BalpeenHammer @ BalpeenHammer @lemmy.nz

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I am not sure light rail is the right answer for a small country like NZ. I think dedicated bus roads and frequent buses are easier and cheaper to put in place and run.

Just on this, it’s extremely hard for unestablished political parties to get established in NZ. I think a thing we constantly need to be conscious of, though, is the possibility of existing established parties being infiltrated and redirected from within.

Sure why not? Anybody can join any party and then work to lobby to change the policies the party supports. That's how democracy works.

OCR isn't only to decrease the borrowing in the economy. It also reduces the money supply therefore propping up the currency.

There are a couple of hard right parties right now but they don't have enough voted to overcome the threshold. They do however have influence to pull National and Act to the right.

I disagree that they are tiny and harmless. They are quite organised both IRL and online and will be a significant factor in getting National elected in the next election.

How much is the petrol or diesel version of the vito?

National isn't going to keep this policy. Their intent is to raise house prices.

People buying properties based on what capital gains they expect to get have always seemed strange to me, at some point the value must stop increasing, and then what?

That's the nature of investment. Whether it be shares or property or art or classic cars or whatever. You invest because you think you will get a return. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

Also this isn't the last pandemic ever nor will it be the worst.

Surely you don't object to mass executions of criminals though.

Most people in this country are too stupid, too racist, too cruel and too venegeful to even listen to somebody say something like this let alone accept it as policy.

They simply want prisoners to be hurt as much as humanly possible. If you told them you were going to torture them by peeling their skin off they would vote for you.

Your first sentence mocks and derides anybody who advocated for rehabilitation and training of prisoners. What a sleazy way to doublespeak.

This is not scientific and is going purely by my memory but I don't recall any small party getting the numbers the polls predicted. It's always lower. People say they are going to vote for smaller parties but when it comes to voting they go for labour or national.

Anybody who says Labour has done absolutely nothing is obviously either profoundly stupid, profoundly and rabidly right wing, or has been living in a deep cave for the entirety of their administration.

My takeaway is that people of NZ are sick and tired of falling house prices, low unemployment, competent management of the economy, stronger unions, competent management of unexpected natural disasters and terrorist attacks etc. They are sick and tired of signing free trade deals with the largest economies in the world.

They are just done with all that want to get rid of anybody who had any part in that.

It's a part of their deception. Keep changing the name so the people get confused and can't hold you accountable.

All their advertisements seem to be aimed at the Chinese market.

Only because there aren't enough protests. If we had more protests and caused more tradies to be late then they would think that way.

How much should we hate people who do road works or bicyclists or people who break down and cause delays. I am presuming you would support beating the shit out of them because you are a tradie and they cost you money and anybody who causes a tradie to lose money should be violently assaulted right?

The whole purpose of protest is to be disruptive. Protests that don't disrupt don't get anything done because you will never hear about it and you won't know about it. Who is going to report a protest that's indistinguishable from everyday life?