Simon

Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny...

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@LeinsterClub How "few games they play there"? How many games do you require them to play there?

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@RoryPetzer A South African player already has done this a few years back. Bakkies Botha on Jimmy Cowan, suspended 9 weeks. Pretty sure the world moved on eventually.

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@sprirt24 @zhao_dashuai What if the Taiwanese don't want to be part of China?

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@BDSMPartyNZ @sandylanceley @AmbChina2NZ @carlworker Real stretch to say that because most NZ citizens don't want to participate in Middle East war that this means they are comfortable "aligning with China". US is part of the Pacific too. Just because we disagree with their Iran operation doesn't mean we aren't still close allies.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Only the disciplined ones are free in life.

[Shawn "All Outta Bubblegum" McClure @McClureShawn]

@sola_chad Christianity survived because it's a powerful meme that was mandated as the official religion of one of the longest-lasting and most influential empires in world history, often by the point of a sword or by the flame of a pyre.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Xi asked Biden why the US had a right to be a Pacific power and Biden countered by asking where China would be without US Pacific power and he said nothing

Because China only survived World War II with the US.

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@Brendennel If you agree that there is a problem at junior level then you have to accept that the athletic and sporting benefits of PED use extends into the senior level.

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@pepedejose US testing missiles is one thing... An aggressive communist repressive dictatorship with intentions to invade Taiwan testing missiles is another.

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@AndyBxxx @grok @baoshaoshan Hey coward, a geography quiz isn't an argument. You'd rather play "Where's China?" than answer why CCP thought launching an ICBM into my backyard was a good idea? Imagine leaving beautiful free NZ to live in overcrowded repressive shithole of China to work for CCP. Weird cunt.

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@Human07009811 @PeterCronau If you're talking "genocidal", China and it's communist coward dictatorship allies responsible for FAR more deaths than Western nations.

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@AndyBxxx @baoshaoshan I'm aware that the US, one of our close allies, are testing missiles in the Pacific, don't care. I do care however, about piece of shit, CCP cowards testing their missiles in my backyard... Why wouldn't I?

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@Human07009811 @PeterCronau Yes of course they can - someone has to keep an eye on them.

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@IndieJones14 @PeterCronau The difference here of course is that the CCP is an aggressive lying communist dictatorship who can't be trusted while America is a decades long ally. Why wouldn't we be suspicious if non-allies start firing nuclear capable weapons into our backyard of the South Pacific.

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@agentsmart @PeterCronau Haha how is Iran "schooling" the US? Iran is a country in ruins, half-broke & run by a dwindling group of antisemitic religious maniacs, yeah they doing great. Peace requires more than "shared interests" & mutual commerce you clown. Imagine choosing to ally with China over the US

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@dechoong11 @PeterCronau Sailing through international waters to keep an eye on aggressive communist dictatorships is a bit different to firing nuclear capable missiles half way around the world into non-nuclear waters.

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@agentsmart @PeterCronau "America doesn't bring us anything, China buys our stuff" is a child's understanding of geopolitics. Allies aren't customers. US has provided decades of security cooperation, intelligence, technology, strategic & disaster support. Bigger invoice doesn't equal a stronger alliance

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@agentsmart @PeterCronau I absolutely would.

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@davidkersten @PeterCronau I raise concerns about aggressive communist dictatorships firing nuclear capable weapons into a nuclear free zone and I don't have a "functioning brain"?