According to my friend Vince McLeod, smoking weed and eating mushrooms is a sacred religious rite that dates back thousands of years. The government is wrong to leave it up to pharmaceutical companies to regulate this issue.

It’s hard to say, but a guy on a bicycle said “slava ooocrane” and one guy in a car said f*** putin. That was in the course of 1 hour and 10 minutes. It’s hard to judge how many people recognise it, but dozens of people do, I’m sure. Some people older than me will know the modern RF flag from the end of the Soviet Union. I was too young to understand it at the time, but as a child I remember looking at a country on the map called USSR and thinking, wow, this country is pretty big lol.

Do you really think this is not your business? People are dying because a fascist leader of a super power country is invading the small neighbor? And the other fascist leader of the other super power country is helping destroying the small country and Europe, Africa and Asia and the world economy? Are you also a fascist?

@[email protected] Calling Russia a fascist country is wrong. It’s not a case of being inaccurate, it’s completely wrong.

Yeah, that sounds about right. I guess you also think the Chinese would do a better job of running NZ? Or that we should fight alone if they try and invade?

@[email protected] Nah I don’t think China is interested in absorbing New Zealand into its global empire. Would they want to pay everyone’s pension or unemployment benefits? It’d be a disaster. China doesn’t have the skill or knowledge on how NZ society works.

How many people in Christchurch even know what a Russian flag looks like?

@[email protected] Quite a lot of people, in fact. How many tricolour flags are there with white-blue-red? Maybe the flag of the Netherlands, which goes red-white-blue? The only other similarity is the Serbian flag, which is the Russian flag but upside-down. Other flags such as the French flag are vertical bars of colour, which is obviously quite different. Don’t ask me how so many people young and old know the Russian flag, but they know it from somewhere. Maybe they read books or played Call Of Duty or War Thunder.

Your kids get marmite on toast, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumann, Lockheed Martin get fifty billion dollars.

This! But I go much further.

The New Zealand government isn’t acting in good faith, they spread false information about the war in Ukraine, they will spread false information about China too if we let them. They will create a narrative that China is bad and China is bombing the children’s hospitals in Taiwan, or that China is using chemical weapons 1,000,000 times against Taiwanese soldiers. The government and media will tell lies to get New Zealanders emotionally worked up, in favour of a war against China.

I won’t rule out everything that ilovethebomb says. The Chinese government could get angry with another country and invade them - just think about what could happen in 30 years or 50 years from now. There will be more wars and somehow people in the future will be surprised. Some people are apparently surprised that Russia and Ukraine are at war. I was watching RT today and they said that the Americans have built up their air base at Tinian. The same island where the bomber “Enola Gay” flew after nuking Japan.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Enola-Gay

https://www.rt.com/news/589851-china-us-base-expansion/

The Chinese Defense Ministry has called on Asia-Pacific nations to be on the lookout for US military deployments in the region, citing the Pentagon’s plan to rebuild a World War II-era airfield on a small island north of Guam.

We could end up fighting a war, even if it’s decades from now. The government argues that we should fund the military a lot more, and presumably put our military on some Pacific Islands to deter China. It could work for a while, but if China ever gets into a dispute with us and we don’t back down, NZ or another country could be invaded. In this scenario, the government would control all media and start drafting men for a war that can’t be won. Just because we can vote in elections it doesn’t mean that the government can’t manipulate the public with propaganda and make poor decisions.

No. Unless Russia’s economy crumbles in the next 1-2 years, then the war is lost for Ukraine. The Americans have dug themselves into a very deep hole. The Americans had bet everything on the chance that Russia would face defeat in 2022 or 2023. Now that it hasn’t worked out, the Americans have no choice but to dump the problem onto other countries.

Will more economic sanctions on Russia and more weapons for Ukraine change anything? They have tried that for 3 years now and nothing changed. The media and the politicians have tricked many people into believing in Zelensky. He’s a Saint in english-speaking nations. Ukraine can do no wrong. Yet support for Ukraine is lukewarm among the population. I held the Russian flag at one of Christchurch’s busiest intersections 2 weeks ago. Hundreds of people saw the flag, but only 2 people made a comment disagreeing with me. I actually got more friendly toots than anything. People are tired of hearing about the war in Ukraine. Russia hasn’t done anything to New Zealand and this war problem isn’t ours to fix.

When fluoride is added to the water it’s applied at around 3 parts per million. In toothpaste it’s usually 800 ppm or as high as 1300 ppm. So why aren’t they putting in 50x or 100x more fluoride, to help our teeth? Oh that’s right, it’s toxic and you’re not meant to drink it. Please reconsider your stance on this. Fluoride will cost a ridiculous amount of money with no benefit.

I had numerous fillings as a child because I drank coke all the time. I had my last filling in 2003, at age 13. Since then I’ve used a mix of fluoride and Red Seal Baking Soda / Strong Mint toothpaste, and I’ve never had any fillings or pain. There is no fluoride here in Christchurch water, my dental health is a result of my good choices. We cannot force people to make good choices about their health, but we can give them information and encourage them in the right direction.

Supporting fluoride is the ultimate un-scientific, nanny-state solution for people who believe in the power of the state - more than they believe in the ability of citizens to make better choices. We need to get fluoride out of the water and treat it like a menace, like chlorine. I don’t want to spend thousands of dollars on a filter to get rid of fine fluoride particles. Just don’t add it to the water. It doesn’t do any good for anyone. Junk science + cope.

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