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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The United States is potentially withdrawing from Ukraine. If that happens, it will end up like Afghanistan. Fighting dictatorship is the new fighting terror.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

There is already a free speech platform called Gab Social, which follows America's 1st amendment. How could a fool like Liz Truss pretend to care about free speech, when people in her country routinely get the police at their door for posting memes? I'm so sick of free speech being nothing more than a trend or a buzzword used by rich people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The only acceptable position regarding Ukraine, is to pull the wool over New Zealanders' eyes. Russian aggression, blah blah, precision missile strikes on playgrounds and children's hospitals, brutal, unprovoked war. Blah blah. Now Rubio says that the US will pull out of Ukraine within a matter of days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, is this the guy that got caught making minor wording edits to articles about Russia’s war on Ukraine to make them more Russia friendly?

All the articles in New Zealand media are already too pro-Ukraine. Last month The Press had two pro-Ukraine articles, one by the Ukrainian ambassador, and another by Kate Turska (Mahi For Ukraine). According to RNZ, talking about colour-revolutions is pro-Russian. I call it pro-reality. The CIA and USAID are always up to no good in former soviet states.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe house prices dropped but my rent keeps going up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My rent went up under labour.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Neither of them has a credible plan to end the 10+ years of housing crisis that New Zealanders have suffered.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The way I read long and complicated threads is by going down one conversation, then collapsing that last comment at the end of it, and making my way back up the chain, collapsing “parent” comments if they have no uncollapsed “children”, and reading “sibling” comments and replies to those as I go up to the original “root” comment.

That's it, I didn't even realise there's a collapse button lol. Until now I just saw a lot of coloured lines that I thought I had to follow. I suppose it's simple enough to follow things here if I collapse threads, or if I read threads before they get dozens of replies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

No, but so far it’s your sole redeeming characteristic.

At least I'm not sarcastically criticising people, while holding no position of my own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

So you need to get yourself into a party. But you can’t just rock up to your party of choices offices and have them put your name next to their logo in the next election.

Just wait another 10 years for Megan Woods to resign and they will open a new position lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

According to my friend Vince McLeod, smoking weed and eating mushrooms is a sacred religious rite that dates back thousands of years. The government is wrong to leave it up to pharmaceutical companies to regulate this issue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because people wouldn’t vote for me.

Where are you based, and do you care about local council issues? You can at least start with community board.

 

It would be nice if everyone would use tags or brief quotations, so I can see who is replying to who.

Modern forums are confusing my old brain because I'm used to the old BB code and old style of forum navigation, but a lot of things have changed in Lemmy, and also with proprietary forums used by large companies.

Sometimes I forget how to use features. I'm no better than a boomer who needs constant reminders on how to hold a mouse.

I think some people either don't care or they simply forget that you can highlight text with the mouse and then click "reply" to make a quotation. Maybe they are using a phone and it's too difficult to do this.

 

Analysis: China has been accused of being provocative by sending warships into the Tasman Sea, but on the other hand, New Zealand plays its part in US moves that provoke Beijing.

I admit there has been good coverage of these issues in our media lately, but I'm still concerned that the media and government will stab us in the back, increase military funding, and bring up the idea of a draft. After seeing Ukrainian men beaten and thrown into vans to be taken to their deaths, I'm not enthusiastic about NZ becoming the Ukraine of the Pacific.

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