Posts by Shaun Lott
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I was personally really impressed by Peeni Henare talking to Mihingarangi Forbes on Morning Report, mentioning that he has three daughters, and that he hoped they would see this as the 'new normal'. Let's hope he's right.
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What you have all overlooked is how Donald is actually, like, really smart, and none of this will touch him due to his stable genius.
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Hard News: And so it begins ..., in reply to Stewart,
I personally feel that the constitutional crisis started with the Supreme Court vacancy stand-off.
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It was people outside those demographics – largely older New Zealanders – who were disenfranchised when TVNZ 7 shut down.
I would also say younger ones too. The ad-free children's content was instantly missed in our house.
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Hard News: Drugs and human rights, in reply to Joe Wylie,
My initial thought was exactly that: my impression of Paula Bennett is that she is an ambitious party hack who is not that smart, and I doubt she has a tight grasp on what human rights are, how they might differ from the legal rights of a potential suspect etc. Seems like she got a crash course last night?
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Not happening here (I hope!) but of interest...
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There seems to be a certain irony in the apparently decreasing amount of available information about some things in the so-called information age.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to Bart Janssen,
But voter fraud? Even fraud to cast a throwaway vote? Unless you actually were trying to make some political statement in which case you'd have made a thing about it back then.
Yes, exactly this. It turned the narrative of youthful need into one of political game-playing.
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It would seem altogether simpler and safer for people be able to grow their own actual cannabis, no?