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WTF is wrong with Luxon? - harm_less - 17-05-2024
This describes how Luxon is being led by the nose by a minor part lead by a cooker who is well and truly past his used by date. https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/16/health-negotiators-told-to-prioritise-sovereignty-over-stopping-pandemics/
RE: WTF is wrong with Luxon? - Lilith7 - 17-05-2024
(17-05-2024, 06:26 PM)harm_less Wrote: This describes how Luxon is being led by the nose by a minor part lead by a cooker who is well and truly past his used by date. https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/16/health-negotiators-told-to-prioritise-sovereignty-over-stopping-pandemics/
Good grief - HOW can anyone be this stupid?! Do they seriously not understand the dire possibilities if there's another outbreak?? Or worse, another,different pandemic involving an even more serious disease?
With this, & their idiot stance on the environment it seems that either they're too dim to understand any dire possible consequences or they know about them & don't care/are willing to take the risk.
RE: WTF is wrong with Luxon? - Oh_hunnihunni - 17-05-2024
Thank goodness I kept my masks...
RE: WTF is wrong with Luxon? - harm_less - 20-05-2024
This article would seem to suggest that Luxon isn't well thought of in academic circles.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/20/the-mocking-of-luxon/
RE: WTF is wrong with Luxon? - Lilith7 - 20-05-2024
(20-05-2024, 03:38 PM)harm_less Wrote: This article would seem to suggest that Luxon isn't well thought of in academic circles.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/20/the-mocking-of-luxon/
Well,that's hardly surprising really, given that (with exceptions) most politicians are uninterested in the arts & tend not to bother giving out funding. I'm surprised he even attended.
RE: WTF is wrong with Luxon? - harm_less - 20-05-2024
(20-05-2024, 07:21 PM)Lilith7 Wrote:Not as surprised as those who were in attendance it would seem.(20-05-2024, 03:38 PM)harm_less Wrote: This article would seem to suggest that Luxon isn't well thought of in academic circles.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/20/the-mocking-of-luxon/
Well,that's hardly surprising really, given that (with exceptions) most politicians are uninterested in the arts & tend not to bother giving out funding. I'm surprised he even attended.
RE: WTF is wrong with Luxon? - Lilith7 - 21-05-2024
(20-05-2024, 08:43 PM)harm_less Wrote:(20-05-2024, 07:21 PM)Lilith7 Wrote: Well,that's hardly surprising really, given that (with exceptions) most politicians are uninterested in the arts & tend not to bother giving out funding. I'm surprised he even attended.Not as surprised as those who were in attendance it would seem.
Well to be fair,it would give anyone a bit of a turn - a politician turning up at something like that, he could have caused heart attacks!
RE: WTF is wrong with Luxon? - dken31 - 21-05-2024
Given that most academic circles are left-wing echo chambers, that sort of response is hardly surprising.
RE: WTF is wrong with Luxon? - Lilith7 - 21-05-2024
(21-05-2024, 03:19 PM)dken31 Wrote: Given that most academic circles are left-wing echo chambers, that sort of response is hardly surprising.
Yes, its a very strange thing, that apparent inability to appreciate the arts which seems so common among many of those on the right politically.
RE: WTF is wrong with Luxon? - Praktica - 21-05-2024
(21-05-2024, 03:19 PM)dken31 Wrote: Given that most academic circles are left-wing echo chambers, that sort of response is hardly surprising.
That's right - academics are intelligent people - right wingers, on the other hand...
RE: WTF is wrong with Luxon? - zqwerty - 21-05-2024
Simple minded and two faced are phrases that spring to mind when thinking of the right.
RE: WTF is wrong with Luxon? - Lilith7 - 22-05-2024
(21-05-2024, 10:14 PM)zqwerty Wrote: Simple minded and two faced are phrases that spring to mind when thinking of the right.
Well,its difficult to disagree. But to be fair, neither left or right here seems capable of thinking long term, which is what's needed - just their term in govt.