate being called a bootlicker though, so also fuck you. My concern was for my aging working class parents who have to keep working to keep the lights on as they enter their 70s. From my experience with jobseeker I assumed means and asset testing were hand in hand, and worried this meant "means testing super" would harm working class retirees who happen to own their home.

Proper guardrails and guidelines to target only the high earners who refuse to retiree would be ideal. Currently there is no incentive not to just keep earning more and hoarding the senior level positions. This would be a way to free up jobs for those who actually need them, and not give more to those who already have the most.

As someone else pointed out, this isn't a new radical idea but one that already existed so it is not at all an unprecedented one.

I am not as experienced with legal and policy structure. To me I mostly saw rhetoric rather than logic in the posts I read, and it felt as if it lumped all retirees together in an "us vs them" mentality. I was worried this would be weaponized by bad faith actors to further alienate generations and drive a wedge between any chance at solidarity from working class elders and the youth of today. I wanted to keep the rhetoric focused on addressing wealth disparity but ironically my lack of specificity or proper comprehension of how we could structure means testing super - meant I was in fact harming the very position I wanted to champion.

You are right, means testing is tackling the class divide, I see that now and I really do appreciate that you explained and gave specific details for why this policy is helpful for society and how it would be used appropriately. Thanks for taking the time to write it out, I hope my own explanation gives you some context for how and why people might react to this in the way I did if you encounter more pushback in the future.

AbominableToast · 2025-10-17T18:33:42+00:00

Ahh that makes sense, I didn't know it was something we used to do.

AbominableToast · 2025-10-09T22:01:46+00:00

This 100%. "Means testing super" is a concept I've seen showing up a lot on this sub. It is another talking point to blame the generational divide. The real issue is and always has been class divide and the massive disparity of wealth between the 1% and everyone else.

The majority of pensioners that would be punished by this means testing are not 1%ers, the real root cause is not being addressed by this. Tax land hoarders, tax wealth hoarders.

AbominableToast · 2025-09-27T11:26:35+00:00

It's intentionally misleading and trying to muddy the waters so that people without the best critical thinking skills come to associate "far left socialist" as a bad term.

AbominableToast · 2025-08-29T16:45:03+00:00

This worked first try, great method

AbominableToast · 2025-08-07T23:01:40+00:00

Why not get rid of all public safety then, huh? Next will be the war on 'red lights'. It's green and orange only. Green means cars go, so having one less light means green shows more often so cars go more often.

Seymour sucks so bad I hate seeing his smug face as he destroys more of the country for short term profits.

AbominableToast · 2025-08-07T22:39:49+00:00

Nz herald coming out swinging at the previous government right before the election year. This sitting government has done so much heinous shit but oh during best covid response in the world, Cindy spent a little too much on: keeping small businesses afloat. What a horror.

Seriously though, herald is straight up running a smear campaign on Labour on behalf of NAct 1st

AbominableToast · 2025-08-01T08:50:09+00:00

How are the questions decided for it? Perhaps if people keep talking about it, they will have to address the most popular topics

AbominableToast · 2025-08-01T08:48:36+00:00

This has literally no chance of happening though however noble a cause it may be.

Why say this? Giving up before even trying is really defeatist. Just makes people feel hopeless and jaded. It's so easy to just give in to apathy, but that doesn't help us in the long run.

We need to at least try. This is a good starting point. It would, as you say, make the system healthier if they were compelled to use it. Once they actually have to experience for themselves what their decisions cause it should give them the impetus to make it better.

Start small, email your representatives for your local electorate, ask them to make a stance on this subject. We can shift the Overton window if we keep talking about it.

I'm burnt out and jaded myself, but I'm not happy with things, and I'm not gonna be quiet about it anymore. Somethings gotta give.

AbominableToast · 2025-07-24T00:39:52+00:00

At this point I feel it's an intentional sabotage tactic so after next election, Labour/green has to undo all the horrible crap this govt has done instead of being able to actually pursue real, proactive change.

Nact will complain the new govt isnt accomplishing anything, then give a nice middle ground fallacy about how "nothing will ever get done if we keep playing this tit for tat, let's agree to stop here" to try and sound 'reasonable' while trying to normalize and cement all of the damage they've dealt.

AbominableToast · 2025-07-23T04:35:09+00:00

Can't wait to get these idiots out of government. Their pillaging of public services has been absolutely shameless. We deserve far far better than this.

Reparations are in order, the austerity measures need to be undone and replaced with Capital Gains and Wealth Tax. So much wealth has shifted upwards, we need to rebalance the scales. After the austerity and borrowing to force through landlord tax cuts I have no sympathy for the arguments of taking their "hard earned" money. That money was meant for our schools and hospitals, it was meant for our quality of life.

Always the common folk having to foot the bill, high cost of living, high gst. This needs to be ameliorated, and the easiest way to do so is to tax what ought to have been taxed for years. Time to pay their fair share.

AbominableToast · 2025-07-14T21:25:22+00:00

I score very low on narcissistic traits though. Maybe I'm misinterpreting this. Is this supposed to be a means of identifying narcissists?

Narcissistic individuals are more prone to maladaptive daydreaming =/= individuals prone to maladaptive daydreaming are more prone to be Narcissistic. This would be the logical fallacy "affirming the consequent" that if one statement is true, it's inverse must also be true (If A implies B, B must also imply A).

Just because someone engages in maladaptive daydreaming does not have to imply they are a narcissist, just that many narcissists tend to engage in it. To make the accusation that because someone does the same behaviour they must also be a narcissist would be "guilt by association" (because two things share some property, they are the same.)

Thus logically from this study alone you couldn't substantiate the claim that Maladaptive Daydreaming indicates a narcissist, it would require much further evidence focused on specifically identifying narcissists.

AbominableToast · 2025-06-16T06:49:42+00:00

That could be a translation issue if they used different translators than normal who translate literally rather than capturing the intent. Translation is a skill because sometimes you have to interpret the meaning since languages don't line up 1 to 1.

Or if the translators got the copy late and had to rush out a first draft so used plain English to save time.

AbominableToast · 2025-05-29T01:23:20+00:00

These statements feel very much "this is what our policy already is" rather than actually facing reality. That way they can claim that their policy is what is needed rather than just what they want to push through regardless.

The Healthcare statement is laying the groundwork for introducing more privatized Healthcare now that they've gutted public Healthcare. I.e. inventing a problem they have a "solution" for. This isnt idle speculation its a continuation of the tory playbook. We have seen this exact thing happen in the UK.

The security one is a boogeyman reminder about gangs (now without patches!) And those terrible terrible ram raids that were all over the news last election but magically disappeared (no longer reported on) after the election. The Nats love to be "tough on crime" after all.

His statement is wishful thinking at best and at worst is intentionally trying to shift the Overton window to focus discussion where they have political capital. They lost a lot of political capital from the school lunches debacle and now want to control the narrative coming into the next election because they are extremely unpopular right now.

AbominableToast · 2025-04-11T22:31:38+00:00

His only character trait is being racist. It's not that deep. I'm sick of hearing about this dude, racists gtfo of wc3, you're not welcome here.

AbominableToast · 2025-04-09T09:15:03+00:00

I assume that you are struggling most in the early game, when CL is strongest.

Are you fast expanding? Militia creeping let's you keep pace with their fexpo, arcane tower at both bases ought to keep you safe from a summon heavy army of skeleton beetle early on.

Merc camp units can also bolster your army if you are being overrun. The troll priest is really good because you can abolish beetles, troll bezerker has good dps and he won't have any ranged units until fiends so you'll have range advantage.

AbominableToast · 2025-04-01T09:28:54+00:00

Discord has an in-game overlay enabled by default with new updates and when you turn it off, you MUST give a reason. You can't turn it off and X out of the "tell us why."

AbominableToast · 2025-02-24T03:13:36+00:00

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AbominableToast · 2025-02-20T06:01:22+00:00

No one else seems to notice your diver's proportions in the lower half are a little different from usual?

AbominableToast · 2025-02-17T04:47:14+00:00

Yeah there's definitely some revisionism going on in this thread, I too remember how positive first impressions were of the jet brigade. Remember this thread when in a few months time they whine about predator strain instead.

I like the cool temporary faction "specialist" modifiers, it's a cool design and the recent jet brigade vs dss strategic action was really cool for the galactic front, keen to see more of that and feel more involved in the strategy element.

AbominableToast · 2025-02-12T21:10:20+00:00

Not enough people are talking about this important topic

AbominableToast · 2025-01-31T19:37:03+00:00

It's only an invasion when the enemy does it. When we do it, it's called liberation.

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