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(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.
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Thank goodness I kept my masks...
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(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.
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Given that most academic circles are left-wing echo chambers, that sort of response is hardly surprising.
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(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.
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Simple minded and two faced are phrases that spring to mind when thinking of the right.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche
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(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.
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