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Old 19th November 2022, 08:35     #1321
xor
 
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Labour doesn't make the lunches
https://www.labour.org.nz/lunchesinschools

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Kids learn better with a full stomach. That's why we launched our Lunches in Schools programme, which is already providing free and healthy school lunches to thousands of children so they can focus on what's important - learning

Child poverty is a complex issue that's going to take time to fix, but one thing we can do straight away is to make sure kids get at least one decent meal a day.

We have already rolled out our programme to 31 schools, delivering free and healthy lunches to 7,000 children. We’ve deliberately targeted areas that will help inform how to work differently in different contexts – from big urban primary schools to small rural area schools.

By 2021, it’ll be rolled out to 120 schools and 20,000 students.
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Old 19th November 2022, 10:54     #1322
fixed_truth
 
I'm not sure what your angle is on this one, I feel like you're jumping the gun.

The Govt. funds the program & schools can either make the lunches themselves or get them through approved suppliers.

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By August 2022, over 63 million lunches have been delivered in 950 schools and kura to over 220,000 learners.
An isolated example of a meal that didn't look very appetizing is hardly cause to get hysterical.
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Old 19th November 2022, 11:42     #1323
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I'm not sure what your angle is on this one.
Simple, centralised state agencies are not capable helping people who most need the help.

There are plenty of other examples that have been published by the red media over the last year or so where mothers have complained that the school lunches not being fit for purpose. This isn't an isolated example.
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Old 19th November 2022, 12:53     #1324
Lightspeed
 
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"The red media"?!

Looks like xor's another one fallen down the rabbit hole.
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Old 19th November 2022, 17:26     #1325
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... hysterical.
Is that word old enough that it gets a free pass from the anti-misogynist and/or transphobia brigade?

Like - is it past the statute of limitations?
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Old 19th November 2022, 17:29     #1326
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It depends on how disingenuous one is willing to be to make a point.

This whole thread is a great example of how people are willing to chase the most spurious of sources to assure themselves what they believe is true. That their fears are justified.
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Old 19th November 2022, 17:33     #1327
_indigo1
 
Wow that last sentence is like, turtles all the way down.
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Old 19th November 2022, 17:41     #1328
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Old 19th November 2022, 18:00     #1329
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It depends on how disingenuous one is willing to be to make a point.

This whole thread is a great example of how people are willing to chase the most spurious of sources to assure themselves what they believe is true. That their fears are justified.
Referring to this thread:

https://forums.nzgames.com/showthread.php?t=87852
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Old 19th November 2022, 18:08     #1330
_indigo1
 
Yeah me calling out hysteria is a bit OTT in here too.
Was from PC gone mad thread.
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Old 22nd November 2022, 12:11     #1331
Lightspeed
 
Thumbs up

This is a good one:

Property managers to be regulated


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Residential property managers will soon need to be registered, trained, and licensed under new rules unveiled this morning.

...

Woods said complaints about property managers would be dealt with through a new regulatory framework.

Given 42 percent of rentals were looked after by property managers, it was important to have regulations in place given the access they have to homes.

"Sometimes tenants are vulnerable to poor behaviour from residential property managers, especially in a tight rental market. Following our moves to give tenants more protection through the Residential Tenancies Act, we made a manifesto commitment in 2020 to regulate residential property managers."

"This means that like many other professions such as real estate agents, builders and lawyers, they will have conduct and competency standards to abide by and if they don't, they can be held to account."
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Old 22nd November 2022, 13:12     #1332
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Labour's gonna get slaughtered on the voting-age issue. The public overwhelmingly oppose a change.
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Old 22nd November 2022, 13:23     #1333
Lightspeed
 
Which part will they be reamed over?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political...to-pass-ardern
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Old 22nd November 2022, 14:06     #1334
fixed_truth
 
Quite a smart political move. It's never gonna happen without National and so will mean that in they minds of young people they'll associate National as been a backward looking party which will resonate into adulthood.
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Old 22nd November 2022, 17:34     #1335
BoyWonder
 
The discrimination ruling seems a strange launchpad for the campaign to make it 16. Surely it just moves the discrimination by 2 years? Doesn't it imply that there should be no age limit?
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Old 22nd November 2022, 17:43     #1336
fixed_truth
 
It moves the the discrimination by two years as it's unjustified. Afaik it hasn't said that discriminating people under 16 in the context of voting is unjustified.
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Old 22nd November 2022, 19:16     #1337
blynk
 
I assumed it was because under 16, you are a minor and require a guardian.
After 16 you can do whatever you like.

It only captures 2/3rds of people, because 1/3 will first vote when they are 18. And then take into account the small turnout you would have, and it wouldn't be much.
But maybe what they could start to do is have more education in schools around it. Have it part of a life skills curriculum including things like finance/budgeting.
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Old 22nd November 2022, 19:17     #1338
blynk
 
I also believe most argument against them being able to vote could probably be turned around and argued that they apply to the elderly as well.

So if a 16-17 yo can't vote, then neither should a 80+ yo.
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Old 22nd November 2022, 20:35     #1339
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After 16 you can do whatever you like.
Except buy or sell alcohol, be responsible for maintenance jobs, hire a car, book a hotel, have a credit card, get a mortgage, get married without parents permission, sell your body for sex, etc. Generally enter into (or at least be held liable for) any contracts or be trusted to fully understand responsibility.

But yeah, pretty much 16 is like an adult except not. Therefore the electoral system is colonial oppression against our rangatahi.
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Old 23rd November 2022, 14:44     #1340
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I also believe most argument against them being able to vote could probably be turned around and argued that they apply to the elderly as well.

So if a 16-17 yo can't vote, then neither should a 80+ yo.
Not just demented old people, if the antivax, voices for freedom conspiracy crowd can vote then the bar isn't very high.
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Old 23rd November 2022, 17:01     #1341
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I think the lack of experience goes both ways for young voters.
On the one hand they don't have much experience with which to inform their decisions as older folk.

But on the other hand, they don't have as much experience to tribalise them and subvert rational decision making as older folk.

If competence to vote was what you were worried about - be it old, young, antivax/WEF crowd, or mentally challenged (does the former come under this), then a simple fix would be registering to vote require some kind of competency test.

However that would just tank voter turnout even more than it already is, and apart from that, who says your vote doesn't count just because you are less competent than someone else?
That becomes a slippery slope - where do you draw the cutoff? Only smart people can vote?

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Old 24th November 2022, 08:14     #1342
blynk
 
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Except buy or sell alcohol, be responsible for maintenance jobs, hire a car, book a hotel, have a credit card, get a mortgage, get married without parents permission, sell your body for sex, etc. Generally enter into (or at least be held liable for) any contracts or be trusted to fully understand responsibility.

But yeah, pretty much 16 is like an adult except not. Therefore the electoral system is colonial oppression against our rangatahi.
Things you listed restricted for personal safety
Buying alcohol
Selling body for sex
Getting married with out permission
The ability to sign contracts which are binding - includes the mortgage, credit card etc.

Renting a car - well that is probably because the earliest you can get a full licence is 17.5 (with a driving course)

But you can start driving at 16
You can leave school
You become an adult worker
Leave home
Decide on your own medical treatment
Apply for a gun license (although maybe that one should fall into the restricted category)

Your list of can'ts are very different to having the ability to vote in an election.
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Old 24th November 2022, 08:21     #1343
blynk
 
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However that would just tank voter turnout even more than it already is, and apart from that, who says your vote doesn't count just because you are less competent than someone else?
That becomes a slippery slope - where do you draw the cutoff? Only smart people can vote?
Yeah, I have the same view about voting rights for prisoners.
Extreme example.
Prisoners can't vote, then the general population leans more to harsher penalties for crime. Laws change, more people go to prison. populations leans even more to harsher penalties. More laws change, more go to prison....

You then have a society where the littlest thing has a harsh penalty.
You have an extremely safe society though, because 50% of your population are in prison.
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Old 24th November 2022, 11:08     #1344
_indigo1
 
I think prisoners should be able to vote.
I find it grotesque taking away the vote as some sort of punishment - what other reason is there to take it away?

I also find it inconsistent and hypocritical.
Part of the social contract in our society is that to participate in society you follow the laws of society.
If you break those laws, then society imposes limits on your freedom both for punishment and rehabilitation.

Ergo, the reason that your rights are allowed to be violated in that way is because you are giving up some of them as part of the social contract to participate in society. It's a quid pro quo.
It's not something that is being 'forced' on you, it is an agreement you defacto make when you choose to participate in society.
(Just leave out the discussion of how one would choose NOT to for now)

To then turn around and also say, oh, we are also forbidding you to participate in society at the most fundamental level - seems wrong.
They want to enforce the person to be a part of society by holding them accountable to it's laws, whilst simultaneously denying them participation in it.

It's akin to taxation without representation.

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Old 29th November 2022, 23:21     #1345
Ab
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what the actual fuck

The Government will pay $4000 to every small shop and dairy wanting to install fog cannons

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...ime-protection
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Old 30th November 2022, 00:14     #1346
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You'd hope so. The long anticipated wave of shit and misery is here, peaked by a fucking pandemic. Labour is going to need someone who is sharp on their feet if they're going to come out clean.

Well, really, they should anticipate getting fucked, TBH. There should be a cold sweat going around those halls.
Gotta do something in response to the crimewave memes.
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Old 2nd December 2022, 19:46     #1347
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what the actual fuck

The Government will pay $4000 to every small shop and dairy wanting to install fog cannons

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...ime-protection
Bollard, fog cannon installer pulls out of Govt contracts, labels crime fund a 'shambles'

And also Christchurch retailers terrified after Gun City ram raid, call for Govt crime crackdown

Crimewave ... just a meme, OK.
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Old 3rd December 2022, 14:05     #1348
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Maybe someone in Chch can explain the full setup, but how on earth could a gun shop be ramraid with a Mazda Demio, and have guns and ammunition stolen.

Crimewave, crime epidemic or whatever the fuck you would like to call it, surely a fucking gunshop should have some decent fucking security.

Dairy's or jewellery shops fine, maybe they don't have as much. But they are extremely different to a gun shop.
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Old 4th December 2022, 20:08     #1349
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Not displaying a QR code: jail
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/130...d-safety-rules

Raping multiple girls: home detention
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Old 4th December 2022, 20:15     #1350
Lightspeed
 
They repeatedly refused to get any food safety certification. Poor food safety can kill, potentially someone important.

Rape is just rape. It usually only happens to vulnerable people we don't care about.

Why is this about Labour tho?
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Old 5th December 2022, 09:34     #1351
xor
 
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Rape is just rape. It usually only happens to vulnerable people we don't care about.
lol, drink
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Old 5th December 2022, 10:20     #1352
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Old 5th December 2022, 13:24     #1353
xor
 
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"The red media"?!

Looks like xor's another one fallen down the rabbit hole.
Don't think so eh. There's a lack of questions posed to govt heads by main stream media outlets eh

This was quite interesting:
https://www.todayfm.co.nz/home/opini...s-network.html
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Old 5th December 2022, 19:03     #1354
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Posted without comment

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/polit...rger-interview
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Old 6th December 2022, 14:58     #1355
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Jacinda flat-out lying in continuing RNZ TVNZ merger trainwreck

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...ic-merger.html
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Old 6th December 2022, 15:22     #1356
Lightspeed
 
What about?
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Old 6th December 2022, 16:16     #1357
Caesar
 
I know Labour have fucked up a lot of shit but my god I shudder at the thought of a National/Act run Government.
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Old 6th December 2022, 16:50     #1358
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What about?
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PM: having Radio New Zealand collapse doesn't help
It can't collapse. It's 100% State-owned. It doesn't depend on advertising or commercial revenue. The only way it can collapse is if the Government decides to shut it down.

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PM: The listenership is declining. You know that. I know that.
In virtue of being State-owned RNZ has to report its performance, and its last report says

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It's pleasing to see an increase in both RNZ National and digital audience numbers survey on survey.
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Old 6th December 2022, 17:05     #1359
Lightspeed
 
Audience numbers can collapse.

You gotta be so shrill bro?
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Old 6th December 2022, 17:46     #1360
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THAT SOUNDS AWFULLY GENDERED
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