The greens won EVERY university.
EVERY university 70%+ votes left.
In 10 years, the green voters will have kids. 18 years later, those kids vote left.
NZ needs to fix academic political manipulation NOW before it’s too late.
Every class Im taking said “vote left”.
@aniobrien
The greens won EVERY university.
EVERY university 70%+ votes left.
In 10 years, the green voters will have kids. 18 years later, those kids vote left.
NZ needs to fix academic political manipulation NOW before it’s too late.
Every class Im taking said “vote left”.
@aniobrien
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Only Luxon could have (mostly) won the election, but still seem like the loser.
The fact that he omitted Chris Bishop losing his seat is shameful.
I hope Seymour and Winston rail him hard in negotiations.
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I hope Chris Penk lives a happy life knowing he tried to stop this trainwreck.
AI slop like this affirms National’s terrible polling and shows how passionless they have become.
Thank you for your service, @penknz 🫡
Dictator Swarbrick finally saying the communist parts out loud:
“Forcing the sale” of private businesses is as dictatorial as the Greens wanting to abolish the police
She radicalises mentally-unwell youths & they’ve demonstrated murdering Winston Peters.
Very dangerous times..
The Greens' supermarket policy is not just a bad economic idea. I believe it crosses a moral line.
They want to require at least 120 supermarkets and distribution capacity to be sold into public ownership to create KiwiMart. They estimate $2.8 billion to acquire the assets and fund the business.
They propose compensation. But paying someone does not make a compulsory sale voluntary. If the owner cannot say no, the government is using its power to take control of private assets.
My objection is not simply that politicians might run supermarkets badly. Even a promise to run them well does not give the state a moral entitlement to own someone else's business.
Property rights mean very little if they only protect you until a politician thinks your assets would be more useful in government hands. These are not favours the state grants when it approves of you. They are part of what allows free people to build, invest and plan their lives.
I want cheaper groceries. I also want more competition. But wanting a desirable outcome does not make every method of achieving it acceptable. Another person's property is not automatically yours to take control of because you believe you could use it for a public benefit.
That does not mean supermarkets should be above the law. Fraud, collusion and unlawful exclusion should be investigated and dealt with through proper legal processes. Being pro-capitalism means defending competition, not protecting established companies from it.
But identifying a competition problem and deciding the government should own the businesses are different things. One does not automatically justify the other.
There is an economic problem here too. Government ownership does not remove the cost of food, wages, electricity or freight. If a public supermarket cannot cover its costs, someone still pays. Moving a cost from the checkout to the taxpayer does not make it disappear.
The Greens say KiwiMart would support itself commercially. That is their intention. It is not a guarantee, and it does not answer the property-rights objection.
I want a government that makes it easier for people to compete, produce and serve customers. Remove barriers to new stores and wholesale supply. Enforce fair rules. Let businesses earn our money by offering better value.
We should not have to surrender the principle of private ownership to get affordable food. A government should protect our rights, not treat them as obstacles to its plans.
I would like to take full credit for preemptively endorsing Paul Henry a few months ago 😜
Winston Peters’ perfect answer:
Māori neglecting their own health don’t deserve early retirement.
Live unhealthily, be unhealthy. Your choice isn’t my responsibility.
#nzpol @NewZealandMFA @nzfirst
Here is the link to this video on his official Tik Tok account.
vt.tiktok.com/ZS95xHKGr/
It is 3 years old. My point is that his early videos were the base point of his intentional public image. Thus, no shock that he’s currently suffering an image/respect crisis ATM.
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