I fucking hate this racist ass country. Yeah sure, New Zealand should be more like Australia where we just build tacky hotels for corrupt rich white dickheads on top of a sacred indigenous graveyard.

I hate this place. Fuck white colonial mentality. I hate that I'm related to a people that built empires on the skulls of "non-whites."

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[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

NZ went super hard on neoliberalism, much worse than Australia - they've done some more tokenism (now ripped up by Luxon) but the outcomes are still shit

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Yup, turns out a "progressive" capitalist British colony is still a capitalist British colony

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Idk if I'd describe NZ politics as "much worse" than Australia but they're both absolute shit that's for sure

[–] Hexboare@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

I meant in relation to domestic policy, though Australia is closing that gap and exceeding NZ on neoliberal brutality on a couple of fronts

But you still have odd things like no capital gains tax in New Zealand and a very low maximum income tax rate