I cared less about this story and more about the attention that it generated. New Zealand has an extremely feminine culture, we care too much about people and what they do, what they look like, or how they are coping emotionally. The story only serves as a distraction from numerous failures which Parliament is responsible for, and seeks to humanise a group of people (Members of Parliament) that are largely predatory and corrupt.

When I was a gullible teenager I would have sided with the WWF, but since I'm an adult now, I realise it's a lobby group with an agenda, and they are just fear-mongering.

Some of the recent climate change articles are getting rather nutty. They are talking about BBQ and gas cooking as if it was a bad thing, and in an article about housing, one author claimed that climate change would alter the housing market, by destroying houses in floods. They cannot go five minutes without injecting their climate change theory into everything.

I'd agree to teach programming and maths for the minimum wage if they'd let me, but there's probably some BS requirement like needing a degree or having to pass a police check. The only thing I've done wrong is have the wrong thoughts about the government, that's not even a criminal record. They only want brain-dead degree wielders to teach. If you have any anti-government views and don't have a degree, might as well stay on the benefit. They don't like people who engage in wrong-think, even if it's in their own time. The failed education system is by design, and only a fool would think that Luxon and/or more funding will fix it. The education system is rotten to the core. It needs a complete re-work.

Yeah maybe VB isn't so bad, it was the lack of inspiration from teachers and lack of role models and advice that ruined it for me.

You couldn't make me go there just for the money. No way am I going to study 3 years just to become a teacher, when I can teach in a world class city like Moscow with only a minor qualification that takes 1 month to get.

Read the Fight Club book if you haven't.

That last part is the real deal here. Somewhere I have an old screen-shot from Trade Me Forum where a guy said he quit teaching because they basically thought he was a pedo or something like that. As a male, you can't dare be too friendly or jokey with any student, male or female, or you'll have to go through some sexual predator prevention programme or something. It will only get worse, and eventually they will roll out this "woke" training nonsense into every profession. Women control all the cosy office jobs and it's always women in HR who push the anti-male crap.

I just looked for work on Seek and Trade Me and there's maybe 2 jobs suitable for me, assuming the hours are reasonable. I'd rather die in a ditch in Ukraine than live in a backwater country like NZ. Nobody should pretend we are first world. Look at the poverty here, and the downtrodden fools who work in supermarkets, hardware stores and distribution centres. Being a wigger, acting tough and boasting about made up stories makes you top dog in some industries. NZ is a backwater country and it will never develop into anything that resembles a decent country. In 10 years from now I'll still be complaining about crappy over-priced rental bedrooms, and jobs that chew through staff every month.

I dropped out on my 16th birthday and I never completed level 1 NCEA. I asked to do a programming class and showed them a program I had written, but all they could offer me was Microsoft Visual Basic. Which, from my understanding, is stuff like putting a button on the screen, clicking it, and making it say "button clicked" (that was year 12's programme for 16-17 year olds, but it's probably more suited to a 10 year old's level). I wanted to learn pre-uni stuff like 'c' and c++ but they didn't teach that. I don't think they even taught Python.

The male teacher who I talked to on this matter was really boring and uninspiring. I didn't see how any of my classes would help me with my plans. The principal and secretary of the school kept on dragging me and my divorced parents into meetings because I was bogging down the school's stats. They really are just a bunch of useless paper pushers.

I'd like to volunteer to help primary school children or speak in high school assemblies, but it's impossible to do this, because the government-owned schools don't give a crap about what's good for people. Once I tried to sign up for Big Brothers Big Sisters, but the reference checks were impossible for me to pass. I think they wanted 3 people who had known me for 5+ years and it couldn't be my best mate or family lol. Nobody has really known me closely for 5+ years because I've never held a full time job for 12 months. Like the wojak/doomer meme I'm mostly invisible in this society.

The government won't fix this. What radical change to education could they possibly make? They can tweak a bit of administration, but the rotten core of the education system will remain.

There won't be any significant change, and they will become bigger spenders than Labour when it comes to prisons. Supposedly the prison system is at maximum capacity and it's just not popular to build more prisons (even though we should). I'd be in favour of National if their policy included building something like the Black Dolphin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dolphin_Prison) but then having normal prisons for people who commit minor offenses, like swearing on the phone or not paying their parking fines.

As far as I'm concerned Luxon is just a twink who takes it up the can. He's not the far-right over-zealous Christian bigot that Reddit says he is. He's not going to make any significant changes - and his policies will cost the tax payer more. How many prisons will they need to build to keep people locked up? This is the question that nobody is asking. What is the cost to the tax payer? And what will they do as an incentive to not ram raid, not join gangs and not commit crime? The minimum wage isn't enough to live on. If I suddenly have to buy a new car I'll have to ask my folks for some money. National and Labour are crap parties and I don't understand why anyone votes for them, they have destroyed the economy, made everything unaffordable.

If you don't go to uni at 17, get a degree by age 20, get into middle management in your 20s, then you'll just never own a new Mazda or a house. Even if you do everything perfectly, at best you can own a small townhouse and have 2 children by the time you're 40. The quality of life keeps going down, even for the upper middle class. We stress out and work hard just for basics. This country is a hellhole.

making it harder for young families to buy in the communities they live and work in

Yay let's all spend $100 a week commuting to work and back.

Looking forward to dying from heatstroke in 50 years time from global warming due to increased and prolonged reliance on fossil fuels.

National will do everything they can to sabotage cheap petrol. The Marsden Point Refinery will never function again, and National supports the Russia Sanctions Act, making sure we never buy petrol from the #2 producer in the world, meanwhile #1 producer (Saudi Arabia) increases the price. India and China will continue using diesel and oil as usual and here in NZ the yuppie elite will drive their Teslas, and using fossil fuels will be a dirty poor people thing. It'll mostly be poor people like me who can't buy a new $15,000 EV with 70 battery health who will be driving petrol cars 5 years from now.

I'll be demonised for my carbon sins.

Luxon says climate change is a fact and it's caused by us, so it's only a matter of time before a fanatical nutjob proposes a ban on natural gas. There is nobody advocating for continued use of fossil fuel, they all want it gone, just a matter of how long.

China will continue to use the Power Of Siberia pipeline and use quantities of gas that we cannot imagine, but kiwis will be told that having a bbq is bad, and driving an LPG forklift is bad. In Christchurch we had very strong winds yesterday and within a few hours of the government alert system pinging our phones, Redditors were speculating that the Nor West wind is proof of climate change.

If people can afford the latest technologies that's great, but I'm poor and I want to continue using fossil fuels especially when my rent is so high. What if it's the weekend and 1 of the other 11 tenants is using the only washing machine and dryer? How do I wash my laundry if I don't have a petrol car to drive to the laundromat? I can't believe the greenies are going on about housing trusts and not taking about ridiculous zoning and regulations that prevent us from having a world class city. I can't cook where I live, I can't do my laundry. The washing machine is constantly breaking and playing up. It'll just lock a person's clothes and not open for 3 days. It's a disaster. So until I have my own apartment with a bike shed and laundry, I'm probably going to need fossil fuels.

You may as well write to ministers and officials, and tell them how poorly they perform, and that their actions have corrupted the country and ruined the lives of countless people.

The real reason not to watch the video is because it's things that we already know, but I appreciate that he's vocal about these issues, while other people are silent or in denial. Solomon owned a games arcade in Timaru, I don't know if he still has it.

BRUH. My replies aren't working, even with the vanilla firefox in Kubuntu. This is weird.

edit: does select language cause replies to fail?

What about Facebook? That's full of crap too.

Don't forget to heckle them and send some hate mail to your local council. I'm doing my part, I hope you're doing yours ;-)

Intel Slava is one of the best channels on there. No anti-vaxx Karens follow it. It is primarily a Russian channel but they report on civil unrest or wars in any country. Israel has already bombed Syrian air fields in this war so keep watch. I don't think Iran wants to get directly involved but one day America will be so weak, Iran could challenge the US and bomb their bases. They already did fire missiles at a US base on a previous occasion but most people forgot. Aircraft carriers aren't safe either.

I'm going to study the language only when I have reliable income to travel, otherwise I learn language, only to forget it, then pay thousands of dollars for more language lessons. Foreigners don't need fluency in Russian language to teach English in a high school, just need to be good enough. I'm not sure how to define fluency, but obviously it's impossible to pass certification if I don't know any grammar, for example.

What's the minimum age to get into Parliament, and how many candidates are under 35 years old? Born in, let's say, 1987 or after? I'll consider voting again but only if there are more candidates under 35.

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if they don't pass emergency housing laws IMMEDIATELY then I'm not remotely interested in voting. The housing CRISIS requires emergency regulation, like the anti-terror emergency they rolled out after 2019 when they took everyone's guns. We need the same level or urgency, not less.

Today I was at a bus stop and there was a Labour Party guy handing out some crap about transport costs. As a dole bludger I get $1 bus fares but under National it'll be $2.65. I don't see this as a reason to vote. I handed the flyer back, as soon as I saw it was political, and I told the guy: "I don't like any of these parties".

I'm 32 and I distrust boomers and Gen X that's why I don't vote. These people only enrich themselves. I don't trust older millennials either, if they are 5-10 years older than me they probably have a higher quality of life, therefore they cannot be trusted.

I won't be bribed into voting (transport schemes) and I disagree with National and Labour, who view the country like it's a god damn vending machine. They think everything is about money - insert coins and the country functions. A good country is one that cares about its people. It needs to have pride and patriotism. I'm not proud to be a New Zealander and none of these parties are any good. Regardless of who gets elected, I still want to move overseas and teach English in Moscow.

The Green Party wants housing trusts to build more, but the Greens are weak on de-regulation when it comes to private builds. As a former Act Voter I can't take the Greens seriously (I voted for Act in 2014 but never voted in an election since then). I also can't trust Act because they don't want to de-regulate housing.

The main reason I don't vote, is because I never see Gen Z or millennials doing any housing related activism. Voting every 3 years means nothing if you're not an activist. I can't think of even 1 person in Christchurch who I can rely upon to listen to me and increase support for my views on housing. All these kids do is get sucked into these political movements and political parties. People my own age and younger are turning into my enemy because they side with corrupt political parties, and waste their energy on that sort of crap. They should be helping me with grass-roots stuff, not supporting these disgusting political organisations.

As a vegetarian, how do I know that it isn't made from 70% beef rendings? Cool shop though, they're the only cunts that are open 24-7 meanwhile all other shops close at 9pm or 10pm including supermarkets.

Did anyone here run the Kiwi Kids Marathon? I didn't but my neighbours in the 90s did.

I'm fine with Sanitarium being a charity. Academics and Redditors just hate anything to do with Christianity and want to persecute Christians at every opportunity. Back to the original topic though, Sanitarium made a mistake here. I've thought about buying cereals from The Warehouse but the range is extremely limited, Sanitarium should definitely keep selling WeetBix to The Warehouse, I'm sure many families benefit from it.

hahaha get in there ya dirty basterd :P

The guy who made telegram is dodgy af. I have no idea what he's up to, but Russia's ministry of defence is on there, officially.

I love the russian propaganda, but I don't approve of boomers ranting about the whole trans-gender thing. It's too cringe for me, especially when we have problems like housing. I've definitely seen that hum of spam on certain issues. It's designed to appeal to boomers and fools. The anti-vaccine and anti-WEF is totally a state sponsored operation, it's about undermining trust in institutions on the long-term.

I'm against the NZ government and I'm against the so-called "intelligence community" too.

Houses in the middle of nowhere will be cheaper, but most jobs don't exist out there so I think main centres are a good way to analyse it. I've seen Vince say something about Jews maybe once. He is a intelligent guy but sometimes his views are a bit um, off the cuff. I watched a video of his where he describes New Zealanders as being "autistic" supposedly because they can't socialise well without alcohol. I laughed pretty hard. It was such a random opinion, somewhat true but still felt like it was heavy opinionated.

I don't think the protest movements fit on a political spectrum of any sort. They're just angry about things and much of it is justified, I think the government should listen to their views on vaccination. The only term that I identify with is pro-russian. The United States is basically a fascist country which hides behind a rainbow flag, but now I'm being as hyperbolic as Rangi HA-HA-HA. As far as I'm concerned, people like Valerie Morse are fascists and authoritarians. They stand with NATO and Ukraine and have no problem with missiles and artillery shells being sent to Ukraine, despite the same Peace Action group protesting against arms companies. I can't wait for the rules based order to fizzle into irrelevancy.

The word 'globalist' was popularised by Alex Jones maybe 12 or 15 years ago. I don't believe that all these middle age women at the protests are blaming Jews for the vaccine. If someone posted that suggestion on Counterspin Media, they'd probably be banned. When they say globalists, they really mean it.... Outsides influences corrupting our country such as the U.N. agendas to fight climate change at the expense of good jobs.

I'd have preferred it if they'd just done nothing to be honest. By "doing something" but still changing nothing, it just gives them an excuse to nag for votes again, which they don't deserve.

Nearly all of these things are just tweaks that can be achieved by signing some documents. The country has gone backwards under Labour and it will go backwards under National too. I'm going to wait for boomers to die off before I consider voting in another election. There's no point in voting for parties that will protect landlords and stamp out legislation that will allow for new builds. Which is all of them.

Banned military style semi automatics

They did this to protect themselves not to protect us.

I support them destroying themselves. If their core voters abandon them, that will teach them a lesson. Two years of failure and we're supposed to what... respect them?

Labour shouldn't have run a campaign. They should have let the Green Party take their place. Having Labour run again is just embarrassing.

If the zoning wasn't regulated to benefit existing owners then apartments would be built, plus new townhouses, and these damp decaying places would be $100 a week. If there was an actual housing/rental market (you know, one with real competition, instead of a market that's propped up by government policy) that could work, but I'm not against insulation requirements. If they sent jackboot thugs to inspect homes and threatened to shut them down if landlords didn't comply, I'd fully support it.

National said in the news this morning that we need to fix the COL crisis, because now people are stealing FOOD from supermarkets and abusing staff, and it doesn't get reported to Police because it happens so often. When Jacinda was debating this a few years ago, National said that people were only stealing electronics and tobacco (not food). We are living in a Bizarro World comic right now when things Labour claimed a few years ago are now real.

...Thanks National and Labour

Also, state housing normally means they have the house to themselves. I'm not in a state house or owning, I'm stuck in a crowded boarding house with 10 other people. The group that I'm in always has the lowest satisfaction, I'll bet. Everyone is complaining about each other constantly, that's also how we make friends, by removed constantly about "the indians" who never stop talking loudly, and complaining about the Chinese landlord ripping us off. I'd rather have a stable house that I don't share with others, like an apartment. NZ lives in the past. Can't believe we don't have apartments in the suburbs of christchurch yet..........

What? I thought it was either YouTube Music on its own, or YouTube Music + ad free. I never saw a lite version.

I wonder if they'll threaten to make mass urine tests compulsory. Remember that one back in 2012? They never did it. It was just propaganda for their most loyal constituents.

I've been in and out of work for the past decade regardless of who is elected, so it's definitely not a Labour Party problem. I'm stuck working shit distribution centre and warehousing jobs that I hate. I can never meet the required KPI so I get the hint and I resign. Having monthly performance reviews for a blue collar job is infuriating. I'm finally trying to exit the mess and re-train.

I would like to get CELTA at some point and just leave NZ for several years. Nothing will get better here. In school I wanted to study c++ programming but they just taught Microsoft Visual Basic, which is like, putting a button on the screen and clicking it, to make it say "the button is clicked". Imagine where I'd be today if we didn't have a third world education system and hopeless career advisors, which btw will exist under both National and Labour. I wish the Chinese would fire a missile and turn the Beehive into a crater.

I'm going to appointments to find a suitable job or certificate.