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Sonny Blount

You do like to stick your head into a hole in these discussions, no one is saying ethnicity only, but there are times where ethnicity, like any factor, can be targeted. And like I said, your ideology clouds you to the outcomes. So, tell me what your plan would have been by using "income, geography ...

Sonny Blount

There's nothing lazy about my thinking at all, I want the best outcomes for all, and sometimes targeting has to take place to achieve those outcomes. The perfect world you envision where "income, geography, or language" can be provided for (whatever you actually mean) and magically address all heal...

Sonny Blount

There's nothing lazy about my thinking at all, I want the best outcomes for all, and sometimes targeting has to take place to achieve those outcomes. The perfect world you envision where "income, geography, or language" can be provided for (whatever you actually mean) and magically address all heal...

Sonny Blount

Do you have to be so damn arrogant ? Ideologues like yourself are perhaps the most rigid and lazy in their thinking . ACT especially are complete hypocrites, what they represent rather than the freedom of the individual is a fear and loathing of the collective . Whilst very happily disproportionate...

Sonny Blount

No it's not, it's just your ideological bullshit yet again. If an ethnic group aren't "accessing" health services for early interventions, and targeted health services are implemented that increase early access then that is a net benefit to NZ health service as a whole. Target the actual contributi...

Sonny Blount

Do you have to be so damn arrogant ? Ideologues like yourself are perhaps the most rigid and lazy in their thinking . ACT especially are complete hypocrites, what they represent rather than the freedom of the individual is a fear and loathing of the collective . Whilst very happily disproportionate...

Sonny Blount

That is a nothing statistic in this discussion. Smoking rates have been trending down for nearly two decades (and at least some of that is down to targeted programmes) and the govt have removed policy specifically aimed at targeting one of your causes. Anyone with half a brain but not consumed by t...

Sonny Blount

You can (and should) do both. The current govt have gone the other way with smoking though. Smoking amongst Maori has dropped 2.5% under the current Government. Stats eh! Got a link? What were the trends before this government took office? Edit: I see FB has already addressed this plus Sonny's ideo...

Sonny Blount

You can (and should) do both. The current govt have gone the other way with smoking though. Smoking amongst Maori has dropped 2.5% under the current Government. That is a nothing statistic in this discussion. Smoking rates have been trending down for nearly two decades (and at least some of that is...

Sonny Blount

The data indicating a link between personal freedom and wealth doesn't prove one causes the other. Other factors, like stable politics or good governance, might also play a big role in creating wealth. Moreover, wealth can sometimes affect personal freedom, leading to a cycle rather than a straight...

Sonny Blount

That’s ok as this government is going to improve health outcomes for all NZers ! Targeted indigenous race based iniatives are useless . How anyone continues to buy this utter bullshit is beyond me . Everyone with a brain knows ethnicity based health is bullshit and would degrade our health services...

Sonny Blount

Everyone with a brain knows ethnicity based health is bullshit and would degrade our health services. Target the causes. Whether it be smoking, drinking, exercise, diet, cancers. If you target the cause it will distribute more resources to those more affected. You can (and should) do both. The curr...

Sonny Blount

Target smoking, oh yeah, yeah they're targeting that all right. Along with targeting an increase in vaping, that's gotta be a great health initiative right there increasing that sweet strawberry aroma every where. Proven many times, being rich helps best, hand out some more money just not to those ...

Sonny Blount

BlueThunder wrote: ↑Wed Jun 25, 2025 10:56 pm I would be tempted to Cantablack the tight five for the first test, maintain that white hot form momentum.

You want Christian Lio-Willie to start at lock?

Sonny Blount

Dirty Cantab that he is aside, Newell has had a fantastic season. I don't think anyone would have an issue with him being in the 23 somewhere. Well he hasn't been better as a test starter than Lomax and he hasn't been better than Tosi off the bench. Tosi really hasn't done all that much off the ben...

Sonny Blount

That’s ok as this government is going to improve health outcomes for all NZers ! Targeted indigenous race based iniatives are useless . How anyone continues to buy this utter bullshit is beyond me . Everyone with a brain knows ethnicity based health is bullshit and would degrade our health services...

Sonny Blount

And for Maori who currently have a life expectancy 7 years less than non Maori? Talk about being screwed once more. Based on that Maori men on average would live a whole six years after retiring. fudge that's a depressing stat That’s ok as this government is going to improve health outcomes for all...

Sonny Blount

That lions would have lost each game without Bod anyways . Did I imagine it or was one line of thought that pre Haka Bod was thought to be disrespecting it by doing some kind of action he has been told was ‘challenge accepted’ ? Like holding a feather and dropping it ? It’s 20 years ago so nobody r...

Sonny Blount

So actual 23 for France on 5th July: 1. Ethan de Groot 2. Codie Taylor 3. Tyrel Lomax 4. Scott Barrett 5. Tupou Vaa'i 6. Samipeni Finau 7. Du'Plessis Kirifi 8. Ardie Savea 9. Cameron Roigard 10. Beauden Barrett 11. Caleb Clarke 12. Jordie Barrett 13. Billy Proctor 14. Ruben Love 15. Will Jordan 16. ...

Sonny Blount

The architectural genius behind Wellington’s decaying rat’s nest of a building https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360730708/damien-grant-architectural-genius-behind-wellingtons-decaying-rats-nest-building I must have walked by or near to that building, but buggered if I can recall it. (If I’d been cl...

Sonny Blount

Wallace Sititi hasn't been in great form this season and may not have fully recovered from his injury - or maybe a case of the second season yips? Hopefully he can deliver for the AB's this year. Arguably Simon Parker was the best Chiefs loose forward this season. I get the impression the bigger th...

Sonny Blount

Perhaps, but also there maybe a reason that Sunni majority countries will be, quietly, egging on Israel. As an aside, did you know that the practice of Shia Islam was banned in Malysia? Israel is one issue that unites muslims. Not when it comes to Iran. I expect Jordan and Iraq okayed Israel using ...

Sonny Blount

Yes. I have a colleague at that age who describes it as the baby boomers pulling the ladder up behind them. They got all the benefits and then are busy removing them for the generation below them. In my view, the boomers' biggest relative advantage was affordable housing to income, more so than ter...

Sonny Blount

IMO this is the legacy of the current Israeli conflicts, which is turning western opinions against them. In Australia, the pro Palestinian support amongst young people of all races is strong. The pro-palestinian/pro-iran marchers in london are a loud minority. Do you honestly believe there's a sile...

Sonny Blount

With DMac - I guess the hope is that he can improve enough that by the time of the World Cup he is our best ten. But he needs to play test rugby to do this. He showed against Ireland the potential is there... and the more confident he gets, with game time... the better he will be. He's 30 years old...

Sonny Blount

Beauden Barrett is our best 10. He has proved that in the last 12 months.

Sonny Blount

By selling more games to tv and more exposure for sponsors and longer engagement with the fans. NPC isn't equal to SR. Why would sponsors want to pay more for games between teams without their internationals? It'll pnly be 3 -4 rounds. They do itfor State of Origin. Plus, sponsors aren't paying for...

Sonny Blount

jdogscoop wrote: ↑Sun Jun 08, 2025 6:49 am The problem with the week off is that it can actually do the top qualifiers a disservice. They get pitched in against a battle hardened side and have to get quickly back up to speed again.

3 knockout finals is also a good run through for the world cup.

Sonny Blount

Whist I understand your sentiment, the Chiefs becoming the lowest seed would have been a huge punishment for the Crusaders who finished the regular season 2nd and won their qualifying final. Facing the table topping team in a semi final wouldn't have been optimal. I just can't get on board with rew...

Sonny Blount

Aki is a great example because he was a talented but fringe player. NZR needed to give him a deal to hang around until he makes to the ABs. But the money wasn't there to be able to give fringe players a decent salary. No he's not, he was against the norm of talented young players at that time. Also...

Sonny Blount

I'm very disappointed it's coming to the end this quick. Been very enjoyable. No its too long. Super Rugby has 14 games + 3 finals. A similar sport, NFL, until recently had 17 games + finals. And is it for the sport for the entire year. Firstly, the NFL season is 5 months - nowhere near the entire ...

Sonny Blount

I'm very disappointed it's coming to the end this quick. Been very enjoyable. No its too long. Super Rugby has 14 games + 3 finals. A similar sport, NFL, until recently had 17 games + finals. And is it for the sport for the entire year. Rugby then follows up with a Rugby Championship, NPC, and NH t...

Sonny Blount

Wingers who run out suck.

Sonny Blount

It's the quarter finals and the stadium isn't even half full. Super rugby is dead or rugby is dying in Australia :( Crowds and TV ratings (+27%) are up this year, but the crowds at all finals games have been very poor. Their attempt to shoehorn extra games in has backfired. It was expected that thi...

Sonny Blount

It always surprises me how poorly rugby players are paid for a supposed major world sport. Even top tier cricket players destroy those salaries. A quick google shows even Trent Boult who is a good but I don't think great cricket player earned $3 million in 2023. Trent was a great international cric...

Sonny Blount

Now who’s being naive . If you don’t think watching one’s family either being shot or blown to pieces doesn’t create any desire for retribution and hate you’re completely unrealistic and unhinged . How do you think that Palestinian parents should coach their remaining children after the atrocities ...

Sonny Blount

Now who’s being naive . If you don’t think watching one’s family either being shot or blown to pieces doesn’t create any desire for retribution and hate you’re completely unrealistic and unhinged . How do you think that Palestinian parents should coach their remaining children after the atrocities ...

Sonny Blount

It's a bizarre world we live in. A nation who claims to represent those who were the victims of unimaginable Nazi horrors acts in ways that have many parrallels with the Nazis. Those who defend their actions resemble the Holocaust deniers who claim those Nazi horrors never happened. And countries t...

Sonny Blount

https://press.un.org/en/2024/gapal1473.doc.htm https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide Genocide Certainly their snipers don’t seem to miss children, so I’ll admit accuracy. https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/t%C3%...

Sonny Blount

Who doesn’t ! There’s just a certain on going genocide that’s not ultimately going to make that easier . OK so could you please define genocide as there have been several examples over the years and to this day. Communities subjected to geocide do not tend to increase in number. You use this word b...

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