Roger Armstrong

No flags, no pronouns,

[Roger Armstrong @SumnerRog]

@evakiwi @MakisMedicine You can’t get ivermectin in NZ unless you find a risk taking doctor willing to put registration on the line, they even somehow stopped the pure ivermectin horse paste. These bots advocating for offshore site are spam, will likely be stopped at the border.

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@MarkHubbard33 @kaiviti_cam @SimeonBrownMP I (and many others — including you maybe?) have been splitting our vote for decades, tossing an otherwise useless electorate vote to National. It’s ironic that National has already been a beneficiary of this strategy, just no one talked about it.

[Roger Armstrong @SumnerRog]

@2ETEKA The irony is that me and many others have been using the split vote strategy for many elections by gifting our electorate vote to national because we know voting for NZF/ACT in an electorate vote is wasted. National has been a huge beneficiary of split voting historically.

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@MHReddell Mainly overseas investment, which is about land and houses I presume.

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90% of what is made is exported. All profits flow overseas. There is no benefit to NZ at all from protecting the smelter unless you assume losing that 10% local market and exporting the production would “break” the smelter (it won’t). Cheaper aluminium for industry etc is the prize worth taking.

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@Persephone_rise I’m red green colour blind!

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@CraigNorenbergs @wallabies @AllBlacks Thanks for visiting, hope you do better in Sydney with a close loss! (I barrack for you against anyone but the All Blacks)

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@gaye_ess There are many of us that are tossing up between voting Act and NZF. Some of your populist measures will win you votes, probably of previous National voters, but the cost is you loss some of us. It’s a difficult choice, please don’t call us stupid.

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Agree with all, plus income/asset test super (pitch forks incoming) and most importantly reduce the size and reach of the government by reducing public sector departments/employment (plus number mps) and reducing regulations, government interference in our lives. And education at all levels needs a huge rethink.

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@AtelierMissor_ Who paid for it

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@bensmithrugby Proved beyond all doubt Erasmus has no respect for rules of the game and will pressure officials mega hard to get own way.

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But why is it a legal requirement to enroll? The USA seems to survive without such a requirement. Not enrolling doesn’t hurt anyone so why is it a crime? If COVID madness taught me anything it is that more civil disobedience can be a good thing. We are too compliant in this country.

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@DPWorldTour I was just here waiting for foxy!

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@HopeRising19 My doctor refused to fill out my harm report, told me I could do it myself if I wanted.

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I don’t know about the new measure but most productivity estimates don’t properly take into account the negative drag of low quality government employment expansion (internet monitoring, managing hugely complex tax rules etc). Ie they estimate some value to the public sector’s output when I think there is virtually none outside of health/education . exports divided by employment/population is a more interesting index.

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@MHReddell When you add the extra sick pay and public holidays the cost per day of employing a minimum wage worker increased 50% under 6 years of labour. One of the main reasons our economy remains moribund at a time of great terms of trade and why a restaurant breakfast is $25.

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@TheConsultant18 My preference would be to ban the ideology but at the least all mosque sermons should be recorded, do the same for Christian churches for “balance”.

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@aniobrien @andrewdoyle_com @TitaniaMcGrath Titania would have been at the lgbt for Palestine march.

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@AuthorGFAllen Any huma heart, william Boyd, the hearts invisible furies , john Borne, the world according to garp, john irving(until he lost “it”)

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The biggest problem is that the incentives are misaligned. If a team gets away with this in front of the goal line they get a penalty try and in many cases a yellow for the opposition. If the ref realises something is wrong, but can’t quite work it out it’s a reset, if the ref works out it is cheating then the other team gets a penalty. This really incentives a team to cheat. The only answer is to yellow card a team that cheats in this way in this position.