I always read stories about what’s going on in Gloriavale, and I quite enjoy videos of random communities abroad as well. Other than Gloriavale what other fringe communities exist in NZ?

  • BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    there are a lot of weird and small cults in NZ.

    Oh there is the business roundtable or whatever they are calling themselves these days.

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      They merged with the NZ Institute and collectively they call themselves the NZ Initiative now. You’ll see them in media quite often being quoted as though they’re presenting a consensus of experts in things rather than promulgating the desires of the fairly extreme idealogues they’ve always been.

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        1 year ago

        It’s a part of their deception. Keep changing the name so the people get confused and can’t hold you accountable.

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          NATLFED comes to mind when you say that, nothing to do with NZ, but the weird convoluted structure so no-one knows who is responsible for what