BalpeenHammer

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[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How do you know?

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 1 points 6 days ago

Sorry but that's a bit too paranoid for me. As you said currently businesses have to accept cash so why do you need a law that says they have to accept cash? It's already the law. If you ask me this is a dumb requirement. Why should businesses have to accept cash? They aren't forced to accept credit cards of EFTPOS. They should be able to choose any kind of payment they want. If you don't like it go to the next business.

If you make society cashless, if you give businsses the right to be card only, to not handle cash; then most of them wont. You make cash almost useless.

How do you know most of them won't? There are cashless societies out there and most businesses still take cash.

Nobody is trying to make cash illegal.

Finally I am not buying your story about how your friends don't want you pay them in cash. You shouldn't have added that to your list of woes.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 4 points 6 days ago

Nat voters were all in on Trumpism. David Seymour famously invited his supporters to wear MAGA hats although as usual he was too much of a coward to put one on himself.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 4 points 6 days ago

This government only does the bidding of the USA and Israel so I am sure this will be shown.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Nobody was trying to make using cash illegal. This is a bunch of insane idiots who all of a sudden decided that using cash was going to be illegal any day now and are pushing this useless legislation in order to appease the flat earthers that are their voters.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 days ago

American style politics are here now, invited in by the current right wing coalition. No they are not centre right, they are full on right wing.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe we are just bad at being decent, intelligent, rational people.

 

Because this is the most pressing issue facing the country right now.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 week ago

It's a step towards trump/orban/putin/erdogan/netinyahu style of fascism that the right wing in this country wants to bring here.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 weeks ago

No thanks. Stay in your shithole country and fix it if you want. The last thing we want is that for the infection that has already taken hold via ACT and National to spread faster and further.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Why do you think randomly selected citizens who are willing to join such a thing would have a different political ideology than the citizens who vote for these parties?

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't get it. Citizens elect MPs for this very purpose. There is no reason to think that a group of randomly selected citizens will have a different political outlook than the people they elect into office.

 

David Seymour is an evil individual and we as a society should be ashamed that we have given him this much power and that the media treat him with any degree of respect.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Speak for yourself. I appreciate the added context.

 

I imagine they are clutching their pearls after Winston called an MP Dickhead in parliament.

Surely they will call for severe punishment right?

 

This is of course by design. NACT wants to privatise healthcare in this country turning it into an American style system.

 

Recently I talked to three people who were ripped off by builders and tradies. One of them was out by more than a hundred thousand dollars, the others were in the tens of thousands of dollars.

People signed contracts and then didn't finish the job. In one case when confronted the builders said "you can't move in until I am done and if you don't accept this I won't be done for at least a year".

In the other case the contractor demanded double the money halfway into the build and contacted all other builders in the area and smeared the friend so that they didn't pick up the job.

In the third case the contractor took half the money up front, didn't show up for weeks, finally showed up for a few days and did a few things and the fucked right off. This was for about a 30K job.

Court costs are ten thousand dollars per day of trial (including prep work by the attorneys) so all of them had no choice but to take being ripped off. The tradie community seems pretty tight too so once you are ripped off you are known as a mark because all of them had issued with other tradies they hired afterwards.

Needless to say cops and the courts are useless.

Learn to do things on your own I guess. You can't trust any builder or tradie in NZ.

 

Liar.

 

Suspend him!

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