Pete Burtonwood
Strategic and critical thinker. Enthusiastic pedant. Retired career firefighter. Experienced at sorting out other people’s chaos. Salford and County Kerry. MUFC. If you are American, you will be blocked. This is year 249.
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- No point. Very few countries trust them now.
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- I just have the photo, but have refrained from posting it, thus far.
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- I think the hot dog had tomato sauce on it.
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- Yep. I’m trying to wean myself off Fonterra products. As to the trucks, they’re pounding the shit out of the roads , and we pay for it.
- Absolute robbery. It is produced here. We pay the collateral price for its production (PKE freight truck road change, milk tanker road damage, environmental pollution, as well as the literally inflated price.
- *PKE freight truck road damage
- A very interesting read.
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- 3 Waters was a significant threat to the move back to feudalism.
- Unemployment data released today by Statistics New Zealand shows ongoing weakness in the labour market, with falling employment, falling hours of work, and nearly half of all workers getting a pay rise less than inflation. A 🧵
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View full threadAm I imagining it or is the USA economic policy similar to our government at the moment? Tax cuts, axing govt workers, tax relief to those with assets, cancelling contracts, role back of perceived diverse policies and putting us in a recession. If so, then who just got richer ..
- It is the Trump playbook, A.K.A Project 2025.
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- Quite clearly, there are no rules (sarc).
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- Fendaltown has always been a tad different.
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- The mouthings of a fascist.
- Same here.
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- I would suggest that it was not inadvertently.
- 🚨 The Liberal Party will lead Canada's next government. CBC just called it; too early to know if it'll be a majority or minority government. "A stunning reversal," says the CBC: Conservatives led by *huge* margins throughout 2024, but Trump's arrival was a big factor in changing everything.
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View full threadIt's really hard to overstate how hugely favored conservatives were up until two months ago. Here's the graph of Canadian polling between March 2023 and March 2025. (Reminder: blue is conservative.) Those are months and months of 20+ point leads for Tories.
- The US is pretty much the only country where the colour for the right wing party is red. Everywhere else red is the left.
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- Epic!
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- Who?
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- Well, you’ve been listening to shit. Study the Chinese culture. It will expand your knowledge and understanding.
- Undocumented immigrants paid hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes over the last 10 years — while 6 tech giants dodged $278 billion while raking in tax breaks and government contracts. But somehow immigrants are the problem.
- Ah, Saint Luigi. Wherefore art thou in our time of need?
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- Then there’s BHN and 1/200.
- Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.
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- It was not a size issue. It was a medical condition issue. Also, it is not a new policy.
- I see Kim Hill’s podcasts as conversational. I might concede on The Detail.
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- Ah, Saint Luigi. Where art thou?
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- Likewise. It’s podcasts for me now. Kim Hill, The Detail, 1/200. MSM is corrupt and most unreliable.
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- Too good!
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- A wankenpanzer with all of the accessories.
- Weekend roadie to Timaru and back, taking my ‘64 Fiat 500 to a car show. 2 observations: the highways are getting pounded to shit, and it ain’t by vehicles under 3.5 tonnes; Whittakers Dark Ghana is $3.01 dearer in Hampden, than Woolworth’s Balclutha. Things need to change.
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- Yep. The sandwiches I bought had a Dunedin price tag on it. Must admit that I did a double take when I saw it had changed to Night n Day.
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- Their RUC rate pays for only 23% of roading costs. “Potholes” are, in reality, freight truck damage holes.
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- Year 249 for the US.
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- It is quite simply the patriarchy in their desperation to retain power and control.
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- A veteran of overseas sailing vacations? Or, faux military missions perpetuating the myth of defending the (already) free world?
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- I realise that. Doing what? Defending America in someone else’s ocean?
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- A veteran of where, exactly?
- and yet PETA is silent about tape made out of duck? interesting
- How many wings does a duct have? Asking for a friend.
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- Goes to prove that the Chinese are smarter than Americans, most of whom could not find AoNZ on a map of the world.
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View full threadNot all RVs are Teslas.
- *EVs
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- The Superbowl is purely about the advertising and the musical acts. The game itself is an absolute abomination. The worst of any version of the game of football.
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- Seems to be a trend.
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- Epic, Rod. Thanks.
- Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
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- Be sure to look with both eyes.
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- He’s a white supremacist, who came from a wealthy family who got their wealth on the backs of African slaves. Not that I would expect a Zionist to understand.
- This is happening right now about 15 minutes from where I live in Cincinnati. These are the demons that have been unleashed
- Most empires last 250 years. The US is at year 249. Bye.
- Yep, happening around the world.
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- Nice. You are now standing on the thinnest part of the earth’s crust, in this country. Enjoy 🥹
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- They’re here and travelling in sleeper vans. Patchy internet coverage is an issue for them.
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- National Party was founded on 3 principles. Minimal government, minimal taxes, defeat socialism.
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- I respect your creativity. On the money as ever.
