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KiwiNZ: Dotcom is taking the piss. He mocking NZ and folks are falling for it, eventually he will get bored and move to Fiji or Columbia.
SaltyNZ:KiwiNZ:SaltyNZ:KiwiNZ: Dotcom is taking the piss. He mocking NZ and folks are falling for it, eventually he will get bored and move to Fiji or Columbia.
Maybe so. But if in the meantime he and his supporters manage to do some good - even if for the wrong reasons - that's really the best you can hope for from any government. And since the policies he supports align strongly with most of us here in regards to internet, freedom, and so on, there's really no reason not to support him until such time as he includes eating babies for lunch on his list. No politician* thinks any further ahead than the next election anyway, so there's no point holding that against him, if you believe it.
*OK, I can think of one currently serving parliamentarian that I might otherwise vote for if he were to stand in my electorate.
There is a whole world away from the keyboard and modem and things that actually matter.
Indeed there is; and the right to not be spied on by your own government is one of them. Something he has a strong opinion about for some vague reason. I'm not interested in his promise of free internet for everyone; clearly that's not going to happen, although my personal opinion on the UFB project is that is bass ackward and the fibre should be going out to the people who are currently going to be 'served' by RBI, rather than into the middle of cities and suburbs where you can already get DSL2+, VDSL, multiple wireless solutions, and also yes possibly fibre.
But as someone with direct experience with having an assault squad sent after him for the alleged crime of maybe making it slightly easier for someone else to copy a DVD, I think he does have something to bring to the table that neither Labour nor National will. They're both gung-ho to double- and triple-down on the surveillance state.
Also it would be exquisitely entertaining to see John Key held hostage to the man he authorised unlawful spying against and tried very hard to have thrown out of the country for allegedly violating laws that even his own members do.
KiwiNZ:SaltyNZ:KiwiNZ:SaltyNZ:KiwiNZ: Dotcom is taking the piss. He mocking NZ and folks are falling for it, eventually he will get bored and move to Fiji or Columbia.
Maybe so. But if in the meantime he and his supporters manage to do some good - even if for the wrong reasons - that's really the best you can hope for from any government. And since the policies he supports align strongly with most of us here in regards to internet, freedom, and so on, there's really no reason not to support him until such time as he includes eating babies for lunch on his list. No politician* thinks any further ahead than the next election anyway, so there's no point holding that against him, if you believe it.
*OK, I can think of one currently serving parliamentarian that I might otherwise vote for if he were to stand in my electorate.
There is a whole world away from the keyboard and modem and things that actually matter.
Indeed there is; and the right to not be spied on by your own government is one of them. Something he has a strong opinion about for some vague reason. I'm not interested in his promise of free internet for everyone; clearly that's not going to happen, although my personal opinion on the UFB project is that is bass ackward and the fibre should be going out to the people who are currently going to be 'served' by RBI, rather than into the middle of cities and suburbs where you can already get DSL2+, VDSL, multiple wireless solutions, and also yes possibly fibre.
But as someone with direct experience with having an assault squad sent after him for the alleged crime of maybe making it slightly easier for someone else to copy a DVD, I think he does have something to bring to the table that neither Labour nor National will. They're both gung-ho to double- and triple-down on the surveillance state.
Also it would be exquisitely entertaining to see John Key held hostage to the man he authorised unlawful spying against and tried very hard to have thrown out of the country for allegedly violating laws that even his own members do.
I agree with your surveillance stuff etc but , Kim Dotcom does not really give a toss except where it impacts his nest feathering, he has no interest in the freedom of Kiwi's he does care and only care for Kim Dotcom's freedom.
I will grant him this though he is the master of smoke screens and has an uncanny knack of sucking people into his nursery room games.
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself - A. H. Weiler
Klipspringer: Dotcom is not even a NZ Citizen.
I'm pretty sure one needs to have citizenship in order to start a political party?
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Lyderies:SaltyNZ:Lyderies: or is he advertising for said party?
I don't need any advertising: I'll vote for him.
Ill vote for him to even though he reminds me of a german santa, with a half evil agenda
KiwiNZ:Lyderies:SaltyNZ:Lyderies: or is he advertising for said party?
I don't need any advertising: I'll vote for him.
Ill vote for him to even though he reminds me of a german santa, with a half evil agenda
You would vote for him?
what are his .....
Fiscal policies?
Foreign policies ?
Defence policies
Economic and regional development policies ?
Social and Health policies?
Education policies ?
Environment policies ?
KiwiNZ:Lyderies:SaltyNZ:Lyderies: or is he advertising for said party?
I don't need any advertising: I'll vote for him.
Ill vote for him to even though he reminds me of a german santa, with a half evil agenda
You would vote for him?
what are his .....
Fiscal policies?
Foreign policies ?
Defence policies
Economic and regional development policies ?
Social and Health policies?
Education policies ?
Environment policies ?
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KiwiNZ: Dotcom is taking the piss. He mocking NZ and folks are falling for it, eventually he will get bored and move to Fiji or Columbia.
KiwiNZ:Lyderies:SaltyNZ:Lyderies: or is he advertising for said party?
I don't need any advertising: I'll vote for him.
Ill vote for him to even though he reminds me of a german santa, with a half evil agenda
You would vote for him?
what are his .....
Fiscal policies?
Foreign policies ?
Defence policies
Economic and regional development policies ?
Social and Health policies?
Education policies ?
Environment policies ?
Byrned: So its a vote for Dotcom even though I don't know his policies and his only real policy seems to be "stick it to JK"
Strong option there...
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Jas777: jpoc,
The party was a PR exercise and they knew full well it would get cancelled. It is illegal to give 'FREE' gifts at a event that relates to elections and they would have known of this. They did it to get people to register who they can then send political info to and to stir people up about the awful laws in NZ.
SaltyNZ:Byrned: So its a vote for Dotcom even though I don't know his policies and his only real policy seems to be "stick it to JK"
Strong option there...
NZ First got, what, 8 seats? And they have no policies at all!
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