Posts by Kumara Republic
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It's bad enough to foist killjoy policy on the nightlife, but it's even worse to deny responsibility for it.
Welcome to the Ninny State (sic) at work. At least "bleeding heart nanny statists" are transparent about their policy.
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I myself tend to see America in perspective of the red-blue state divide.
Most of us would be right at home in, say, San Fran or Portland or Seattle or Austin. And my brother's pro-Obama fiancée hails from Chicago.
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I guess that reduced wages and working conditions fits in with basic right-wing dogma, but it's hardly good for the economy. What happened to trying to narrow the wage gap with Australia?
It got Visionstreamed, of course.
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Is anti-Americanism in NZ mostly of the Abbie Hoffman "America is John Wayne" variety, or the Colonel Blimp "Britain should never have lost the Americas" variety? I'd personally lean towards the latter, even if the Richard Prebbles of this world think it's the former.
There's a third group that thinks America is run by the Elders of Zion, but thankfully they're little more than a lunatic fringe.
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Sacha:
Also, what George said. Until something dramatic changes, we will continue to see politicians of many stripes wasting vast sums of public money imprisoning more people while cutting funding for trivial things like special education support and night classes.
Or corporate welfare for polluters, for that matter.
As for something dramatic, look no further than Attica '71. Or Judge Mark Ciavarella.
Steve C:
Does everybody know about the resent Australian policy of deporting New Zealand criminals, even if they only spent the first few months of there lives here?
There are loopholes in Aussie law that are being exploited - despite growing up over there, the crims didn't apply for Aussie citizenship.
Am I not the one to suspect that the whole law & order issue has an underlying layer of racial (& classist) profiling by stealth? It's an issue in other New World nations too.
Also, has anyone considered the viewpoint of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition? And where would Greg O'Connor fit in?
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As far as I'm concerned, NZ faces a much more destructive threat from "suburban mediocrity"/Kath-and-Kim-ism than nuclear warheads or hordes of AK47-toting riflemen. And sadly it seems to be actively encouraged by the usual suspects. To cut a long story short, "We don't care if you can build a space shuttle, we only care if you own the latest Hummer H2."
I agree with most here that the real reason NZers emigrate is to fish in a great lake when they've outgrown the pond. But I also agree that every bigot who emigrates from NZ has fulfilled their civic duty - the interviewees in a Sunday Star Times article, "White flight to Queensland", on a group of Sunshine Coast-based Kiwi emigrés about 5 years ago, is a case in point.
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I've found that using TweetDeck takes out a bit of the hassle, even when I'm not a regular user of the service.
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Is there such a thing as a Turing test for satire?
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To cut a long story short, all of Trev Loudon's conspiracy theorist roads lead to the same destination: Reductio ad Stalinum.
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To pick that apart a bit, if there is a car outside every flat, that falls well short of every student having a car. Apart from that, second hand cars are far cheaper now than they were 15 years ago. For example.
The used import boom explains a lot.