@MaraetaiMike So you think you’re a “nice” person, yet you immediately resort to abuse. You’re just a common hypocrite, which also happens to be a defining characteristic of the left.
It is exactly this outsourcing of thinking that constantly hamstrings leftist thought.
We can enjoy the work of actors, sportspeople, and entertainers without having to agree with them politically, especially since their wealth often makes their motivations different to ours.
@MaraetaiMike You don’t seem very nice. You’d fit right in with the communists, who care for human life about as much as they care for material on the bottom of their shoes.
@slingshot_the His main problem is his refusal to create a significant difference in policy from Labour, including Exhibit A the "social media ban" a.k.a. end anonymity online where he is teaming with Labour to ram it through.
@bayagima As the key figure in the UK's Net Zero de-industrialisation efforts, he'd be the perfect character to continue their slide into socialism.
Oddly, people in the UK still consider it to be a wealthy nation, even though for the same roles they command a fraction of a US salary.
@ConceptualJames We should treat communist parties as a honeypot for bad votes. After every election, votes for communists should be recorded, discarded, and those voters barred from voting for a period of 10 years.
@Pete20221@Suitandtie9999@ridingNC700 What do you mean “closet”? You can’t get more out of the closet than naming the podcast you produce out of your mother’s basement the “big hairy fa g got news network”.
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"ACT will prevent any ban on VPNs," says ACT Leader David Seymour.
"The Government is united in condemning China’s missile launch, and to be consistent it’s critical we don’t adopt Chinese-style intrusions into internet privacy.
"Speculation over a VPN ban exposes the problem with well-intentioned efforts to protect children from harm.
“Any ban strong enough to stop a motivated teenager is strong enough to violate all of our privacy. On the other hand, motivated teenagers will skirt anything weaker in an instant. The Australians have found this, with 80 per cent of teens ignoring the ban.
"If a teenager can bypass a social media ban with a VPN, then the ban isn't effective. If the Government responds by restricting VPNs, it is no longer regulating children's access to social media, it is regulating how every New Zealander uses the internet.
"VPNs are legitimate privacy and security tools. Businesses use them to protect commercial information. Journalists use them to protect sources. Ordinary New Zealanders use them to secure their personal information on public Wi-Fi. They are an essential part of modern cybersecurity.
"ACT was very clear on this point when we filed our differing view on the social media inquiry: 'The countries that have placed restrictions on VPNs include North Korea, China, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Iran. These countries use these restrictions to suppress their citizens' free speech, often in the name of protecting from online harm.'
"New Zealand should not be borrowing ideas from the authoritarian internet playbook. We should be defending the values that separate free countries from controlled ones.
"Social media harms for children are real, but any response must work for adults too. If making a ban work requires controlling the privacy tools used by ordinary people, then it's time admit the policy doesn't work and pursue better solutions."
@levelsio The funny thing is the people who say "I would NEVER participate on that platform" don't even realise that it's where a lot of what gets filtered down to them as "news" is originating from.
Helen Clark needs to be held to account too. She spoke out strongly in favour of Lazzarini after October 7, and while she was head of the UNDP she ignored warnings that terrorism-supporting UNDP staff were diverting resources to Hamas.
Today we have called on the United Nations to waive all immunity for UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini—whose terms ends today—to allow his indictment for complicity in terrorism, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Lazzarini cannot claim he didn't know. We have all the receipts.
@Qaz753qaz753@xAviation In other words, the perfect conditions for an hubristic accident. I mean, no one has ever crashed at an airshow, right? The more people and cameras watching, the less likely pilot error, right?