@Tiare_MP As someone who is a politics nerd myself, I saw that coming the moment Luxon was ruling TOP out. It's just obvious strategic positioning and in fact, he would have been an incompetent moron to not have done so.
This is how you play the game of politics.
@_breadcapital I personally think drug testing on the side of the road is a waste of police resources.
We gotta start mining somewhere brother. 33% of NZ is conservation land but not all of it is actually valuable as conservation.
Free Iran!
@FrankMcRae@cjsbishop Did you think the Battle of Mosul was a genocide of the Arab population? I think tens of thousands of civilians died during that battle.
@satliteshabit28@zetslac Yea. I just don't think the policy mix from either Greens or Labour was good.
Further, I think public sector reform is massively needed - something that neither Labour or Greens would ever touch and in fact probably make worse.
@realitymayhurt@Suitandtie9999@ethanjmanera No. Not even if it were the Greens or Labour.
At the end of the day, I think the scope of abuse in these circumstances is practically zero.
@Znyderman@_LanaG_ Are you talking about China and India? Two countries that lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty AFTER they committed to liberal market reforms? That Global South?