That's a bit too broad a brush. Residency for tax purposes and immigration status are not the same thing. This thread is just continuing in the same handwavy vein as it started, with the brilliant, "That millionaire Peter Thiel with his thousand passports,...
Surely, however, by that reasoning, the only qualification should be the contributions one makes, and citizenship should be utterly irrelevant. I'm not seeing a compelling argument for anything at all regarding citizenship here.
Your lazy ignorance is borne out by the fact that you simply assumed that Thiel had triple citizenship, and launched into some nebulous stuff about some countries not allowing dual citizenship, when one of them was, in fact, one whose citizenship you were ...
There are a couple of references online to Thiel's currently holding German citizenship, but I don't think he does, and it would seriously surprise me, since Germany does not permit dual citizenship, and neither New Zealand nor the US prohibits ...
Honestly, though, who cares? It's not like we need to take any notice of him.
What a crock. What you term wokeness existed perfectly happily while the late queen was alive. It's not an alternative, just something else that happened.
I think it cuts both ways. People who conflate the late queen with values of service, self-sacrifice and dedication seem to ascribe some mystical significance to her, without explaining how it is any different to other instances where those values can be ...
No. Can't be bothered, frankly. My own view comes closest to that of Lprent, in that I have no particular interest in replacing the monarchy, and think that the current constitutional arrangement works perfectly well, but find the attribution of all sorts ...
Given that you misunderstood my first comment, I wonder what use there is in yours.
Sounds more like an argument that she embodied a stiff upper lip. All the stuff about the commodification of all aspects of life, whether public or private, I can easily subscribe to. I'm still of the opinion that it has bugger all of relevance to do with ...
Ironically, you seem to be the first person on this thread to exhibit the traits you criticise with such exaggerated zeal.
No, it's more because I don't really see how the late Queen has much of relevance to do with that.
As a millenial, I feel I don't speak, or even really recognise, the language of this article.
[...] the anti-maskers are driven by misogyny [...]. Could well be, but I don't think it's as easy a conclusion as that, since the same sentiments are to be found in parts of the world with no comparable figure to Jacinda Ardern.
Exactly. Anti-monarchists, LGBT activists, elderly white people, Maori and all that sort of type need to know their place. After all, anything you label as woke is automatically exactly the same as anything else you label as woke.
Considering that mask-wearing to prevent the community spread of disease is a long-established practice in East Asia, one that, in Western society, was consistently derided as an illogical and unproven cleanliness fetishism until someone actually bothered ...
Indeed. It is logically inconsistent for them to advocate for the freedom not to wear a mask, the exercising of which demonstrably causes direct harm, while also advocating for curtailing the freedom to sport a gang patch, a practice that causes no direct ...
I'm reminded of Oscar Wilde's observation on fox hunting.
A bit like France, really.
Still not getting it, I see. 'Where we were in France' indeed. You spend a bit of time somewhere outside New Zealand and come back an expert on the entire world. Just because there may be places that operate that way (and have been since the beginning of ...
Bullshit. Here in Germany, they are still compulsory on all public transport, and that is observed apart from the occasional dickhead who considers themself exceptional for whatever reason. I have seen people kicked off trams, and told that they could ...
The decision seems pretty spot on (and rather obvious) to me. How can you argue that a term is inherently offensive, when it's being used affirmatively by those whom it is presumed to demean? The police would have to mount a much better case than, 'Look......
Olaf Schulz is putting EU65 billion in price supports for consumers to help them through this. Olaf Scholz.
Personally? It pointed to a situation relating to an entire class of people, which your post happened to raise. Nothing personal about that. Why are you so touchy?
Your head is the point just below where my comment whizzed by, I think you'll find...
[...] the PR handling of this as well as the riming have been disastrous. Two 'm's, I think you'll find...
Oops, bad use of the edit. My statement was that it is 'walk into the room', meaning that that is what it must be in this case, not that the only possible preposition when describing the action of walking with respect to one's relationship to a room is ...
The only way that your statement can possibly apply would be if I didn't want to know what Ad means by "come".
It's "into the room".
I don't know; Lockwood Smith isn't too low a bar to set.
It's 'arseholes'. A. R. S. E. H. O. L. E. S.
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