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Jun 3, 2023Liked by Richard Seager

"get educated" and show respect... You know, the last time I checked, respect usually has to be earned. Prison gangs tattoo themselves as well, up to and including how many people they've killed, etc. Am I supposed to just blindly have some kind of awe and respect for them as well? I grow weary of narcissists in our society demanding that we look at them and "respect" them when all they have done is put a mark on their body, had their genitalia mutilated, are wearing weird clothes or a wig, are driving a vehicle with an exhaust system that shakes people's homes when they drive by, etc. I respect people who actually are doing something to improve the lives of others and are living a good clean life, etc. Give me a *reason* to respect you and I'll be happy to do so. Otherwise, as far as I'm concerned, you are just another human being on the planet that takes a steaming stinking dump every day just like the rest of us.

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Yes exactly.

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I thought NZers were proud to be cuter than Australians. Ozzies are such boors abroad, who wouldn't want to be. Sex not Six, I was told repeatedly. We're watching Brokenwood series, need a translation half the time.

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I think some of our Auckland boys and girls have it all over the Eastern Seaboard boys and girls of Oz myself, but I guess in general NZrs are a little less likely to be "confident" abroad.

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And have only seen a few episodes of that series. We don't have a functioning TV so i guess that would be the reason. I turned it on for the first time in 5 years about 2 months ago and found out that it is tuned into Australian channels and I wasn't quite sure how to change it.

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May 31, 2023·edited Jun 1, 2023

A separatist and racist Apartheid NZ is Jacinda's legacy( following Key's getting the UN to say the Polynesian boat people early settlers were indigenous to NZ ). Divide and conquer that is what I saw on a controlled op post (saying corona virus is real =botching the case) this tool Lawyer Reiner Fuellmich’s saying "I stand with Maori" and "only Maori are free". So stupid and racist ... they want you to pick a side (insert Ukraine or whatever the agenda).

Every human being is indigenous to the land( though some choosing fear behave so regressive-ly they may any day go back and slide into the petri dish or sea haha).

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Yes it needs to be stopped. And I think that there's quite a bit of European in the "Polynesian boat people" before the British got here. Spanish & Portuguese mostly I guess although there might also be a bit of French.

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