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I think I could do a post of the councilors. For example

Sophie Barker is an 'AI posher berk'

and

Carmen Houlahan is a 'lo aura henchman' - she may be a woman but this is the silly transgender season.

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Surprising how close that has labeled them.

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"This man is very poorly suited to hospitality."

LOL

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There has been an update on the Cafe story.

"Council paid cafe $700,000 to close"

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/council-pays-cafe-end-lease

I suspect that they also paid them (and the bar around the corner) to run support for the pro-transgender side (that's Sophie especially but also Carmen and the former Mayor ) in the last local elections. (along with Mandy not mentioned above)

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Dec 13, 2023Liked by Richard Seager

It reads as ‘the path of least resistance’ by the council. Easier to use rate payers money

than to find a creative solution.

Regarding transgender, wait until one of their kids get confronted in the change rooms.

Or better still, Sophie or Carmen I will hear their shrieks over here.

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It's only really just around the corner from Dudley Benson's gaslighting place which has also clearly been the recipient of large amounts of Government and Council largesse.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/03-12-2022/inside-woof-the-little-bar-that-goes-hard

I'm not so sure that this is not some sort of payout to the cafe for being transgender promotors and promotors of local council voting for anybody & everybody, no local address needed.

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Dec 13, 2023Liked by Richard Seager

Interesting insights there. Who knows what goes on behind closed doors.

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Dec 13, 2023Liked by Richard Seager

There are always problems when groups of people are formed.

The council is a group, clubs are groups, meetings between as little as four or five people

can quickly fall into ‘group mode’.

Cliques are formed, some want to control, some think they are superior, some think they know everything, some love the sound of their own voice and have an uninformed opinion on everything. Some have a sense of entitlement and dominate because they know more.

Even in our local park where I live, a group was formed between the dog owners and those who thought the beautiful park belonged to them and should be dog-free. Petitions were formed.

Anyone who took their dog off-leash was reported with an accompanied photo as proof.

The dog owner group organised a petition to go to council The non-dog owners did their own.

Almost a war!

Divisions develop in groups - ‘which side are you on, who do you support?’

Even in the surf, if living in a tourist town, it is the local group, against the tourists.

Gangs are groups. Their power is in the like-minded congregation. Often their issues

are more with each other and they end up killing each other.

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Yes, there seems to be an inbuilt destructiveness somehow. I am not surprised to find this but 'group mode' can anagram to 'due pogrom'. Also

do mp rogue

up me droog - droog is a violent gang member

morgue pod

I find these concerning!

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