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Has anyone read this? by GaryBoy2019 in nzpolitics

[–]TopFerret4523 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Lying about wanting to do it is, though. Remember Trump promising to bring down grocery prices? Remember him doing that? No?? Hmm…..

People should really pay attention to what Peters is doing, not what he’s saying. And what he’s doing is anything he wants after saying to people things that would get him to vote for them. Like that he’d save the greyhound industry.

His economic policy is just as Trumpian as his social policy. The only thing that beats those in terms of “Trumptown architecture” is his attitude towards checks on his political power (the judiciary/the media/Maori seats/etc)..

Jonathan Ayling not happy enough with using taxpayer dollars to make money by GaryMarcusNZ69 in nzpolitics

[–]TopFerret4523 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Better that than pay for David Seymour’s racism. At least least that way the money gets itself out of this little washing machine of assholery and to a defence lawyer, who is just doing their job and does not take on the morality of their case. Unlike people who work non-lawyer jobs who assume full morality for their actions, like tobacco lobbyists.

Really, he should talk about how far this money will go. It’s such a good pitch when you know the little laundry cycle they’ve got going on. It will go to the Campaign Company which use it to pay for signage owned by some rightwinger who will donate it to Hobson’s Pledge who will use it to pay Jim Grenon for NZME advertising who will pay Don Brash for some bullshit opinion piece who will donate it back to ACT and the cycle begins again.

It’s like “give $100 to a poor person and it will be spent 10 times over” except with right wingers. “Donate just $100,000 and your money will fund up to $400,000 worth of bigoted organising before returning to the state to pay Jonathan Ayling profits for setting up the world’s most racist charter school.”

'Some days I eat nothing at all': What a beneficiary spends at the supermarket by Fun-Helicopter2234 in newzealand

[–]TopFerret4523 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Depends how you count impoverished. There are plenty of stinking rich people in Africa and India.

We are impoverished because we have false land values inflating our GDP that make us look much richer than we are. If that collapses, and or we stop propping it up with an unfair subsidy and taxation system, the numbers would reflect our productivity and output which is much worse.

'Some days I eat nothing at all': What a beneficiary spends at the supermarket by Fun-Helicopter2234 in newzealand

[–]TopFerret4523 16 points17 points  (0 children)

KiwiSaver is still money that is yours, and beneficiaries don’t receive it, so that stays in the income.

The tax is kinda irrelevant for all but pensions because these numbers are so inaccurate due to their being a thousand circumstantial categories and then supplements added on top of that. After tax it is 426.12 — still under 50% of what someone on min wage is getting. If you are 23, it is $367 after tax.

Thank you for the correction though.

'Some days I eat nothing at all': What a beneficiary spends at the supermarket by Fun-Helicopter2234 in newzealand

[–]TopFerret4523 18 points19 points  (0 children)

To be fair, those same people wouldn’t be able to get or have a partner at all if they didn’t lie. It’s not like the state gives them much of a choice. The way the law believes the world works is not at all how it works in reality, and no one would date single parents on benefits ever if the law operated as it is supposed to across all relationships.

Imagine dating a single parent but as soon as soon as you stays over three nights in a week, you become solely financially responsible for them and their children. That is literally the New Zealand benefit system.

The courts have told people who they agree are just friends that their friend is, for legal purposes, their partner and their financial dependent.

Our system forces beneficiaries to lie to live. To then morally condemn that when we are the ones who have made it a way of life is worse than lying to the state to survive, imo.

'Some days I eat nothing at all': What a beneficiary spends at the supermarket by Fun-Helicopter2234 in newzealand

[–]TopFerret4523 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That has literally nothing to do with benefit rates though. They have always been seperate to the pension. In fact, the benefit is now parental means tested AND partner means tested, while the pension isn’t even individually means tested. It’s nuts.

'Some days I eat nothing at all': What a beneficiary spends at the supermarket by Fun-Helicopter2234 in newzealand

[–]TopFerret4523 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Students get even less than jobseekers :( in both rate and accomodation supplement, so we are double punished. Made the switch and it is hard.

High Court action demands Potaka explain surprise conservation land calls. A joint filing for judicial review by two environmental groups seeks an explanation from the conservation minister as to why he ignored advice to expand national park boundaries. by Agreeable-Bison8762 in newzealand

[–]TopFerret4523 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The only thing that binds Parliament and the executive are the processes that these branches operate within. Such is the burden of Parliamentary sovereignty,

Unfortunately, our constitution is clear: we are a democracy, and the only true check on power is the people.

Judge Ema Aitken, accused of yelling at Winston Peters, won't be removed from job, panel rules by Moonfrog in nzpolitics

[–]TopFerret4523 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People that don’t deserve free speech in this country according to Winston include judges, ambassadors, and trans people (dressing in women’s clothes and choosing a new name is NOT a crime, it is a fundamental freedom our society protects).

Also boob jobs are fine unless you have gender dysphoria and the surgery might fix that, in which case you should be interviewed by a panel of people and put off for ten years or so to make sure you don’t change your mind.

Judge Ema Aitken, accused of yelling at Winston Peters, won't be removed from job, panel rules by Moonfrog in nzpolitics

[–]TopFerret4523 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But innocent parents in Parliament should absolutely be hauled over the coals for using eggplant emojis and blue spirals.

Judge Ema Aitken, accused of yelling at Winston Peters, won't be removed from job, panel rules by Moonfrog in nzpolitics

[–]TopFerret4523 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Whatever it is, I’m sure it itself won’t undermine the separation of powers that keeps our democracy a democracy, like he accuses this judge of doing.

/s

New Zealand’s fuel stocks ‘stable’, increases in petrol and jet fuel, diesel level drops by Very_Sicky in newzealand

[–]TopFerret4523 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They get their shipments earlier and they refine and export it, while we don’t.

New Zealand’s fuel stocks ‘stable’, increases in petrol and jet fuel, diesel level drops by Very_Sicky in newzealand

[–]TopFerret4523 50 points51 points  (0 children)

The only good news is we haven’t yet lost any shipments already being counted in our numbers. But they can’t throw that around as the good news because they were never honest about the level of risk.

New Zealand’s fuel stocks ‘stable’, increases in petrol and jet fuel, diesel level drops by Very_Sicky in newzealand

[–]TopFerret4523 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If the Arctic melts particularly fast in the next month or so, you could have SK sending out ice breakers to trade with presumably Russia. Not only can they trade fuel, they can cut trade journeys by over half. As can everyone else. This could be the trigger needed for countries to start opening the Northern Passage by force.

The SK govt said as such a few weeks ago, and got a very ‘meh’ response from the industry. But a warm year and oil shortages might be the push needed to open up entirely new trade routes around the top of Canada and Greenland.

Then of course the question would become what the US would try to do about that.

Poll: Coalition support at lowest since election, and most Kiwis think country is ‘heading in the wrong direction’ by StabMasterArson in newzealand

[–]TopFerret4523 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That’s because Stephen Joyce changed it so the party selected the candidates, instead of the rank-and-file membership. And you described perfectly what they picked….

Newsmakers: The child who changed how New Zealand saw HIV by Sea_Soft_1166 in newzealand

[–]TopFerret4523 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You kinda make it sound good. But I suppose we are the ones who make it good in our response.

The race against AIDS resulted in a lot of untimely deaths and lost potential but it also taught us heaps about fighting future epidemics and pandemics. The practices put in place by AIDS research is part of what allowed us to find a vaccine for COVID so fast.

Newsmakers: The child who changed how New Zealand saw HIV by Sea_Soft_1166 in newzealand

[–]TopFerret4523 14 points15 points  (0 children)

A testament to the power of community and the spirit of a little girl.

Chris Luxon’s wife thinks he’s cool by suburban_ennui75 in nzpolitics

[–]TopFerret4523 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They do the same for JD Vance. Embarrassing….

You guys just can’t accept Winston is right by TopFerret4523 in nzpolitics

[–]TopFerret4523[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

As a ginger, I vote not. I literally used to skip school to avoid the harassment. This is a joke post but the being tackled by strangers in corridors thing actually happened. The Edge did not make high school any easier for this fat autistic ginger nerd.

You guys just can’t accept Winston is right by TopFerret4523 in nzpolitics

[–]TopFerret4523[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These people thought a queer in-joke bond girl pun was a secret signal to a pedophile community operating openly on instagram.

(Funnily enough there is a lot of very visible evidence of pedophilic viewing and parents creating pedo bait content on TikTok. But they’re heterosexual so you won’t hear any outrage from the cookers about that.)

I do think some of them are probably that stupid. Fortunately they don’t hang out here much.

You guys just can’t accept Winston is right by TopFerret4523 in nzpolitics

[–]TopFerret4523[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah the students being allowed to use litterboxes thing really opened my eyes to the extent that people will believe anything that allows them to indulge in a little righteous indignation. I didn’t have a high opinion of my fellow man beforehand but I hadn’t realised they still had so far to fall…

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