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Humblest apologies . Allow me to explain. The post has no context or clarifying info. I’m guessing its a celeb and therefore him holding an nz brand of chocolate is the relevance here? A movie or tv star filming in NZ I guess? But there may be some hilarious subtext I’m missing out on. Yes I could do a reverse image search or search the name in the image, but I’m extremely allergic to the internet - which could also be why I don't know who this person is. You are correct however, I dont care either way. I guess I was more curious why it was posted, and you are quite right to react to my flippancy in that way. Feel free to disregard my previous comment, and this one also.

Cant be arsed researching. Who is this?

If we have to pay for access to something we then don't own, we may as well do it as a collective. So public libraries. Librarians in my country and city are excellent curators and, information and topics on display are more interesting and less insulting than what a pyramid scheme’s algorithm thinks I should ‘buy’ next. They're often topical, relevant to our local community and timely. Libraries and librarians have a vested interested in books being good for us, and the service being useful to individuals and community, which goes beyond physical books also as you say. Amazon is in a race to the bottom with total disdain and disregard for readers, authors and probably even the sellers.

Haha yep. A queue dodger. “I’ll just take this shortcut. Later foolssss…..”

Not to apologise for this driver as he did get out and move them, but it’s also interesting that its only road cones preventing a car driving off this 2nd level ramp. Yeh it should be all thats required, but you know….people.

Fair enough . Poor choice of petty insult on my part. I’ll stick to calling him a Nationalist since he calls himself that. And a rascist, which he is exposing himself as openly. A dangerous combination in politics, and yes, hateful. We are in agreement on all of that.

Yikes I forgot some think of Nationalism as a good thing…

I know the Greens have a host of colourful and strange members, but if you want to take on New Zealand's Nationalist party... return fire will happened

I guess NZ Fist being Nationalist is non controversial but I still find it a disturbing statement when spewed out so brazenly like that. What a complete circus buffoon.

Very good question.

Non American , and non brit here. Why is this waste of energy so interested in the UK and Europe now ? I know there will be plenty of cynical takes which I will probably endorse however I’m interested in what his actual motivation might be. Does he just want parties in power in the given country that he has influence over for the sake of legislative advantage for his businesses? Or is it trollconomics for sake of driving signups to his failing social network I forget the name of?

Indeed. Might be worth mentioning Lobbying is not limited to corporations of course, but special interest groups, advocacy etc. No fear for those groups having their work on public record along with the corpos and who they met with, assuming nothing nefarious is going on. The more out in the open the better.

I’m a fan of more civics education as well.

Much thanks !

KiaOra, mind pointing me in the direction of that research if anything is available?