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The Greens can opt for materialism or irrationalism, but they can’t forever attempt to accommodate both.
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Forget ballot stuffing and media bias. That’s surface-level fraud. The real fraud is that New Zealand is full of people who are under no incentive pressure to care about its future.
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Time, I think, to consult a bona fide expert on the topic (and get some value from his $100,000 taxpayer-funded salary).
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The psychological warfare specialist who asked whether a safety-first future made possible by a permanent underclass would be worth living.
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The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… proclaim (verb) - 1a: to declare publicly, typically insistently, proudly, or defiantly and in either speech or writing : announce b: to give outward indication of : show 2: to declare or declare to be solemnly, officially, or formally 3: to praise or glorify openly or publicly : extol