If that Peter Thiel story is any indication I wish the people of New Zealand a lot of luck.

 

“Gay marriage, cultural tolerance, refugees, active strategies to address diversity — more than ever our leadership here is important,” Mr. Drury wrote in an email to his staff immediately after the election. He proposed setting a moral example by bringing “some refugee groups into our Wellington office.”

 

I could swear I remember reading about NZ being more culturally conservative than this. Maybe they've changed in recent years. 

 

I just hope that businesses are not exploiting refugees for PR.

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12 hours ago, Roman said:

can someone...ANYONE....explain to me.....why Jeffrey Lord is employed and allowed to speak to anyone via television? I just saw this man defend the crap he said this morning...comparing Trump to MLK....and Don Lemon got so pissed off he yelled at the man and called him stupid. 

Don Lemon's just playing his role. They manufacture all of this to get social media buzz which they think will in turn lead to higher ratings. Apparently there's nothing like twitter outrage these days.

 

I don't get why scoring points on twitter means so much to people when it changes nothing in reality. All this nonsense about "owning" people and "winning" and the rest of the hyperbole is not for me. I'm in the Jack Webb just the facts ma'am lane. None of those people screeching and carrying on with the back pats on CNN's panels are solving anything at all. They may as well kick it up a notch and have a CNN panelists awards show with such categories as who scored the most points on twitter, who got owned, and who starred in the most posted gif image.

 

Meanwhile the stress of the job requires more Mar-a-Lago downtime for the "winning-est" laziest President in U.S. history.

1 hour ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Well, right now, New Zealand is taking advantage of the fact that, politically, they are neither the U.S. nor Europe, which seems to be a successful economic strategy.

 

As New Zealand Courts Tech Talent, Isolation Becomes a Draw

 

"The more immigrants, the better. We’ll take a lot. We’ll take hundreds.”

Hundreds? That's not a lot. The US takes a million every year and we are still taking 50,000 refugees (I'm sure Trump is still trying to change that as we speak). Canada with a smaller population then ours takes 300,000.

10 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

Hundreds? That's not a lot. The US takes a million every year and we are still taking 50,000 refugees (I'm sure Trump is still trying to change that as we speak). Canada with a smaller population then ours takes 300,000.

 

Have you seen the size and topography of New Zealand compared to the U.S.?  

 

Canada has more land than people. I have a cousin who recently moved to an area farther away from Toronto and it was virtually undeveloped when she moved in, she only had a few neighbors. 

I can't think of any such place outside of a major U.S. city that literally has undeveloped raw, land with barely any people living there!

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/democrats-grassroots-trump-elections_us_58efd21de4b0bb9638e270c1?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

29 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

 

Have you seen the size and topography of New Zealand compared to the U.S.?  

 

Canada has more land than people. I have a cousin who recently moved to an area farther away from Toronto and it was virtually undeveloped when she moved in, she only had a few neighbors. 

I can't think of any such place outside of a major U.S. city that literally has undeveloped raw, land with barely any people living there!

I know, I'm not saying Canada is doing anything wrong. In fact, I think the way they treat immigrants makes a lot more sense than the way we do. At the same time, I'm never going to think hundreds is a lot for a place like NZ. If you want to make it sound like you are a hero (the more the better!) then you better be taking at least a few thousand.  As long as the US is taking a million people every year I'm going to call hypocrisy on the people who criticize us on the immigration front (In terms of numbers, not treatment). Especially if they have nothing to say about places like Japan who effectively take no one.

@JuliajmsBy the way, that wasn't the government speaking, I believe but a head of a New Zealand based tech company.

1 minute ago, DramatistDreamer said:

@JuliajmsBy the way, that wasn't the government speaking, I believe but a head of a New Zealand based tech company.

That makes sense. I bet our own tech firms feel like the more H1B visas they can get the better too.

I'm relieved that it wasn't the New Zealand government which said that about hundreds, because I too felt that it sounded like a very low number.....

The aspect that bothered me was the Thiel part (for so many reasons) but it sounds as if he gamed the system to get dual citizenship so he could exploit NZ to build more personal wealth, albeit with the government's help.

Donald Trump Jr is on Twitter mocking LGBT students and gets his ass handed to him.

 

Donald Trump first 20 days- arguing crowd size.

21-75 days- failing legislatively.

76-100- bombing other nations for approval ratings.

— David Yankovich (@DavidYankovich) April 14, 2017

GOD

 

 

This is a real thing.

Trump is reportedly "very upset" that Amanda Knox (!!) supported Hillary Clinton. https://t.co/zoH5XFeM4o pic.twitter.com/UtDJS9wCDM

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 14, 2017

That celebrity tweet - Trump is a dangerous and deeply disturbed man who is taking us on a train ride to hell, but the world was not in a stable place even before he was elected.  

Edited April 15, 20178 yr by DRW50