Politics

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  • Politics Sub Forum

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    The quarterly reminder about some of the rules

    Please don't post memes that say people with different views are stupid and/or evil. These will be deleted

    A few of these have been getting removed recently. They don't help conversation and what some find funny others get pissed at.

    This rule was added during the Hillary/Trump campaign and a couple of threads were just getting spammed with memes about retard Trump and Hillary's death count etc etc

    Spam

    There's few complaints about this too.

    Some of the threads are just getting the latest twitter outrage dumped into them. No real discussion takes place.
    Just be aware that this pisses a lot of fellow posters off and makes people put threads (or the entire sub-forum) on ignore.

    ...and this is still annoying a lot of users

    If you are being evangelical and trying to win converts to your 'side' perhaps consider that a NZ sports forum is probably not the best place for your mission.

    Also don't just dump your favourite twitter posts of the day into threads here. Again it crowds out the conversation

  • Climate Change

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    @TeWaio said in Climate Change:

    This is absolutely correct (I have disagreed with @Winger a lot in this thread, and here I am agreeing twice in 24hrs );

    I thought at first your account had been hacked

    And thanks for your excellent posts. I've lost interest in all of this in recent years but the direction we are travelling due to climate change is very concerning. Especially as some predict we are heading into a cold period (due to a much less active sun). Colder and less food and energy ...

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    @Winger ok.

    I think the major question really is a combination of

    Is Israel committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza Is Gaza a Hamas stronghold or does the average Gaza Palestinian hate Hamas and what they do Does Hamas open idealogy of committing genocide against Jews validate Israel's actions so far
  • Political Memes (memes only)

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  • Aussie Politics

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    @booboo Or read the letter he wrote to a school boy ...

  • NZ Politics

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    @SouthernMann said in NZ Politics:

    I have younger lads I play sport with. Never touched a ciggie, chronic vapers.

    Yeah that seems to be the issue

  • British Politics

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    As with most here, j sometimes despair at the quality of politicians we have, I’d like to say a word today about Kemi Badenoch, totally on top of her brief, has done the work, has been brave in doing so. Genuine leadership in a tricky area and what a contrast to the likes of AOC who have embarrassed themselves on the subject in recent days

  • Transgender debate, in sport, in general

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    The grown ups have entered the conversation in parliament today. Kemi Badenoch has been brilliant at the Despatch Box today, crystal clear, picked up the key issues, dealt brilliantly with questions. A good summary below:

    Dennis Noel Kavanagh on Twitter
  • European Politics

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    Yep, found it.

    Amazing that it took the riots for somebody to actually start saying something.

    Riots work? Worrying.

  • High crimes in Warkworth

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    @dogmeat said in High crimes in Warkworth:

    DAMN - when I read the title, I thought this thread would have a lot more mention of cellars!

    Same.

  • US Politics

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  • F off with the damn PC Brigade

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    @MiketheSnow Ignoring the funny tampon story and focusing on the "race" dialogue. Dumb fucks arguing about dumb things. They say the woke left are racist (which they clearly seem to be) by using the same categories/similar ideology but arguing from a more conservative stance. Both pig-shit stupid.

  • Harvey Weinstein

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    The allegations being investigated by Scotland Yard are understood to be different to those detailed by The Times and The Sunday Times.

    https://archive.is/mGBnl

  • Ukraine

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    Probably been going on the whole time but we were told it was only happening in Russia.
    Me thinks a shitty peace deal massively favoring Putin is coming.

    Swimming rivers and faking illness to escape Ukraine’s draft Swimming rivers and faking illness to escape Ukraine’s draft

    After Russia's invasion, most Ukrainian men were banned from leaving, but many are escaping abroad.

  • Musk & Twitter

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    Just to clarify, this thread is for discussing Musks purchase of twitter and changes he's making to that platform.

  • Canadian Politics

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    Brilliant public speaker.

    Good looking man. Still young (44). Attractive wife

    As long as the election isn't rigged (very likely) he should romp home

  • Future Of Energy - Ukraine Spin Off

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    @nostrildamus said in Future Of Energy - Ukraine Spin Off:

    @NTA said in Future Of Energy - Ukraine Spin Off:

    Oh another thing: smart home control can also extend to devices like your car charger. If it knows when you have excess solar or offpeak power available, it can use that rather than peak grid tariffs. My battery has a smart controller than can pull in cheap power overnight, for example, and apparently it is EV-ready.

    Have you thought about moving into the energy/utilities IT field? the analysts used to get paid a bomb (not sure about now) and you sound more knowledgeable than them (well the ones I worked with).

    I kind of work parallel to our company's energy team in the data area from the corporate consumer side. I thought about going fulltime into the energy bit but got lazy 😀

  • China

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    @Tim said in China:

    @voodoo well it ain't good

    Tahi bar next Friday then?

  • Your favourite conspiracy theories

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    @Victor-Meldrew Why not. Everyone else was.

  • Qantas

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    Joyce's final shenanigans reminded me of the other name for Qantas. Google tells me there's even related merchandise. I'm far too easily amused...

    All my other bags have been lost by the airline

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