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May 11, 2023 9 tweets 4 min read Read on X
There's been a lot of kerfuffle about this lately with some dishonest Kiwis showing their lack of understanding or willfully misrepresenting what is happening.

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Normally, every one of us gets one vote for a governing body, be that a central government, local government, business, sports club, etc.

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This gets a bit complicated when one person is represented by multiple governments. The most obvious example is a Kiwi living in Australia.

We know this is fair and agree with it. After all, New Zealand makes their laws and Australia makes theirs.

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It happens in New Zealand as well. You can vote for our central government (Party and Electorate) and you vote for your local government.

We know this is fair and agree with it. After all, New Zealand makes their laws and Auckland, Wellington, etc. makes theirs.

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It gets a bit trickier though when you own a bach in the Coromandel and a home in Auckland. But not really, because the Thames-Coromandel district makes their laws and the Auckland district makes their laws.

It is fair to be represented by both.

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The problem we have now is there are people in our government, supported by political activists, who thinks that different people should have different voting rights for the SAME governing body. It looks like this.

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That is pretty stink and not the way good Kiwis think. Even worse, these politicians want to do this by skin colour. They did this in a place called South Africa years ago and it was horrible!

This is what many of us Kiwis argue against.

We don't want this discrimination.

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So, don't be confused when some dishonest, #disinformation spreading people try to pretend that the left picture is the same as the right picture.

They're not and now, hopefully, you understand why.

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P.S. I know it looks terrible, but it's fun. If you liked this, there's one on Three Waters here:

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May 31, 2023
A quick primer on what is a racist road sign and what is not as there seems to be accusations of this flying left right and center at the moment.

It seems as if this makes a lot of our "progressive" friends very unhappy.

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I hate the lies from the Labour Bros.

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