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stui magpie
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Stop reading the Guardian. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Skids
Quitting drinking will be one of the best choices you make in your life.
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I haven't given too many share tips on here, but you'd have to consider GSR as a buy _________________ Don't count the days, make the days count. |
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David
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stui magpie
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I agree.
If you're going to write a news article about what someone did, put the fkn detail in there.
While I can understand that what she posted would likely have been upsetting to a number of people it's not illegal in Australia to diss a Monarch (I'd suggest not trying it in Thailand though).
I think the reaction is a lot over the top personally.
Yeah, pull her into line, get her to delete it but suspended for a match and given a (suspended) fine of 25% is too much. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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David
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I've had misgivings about Lidia Thorpe's performance as a senator for a while now, but this new story is particularly damning:
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/leaked-email-reveals-greens-staffer-scared-and-in-shock-after-lidia-thorpe-s-truly-awful-outburst-20220905-p5bfdn.html
Quote: | David Mejia-Canales, who resigned from Thorpe’s office in June, accompanied the senator to the meeting with Atkinson and Marcus Stewart, the co-chairs of the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria, and their policy adviser, Nicole Schlesinger, to discuss the state’s treaty process in a committee room in Parliament House, Canberra, on June 22, 2021.
His account of what happened and his efforts to inform the Greens’ leadership of Thorpe’s “appalling conduct” are detailed in an apology email sent from his Parliament House address to Atkinson and Stewart in June, one year after the meeting, as one of his final acts before leaving the senator’s office.
In the email, a copy of which has been obtained by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Mejia-Canales said he still did not know why Thorpe had agreed to the meeting only to proceed “to behave so badly”.
“Since that meeting, I have wanted to reach out to you to apologise because the conduct that I witnessed at that meeting was by far one of the most unprofessional displays I have ever seen, not just during the length of my career, but in my life,” the email said.
Mejia-Canales described his shock at how the meeting “went so wrong and so quickly” and said his “biggest regret” was not ending the meeting sooner. He said he ended the meeting by getting a colleague to call the room’s phone.
“I hope that you can understand that I was scared and in shock because I have never, ever been in that situation at work,” he wrote. |
I can't shake the feeling that the Greens have given themselves a hospital pass by elevating Thorpe to her current position in the party. Obviously they – as we all should – are seeking to champion Indigenous representation in parliament, and she was an obvious pick on face value as someone who had done the hard yards in state politics. And it's great that there's someone who can push for Indigenous rights (and, yes, do so radically and unapologetically) from a position of experience and personal stakes.
But none of that automatically makes her a good politician, and I really worry about the direction that Thorpe is taking the party in and whether there's any internal pushback. Basically, she seems to have really poor political judgement, spends far too much time coming up with tabloid-bait ideas like renaming the state of Victoria, often seems to act as if her audience are fellow radical identitarian leftists on Twitter and, judging by this news story, is just a pretty unpleasant person all round. This is all a long way from how the Greens actually are as a party and how they should be positioning themselves, and I fear it will hurt their credibility badly if she isn't able to reel her bull-in-a-china-shop approach back in. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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stui magpie
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I read that this morning.
She is a walking own goal, I personally don't have a high opinion of her. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Jezza
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She's a vile person.
The sooner the Greens get rid of her, the better off the party will be. _________________ | 1902 | 1903 | 1910 | 1917 | 1919 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1935 | 1936 | 1953 | 1958 | 1990 | 2010 | 2023 | |
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David
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stui magpie
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Must be nice to have a metric shitpile of money. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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pietillidie
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^Anything to save face. Like literally anything at that level of inflated worth.
Here's a serious and seriously perplexing question that I reckon we have to solve: How do we escape the near iron-clad law that malignant narcissists, psychopaths, and the deranged apparently by definition control everything?
Those born into elite status are the cultural version thereof, i.e., the detached culture in which the elite are embedded does the work of those mental maladies by effectively distorting people's brains through a brainwashing process.
So, whether the power or wealth is inherited or seized through other means, the control gained assumes other-destructive characteristics are dominant.
Leadership and power at any scale is just too hard and too costly in terms of a person's humanity for anyone decent to access and then take it on. And yet, we need leaders, movers and shakers. It's a genuine social dilemma we seem trapped in. _________________ In the end the rain comes down, washes clean the streets of a blue sky town.
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David
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stui magpie
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It was a massive conflict of interest that she didn't disclose.
If she had of diclosed it at the time, the only likely repercussion would be to replace her on that Justice committee or whatever that she was on at the time, so this is not about her relationship as such but her non disclosure of it. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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David
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yeah, I read another piece on the ABC site that made that issue clearer. Still a bit murky as the guy wasn't actually a criminal (to our knowledge), but the fact that some of the materials she was receiving related directly to bikie gangs is hitting a bit close to home. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
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stui magpie
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Jezza
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The photoshop gets me every time
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