I hope it was shitty Australian or Californian Chardonnay and not the classy Kiwi tipple.

NZ has an economy built on the processing of grass into animal protein and thereby predicated on the suffering of animals. In my view being a vegetarian is unpatriotic :-) .

The UK has some pretty easy defamation laws, basically if his reputation is impugned in the eyes of a reasonable man then he is defamed. Not USA, UK.

The chap he defamed was last heard of talking to his lawyers and he has an open and shut case of defamation. How much cash does Musk have on hand?

Bollocks. Melamine was consciously added by scumbags to up the 'protein' count in milk products and increase their pay-out.

it was not found because the Fonterra subsidiary in China do not test for such industrial additives in milk; it is not tested for just like you do not test for cement in orange juice. It is not in the process chain at any stage

Bollocks. Universal healthcare is not the end of the world, do you see Canadians being held down in a police state? Australia? New Zealand? France? Germany? UK? Well probably in the UK surveillance society yes.

Yeah but what about all that FREEDOM! you are dispensing from the drones?

Can't put a price on that FREEDOM!

It's Ok. There is no AGW so this will not happen. :-)

Florida will not be submerged either.

I was reading the SMH yesterday about your electricity 'reforms'. Way to go Australia! What a dumpster fire that has turned out to be, as bad as your thieving banks.

This man is telling the truth. Look how good you have it with the Orange guy and his ilk in charge.

Social democracy is the model it can also be referred to as.
A mixture of state intervention (free education, free/ low cost health care etc.) and a regulated market economy. It is what Australia and NZ would refer to their systems as, even the right wing parties adhere to it as it would be political suicide to disestablish it.

Undercutting and weakening it is another thing however.

No one in NZ is conscripted/ coerced into being a doctor.

Musk, with his attacks on journalists as well, comes across as a pretty thin skinned individual. As long as you praise him you are fine but if you criticise him then he goes all seppo.

And feral cats for that matter as well.

Remember the UK is known as the 'Mother of Parliaments' not the 'Home of Democracy.'

Don't come to New Zealand, I live here and we don't want the rest of you screwing up the place anymore. We are more than capable of screwing it up on our own.
As for Thiel and the other bat-shit weirdos his house plans are public information, we know where his panic room is.

What is he going to do when the local New World supermarket in Wanaka runs out of Krug?