Political Caption Competition

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1. At least Greenlanders have better defence systems than NZ Armed Services.
   Headlines in 2025.

   NZAS in dingys meet invaders with broomsticks.

   NZ runs out of snow to feed river systems.

   Luxie piggybacks Netanyahu across the beach as port infrastructure was canned.

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2. Caption for all contexts – my version of saying:
   ‘You can lead a human to reason, but you can’t make him think!’
   (him,her, them,it,ia)

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3. The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
   Classics of Science Fiction https://classicsofsciencefiction.com
   20 Oct 2022 — This 1953 novel is about science denialism, conspiracy theories, how fake news travels, the ways media shapes a news story, and many other ideas …
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   The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
   Penguin Books New Zealand https://www.penguin.co.nz
   The Kraken Wakes is a brilliant novel of how humankind responds to the threat of its own extinction and, ultimately, asks what we are prepared to do in order …
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   It was Mark Twain who once remarked sagely, in the person of Pudd’nhead Wilson, that “truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction is obliged to stick to probability, and truth ain’t.” 21 Jan 2019
   Famous Sayings #133 — ‘Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction’

   Mark that eh! An insight from two outliers who remained good, true humans despite vicissitudes.
   And further quote from Mark Twain:
   ~The Person Sitting in Darkness is almost sure to say: “There is something curious about this — curious and unaccountable. There must be two Americas: one that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once-captive’s new freedom away from him, and picks a quarrel with him with nothing to found it on; then kills him to get his land.”
   https://rumachak.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/the-person-sitting-in-darkness-mark-twain/

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4. IDF just before ICJ deliver their verdict

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