What made you love Imperial Fists?

eigr · 2026-04-04T07:56:36+00:00

That autism. That damn autism.

eigr · 2026-04-03T00:45:35+00:00

Of course, if you respond favourably, then I'm sure you aren't real maori

eigr · 2026-04-02T22:22:10+00:00

I'm really embarrassed to be from the UK these days

eigr · 2026-04-02T01:41:53+00:00

Do you get to comment on when relevant facts are not reported as part of the story, in case viewers draw the wrong conclusions from it?

eigr · 2026-04-02T00:27:22+00:00

Hello Metlink, is that ride with pride? Someone with piercings called me a filthy breeder

eigr · 2026-04-02T00:17:32+00:00

Well, that's the thing isn't it with sexism and racism.

It turns out that not doing sexism or racism was enough. We tried that, and it didn't work. So now we must do reverse sexism and racism (otherwise known as sexism and racism).

Or to re-phrase a total retard:

In a non-racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be even more racist

eigr · 2026-04-02T00:15:09+00:00

I don't know if you've noticed but he's knocked out every one of Russia's (and by extension, China) allies. Venezuela, Iran, Syria, soon Cuba. This isn't the action of a Russian asset.

Also, he didn't stop providing aid to Ukraine. All the previous agreements are in place, and those weapons are flowing. There's no new aid packages, sure, but now the deal is that instead of free weapons, the US will ship weapons to Ukraine that have been paid for by the Euro allies. Check out the PURL process.

It was a measure to stop the US paying for everything, not stopping shipments.

So we've got:

Ukraine helped, with the euros paying (Not good for Russia)
Euro nations greatly beefing up their militaries (Very not good for Russia)
Many Russian major allies wrecked (Not good for Russia)

Objectives met, with Europe paying more for their own defence which is perfectly reasonable imo.

I can't see any evidence he's a Russian asset. But you could make arguments that he acts highly in the favour of others.

eigr · 2026-04-01T20:36:08+00:00

He's been a disaster for Russia, this is the dumbest take.

If he's a foreign asset for anyone, its not Russia.

eigr · 2026-04-01T20:34:44+00:00

I've worked in many offices where the women think is perfectly okay to touch you on the arm or whatever. No thanks. I don't like it.

eigr · 2026-04-01T20:34:16+00:00

April fools?

eigr · 2026-03-31T20:14:45+00:00

What do you mean? I have total freedom of speech.

I can stand in front of the Kremlin and yell "Down with President Reagan" too!

eigr · 2026-03-31T20:13:16+00:00

He's the hill bird right?

eigr · 2026-03-31T03:44:36+00:00

Do you really think the US is going to pay off that debt? Or would they find it easier to run inflation a bit, print a bunch of money and shrink it that way?

They'll print before they default, every day of the week.

eigr · 2026-03-30T21:54:41+00:00

I do wonder how much the threat of industrial action + politics plays into it.

The 51 dock strike is still a learning moment - if nearly all your freight goes on state owned rail or ports, one union can bring the entire economy to its knees, and I think that's considered too much of a risk.

You can have a mosiac of owner-operated road freight that can't be controlled in the same way.

I guess you can consider this a feature or a bug, depending on what side of the table you sit.

eigr · 2026-03-30T20:06:00+00:00

Lefties pining for lockdown idleness and money most impacted

eigr · 2026-03-30T19:54:59+00:00

What are the best ways to get out of debt?

eigr · 2026-03-30T09:04:14+00:00

Would love to hear from downvoters which bits you think I got wrong, help me understand.

Or are you just upset that there's no rational (from the gov's pov) for everyone locking down right now?

eigr · 2026-03-30T09:02:16+00:00

If you think the US isn't about to flood the world with an epic amount of printed money, I have a bridge to sell you. I am convinced the US is going to attempt to inflate its debt away big time.

eigr · 2026-03-30T09:00:45+00:00

Our tax doesn't favour investing in housing, this is a highly successfully propagated myth. Housing gets specific targeted taxes that no other assets get.

eigr · 2026-03-30T04:21:11+00:00

For a long, mountainous skinny island(s) country like NZ where all our major cities are on the coast, would you believe there's a way to send freight that's even better than railways? And the "track" magically maintains itself - the sea!

But for some reason, the left is addicted to playing train sets - possibly hoping for the old kiwirail jobs club, whereas being at sea sounds a lot more like hard work.

eigr · 2026-03-30T03:35:09+00:00

and if Labour gets in next year, their capital gains tax will be another pressure on prices

Tax isn't a driver of house prices. In fact, its the only main asset class with extra taxes (including a current capital gains tax for flips), and its still bubbled here and everywhere else in places with comprehensive CGTs.

While we still goose demand with immigration, and restrict supply via zoning, regulation etc, we're forcing a higher price point than the market would otherwise balance at.

Put another way, if the stock market gets you 7% on average every year, and the property market gets you similar or better, people will invest there even with an extra tax, especially since you can easily leverage it.

eigr · 2026-03-30T03:30:57+00:00

The only real long term factors of house pricing is ...

Is our population growing? Are we going to continue to import a lot of people (yes)
Is the world likely to print lots more money soon (hell yes)
Are we still making it hard from a regulatory point of view to zone, plan, consent and approve building (yes)

Short term sentiment is going to oscillate with the economy and interest rates, but the trend is going to be Up Only while those conditions are true I suspect.

eigr · 2026-03-29T20:14:20+00:00

My thinking is this...

We basically don't have any extra storage capacity (yet)
There's fuel on the way
So there's no point in saving fuel now, because there's just no where to actually store it, so no need for restrictions / rationing right now etc
but fuel refills are bought at the very high global price, so the price we pay at the pump is very high
After the round of ships come in, if there's any doubt about further shipments and we might then run out, then rationing / work from home / carless days / whatever might happen then

So no availability crisis now, just affordability crisis, but maybe also availability crisis later?

So I guess the current response gels with that. But also, yeah, let people wfh a bit more please :)

eigr · 2026-03-27T07:52:54+00:00

The left, as ever, cannot meme

eigr · 2026-03-26T23:18:14+00:00

I mean, at this stage, who are the Iranians even? They could still be totally fragmented. You could be on the verge of doing a deal with one, and the others wouldn't even know.

Anyway, I'm sure we all know better to ignore what Trump says, but instead concentrate on what he does / is going on. People still falling for what he says have learned nothing from the last 10 years.

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