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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 3h

I'm with you. Not with them.

Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 5h

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 5h

Luxon apparently likes "sending a clear message" to kids, loungers, scroungers, businesses, unions, teachers, civil servants, investors, etc.
I wonder if he would like to receive this identical very clear message from each of us.

Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 11h

We are approximately twelve months away from America's final war: the struggle over whether America is to become TrumpCorp, MuskCorp, or ThielCorp.
#uspol

Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 1d

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 3d

This government doesn't want to hear Maori voices except as tourist entertainment.

Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 3d

Those lines were spoken by Mark Antony in Julius Caesar. Curious that Willis likens the current situation in Aotearoa to the one where the Roman emperor was about to fall.
Antony and Chloepatra, anyone?

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 4d

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 4d

Can I point out how most of their jokes start out as genuine expressions of intent or opinion which only become "jokes" when the pushback gets serious enough to unsettle them?

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 4d

Winston's hypocrisy is more transparent than his window ever was
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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 4d

A little boy with more beard than brain said what?

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 4d

Winston has spent the last years of his life stoking anger and harvesting grievance and his poor window has merely suffered an outbreak of karma
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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 4d

The most inciteful government NZ has ever seen
#nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 5d

Luxon is the prime counterexample to the adage that eggheads are brainy
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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 6d

Note that he considers himself one of the exceptions who is owed an exceptionally good living by taxpayers...

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 6d

It could hardly be clearer that the NZ government are not focused on governing NZ in the interests of New Zealanders, but in making it more attractive to foreign billionaires
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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 9d

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 9d

What's NZ's energy crisis?
A. Fossil fuel businesses aren't making big enough profits
B. The average consumer can't afford energy prices
C. Terawatts of potential wind and solar power are being wasted
D. Our current energy profile reduces our survival prospects
Luxon believes the answer is A
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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 9d

What does 'embattled' PM Chris Luxon think of the 'plucky Kiwis' kidnapped by Israeli forces in international waters? Is he 'our' Prime Minister or Israel's 'friend'?
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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 10d

Toyota Corolla

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 11d

I thought Twitter was bad but my Facebook feed is being mercilessly pumped full of Charlie Kirk affirmations. None of my friends liked him; nothing I post would suggest I'm anything but a hard-left atheist. Somebody is funding this.

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 12d

It's incredible how many times and how many ways Luxon tries to both-sides the Palestinian issue as a justification for only recognising one side.
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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 12d

"pretty safe"

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