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Strypey"Violence has no place in our democracies."
#CLuxon, 2026
Unless of course it's a genocide being carried out by the government of one democracy, with funding and weapons provided by the governments of others. Then we have to both-sides it, rather than unambiguously condemning it. Don't we Mr PM.
Speaking of economic astrology ...
"... Without doubt, the number 1 thing is to make sure the economy is growing, and that people are feeling it."
#CLuxon, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/focusonpolitics?share=8ea2a808-b255-4337-88d0-1ab609252fde
As a statement, "the economy is growing" is about as meaningful as 'Jupiter is in retrograde'. After decades of financialisation and the FIRE economy, number-go-up in neoclassical economic measures has no relationship to citizens' standard of living.
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"[3 Waters is] fundamentally the creation of these 4 mega ... bureaucratic entities, that are actually stripping power away from local communities, and stripping those aasets."
#CLuxon, clip played on The Detail podcast, 2023
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/the-detail?share=58b425f8-6bc9-4e38-adf8-d9f921904eb9
The NatACT First campaign machines came up with a wide range of such faux-localist talking points while they were weaponising 3 Waters as a wedge issue against the government of the day.
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"What's I'm doing is focused very much on my job. As I keep saying; polls, commentariat, rumours, my job is to get on with the country, and getting it sorted for people."
#CLuxon, speaking to Ryan Bridge in 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=8e7b038f-039b-4c10-86c4-cb2a67ad34af
Oh dear. The political truism regurgitation machine has started stringing random clauses together into vaguely sentence-shaped objects, which don't really hang together (they also don't mean anything but that's not new.
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#CLuxon is doubling down on the #B416 social media ban for kiwis under 16. This is a terrible idea, for many well-documented reasons. But, if tech policy and civil rights activists allow ourselves to be pulled into a narrow, negative campaign against it, there's a risk this will push many people into supporting it on a 'better than nothing' basis.
What we need is a positive campaign for a suite of tech regulations that can actually shift power away from technofascists.
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"I just don't- (sigh), I'm focused, ah, I was elected to do a job. And I know what my job is which is to clean up the mess, turn it around, and get it heading in the right direction and that's what I'm focused on.
And that's, I know that's, yeah.
There's so many different things coming- that's what I'm focused on from beginning to end."
#CLuxon, 2025
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/572447/coalition-loses-power-in-new-political-poll
CLuxon can't even recite his own talking points convincingly anymore. I'm reminded of Todd Muller ...
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