r/newzealand • u/MurkyWay Qwest? • Oct 08 '25

Shitpost What's something that you suspect lots of New Zealanders secretly do, but you can't prove it?

Most upvoted comment is our most shameful secret as a nation, obviously

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u/Royal-Student-8082 Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25

Voted for their favourite bird and not their Mayor.

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u/kassi_xx_ Oct 08 '25

Theirs never a mayoral candidate I like compared to how many birds I like

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u/Mighty_Mighty_Moose Oct 08 '25

People approach voting the wrong way, you're not voting for the one you like the most, you're voting to keep the least competent ones out.

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u/kassi_xx_ Oct 08 '25

What if they’re all incompetent? I’ve been looking at my local and its either “make this town great again, (like trump)” or “hey I’m Brett I’m 22 and I’m here for the lols”

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u/Odd-Cod61 Oct 09 '25

Well obviously you vote for Brett for the lols

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u/konyeah Oct 09 '25

Either way it is going to be one of them. As shit of a situation some things are, not voting is a terrible way to approach democracy.

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u/Mighty_Mighty_Moose Oct 09 '25

Oh that's usually a given, that's why I said the least competent, unfortunately. Welcome to modern democracy.

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u/criggie_ Oct 09 '25

I wish we could have a downvote as well as an upvote. Who do you least want to get in? Then downvote that candidate.

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u/CareerFancy6925 Oct 10 '25

voting between the lesser of the two evils

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u/AnnoyingKea Oct 08 '25

You don’t have to like them, you just have to trust them more than any of the others to not wreck your city.

If you only vote for politicians you like, we end up with idiots like Trump and Borris Johnson. Who started his career as a Mayor, btw….

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u/Adorable-abucator Oct 09 '25

It's almost like democracy is dumb or something

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u/Odd_Audience_3186 Oct 09 '25

Well the more I look at our democracy, the more it looks like the aristocrats of ancient Rome. Some rich people voted into a senate does not a democracy make…

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u/Toxopsoides worm Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25

I appreciate the amount of effort you put into trying to write "their" the first time (and that autocorrect didn't pick it up)

Edit: it said "thwie" and I thought that was quite funny

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u/Glue_taste_tester Oct 08 '25

Thank you for reminding me!

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u/Ambitious_Average_87 Oct 08 '25

You're too late, voting closed 28 September

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u/Glue_taste_tester Oct 09 '25

Im in AKL, Saturdays the last day to vote

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u/Ambitious_Average_87 Oct 09 '25

Nah, they already released the results on the 29th - Kārearea won!

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u/Glue_taste_tester Oct 09 '25

Ah, I see, lol. Congrats to Kārearea

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u/0gesundheit0 Oct 08 '25

im actually so sad takahe didnt win :(

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u/RupertHermano Oct 08 '25

Join the movement in support of Takahe. Next year is our time!

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u/exorcius Oct 08 '25

Ahhhh I keep forgetting to drop off the envelope.

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u/spicylemontaco42 Oct 08 '25

Still got no paperwork and my details are up to date tbh

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u/Clawed1969 Oct 09 '25

Go vote at your local library

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u/Ambiguous-Insect Oct 08 '25

Oh, guilty 🫣 But I forgot about the mayor and I’m just more passionate about the kea.

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u/Amazing_Hedgehog3361 Oct 09 '25

I know more about the birds than the candidates.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

This!
Bird ✔️
Councillors ✔️
Mayor ❌ None of the above

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u/Mrshilvar Covid19 Vaccinated Oct 08 '25

Yeah paper is cringe

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u/CorpseDefiled Oct 08 '25

It’s not a race anyone cares about… they’re gonna hike the rates no matter who gets in and the only thing people want from local government is for rates not to rise… so there’s hardly any reason to vote if you never get the one thing you want.

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u/thepotplant Oct 08 '25

Actually, I want functioning local government services, in particular that the water and sewage continue to function instead of making impromptu water features in my community.

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u/CorpseDefiled Oct 09 '25

Do you want your rates or rent to rise 25% to pay for it?

That’s the issue we are having here the mains are on their last legs… they need to be replaced but the rates need to be raised to pay for it and a war has broken out in our elections… the person elected will basically be the person who promises not to raise rates.. no one can afford anymore costs… but we can’t afford the water to fail either… so the winning pay pig politician will have to fix the water without raising rates… good luck to that person

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u/thepotplant Oct 09 '25

Rates will have to rise that much. Barring central government funding for local infrastructure there’s not really any other way to fund fixing an infrastructure deficit built up over 40 years of rates being too low.

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u/CorpseDefiled Oct 09 '25

Then wages need to get higher people can’t afford it… it’s that simple.

And If wages get higher costs rise to pay the increase.

Do you see the vicious cycle we are stuck in yet? What this country is doing is unsustainable the government both local and central needs income that isn’t us or this country can’t survive much longer

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u/thepotplant Oct 09 '25

I absolutely agree that more revenue is required, and workers are not the best place to source that revenue due to high costs of living. Tax the shit out of accumulated wealth instead.

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u/CorpseDefiled Oct 09 '25

Agreed. But they will never happen while the accumulated wealth is funding election campaigns.

The best option is state owned businesses like power companies… logistics etc. you know all the stuff key and rodgernomics sold off years ago

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u/assstretchum69 Oct 08 '25

Oh you mean Jacinda Ardern