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What complete idgits wearing the nose cones.

So many people whom I meet hate them, even if they're not awake to the rest of the depop agenda.

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Yes Jules Radich really the only other candidate who has no time for them. Lee doesn't either but seems to figure some of those voting for him do care about them. I hear much the same as you. And Australia just stopped demanding them on planes.

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These nosecones for the fanatics seem to be a cage they are scared to leave.

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Don't discount the gaslighting.

Mandy didn't like me pointing out that despite her dress sense she was still a conformist.

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Sep 1, 2022·edited Sep 1, 2022Author

I was sitting right next to Aaron at the Uni Mayoral event, went directly at the Green Party and called them Greenwashers, said James Shaw was a Shell Oil boy and that Chloe Swarbrick had gaslit the whole country and not a whimper from Aaron. All the Green Party defense was from Sophie, Carmen and Mandy.

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Good on you.

Enjoy the fray Richard.

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Sep 1, 2022·edited Sep 1, 2022Liked by Richard Seager

Here's a bit of fun from Wellington.

Foster, the incumbent, is so scared of saying the wrong thing that he's a nothing.

(Bit like Luxon. Haha.)

I think it's great that this McKenzie candidate bravely turned up, in enemy territory sort of thing, and got herself some MSM headlines.

That's how we can find out who the *still has a brain in their head* people are.

I'd never heard of her before now.

Thanks MSM.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellington-mayor-andy-foster-distances-himself-from-candidate-who-claims-covid-vaccine-is-dangerous/ILTMJ7AHMPCLTWR5EU6YK6YD4U/

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LOL lack of diversity and two out of three of them have Indian names. You'd think you could throw such nonsense back in their faces with such a group. Anyway they should just declare themselves as self identifying as women and the problem is fixed. What was not gender diversity before is diversity now. I mean bullshit too. But diverse bullshit.

Foster sounds weak.

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Foster went on some expensive (ratepayer funded) quite a few days long course to train him how to be a leader.

I hope they had better food than their results.

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https://www.equiphub.co.nz/

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Is that what Foster went on.

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Well they're the training arm of LGNZ. They seem to have a monopoly.

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And I'm shadowbanned by Twitter already.

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Sep 1, 2022Liked by Richard Seager

My concern is that by pointing out any negatives regarding Hawkins, it may stimulate a sympathy vote for him. I think it would be preferable to stay focused on what you can do to improve living in Dunedin. You may think differently and I understand that.

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I take your point and my wife half agrees with you. Maybe might do 1/4 as an attempt to point out that Hawkins is so inappropriate for the role that it belies sense.

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Probably a lot of people have had a belly full of Aaron, so if you only upset his sycophants it doesn't matter.

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I might move into parody.

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Not bad. Surprised your not chopping heads. I don't doubt you know the constituency and very kindly keep the axe hidden.

Probably my personality. If I ran for public office I'd want to chop heads and laugh as the headless bodies roll.

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I would go into the ring fighting too Stegiel.

Depends on what one has to lose.

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In this election in a community of about 120,000 from a great distance I think only an election. Possibly some fair weather friends and fickle customers.

Chopping heads is fun. Creativity can be employed, dirty deeds can be exposed, and ignorant hirelings can be discomforted. Mockery is a fine axe. So is exposing corruption in a cunning way. Resistors do not win fake elections in any case by being respectable. So have a real good time.

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I am. There are some emails behind the scenes, for example a Freedom of Information (LGOIMA) request to the Mayor about his associations.

And I might put up a wikimedia style dropbox on my webpage for those who want to drop me more clues. I've just given a journalist a clue on the Harvard Endowment Fund's activities in the local area.

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Also the woke man (he/him) who is organizing the disabilities meeting is doing so on Zoom. I'm going to be a disruptive element at that meeting. Absurd to have it on Zoom.

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I doubt that an algorithm just shadowbanned me on Twitter. So Aaron Hawkins or someone on his team has a button that they can push on Twitter. To use it on opponents is so deeply anti-democratic.

I thought just a few months ago that the left were toxic because they'd been invaded by Identity Politics. But that's not the case entirely, clear in my interactions over the last week with them. The left is toxic currently with or without the Identity Politics.

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I knew that.

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Wasn't always the case.

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