Mentions (28)
"We even have our own Canada in the form of New Zealand who we use to feel better about ourselves."
"New Zealand has always been a melting pot for extreme political ideas: in the 1990s it probably has the most deregulated economic *in the world* like beyond Chicago Boys South America and Turbo Capitalist USA. Now it's got the most DEI liberal wokescold left in the world and it's running itself into"
"I'm a New Zealander so assumed that Hawaii would be the most similar state to my homeland."
"Most fanatic fans of Basketball while getting owned by teams like New Zealand."
"Maybe I'm too poor to ever understand this but ultra wealthy people buying bunkers in New Zealand and Montana and shit surely are just getting scammed hard as fuck by people who build bunkers right?"
"I've lived in Canada/America/Australia/NZ or whatever my whole life. I'm going to like watching hockey/football/rugby/non-Indian cricket on a patio with my friends sipping some cider."
"I was living in NZ at the time. Drugs are not as readily available in NZ as they are elsewhere in the world."
"Legal to die by assisted suicide but cannabis is illegal for recreational use: - New Zealand - Belgium - Austria - Switzerland - Australia (excluding Canberra) - UK (most likely?)"
"New Zealand has been part of Australia since 1788. It was not until 1840 where it became a second colony by the Britain who created a new fictitious identity separate from Australia. New Zealand was a member of the Federal Council of Australasia and Representatives were at each of the important conv"
"Also, we were literally on another hemisphere, more than 24 hours of flights to reach New Zealand but our teachers acted like we would offend some hypothetical Maori."
"The billionaires are going to space, the millionaires are going to New Zealand, and the PMC are buying houses in the boonies. Has there ever been an exodus of the wealthy like this that wasn't immediately followed by shit popping off?"
"For reference NZs black population is less that 1 percent, being charitable, and the majority of these are recent African immigrants. Not a lot of African Americans. Yet still, yesterday while I was at the gym I saw a skinny white guy in a wife beater and jeans, sitting curling 15kg dumbells, wearin"
"I genuinely feel like I'm thriving and have a lust for life when it's just me and my internal monologue. I love to see movies, sightsee and have travelled to Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and other states within my country (Australia) alone and absolutely loved it."
"Might do some hate crimes (against New Zealanders) if it wins"
"Do I leg it to New Zealand (Australia's mexico)"
"My teen brother brought it up in front of her for some reason and she said she had heard the term but believed it was as that Haka dance that they do all the time over in New Zealand."
"My choices would be New Zealand (to live it up with billionaires during the collapse), Iceland or the Faroe Islands."
"For someone from New Zealand who hasn't been to the States in a while it was so striking, literally like Wall E, especially with the extreme quantity of mobility scooters slowly trundling across that hellscape."
"I met and befriended plenty of younger people from Aus/NZ, UK, Europe, and Asia, and across the board, most of them seemed to be pretty well-socialized and charismatic."
"If you've been to a country like New Zealand where significant populations of Asians and Pacific Islanders live in close proximity, you'd see how culturally different they are and how they stay away from each other. It's like Asians and Black people in the US."
"I don't feel this way about other settler-colonial states (eg Australia or NZ)"
"The billionaires are going to space, the millionaires are going to New Zealand, and the PMC are buying houses in the boonies."
"For reference NZs black population is less that 1 percent, being charitable, and the majority of these are recent African immigrants. Not a lot of African Americans. Yet still, yesterday while I was at the gym I saw a skinny white guy in a wife beater and jeans, sitting curling 15kg dumbells, wearin"
"I love to see movies, sightsee and have travelled to Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and other states within my country (Australia) alone and absolutely loved it."
"Holly hunter is a mute woman who travels from Scotland to colonial New Zealand to marry a stranger played by Sam Neill."
"that Haka dance that they do all the time over in New Zealand"
"My choices would be New Zealand (to live it up with billionaires during the collapse), Iceland or the Faroe Islands."
"Left such a bad taste in his mouth that he moved to the literal other side of the world, NZ, and met my aunt."