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It’s nowhere near as bad here in NZ
Oh absolutely not. It's a much smaller population and being an island it's got a figurative and literal buffer to the rest of the world.
I have always loved New Zealand. It's like the cooler uncle of Australia minus all the spiders the size of my head.
And it's just a beautiful place. Makes me wanna go frolicking in the mountains with an elf, dwarf and old white guy lol
Just because an island has a smaller population doesn't make it any more or less predisposed to egalitarianism, nor do large populations have to be predisposed to authoritarianism.
....I never said either of those things?
"It’s a much smaller population" literally your second sentence, or do you not comprehend your own writing? Why is their smaller population relevant?
I should have been more clear. I never said the words "egalitarianism" or "authoritarianism".
That would be those "either" of the things I was referring to me having not said.
Smaller population simply means each person's vote counts for more. Easier for small groups to have an effect when they only need to reach a smaller number of potential voters.
EDIT: spelling
I never said the politics were the same as my country.
And many countries are currently in the middle of or already have elected right wing leaders. Not really propaganda when it's verifiably a fact.
The world’s billionaires are heading back to NZ
Enjoy paradise while it lasts.
These billionaires aren't going to pillage NZ.
It won't be like last time
You might have misunderstood me.
Billionaires aren't going to NZ to sell subscriptions or strip mine the wilderness. They've already done that elsewhere.
They're going to NZ to live out the coming apocalypse in a mansion with servants.
They're going to demolish nature preserves to build mega-mansions and juice up the police force to press gang local indigenous people.
Just like they've done everywhere else.
Billionaires want to exploit people and places but they don't want to live in an exploited place with exploited people.
As in don't shit where you eat.
Ultimately I think billionaires wanting to spend their billions in NZ is a good thing for NZ.
The Moss Landing Lithium Plant fire is right in the middle of California's largest vegetable producing county.
That's food going straight onto the plates of any number of Silicon Valley executives.