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Comment on To frigate or not to frigate
The USV and OWA strikes on Russia’s Black Sea fleet have occurred in the context of a war being fought in a confined inland sea. The local “if it’s an armoured vehicle it’s a tank, if it’s painted grey it’s a battleship” pacifists and defeatists love …
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Comment on To frigate or not to frigate
This a key overlooked aspect of Swedish defence. The cost of modern weapons and equipment is prohibitive if you buy it all from overseas. If we want to modestly re-arm, it needs to come with a wider industrial policy that includes local production of …
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Comment on War Without Shooting When They Used To Be Allies
“War without shooting” Although I wonder who Mark Carney might think Canada will need those “millions of drones in the next two years” for… https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/carney-says-canada-will-need-millions-of-drones-promises-closer-work-with- …
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Comment on Taxpayers Union hides its funding
Gosh though, who would suspect dark money could be used to commission dodgy polls to help far right, Atlas aligned parties? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86xj5z7x61o
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Comment on Greens launch plan to break up the supermarket duopoly and bring down the price of food
It was an absolute treat to hear that oleaginous twat Wallace Chapman invite Tex Edwards on RNZ last afternoon to discuss the Greens supermarket proposal with a smug expectation that Edwards, who according to Chapman “knows a thing or two about capitalism …
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Comment on Open Mike 07/09/2026
I often quote the public intellectual Vlad Vexler because IMHO he nails the existential crisis of modern liberal democracy, and the failure of the centre to acknowledge let alone address the systemic criss afflicting late state captialism and the …
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Comment on Greens launch plan to break up the supermarket duopoly and bring down the price of food
My favoured soolution is something like this. Effectively a card that can provide a form of universal rationing, with a fixed dollar limit for a range of designated goods. So, for example, for fresh meat up to $20 a week per person would be GST free. Same …
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Comment on Open Mike 07/09/2026
I am so frustrated with Labour. The party appears listless and afficted with a terminal case of enervation. Hipkins is sleepwalking to disaster with the most complacent and gormless display of Starmerist political ineptitude since the era of Forbes and …
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Comment on Labour will guarantee a job for graduate nurses
Yes but what is Hipkins policy on the price of mince?
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Comment on Open Mike 22/08/2026
Hey Hawkes Bay had to play Manawatu last night, and everyone knows that Manawatu is a wretched hive of scum and villianly so spare a thought for those who had to physically interact with them!
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Comment on How To Ensure Power Shifts
“…And how would you trust people to make the ‘right’ choice?..” Isn’t that the whole fucking point of democracy you complete egg?
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Comment on Open Mike 20/08/2026
The white flight Tories of Queenstown need to cut out the middle man and just vote for the Leopard eating your face party directly in November.
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Comment on How To Ensure Power Shifts
The idea that the civil service senior leadership is made up of rational and pragmatic actors eager to serve whoever is there master is a fairy stuff best left to the Opportunity party and it’s political Taylorism. The bottom line is the civil service …
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Comment on Open Mike 17/08/2026
If Kenneth Grahame was a politics journalist.
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Comment on Open Mike 17/08/2026
UBI is a far right idea that for some reason has gained some purchase amongst lanyard class liberals. A UBI in the hands of the right would simply become a voucher system that allows the government to wash it’s hands of it’s obligations. Need healthcare? …
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Comment on Vote Climate
Heat economics in Europe, worth a read – this now, not tomorrow or in a decade or three. https://www.allianz.com/en/economic_research/insights/publications/specials_fmo/260528-heat-economics.html
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Comment on Open Mike 16/08/2026
I have to say that the $146 dollars I spent on a year subscription to the Post has been worth it so far. I don’t agree with a lot of it, but compared to the black propaganda, mendacity, dishonesty and cynicism of the Grennon Herald it’s refreshing honesty …
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Comment on Open Mike 15/08/2026
Oh I totally agree OPP cannot possibly be compared to the DS wing of the Democrats. The point is the same forces are at work here as in the rise of the progressive and socialist candidates in the democrats.
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Comment on Open Mike 15/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed is not a liberal. he is an avowed Democratic Socialist. Liberal these days is no longer a shorthand for left. It nowadays is a kiss of death as a synonym for bankrupt technocratic centrism. El Sayed is another example of that American wonder …
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Comment on Open Mike 15/08/2026
Here is another one blowing up on tiktok, but here it is on youtube. The genius of it all should be obvious to everyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zS_5xu0QIw
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Comment on Open Mike 15/08/2026
A youtube version for you… https://www.youtube.com/shorts/z5yvqauPhWI Check the number of comments. Needless to say he has, to put politely, garnered the attention of a large number of young women.
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Comment on Open Mike 15/08/2026
I look at our colourless, vacuous politicians and cry sometimes. https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSVRjM1NK/
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Comment on Open Mike 14/08/2026
Good lord, Count Binface got 9,455 votes to Nigel Farage’s 22,239! 9,455 people preferred a chap wearing a bin on his head to Farage, who made up a cock and bull story about a security threat to snub the traditional appearance of all the candidates to hear …
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Comment on Open Mike 14/08/2026
Police behaviour is driven by indiscipline in the context of a sense of invulnerability in a febrile right wing media environment dominated by tough on crime rhetoric and politicans who fear of being seen as soft on crime. This has meant the minister of …
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Comment on Open Mike 13/08/2026
If only we had business journalists who are not lobby fodder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVYL37–OBc
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Comment on Open Mike 13/08/2026
Nat loyalist Janet Wilson isn’t taking any prisoners this morning ($$$) https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361061023/national-now-marooned-worst-all-political-worlds “…It’s difficult to deduce who is more inept here; a bumptious, bungling Prime Minister …
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Comment on Will he stay or will he go?
The constant scheming and forming of dark combinations against Luxon has more to do with the factional schisms that rent National prior to Luxon getting the job as leader than his actual person failings. Luxon’s job was to unite the factions behind the …
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Comment on Will he stay or will he go?
Sounds like Chris Penk, who has been playing the loyal Zhukov, has shrugged off his cloak in the anteroom to reveal a loaded AK-47.
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Comment on Open Mike 10/08/2026
A homeless woman foze to death in New Zealand. It astonishs me all these neolibs from Lange to Luxon including Hipkins and Willis and Robertson and all the rest if them somehow believe that they are doing a good job. A homeless person froze to death in New …
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Comment on Open Mike 09/08/2026
A definition of religious fundamentalism. https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/361017809/national-target-debt-surplus-and-government-spending-if-re-elected