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[wizard of Tauranga]

So what are the parameters of a "meritocracy"? Who is deciding that? Hint: The Right. It seems the right are deciding those, precisely the point of the original post. And those parameters are deliberately divisive.

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So they, like yourself, are making shit up to reinforce a deliberate strategy of a weaponised fake culture war.

Immm… individuals (left or right) making individual judgements on who is best for the job rather than having a requirement for diversity targets.

Diversity targets are the divisiveness that gave NZ First and Act a platform last election. People don’t like being second class citizens.

Go ask the navy or the reserve bank what happens when you don’t go for the best

 

[Noitall]

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

Will be interesting to see if the government listens to the public. Not a good chapter for Seymour

 

[MaybeTop8]

This lunch program - a complete fucking failure of privatisation. A disaster.


View: https://bsky.app/profile/keithng.bsky.social/post/3lk5en6pnfs2w

 

[MaybeTop8]

Utterly corrupt. Utterly regressive.

Wind power firm departs, amid fast-track controversy over seabed mining

A plan for an offshore wind power generation site has been abandoned as the company has pulled out, as controversy continues over seabed mining also planned for the area.

www.rnz.co.nz

 

[defensivebomb]

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

Will be interesting to see if the government listens to the public. Not a good chapter for Seymour

Not great for him.

It does raise an interesting point that voters and the media seem to be more concerned with the government’s role in providing free lunches and having a ferry across the cook strait than they are about the big issues like the brain drain, education, health, quality of life etc

 

[defensivebomb]

Utterly corrupt. Utterly regressive.

Wind power firm departs, amid fast-track controversy over seabed mining

A plan for an offshore wind power generation site has been abandoned as the company has pulled out, as controversy continues over seabed mining also planned for the area.

www.rnz.co.nz

I’d go with utterly incompetent more like

At the same time, Labour can’t throw stones in this regard

 

[defensivebomb]

This lunch program - a complete fucking failure of privatisation. A disaster.


View: https://bsky.app/profile/keithng.bsky.social/post/3lk5en6pnfs2w

Probably wasn’t a great idea giving the contract to a company called Libelle Group

 

[Mr Drag]

I’d go with utterly incompetent more like

At the same time, Labour can’t throw stones in this regard

Why does Patea need a wind farm They got their own dam and sod all people to use the power!