I think you don’t think it’s as corrupt because you don’t perceive corruption as being corruption. In other words it’s become so normalised to you that you think it’s just a matter of fact. Of course people would get jobs in government because they had personal relationships with the PM. Of course a party would oppose tobacco legislation because they got money from the tobacco lobby. Of course government contracts would be handed out to the five companies which are well connected and give money to both parties. Of course anytime a law gets passed the farmers are exempt. Of course Fonterra sets the agenda for legislation.

You don’t think that’s corruption because that’s the way it’s always been in this country.

NZ is one of the most corrupt nations on the planet. We don’t want to believe this about our own country but it’s true. It’s right in front of our noses every day and we look away and pretend it’s not there.

Apparently several right wing groups have been posting AI generated images in order to frame the guy. I would make sure those pictures are not fake.

Doesn’t matter. All that mattes is that they belong to a union and they must be replaced with non union employees.

Nobody seems to understand what the real goal of the right wing in this country is.

The entire purpose of this and similar ventures is to destroy unions. It’s to fire unionised workers and replace them with non unionised workers.

Destroy unions, depress wages, increase profits, weaken the Labour party, line their own pockets, buy another ferrari for your house in Hawaii, get high paying do nothing job at a chinese bank.

It’s weird that this justifies death threats in your eyes.

That’s a rich field to mine in NZ.

I am afraid they are not going to. The land of sheep and all that.

I don’t know how accurate it is to say he doesn’t represent the country as a whole. At a minimum that phrasing is misleading.

no person represents the country as a whole but he is in government and that government got the votes of the majority of the people who voted. That’s significant.

As you said nothing he said isn’t aligned with ACT or National positions and certainly nobody else in government has rebuked him.

Trumpism and MAGA has arrived in NZ and is running the country. If you are not alarmed you should be.

I think you are taking some copium if you think this kind of rhetoric only appeals to 70+ old white racists.

There are hundreds of thousands of younger racists who also love this message.

Please add water and power to that list.

So many options. Why not hand the contract to the local Marae? There is one near your school and they are used to feeding crowds of people. Why not use those camping meals? They can be stored and rehydrated with just hot water? Both would be better options than what they are doing now.

I agree. If they were useless they would cause less destruction.

The only way it will get diluted is if the press puts it out front and the public get outraged.

So what I am saying is slim chance of that happening.

That’s weird. The first one works just fine for me.

The first paragraph on that page says

“The coalition Government has agreed to pass a Regulatory Standards Bill, proposed by the ACT Party, which will further tilt the political playing field to advantage vested interests.”

So yea it’s a done deal even though it’s not even though the draft hasn’t been submitted. They used the treaty bill as a distraction to push this one through. Well planned and executed by David Seymour. He knows how to play this game.

https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360565270/ideological-trojan-horse-regulatory-standards-bill

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/538784/regulatory-standards-bill-slammed-as-dangerous-call-for-alarm-bells

What was the point of pushing the bill in the first place especially after the PM said it was DOA?

The point was to move the overton window. You take the loss but you move the country closer to the racist future you envision.

This is the same reason people made submissions. They don’t want to move the overton window and they want to fight at every step of the way because moving even one step in the direction that David Seymour wants to move the country is harmful to people.

If we don’t fight now it will send a signal to the white supremacist that the field has been cleared for them, that the next time they will succeed.

I generally don’t like statements like this

“Being on the conservative side of politics doesn’t necessarily mean this bill will appeal to you, as displayed by submissions in opposition from Chris Finlayson and Dame Jenny Shipley.”

No group of humans agree 100% with any topic. There will always be a few people who will disagree with any party platform or policy or whatever.

The fact remains that the right was overwhelmingly in support of this bill. A few stragglers here and there doesn’t counter that.

Cool story. Unfortunately anecdotes are not data.

Bullshit. House prices were dropping under Labour and the trend reversed under National.