Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Andrew Stevenson,
Wasn't this announced after the September quake?
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Jolisa,
Is it naive to hope that a pause button has been pressed on that proposal by the horrible coincidence of nature randomly kicking these people in the crotch? And not just a pause button, but a rewind. Indeed, an eject. Taking us back to first principles: inasmuch as we do to the least of our brethren, etc.
I would vigorously agree, but for the accusation that I may be one of those people whose favourite policy prescriptions...
(In fact, I'm exactly that person. Una-fucking-pologetically.)
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Sacha,
It will be rebuilt and strengthened to be safe, no matter the cost.
The upper basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi, which is no less symbolic for that city as the cathedral is for Christchurch I would say, also killed people in the 1997 earthquake, and was rebuilt inside of two years.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Keir Leslie,
To be honest, I think this isn't a conversation we should be having now. It's too emotional (too soon in many ways), and too many people are too fucked to contribute, and too much becomes `don't you care about Christchurch'.
I agree, and I didn't mean to suggest that it's a conversation that begins this week.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Russell Brown,
Well, I hope we have that conversation.
Don't want to come across all Kumbaya-like, but it's up to us.
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How we raise the money is almost a secondary consideration to what we raise the money for. What city do we want? I think Oram's article was timely. Do I have faith that our current government is capable of appreciating the challenges of building a city for the next century and not the last one? No. But then, thankfully, it goes beyond Parliament. We're going to have to have a major national conversation about the kind of society we want and the kind of investments we are prepared to make in order to have it, and it will involve a fundamental rethinking of what we mean by welfare and ecology.
If the Left is ready for that challenge, suddenly they have something to campaign on. But as I say it's about politics in a far broader sense.
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Not a bad idea, Che.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
*very deep breath taken* Don’t go there. Please.
In different circumstances, I'd be more than happy to. And in different circumstances, I'd expect her to have to resign.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Rape culture is no more "natural" than casual racism or sexism.
If you don't get how it's infinitely worse for the Minister of Corrections to say something like that, and phrase it so casually, I guess that's that.
I was pretty incensed by Nigel Lundy's suggestion that "[Some renters] are treating the earthquake like an excuse to avoid their responsibilities."
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Er... for "circumstances" read "circumspect" above. What the?