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  The millionaires can thank the billionaires for rescuing them from troublesome concepts such as empathy, care and community. It was "really vital to push the country further to the Right" (P Henry). Really vital for who? Not for most of us, just for rich pricks like him. #nzpol

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  Chick Corea Elektric Band - Kaleidoscope https://youtu.be/13E4sO6E3m8 #ManyColours #JukeboxFridayNight

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  Keith Emerson - Green Ice https://youtu.be/TCUhV23cKhg #ManyColours #JukeboxFridayNight

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  Miles Davis - Blue in Green (with added Coltrane) https://youtu.be/gfvWHYgeKtU #ManyColours #JukeboxFridayNight

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  Two thoughts on the Mowbrays: 1. gaming the system is all they've done for their whole life, so absolutely on message now; 2. their pitch to NZ is basically that they've got so much money they need more, while the poors and coloureds can get by with less #nzpol

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  The "gang problem" is a problem the National Party wants to campaign on but doesn't want to fix because the National Party wants to campaign on it in 3 years time... ad infinitum #nzpol

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  Privilege should be earned, not bought or inherited

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  Every party has history of gang interactions. Both Lab & Nat govts have directed funding to gang-adjacent groups and met regularly. This isnt something to be ashamed of; when the Nats point fingers, point them back - don't cower in a corner and lose a good candidate. Terrible precedent. #nzpol

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  Colossal Biosciences Colossal Stupidity Colossal Waste of Money #Colossal #DogsOfWar

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  Re gang photos: it’s always “a completely different situation” for the Right because they are allowed to lie with impunity #NZPol

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  Claiming that the left have "lost control" of the election is a meaningless statement when the media were always going to load the scales the other way. It may be true, but it was always going to be true no matter what. #nzpol

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  How dare Christopher Luxon delay election results by casting a special vote today #NZPol

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  "Climate adaptation policies" = palliative care for the human race #nzpol #uspol #climatecrisis

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  Blue greens are people with guilty consciences who, when push turns to shove, will always put money ahead of the environment. #nzpol #opportunity #top

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  What is the government's priority: a healthy population or richer private health executives? cheap renewable energy or oil industry subsidies? preserving a tourist paradise or producing richer (foreign) mining companies? caring for all NZers or fluffing global billionaires? #nzpol

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  Despite the christian bible explicitly teaching that "the end never justifies the means", the combination of western christianity and politics has given us a never-ending stream of "the end justifying the most nefarious of means" #nzpol #uspol

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  Chris Luxon has resting sneer face, concealing a resting empty head #nzpol

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  The NZ Herald Future of NZ debate was a crick of shot. Infotainment without the info. #nzpol

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  We have a hood'n'rob government #nzpol

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  ISTM that a lot of National's recent policy announcements are not being made in good faith, because Simeon (or whoever) must be totally aware that any potential coalition partner will find them completely unacceptable. This is policy to be traded away, not a commitment. #nzpol

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  The only people who believe in "trickle-down" economics are the very rich, because trickle down always makes the rich far richer. Funny, that #nzpol

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  POTUS is a career criminal POTUS is a Russian agent POTUS is an Israeli agent POTUS has a serious mental illness Two, at least, of the above are true #uspol

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  "We need to die trying to get people off welfare and into work" - Klutzon. So he's cutting welfare and reducing the number of jobs. We're living in the Hunger Games. #nzpol

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  Thought experiment: the US midterms are less than two days before our elections. If the US election process is enough of a fascist- adjacent shitstorm, which NZ parties will benefit or suffer? #nzpol

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  It’s not hard to discern how the NZ media applies the principle of “balance” during an election campaign: 1 here is what National/ACT are saying vs 2 here is what our paid pundits are saying about Labour/Greens. I have yet to see a Green policy presented without a skeptical/mocking veneer #NZPol

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  When will the property market recover? Shit people: when property is again a safe investment returning profits every year People with a soul: when housing is affordable for average people without landlords extracting their personal wealth tax #nzpol

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  New Zealand already has a wealth tax: it's the means by which our economy ensures that rich people get richer and poor people get poorer #nzpol

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  Isn't it nice to live in a country where the government recognises the needs of the people who are so wealthy they aren't able to look after themselves? #nzpol

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  High level view: for over a year Labour have approached this election thinking that all they had to do to win it was not be National. In a 2 party fight that might have been good enough. But National's PR team have workshopped the shit out of the tax issue and Labour can't get clear air #nzpol

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  "We don't believe in making things compulsory" says Paul Goldsmith. Tell that to the homeless, the regional councils being forced into mergers, the local councils being ratecapped, the scientists being forced to abandon their research. etc. You are ALL ABOUT fucking up NZ under urgency. #nzpol