Sadly all too relatable right now.

Supposedly it costs $13 USD to produce a five-day course of medication, but it’s sold to governments at disgusting prices because they can get away with it. It wouldn’t be capitalism if useful medicine was easily accessible, would it?

Why not? Makes life a little more interesting.

“You shall improve our grades or we will kill and rape you” sure is an argument.

To be fair with such a small sample size, I guess a perfectly proportionate representation of NZ (besides push/pull factors for lemmy) can’t be expected.

While I believe private business has its use, this is a refreshing take to see. I’m sick of the constant idolisation of small business owners.

Hope that extra $10 a week was worth it!

We can’t let these fascists overtake society.

At this point they should just campaign on cancelling Christmas and kicking puppies.

I seriously think that if we want any hope of getting out of the mess we currently are in we need stronger local communities - co-housing could be a very real way to enable that.

Our debt is also fairly low compared to many countries. The hysteria around irresponsible govt spending is hot air.

I think all western countries are going the same way, just to different degrees. We’re quite far away so it takes longer for that crap to reach us but it is festering.

Mm. I’ve been disengaging from the drama in the past week or so and have felt much better. I won’t let the ghouls ruin my spring.

I can’t believe we live in the timeline where people proudly admit they WANT to spread disease. Good thing there’s absolutely no link between covid infection and brain damage!

Fucked up. It’s much more sustainable to rely on locally produced food, but I suppose the show must go on.

No news is good news…

No way. Clearly workers are just too lazy and unmotivated to show up to work.

The subtext is a bit hostile. It immediately jumps to mentioning the cost to employers and economy (although par for the course for these things), and I’m not quite sure why they brought up quiet quitting. That’s completely unrelated unless if you’re spinning a specific story. I mean, what do you want? Do you want one unproductive employee to show up to work and make everyone else unproductive? Do you want to pretend viruses and pandemics don’t exist? Bizzare.

Oh yeah, I’m referring to centrist voters who are weighing up the pros/cons between a rightwing coalition and a leftwing one - which would in all likelihood include TPM. Of course not all minor party policies can or should appeal to that group, but I can see this pushing more than a few people over to NACT.

Thanks for compiling that detailed list. Don’t forget their thoughts on education - they seem to basically want to privatise public education and only make it “public” in the sense they give children a bit of money to pay for their own schooling. Naturally it doesn’t add up to what is already spent per child. If a child hasn’t lived in this country since they were two years old they’re even worse off, even if they are rightful citizens.

They’re anti-student, too, wanting to remove caps on tertiary fees and gut fees free education. They want to defund Callaghan Innovation which provides internships for students. Those internships go a long way in helping people get jobs in the fields they studied in. Seymour is also anti interest free loans - they’re not campaigning to remove them this year, but it’s enough to put me on edge. This makes me believe they have no regard for the interests of young, skilled New Zealanders who are a flight ticket away from fucking off to Australia.

The end goal of all their policies seems to be to emulate the joke that is the USA. I have issues with this specific policy of TPM but I wouldn’t touch ACT with a 10 foot pole if my life was on the line.

I didn’t mean her. I meant all the other immigrants who wanted to get away from crime in South Africa that is so rampant, those who can afford it end up locking themselves away in mini jails. Barred windows, barbed wire fences, the whole schtick - and even that isn’t necessarily enough.