Why the skepticism anywho?

You can think what you want, and I’d respect that. I would not impose out of mere disagreement. But I am who I am.

They don’t have less corruption though. They’re literally dismantling their own democratic processes. New Zealand at least has its declared values in mind. And perhaps this is all not helped by their desire for American defense or by talks that Canada might join the EU. The rest of what I said were just pointers.

I am a transracially mixed race asexual woman from Vermont; you are shooting the messenger with overvigilance if you think I’m saying anything inspired by a random menagerie of bigotry.

You don’t think the EU or its member states have any corruption? The streets of cities like Rome and Paris are filled with scammers whom they just let roam around to do their thing. Spain in particular has a massive burglary problem. UK police don’t even necessarily trust themselves during public events. I know that in the very least, Auckland isn’t lazy.

You say that like mentioning happiness and democratic stability in comparison to EU countries is irrelevant to the assertion that EU countries are somehow doing better than it.

New Zealand has ranked higher than the EU in terms of both democracy and happiness.

Not that being unbanned from a certain Ask community wouldn’t make up for it, but to think your response was provided moments before I was banned for something as petty as my medical history from the local progressive Christian communities of all places who won’t talk about it (not that there isn’t a foreshadowing there). Here I thought this was the safest group from RFK’s influence.

It depends on what you mean. NZ is better than the majority, if not all of, the world’s nations.

As opposed to what? A friend?

The Earth looks smaller from the moon than I remember.

I didn’t know there was a time limit.

With all due respect, it doesn’t mean they’re insulting every aspect of them though.

Probably less than if he died falling from a balcony window.

So much for the growing.

When you said Tails, I thought this was going to be about the Sonic character.

It’s called delicious.

The context behind the last part is that certain marginalized friends wanted someone on the inside to act as a buffer in case they come up in conversations, and it led to a whole debate about whether the intentions of the founders of a community, the intentions of the majority of a community, and the intentions of each individual in a community can be separated. I am an individual and don’t endorse the values the group is associated with. I previously used the analogy of an alternate timeline where nobody likes Uncle Iroh because he joined the fire nation military even though he never actually did any of the fighting. It’s an oversimplification to say I’m “defending kiwifarms”.

Same.

Same.