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[James 🌐 @jamesfeng24]

@Tupacisoverit @LtNOWIS @TrackUkraine @EspaillatNY your argument is “single issue voting is bad unless it’s MY single issue”?

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@allegedlyterra @nikicaga Inner Mongolia leaving China and joining Outer Mongolia would also instantly make Mongolia a Han majority country lmfao

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@ADM_Welsly @nikicaga In a world where Tibet and East Turkestan are granted independence, you’ve got to assume China is liberal and open enough that HK independence no longer makes sense, no?

Also wtf is up with all the tankie & wumao replies to your comment lmao

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@pu1_se @MinistryofOtaku @UndeadCantDie yeah of which the average student is unable to access due to studying or being at school from 6am to midnight lmfao

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@pu1_se @BeefCherki @MinistryofOtaku @UndeadCantDie objectively not true especially when 996 (9am-9pm 6 days a week) is the standard for workers. China also has the largest gig economy in the world with 40% of the urban workforce doing so.

just look at ppp adjusted gdp per capita, its a third of the US’s

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@Needmorethan280 @Economissive @ryanator109 Because 99% of Germans speak German, 99% of Chinese speak Chinese, but 4% of Kiwis speak te reo Māori

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@CaptWisconsin @ElizabethWolnik american sports fans are weird

arsenal have never won a champions league, they faced the reigning champions in psg in the final. literally every neutral rooted for psg so we could continue mocking the bums that are arsenal

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@n5tactico @FabrizioRomano You rn:

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@SASardonic @yimbosf You can be centre left and pro market but leftists are at least in part defined by anti-capitalism.

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@SASardonic @yimbosf Deregulation explicitly because you want to boost supply and development by allowing the private sector and market mechanisms to work correctly is not the same as libertarian policy on social issues. One is necessarily capitalist & neoliberal, the other doesn’t need to be.

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@fabiodeuxbeer @Economissive @ryanator109 @Needmorethan280 I’m not even trying to be edgy, like I said, I’m not even strongly opposed to changing our official name to Aotearoa. I just think it’s weird to expect New Zealand to be shortened to “AOT” when we haven’t yet done so.

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@fabiodeuxbeer @Economissive @ryanator109 @Needmorethan280 ?

https://t.co/IHGzw4u2sL

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@lewis_goodall @btharris93 yeah like the Spanish and Dutch princesses going to UWCs, your average typical state schools eh?

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@Economissive @fabiodeuxbeer @ryanator109 @Needmorethan280 Sign language is also one of our official languages, why not use symbols in NZSL?

English is the de facto language to the extent that it isn’t even codified as such in law because it’s simply assumed. Why use a language less than 5% of the population speak?

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@fabiodeuxbeer @Economissive @ryanator109 @Needmorethan280 like if you really wanna change our name officially to Aotearoa (something I don’t feel particularly strongly about either way) then fine, but this weird half assed middle road is just strange. for all intents and purposes we are New Zealand

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@fabiodeuxbeer @Economissive @ryanator109 @Needmorethan280 true I take that point back

switzerland does the same thing with sui and not swi

but English is still one of our national languages. feels insanely performative to use AOT instead of NZL regardless.

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@Economissive I’m not saying you can’t call it Aotearoa in Te Reo, but in the English speaking world we use “New Zealand”.

China doesn’t beg the English world to call it “Zhongguo” and it would be extremely strange to do so.

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@Economissive It’s the closest to “New Zealand” you can get in mandarin (niu is pronounced like “new” with a slight accent and “xilan” is like that because there’s no z in mandarin nor d at the end of words)

But you’re just being deliberately dense atp so who cares. W ragebait tbh

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@Economissive “New Zealand” in Chinese is either “新西兰” (“new” in mandarin + “xilan” which is “Zealand” transliterated) or “纽西兰” which is “niu xilan” or “New Zealand” as a whole transliterated.

Dumbass

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@Economissive Yeah not my fault our economy is garbage so I moved to Australia for uni dumbass

Still doesn’t change the fact that I love New Zealand and it’s my home. 🇳🇿🇳🇿