Yeah I mean it was an allied effort - but the US supplied the vast bulk of the industrial base needed to win (and was fighting solo in the other theater of war). It's truly absurd to claim that the US wasn't a key factor in the WWII victory.
(also an AI summary? Really?)
Is it good when multiple major US/UK news outlets keep running stories about how young adults are fleeing your country?
Asking for a government that's supposedly getting things "back on track"...
Singapore was fine when I transited thorough a coupled days ago - everything was running as smoothly as it usually does there.
Good thing we have a center-left mayor in charge with a big left-leaning bloc of councilors.
Oh sorry, I've been informed that our Labour Party is actually the party of right wing business owners and landlords.
American industrial capacity was the decisive factor in that war. The amount of heavy equipment, munitions, etc that the US put out is wild. They were building nearly a warship a day at one point.
And there was ample evidence of this prior to the election - plenty of stories of him treating AirNZ staff poorly, the Saudi fiasco, Virgin deal blowing up, etc.
But the press barely mentioned any of it because they loved their bald business daddy...
Yellow bird with black face and red eye, all puffed out and slightly damp.
Let me start a belated thread of Aotearoa New Zealand silvan birds.
To lead things off, a New Zealand Bellbird photographed on Kapiti Island.
I mean they're still buying Russian oil and gas, thereby directly funding its war on Ukraine.
Just going to repeat my prediction that if (when?) Trump tries to forcibly take Greenland, Europe put out Strongly Worded Statements but basically let him have it.
I think they're bad parents because doctors and nurses are telling them what they should do and instead they're listening to a 22 year old nick shirley fuck on tiktok or a man with literal brain worms.
It's amazing that someone with his combination of arrogance, ignorance, and lack of charisma could ever become PM.
A real indictment of the NZ media and electorate...
This fucking asshole didn't even bother responding to WCC or a bunch of concerned parents (including myself) who wanted to keep the speed limit at 30 in front of my kids daycare.
This is obviously bad for people struggling to get by, but the one group I have absolutely no sympathy for is the people who complained about the Clean Car program and bought a new gas-guzzling ute instead of an EV...
Oh please let her do it, she may be worse for their electoral prospects than Judith Collins was...
An aerial photo shows three diggers excavating the ground for graves. More than 65 graves are already dug. Those not yet dug are marked out by chalk.
Not a single US newspaper will publish this photo. No news channel will broadcast it.
The graves are being prepared for more than 80 young children killed in the US/Israeli strike on the school in Minab, Iran on Saturday.
(📸 Middle East Observer)
Luxon "misspoke". Three times. With prepared notes. Said the same thing three times followed by "I don't know how I could be any clearer".
That kind of misspoke.
Dickhead driving in the cycle lane in Wellington
Check out this guy from a couple days ago - pulled out into the cycle lane and almost hit a couple people just to save himself one cycle of the light. And then got aggrieved when people called out his behavior...
New Zealand has more sunshine than Germany.
But only 1 in 35 homes here has rooftop solar.
Australia? 1 in 3.
Why? I tried to find out - despite some strange secrecy
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Not surprising to anyone who's cycled on NZ roads.
NZ drivers are horrendous: aggressive dickheads and bad at following road rules.
Hipkins actually called that out directly later (to RNZ I think?)
Would be really good if he got started to get called out in real time for these lies, especially since he gets incredibly nasty when it happens
It's disturbing how aggressively and casually he lies: it's just not true that every previous government had this policy! What an insane thing to say!
Real props for "my mom has a Muslim friend" too...
Here’s Luxon saying NZ supports “any action” to stop Iran and me following up to ask if that would include carpet bombing (vid via RNZ)
You can tell he's just completely bullshitting about this being the policy across multiple governments (as Hipkins later points out), and when he gets asked a basic question, he just instantly falls back on "I'm being clear, why don't you understand."
Classic corporate leader behavior...
... is our official government position really "uuuuuuuuugh idk man whatever"
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Great job following up and pressing him to actually give an answer!
When people ask why mainstream news media is losing trust and readers, just point them to this thread.
Between this "actually it's good that the newspaper publishes lies and right-wing propaganda" and the instinctive wagon-circling toward any criticism, people don't hate the prestige media enough
I’m actually not sure we can come back from “prediction markets for war crimes”, as a society. I think this might be it for us.
It looks surprisingly good on a big modern TV and the Switch 2! The game holds up quite well too, and sitting on a couch playing it on the TV is a much better experience than playing it on a handheld
Amazing how the Labour Parties in NZ/Aus/UK now stand for nothing other than career advancement for their own politicians.
These parties literally created public health systems from scratch, but now they can't even commit to funding them properly without running things by their corporate bosses.
And old! It's probably the prefect state for his brand of populist white supremacy...
