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Posted by sigismund on May 13, 2020, at 19:09:44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJNFkNEgLXQ&feature=youtu.be
Posted by beckett2 on May 13, 2020, at 22:15:02
In reply to Jacinda, posted by sigismund on May 13, 2020, at 19:09:44
I appreciate her avoidance of even revisiting or discussing the event. Good for her.
Posted by alexandra_k on May 14, 2020, at 0:52:39
In reply to Re: Jacinda, posted by beckett2 on May 13, 2020, at 22:15:02
Yes, I thought they both handled that really well.
Posted by alexandra_k on May 14, 2020, at 0:55:49
In reply to Re: Jacinda, posted by beckett2 on May 13, 2020, at 22:15:02
Winston's trying, too.
Posted by alexandra_k on May 14, 2020, at 18:15:00
In reply to Re: Jacinda, posted by alexandra_k on May 14, 2020, at 0:55:49
I initiated judicial review at the high court. me vs the university of auckland.
documented how they miscalculated my gpa and tag teamed with another nz university such that my work wasn't given to external examiners so as to keep me out of medicine.
i pointed out that the university equity policies and procedures are focused on how people with disabilities and people of certain minority groups are underachieving. not producing work up to standard. not meeting entry requirements. the equity policies and procedures make it sound like they will ONLY accept these people to study at the university if they agree,basically, to produce substandard work for them, and, of course, they only have entry at all from their benenifcence in choosing them for selections.
i think it is beacuse disability equity in fact is employed like it is in the university varsity blues thing in the US. that is to say in practice it amounts to a hoop that the kids of doctors jump through if they think they won't score highly enough on whatever tests etc. so, for testing accommodations. for adderal prescriptions. that kind of thing. for getting picked or chosen to do it because of who their parents are and then saying that they were picked because of disabiltiy inclusion.
i have been thinking about the university varsity blues thing...
1) why is she being tried in boston when the crime pertains to california?
2) why is she being tried at all?
she did not plead guilty. i understand that.
why not?
apparently her kids said she didn't even want to go to university.
so...
why not?
i don't know the kid. is she more than a pretty face? did she make an intelligent and informed decision that she need not go for the social capital -- because she's got plenty social capital as it is. and she doesn't really want to go to university for the learnings, or whatever, so...
so...
with respect to something she can do...
she can hold the system to account for people trying to game the university system. also... trying to game the social capital system. in some way... it's not good for that, either.
am i making any sense??
anyay... i just don't see that it looks at all good for the university of auckland. i don't see what possible defence they could have. i read the evidence i supply and i just don't see any defence for them, at all.
so...
i guess now i'm waiting on the courts. need to wait 25 days (plus some transit time) for the respondant to respond. But the respondant is likely to be ordered to change by the judge. I mean... I served teh person who acts as counsel for the council since there has been a change in VC and seems odd to serve the student rep. I don't know who the judge will name as the respondant. Then I guess that partiular person needs to be served.
I hate this country. It is impossible to achieve or accomplish anything. You spend your entire life re-inventing the wheel. Which is not world-leading or creative or... Crabs in a bucket. Indeed.
Posted by beckett2 on May 15, 2020, at 15:51:49
In reply to Re: Jacinda, posted by alexandra_k on May 14, 2020, at 0:52:39
> Yes, I thought they both handled that really well.
>
>Have you found your feelings about her to change over time?
I wasn't 100% behind our governor, but he's handling things really well. One of the first things he did was unequivocally shut down any racist BS against Chinese and Asian citizens here. It was getting weird. Crazy where people go under pressure.
Posted by alexandra_k on May 15, 2020, at 23:34:27
In reply to Re: Jacinda, posted by beckett2 on May 15, 2020, at 15:51:49
> Have you found your feelings about her to change over time?
Hmm. No. I still think of her as 'the avatar'. There is something... Canned. Packaged. Pre-processed about her.
When I read about the simple things she says having been passed through focus groups before hand... That sort of sums it up. There is much about her that feels to me to be the product of many focus groups.
I still think it is strange that she was at my undergraduate University around the time I was there and she wasn't a public figure at that time. But perhaps not. I don't know. We don't have university year books or class pics or anything like that. But honestly, it wouldn't turn out to surprise me if she wasn't cooked up from a lab in Britain or something. She does not speak with an accent to a kiwi ear. Most emphatically not.
I am seeing more aspets of avatar-ishness in our other ministers now, too.
I don't know how I feel about it.
I know they still earn far too much money compared to the amount of money other people are expected to live off. I know they still aren't progressing people on their qualifications or apprentiseships etc etc the way they are supposed to be processed. I know they still have only a select few being offered all the work.
I don't suppose my feelings about her have changed, at all. I think she gets things right a lot of the time. I think we are lucky we get more time than anybody else in the world to see how all the other leaders handle situations first before coming to a deliberated and careful decision as to how we will handle it.
I think that is the situation really.
> I wasn't 100% behind our governor, but he's handling things really well. One of the first things he did was unequivocally shut down any racist BS against Chinese and Asian citizens here. It was getting weird. Crazy where people go under pressure.Good. That is good to hear. You are California -- right?
Posted by sigismund on May 19, 2020, at 2:54:28
In reply to Re: Jacinda, posted by beckett2 on May 15, 2020, at 15:51:49
>Crazy where people go under pressure.
Sometimes, and sometimes they were never any good to begin with.
So refugees have not been spreading the virus? Like they lit the fires here?
Posted by sigismund on May 19, 2020, at 2:58:21
In reply to Re: Jacinda, posted by alexandra_k on May 15, 2020, at 23:34:27
>There is much about her that feels to me to be the product of many focus groups.
Because New Zealanders are better than Australians the results of the focus groups are better. We had a similar thing with Julia Gillard. She was better when she spoke from the heart, as in her misogeny speech.
Posted by alexandra_k on May 20, 2020, at 5:53:49
In reply to Re: Jacinda, posted by sigismund on May 19, 2020, at 2:58:21
Hmm. I don't know about Gillard.
We haven't been blaming refugees, no.
We are quiet about refugees. I think the only thing we know about refugees, really, is that they are very very very very wealthy. And we are lucky if they are not wanted for war crimes in international courts. Because we value them for their money. Of course we do. Oh yes we do. That's how come they get their documents processed. Unlike everyone else.
I am still waiting for my filings in the HIgh Court of Auckland to be acknowledged by the court as being received. As being filed.
They seem to think they have a choice. Again. Things aren't filed.. THings aren't applied for... Things aren't processed.. . Unless you pay us a facilitiation payment (or something) we simply don't acknowledge / process any of the things.
Nothing of mine seems to be processed.
Waiting...
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