The number of people unemployed is not as important as the number of people who are not in a union. The people being canned from government positions will be replaced with contractors who will cost more but will not be in a union.
BalpeenHammer
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Nobody is thinking the government wants to commit mass murder of Maori like Israel is doing in Gaza. What people are saying is that the government wants to erase the Maori culture and language. This is of course a huge task and they won't be able to do it in one shot or even one term so they are doing everything they can this term and if they are given additional terms they can continue that work.
Why? Why are afraid of people voting?
Never mind, don't answer that. They are getting their marching orders from the USA right wing oligarchs.
You are discussing the messenger, everybody in this thread is discussing the message. That's because you are obsessed with identity politics.
It's not like you guys would take them seriously if they didn't say it. You didn't take them seriously before this statement, you won't take them seriously after this statement. They are not talking to you. You are unreachable to them. You have already made up your mind about the Maori in this country.
They are mandating English first in agency names, Te Reo will still be there.
Te Reo is an official language of this country. The only reason to do is racism.
As far as it’s first reading in the house, sure.
Are you saying that the government said it will kill it after the first reading?
Labour’s approach to crime has failed spectacularly,
Only if you are daft enough to believe the hyped up stories about ram raids in the run up to the election. Also of course if you are daft enough to believe the way to end crime in this country is to build more prisons and lock up even a greater percentage of the population.
Maybe a bit hyperbolic but I think the hyperbole is necessary given the current government's war on Maori.
For every dollar of tax cut you get you will get ten dollars in reduced services.
Maybe that's true but again how much of a dent has NZ made in the premium chocolate market?
None of these sources support the claim that there were a large percentage of deaths from the IDF.
Straw man. Nobody said large percent were due to deaths from the IDF. The claim was that the numbers Israel published were lies.
It makes no sense for the host to push back on the claim that Hamas murdered x amount of Isrealis and say um actually there were a few cases where amongst the chaos some friendly fire happened
Why not? It shows that Israel was lying and guess what they have lied habitually during this war. Why shouldn't their lies be pointed out?
He has likely already prepared a response to that since its the most common thing that is brought up.
We will never know since Jack was too cowardly to ask.
I think a better question would be to press him about the war goal of removing Hamas.
LOL. Everybody knows that's never going to happen. Hamas is an ideology more than anything else. You think all the orphans Israel created will grow up loving Israel?
When Isreal pulls out of Gaza, Palestinians will return to their homes which are a pile of rubble and will be reminded every day about the war
What makes you think Israel will pull out of Gaza? What makes you think they won't kill or at least ethnically cleanse millions of Palestinians from Gaza?
Since you refuse to believe anything negative about Israel without links here are a couple which you most definitely will not read or accept.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/05/wv-israel-hamas/
Also here is an article that just came out today.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1cmoocu/benjamin_netanyahu_is_americas_worst_ally/
Oh and in case you made it this far I'll ask you the question.
Is it wrong to kill innocent people? Is it wrong to kill children? Is it wrong to kill infants in an ICU?
If it is wrong who is worse? Somebody who kills 30 children or somebody who kills 1000 children? What kind of punishment should the world unleash on the people who kill 30 children and what kind of a punishment should the world unleash on the people who killed 1000 children?
really? You couldn't have googled "Israeli lies about oct 7"?
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/07/gaza-israel-netanyahu-propaganda-lies-palestinians/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp4uLjCztfI
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/27/zaka-october-7-israel-hamas-new-york-times/
So you post lies to draw out people who will point out those lies.
You are the one that's lying and acting as an apologist for genocide my dude.
Honestly all Jack had to do was ask really simple questions like "is it wrong to kill children" and "what should happen to people who kill children". Simple questions like that is all it takes to make a genocide apologist duck and dive and weave trying to escape.
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I decided that tomorrow I am going to eat some middle eastern food tomorrow and create a woke explosion so loud David Seymour will hear it and send his anti woke army after me.
I am going to eat couscous, bulgur, hummus, parsley, tomatoes, cucumbers, dates, and use all kinds of woke spices like sumac, cumin and cardamom. I am going to drink pomegranite juice, and espresso and maybe even a chai latte. I think I might even wear some middle eastern clothing if I have anything resembling that in the closet. I am hoping that's going to be woke enough to alert him but I might have to rely on avocado toast with a poached egg and wilted spinach as additional weaponry if it doesn't work.