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Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 39m

Sort of. GP visits are not free. And the entire health system has been run into the ground by successive govts

Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 40m

The two people taking a total of $527k salary are a chartered accountant (who works part time, if i'm reading it correctly) and Mike King himself

Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 43m

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Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 44m

@chrishipkins.bsky.social please heed this message. This is why you are just barely ahead instead of trouncing National in the polls.

Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 50m

Loops perfectly, watched the whole thing twice

Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 1h

He got a huge ego boost out of it. He got to be the "Peacemaking President"

Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 1d

Or, you know, the $300 MILLION+ break fee the govt had to pay to cancel the irex ferry build

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Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 1d

Or a defence contractor. I guess they're also soaking in it, just a bit further down. In military grade scuba geae

Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 1d

Wow the FIRST thing this coaltion of chaos did was cancel the pumped hydro scheme that would have stored 5000GWh of excess renewable energy as hydroelectricity in dams. #onetermgovernment #nzpol

Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 1d

Two years since the 2023 election. If you want a really long read, chronologically tracking all the different attacks on nature by the Luxon Govt... well this is it! Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline - Greenpeace Aotearoa

It has been nearly 2 years since the formation of the Luxon-led Government. It has been two years of a war on nature.

www.greenpeace.org

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Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 1d

Of course the law is aiming at the wrong party. Instead of retailers, it needs to ban banks and payment providers from charging retailers transaction fees, or cap them at a certain percentage.

Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 1d

It means the government is contributing $2.5 BILLION LESS to New Zealander's retirement funds.

(Just in case anyone missed it)

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Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 2d

Billionaire owner of new zealand brand Eco Store (now available across the US, thanks to another billionaire) has confirmed this: it becomes an addiction. Not least because becoming a billionaire makes you lonely. Loneliness leads to addiction.

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Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 2d

Groundswell are an astroturf: a pretend grassroots organisation

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Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly. It demands attention, and rewards it by you not dying. Perfect. I find it meditative

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Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 3d

It's not "bizarre" at all. Massive increases in gang membership, drug use and crime are a completely logical conclusion not just from police budget cuts but also the massive increase in poverty and hardship in this country over the past 2 years. #nzpol

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Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 4d

www.instagram.com/reel/DI4lnia... really interesting, someone taking on #taxwealthnotwork from a different angle than @garyseconomics.bsky.social #politics #economics #wealthinequality #nzpol

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Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 5d

youtu.be/h-yjkAXxnMA so accurate. I'm so impressed. #nzpol

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Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 5d

Wow. The left totally took over his marriage /s

Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 6d

For sure. And the US. In case it's not completely clear, I do NOT blame "the Jews" for this. There are MANY Jews speaking out against the current regime of Israel.

Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 6d

Saying the quiet part out loud.

Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 6d

Again, you are oversimplifying religion and ethnicity to suit your simplistic "arabs vs jews" narrative. Arab Jews exist who were born that way and have been that way for tens of generations. You can find them simply by searching for "arab jew", you know, on the internet.

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Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 6d

That's a really interesting reverse logic. Zionism is the belief that a specific religion (Judaism) has a specific homeland (Israel) and anything they do to secure that homeland and remove others from that homeland is justified. It is an extreme and violent belief based on religious scripture.

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Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 7d

Israel is making it clear 2-state is never going to work. And as long as the US protects them from all consequences, they will continue to exterminate Palestinians with increasing impunity. The only solution is giving all citizens full rights. Right now Palestinians are 2nd class citizens.

Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 7d

You are conflating an ethnicity with a religion. Arabs are multiple religions: islam, christianity and jew. There is ethnicity to Judaism yes, but you are VASTLY oversimplifying things by saying they are two distinct groups. They are not. You do yourself a disservice.

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Amped Up @ampedup.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for letting me know you didn't even watch the video and understand the circumstances under which he was thrown out of Iraq, like many other arab jews.

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