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Once the world is run by robots and Ai, there is very little profit left for the capitalists to extract. Unfortunately we are going to see the rise of fascism in direct proportion to this process.

Are you aware of the term “projection” re read my comments and instead of resorting to ad hominem see if you can construct a coherent response. Climate is a hot button topic used to divide the working class as clearly evidenced by your approach. My …

Yes, I think we “should just shut up”. Climate change is a contentious issue and one that the various parties use to their advantage playing whatever riff to suit their ultimate goal which is power. NZ is a parochial chihuahua yapping away at elephants in …

I think its a little alarmist to predict the main players will exit NZ, in fact I put it happening at zero. Mom and Pop in the sticks… yeah right! Clearly you dont know to much about how the system works. M & P are just as likely to gouge as the big guys …

I am not sure this is well intentioned, its not going to get much beyond the vapourpaper stage. The issue with a government run supermarket within a capitalist system is the supply chain. I can see success only with workers cooperatives from the farm/ …

Now that the OCR us up to save ourselves from higher prices by making prices higher the Crown will increase the amount they pay commercial banks on their balances at RBNZ by another 1.2m per week. Imagine what 60 million a year could do for homeless people …

Judy and Gerry are going under the wall tonight, they are tunneling their way out of oblivion by announcing forward thinking policies like “roads something something and taxes something something”

the implicit racism and self righteousness in this post…..

Great to see fresh thinking, new faces and a vision of 1963 (with a milky eastern light shining upon fogeys both young and old)

See that the bouffanted one formerly from Ohariu-Belmont has recommended crusher. He was always a dark horse that romantic devil

Would it be possible to replace Westminster with with an algorithm run by .. oh, Zuckerberg ? Think of the cost savings, efficiencies, and ‘improvements’ in democratic process.

good point, I always do the Sunday roast with a 12 gauge pump action and throw knives at passing ducks

1.No one is going to win against the Nazi’s with a gun so forget it, actually the people wanted the Nazi’s so your really fucked unless you want to kill all your neighbours. 2. Get real, how much gun crime is there is NZ? Also once these are banned there …

Sure, Adam, journalists “play” people because they’re “hand in glove with government”, but that isn’t an accusation of deliberate dishonesty at all /sarc. Keep telling yourself that. [OAB. One lie I might have let slip. But when you’ve come back in and …

Oh I agree: making one’s mind up about things on day one, with limited information and a head full of bias, is a mistake. What a good thing no-one here does anything like that /sarc The right accuses journalists of being lügenpresse. It’s a real pity when …