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Hi I just signed up to this Lemmy instance. I don't like the so-called Reddit communities for NZ. There's too much sarcasm and complaining, and not enough good sense, or enough political action (eg. on housing).
I give it a few weeks until we're inundated with the usual politics, cost of living, housing, supermarket posts. It'll be like we never left Reddit.
I don't mind these topics, I think we need real life meetings, not people online who ask "hey has anyone else feel the same way as I do, regarding __________". If people feel the urge to get this out of their system, they need to do it offline. Supermarket posts need to go into a cancer category. Some topics just crop up every week or month, and there should be a board called cancer, for this purpose. Some of these topics (usually people's frustrations) wear my patience, but I want to support those people if I can.
It's always a shitshow whenever politics is a topic of discussion, mostly because of how left the sub leans. Anyone right of centre just gets piled on.
Welcome! All the Lemmy communities are still working out what kind of place they will be, including this one. But you're welcome to help shape it to the kind of place you'd like to visit :)
I'd like a place where people are more intelligent than the average Redditor LOL. There are so many nay-sayers on Reddit. Anyone with initiative just gets attacked. I'll invite some people right now in fact. I'd like to talk about the housing crisis, the rental crisis, the cost of living crisis and also foreign policy (especially Ukraine and Taiwan). I believe that New Zealanders are being misled by the media and government.
As long as discussion is respectful and "more intelligent" doesn't mean that they have to agree with your views, then some discussion sounds good!
We have a foreign policy? I thought our only foreign policy was to try not to annoy any country that trades with us, which is pretty much just about everyone...
Whether we have a policy or not, and whether we have allies or not, the politicians certainly lean strongly towards the Pentagon. I remember John Key when he supported a "no-fly zone" over Libya in 2011. Then in 2017/2018 Jacinda Ardern supported missile strikes against Syria, but was aghast when Russia did a similar thing in Ukraine. It's a trick when they say we have friends, not allies, or that we have an independent foreign policy, or we don't have one at all. Washington DC rules this country's foreign policy ideology. It will remain that way until an American aircraft carrier sinks in the South China Sea. Then Wellington will lean toward China. It's a deception to think that we're an innocent country that's completely neutral. Wellington is full of people who are slaves to foreign powers. It's disgusting yet predictable.
John Key sucked up to anybody with enough money - he let a few Chinese companies with CCP-ties use the South Island as a test site for their balloons back in 2013 or 14 but it's alright because they promised that they were only designed for monitoring livestock on farms!
Do we have to do this so soon? I just got here.