Crane Fist posted:

The right thrives in the status quo so doing nothing is a win for them every time

redleader posted:

op does a disservice to the purechaotic neutral force that is winnie tbh

i say swears online posted:

at just after two minutes did i see this dude essentially call that goldsmith guy pocahontas by giving him a maori first name? i can't quite tell because of the accent. lol new zealand racists

Atrocious Joe posted:

so do the socialists in New Zealand support the Greens. what about the trade unions.

quote:

Rocket Lab’s new board member headed the CIA’s venture capital firm and is a proponent of deploying high-powered laser weapons in space.

Michael D. Griffin, who was until recently an Under-Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, was welcomed onto the board of the aerospace and small satellite company in August.

The 70-year-old aerospace engineer and physicist has had a colourful, glittering and at times controversial career in the space industry.

In the 1980s he held a senior role in then-president Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative ballistic missile defence programme, and later headed NASA.

Griffin has been characterised as a hawkish advocate of American military supremacy and supports the development of hypersonic missiles and directed energy systems, including high-powered space laser weapons for ballistic missile defence.

Algund Eenboom posted:

Good news exmarx theyre combining your favorite things, the cia and outer space https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300102583/rocket-labs-new-hire-has-roots-in-the-cia-laser-weapons-and-space-militarisation

bike tory posted:

angry white wing dudes

bike tory posted:

lol doesn't surprise me, rocket lab is full of angry white wing dudes and the founder is a personal friend of a bunch of National party MPs (current and former)

quote:

Needless to say, the idea of the Government giving people money for free was quite attractive to poor people (and especially farmers) during the Great Depression, and the movement became popular in Canada, Australia and New Zealand – winning seats in various Canadian legislatures and contributing to the 1935 Labour victory in New Zealand. After the first flush of success, Social Credit won seats in Quebec, British Columbia, New Zealand and the Solomon Islands in later generations. Policy-wise, parts of it were actually implemented by Labour in New Zealand when they used ultra-low-interest loans from the Reserve Bank to build thousands of state houses.
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However, those who stayed with Douglas in this period were generally not the ones who remained active in politics, because Douglas had already ordered his followers to give up on electoral politics in 1934, encouraging them instead to circulate petitions to press existing Governments to change the monetary system. These did not work, and the continuing Social Credit parties became dominated by either the non-conspiratorial Right (in Western Canada) or the Left (in New Zealand from the 1970s) who rejected late-period Douglas pronouncements. In power, the party in British Columbia and Alberta abandoned the monetary reform ideology, largely because it wasn’t achievable on the provincial level.

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Elsewhere in the post-colonial world, Australia plays host to a few Christian parties. The country’s large Catholic population once formed the backbone of the Democratic Labor Party, but the Protestants got their own back with the rise of Family First in the 2000s, while the Christian Democratic Party of Congregational pastor Fred Nile has been in the New South Wales upper house since the days of the Apostles. Similar efforts in New Zealand have been less successful, although there has been a nice cross-section of the Protestant Democrat typology: Christian Heritage was an SGP-style fundie Calvinist effort; United Future was a rootless, occasionally progressive, attempt at a CDU analogue reminiscent of the Scandinavian Christian Democrats; Destiny was a megachurch project like many of the South American parties; and the New Conservative Party, like most of the small Protestant parties in Western Europe, is boringly fixated on sex.

Maximo Roboto posted:

"Protestant Democracy"

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

the dude who did that awesome work got two years jail for that.

the punch I mean

Xik posted:

chloe for supreme leader

Licarn posted:

National tried to claim the mistake was caused by Labour changing how much the super fund was being paid

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

the dude who did that awesome work got two years jail for that.

the punch I mean

Doctor Jeep posted:

2 years in jail for a couple of punches? I'm not endorsing violence but come on, that's too much.

exmarx posted:

there's meant to be a new poll in the lead up to the first debate tonight. i'll post a link if someone else doesn't first, not sure if the amerikkkans etc will be able to watch though.

Vagabundo posted: