No, Labour should ignore Luxon, talk about Seymour as finance minister if National were ever to form a government, and refer to him, not Luxon, as the leader of the opposition. The Greens should work out who the weakest and dumbest ACT MPs are, what ideas ...
Besides any of the above, you've got a lovely straw man there with your claim that people are pretending it's the only way. It's just a model that has been tried and deemed effective.
Nobody is arguing against Transgender peoples rights here. True, but the vast majority of prominent posts and comments on here proceed from the assumption that there is an enormous repressive apparatus lobbying for them, and presents an argument against ...
"Push back" is at once a vague and a loaded term, though. When one looks over the way gender is dicussed here, with the mischaracterisation of a Media Council ruling just below, and the general tendency to throw all manner of, at best, tenuously related ...
That description seems equally consistent with the system working, though; someone goes over their issues with a psychologist, and decides against a transition; there is some follow-up to ascertain whether the decision was reached in an appropriate manner....
IMO, Labour seems to have the simple goal of clinging to power by any means, no matter what damage is done to democracy. What have they done to damage democracy as a means of clinging to power?
I keep seeing gentitalia and not gentailer. Actual genitalia, or just the word?
I don't think anybody thinks it will be reduced to just two, but the problem is the reduction in viewpoints, yes.
Twitter, in and of itself, is a bad thing overall. Yes, the element of anybody being able to post their musings to as large a potential audience as anybody else's, regardless of wealth, power or prior prominence, is an improvement in terms of openness over...
The biggest problem with Twitter is that almost any idea (as opposed to reckons and throwaway opinions like this one) that can be expressed in 280 characters or fewer probably isn't worth expressing anyway.
I rather like the look of wind-farms, I must say.
New Zealand has sent billions of dollars to Russia, Iran, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia […] 'Yeah, but what about..., what about..., what about?' Your seeming crusade to educate all the plebs by both-sides-ing or relativising every issue doesn't half result ...
... and Ghahraman is calling for sanctions against Iran, which dovetails quite nicely with that, but doesn't really make it relevant to the topic at hand. It's not Ghahraman's job to put out an official release. I don't understand how you could possibly ...
[…] Gharaman too often fails to sound like she wants to defend New Zealand citizens or New Zealand interests. Does that have anything to do with the topic at hand?
Politicians will always seek out the interviews they think are list favourable to them. I don't think the fact that Tracy Watkins' or Audrey Young's obvious biases preclude their being considered reporters. One needs to filter every account criticality. ...
You missed out the word 'evidentially', and still pretended to be quoting (which wascprobably more sloppiness, rather than dishonesty, especially since the actual statement was directly above to make a mockery of what you wrote). The point wasn't about who...
So anyone who writes opinion pieces is excluded from being deemed a reporter?
[…] he was persuaded to address a public rally in Budapest. Bucharest, surely?
It's the age old conundrum of idealism v reality. Not really. It is perfectly possible for Izzy Cook's ideals to be valid and necessary in a world where fools like du Plessis-Allan are a reality.
Why should we call it anything else? We talk about a head of state, but we aren't referring to a giant head; we speak of the houses of parliament, but we're not referring to where the MPs cook and sleep; we talk of cupboards, but we don't mean boards that ...
You'd actually, seriously prefer decisions on something of that nature to rest in the hands of an unelected dignitary, rather than those of an elected government? I don't think I'll ever understand that sentiment.
neither Victoria nor Elizabeth 11 exercised decision-making power Who is 'Elizabeth 11'? The late queen was the second English monarch to hold the name 'Elizabeth', which means she is usually referred to as 'Elizabeth II', or, if you are intent on using ...
True. However, the date given for Thiel's naturalisation as a US citizen is 1978, when he was 10 years old, and presumably considerably less well-connected than he is nowadays (by the time he was grown up, the ship of 'Beibehaltung' would have well and ...
Yeeeeeeeees (slow clap). I said I could find a couple of references online, and that was one of them. If you looked a bit furter, you'd find similar Wiki-articles, in various language giving him German citizenship until 1978, and US citizenship from then ...
It seems to me that the question invited by your line of enquiry so far is not what the point of PR is (the overarching point is obviously to enshrine a framework of legal rights around somebody's commitment of life and work to a geographical region), but ...
Yours was, in fact, a very narrow discussion. If you want to have a wider discussion about citizenship and what it means, go ahead. However, I think, 'That millionaire Peter Thiel with his thousand passports, and all those Malaysians getting rich off ...
:Facepalm: Peter Thiel, as far as I know, was born to German parents who subsequently emigrated, not to one German and one US citizen. Germany does not, as a rule, allow dual citizenship, and I could find only a couple of vague references to Thiel's ...
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 ...
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