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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I'm sort of amazed that bridges has personally destroyed the national party and it has barely been a blip in this thread After a while, what more can be said. Bridges dumb, news at 11.
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redleader posted:declaring an nz artist as "good' or "world-class" is nothing more than a bandaid over the gaping wound of new zealand's inferiority complex on the global stage I think everywhere with sufficient population to support a diverse musical environment probably has amazing bands, and a lot of it has to do with the local culture - people from other cultures just won't get it. The Dunedin sound is less a sound and more an approach, and you don't get it unless you do get it. Most of the bands I listed just won't be gotten by other scenes, and the inverse is true as well.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I'm sort of amazed that bridges has personally destroyed the national party and it has barely been a blip in this thread I think everyone's forgetting that Bridges held the national party steady in the low-mid 40s until like 2 months ago. National's strategy of opposing everything the government says and then having a market research team come up with their policy is normally really effective but it has just failed catastrophically in this context. I don't think anyone else in the party would've done better.
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Ghostlight posted:I wanted to see how long it took before someone mentioned supergroove and it was a lot longer than I expected. Their first album is a classic
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I'm sort of amazed that bridges has personally destroyed the national party and it has barely been a blip in this thread They'll bounce back when they find someone it's possible to like
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I'm sort of amazed that bridges has personally destroyed the national party and it has barely been a blip in this thread It may be quiet itt but it's south Auckland carpark rowdy in the national party!
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I'm so angry at the framing in this article https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/real-estate/121546562/coronavirus-firsthome-buyers-lose-when-tenant-refuses-to-budge
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I'm sort of amazed that bridges has personally destroyed the national party and it has barely been a blip in this thread Don't interrupt them while they make a series of mistakes? While they don't have any winning moves they have enthusiastically pursued defeat. Technically there is a "Winning" move but that would involve thousands, maybe tens of thousands dying. As bad as National is they aren't Republicans. Yet.
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bike tory posted:National's strategy of opposing everything the government says and then having a market research team come up with their policy is normally really effective but it has just failed catastrophically in this context. I don't think anyone else in the party would've done better. A "proper" leader for the Nats likely would have been presenting a united front with the current government on the control measures while also setting themselves up for the "Now we need to get through the second part of this, the economic crisis" stuff for the elections Instead of just screaming and making GBS threads themselves in the corner like Simple Simon
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I'm sort of amazed that bridges has personally destroyed the national party and it has barely been a blip in this thread Bridges makes a fool of himself every time he opens his mouth. Feels like there are only so many ways to call him a moron before questioning whether it's even worth the effort to post it anymore.
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May 18, 2020 23:05
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sometimes you have to just take the party and aim it at the ground as hard as you can so it bounces higher.
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May 18, 2020 23:08
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Yeah ok carry on with the music discussion lol
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:A "proper" leader for the Nats likely would have been presenting a united front with the current government on the control measures while also setting themselves up for the "Now we need to get through the second part of this, the economic crisis" stuff for the elections Yeah, the correct move here is "we are united" with the implication being that you deserve some of the credit for the successful result. Humility and partnership and alliance against a common foe, combined with squeezing out the conspiracy nutters. Instead Simon is setting up the Nats to take the hit for any rebound.
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https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/300015396/im-the-leader-and-im-staying-national-leader-simon-bridges-on-defence-after-poor-poll-result https://youtu.be/4sJY7BTIuPY
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klen dool posted:I'm so angry at the framing in this article https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/real-estate/121546562/coronavirus-firsthome-buyers-lose-when-tenant-refuses-to-budge Imagine the gall of someone living in a home for 16 years and then not wanting to be illegally evicted in the middle of a pandemic
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i expect labour to drop below 50% by the election, because the rona will be a distant memory for most of nz, and people will fall back to the old National Are Good Economic Leaders trope
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/300015396/im-the-leader-and-im-staying-national-leader-simon-bridges-on-defence-after-poor-poll-result Simon Bridges, age eight
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redleader posted:i expect labour to drop below 50% by the election, because the rona will be a distant memory for most of nz, and people will fall back to the old National Are Good Economic Leaders trope One poll by itself doesn't mean much, no. A 25 point swing is massive though, and there have been many polls showing an enormous majority in favour of the steps that have been taken.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:One poll by itself doesn't mean much, no. Including this very same poll:  Simon’s very first response to the lockdown announcement, was the most prime ministerial I’ve ever heard him. He stood behind the government, ready to work with them, spoke of community and working together, he even sounded different, like he turned down the thick kiwi everyman accent he’s mocked for. I literally said out loud “wow Simon!”. Then he said something stupid how he’d magnanimously decided to suspend their election campaign and it was back to business as usual.
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gently caress, I said enormous majority because I thought it was around 80% but couldn't remember exactly Turns out I was way low
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Turns out even if we include the entire population as voters, more people have been tested for Covid than want Simon as PM.
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I still think it's funny people think that's actually how Bridges speaks, and not a bullshit affectation to make him seem more like a "typical kiwi"
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/300015396/im-the-leader-and-im-staying-national-leader-simon-bridges-on-defence-after-poor-poll-result quote:Bridges said the Government had no plan for jobs and economic growth.
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klen dool posted:I'm so angry at the framing in this article https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/real-estate/121546562/coronavirus-firsthome-buyers-lose-when-tenant-refuses-to-budge my favorite line is "he has decided to stay and exploit his rights"
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:I still think it's funny people think that's actually how Bridges speaks, and not a bullshit affectation to make him seem more like a "typical kiwi" gently caress, it's the only way that accent could be any stupider 
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:I still think it's funny people think that's actually how Bridges speaks, and not a bullshit affectation to make him seem more like a "typical kiwi" To be fair, I don't think I'd ever heard him speak before he assumed power. Well, assumed opposition.
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I only remember his meltdown on Campbell Live way back when.
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ledge posted:Also, "the Dunedin sound" doesn't actually exist, this is a hill I'm willing to die on. The sound of a student barfing over a balcony rail, forever
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:I still think it's funny people think that's actually how Bridges speaks, and not a bullshit affectation to make him seem more like a "typical kiwi" imagine actually putting that accent on deliberately
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Progressive JPEG posted:The sound of a student barfing over a balcony rail, forever A moped with a loose exhaust endlessly crashing into a burned sofa
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Progressive JPEG posted:The sound of a student barfing over a balcony rail, forever I stand corrected.
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Going to capture the ambient sounds of Dunedin into a crystal and sell it to audiophiles for big bucks
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i believe in simon
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NZ Media "why won't the government give us free money to stay around?????" Also NZ media: 
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BARONS CYBER SKULL posted:NZ Media I am guessing they found a government willing to give them money.
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That place that everyobe in NZ says the name of all the time, Chinese Taipei
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