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Random election thoughts: Opp are gonna suffer the thing NZF suffered where because they are explicitly on the fence they will piss off around 20% of their voters no matter who they choose to put in power and get thrown out in the next elections. That's the ride theyve bought.

Important point: if you cast a valid vote in 2023, you will be able to vote at this election.* If you've moved and haven't updated an address, it might only count as a party vote, but that's the important one. * assuming you aren't in prison, or some other thing that would disqualify you etc.

Flawless victory. The messages are: * really hot people come to our gym * we like it that way and are not going to change anything * if you're weird about it we will put you on blast Wānaka gym hits back at review complaining about womens' clothing rnz.co.nz/news/communi...

Economic narrativium innit www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

There's a very old guy who's still driving one of these (a bit older and shabbier) very slowly around Dunedin

Gonna have to offer Bolonsaro the apartment next to Assad's

it low-key is pretty pathetic how servile many celebrities, artists etc. very willing to take Brave Stances in the westare when it comes to anything that pisses off Beijing.

No they are not in the slightest with the 3 to be built to every 1 sold What it does do is add the Rent to Buy string to the bow in affordable housing while still keeping public housing very much on the agenda

Mao was, in fact, a dictator

Amazing things happen when you even slightly zoom out on a graph to get actual context.

Minor parties 🤣 true! I don't recall who said it but NZ has 2 PMs, 2 and a half if you count Luxon

Sic semper fascistae

Also shows that the last Verian poll was an outlier. Not a trend.

Have you or someone you know been turned away from voting? Newsroom wants to hear from you! newsroom.co.nz/2026/10/27/e...

I’m a West Coast Tasman voter and noticed something interesting about the National Party billboard I pass most often. For weeks it had local candidate Katie Milne alongside Chris Luxon. Last week they replaced with one that just had Katie. Has National realised Luxon is a liability?

If the National party wants to threaten an 81-year old with jail for an amusing response to their campaign lies, we can and should judge them on it at the ballot box www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

This is the most zooshad I've been since someone tweeted that The Rizzler and Baby Gronk were two different people

Nightmare situation for Labour: they need her to form govt www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Sorry, why do we even need to dissect and have a conversation about "it's good to be interested in what happens in the rest of the world?"

do people say this? Coming from a highly literate non western culyure to say the weat imposed literacy is actually a completely unthinkable idea and i say this as an assitant prof of postcolonial studies

Nah fuck this. She did what she did and she gets what she gets. Lie to your party leader about something 100% known to blow up campaigns at such a critical juncture and you should be persona non grata If she wins and takes her seat it will be even more of a shit show

A Catholic Latina might impose Shakira Law.

But the fact is that modern liberal, center-left, and left political movements are *insufficiently* transnationalized — especially when compared to the transnational right. We are *behind* the curve. Our leaders are behind the curve.

From the thread re: @overhang-aonz.bsky.social's post about the probability of electorate seat overhangs. I had already assumed it was the case that the government can't change without Opportunity (IIRC there's only 1 poll that has suggested that's possible). This seems to confirm my assumption.

Remember guys, his dad already pulled a Jan 6, that's why the younger Bolsanaro had to run

Lula is to my left. Magyar is to my right. And I don’t care in the slightest, because they are the candidates of democracy against autocracy.

Lula Goes HARD

The right's line this election is "why should you get to vote if you aren't organised enough to enrol". Next term, if Paul Goldsmith has any say, it'll be, why should you get to vote if you have a conviction. Or aren't a citizen. Or receive a benefit. Or don't own property. Or don't have a job.

lmfao

Also Thiel acknowledging, "maybe we’re going to lose the soft power war," is akin to the captain of the Titanic saying, "maybe this ship will sink," an hour after hitting the iceberg.

Thank you to the driver of this Ford Explorer for making my day.

this is correct