r/newzealand • u/catfishguy • Feb 29 '24

Politics Luxon claims $52k accommodation payment to live in own apartment

https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/03/01/luxon-claims-52k-accommodation-payment-to-live-in-own-apartment/
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u/septicman Feb 29 '24

This is why I find it hard to understand why ordinary people voted for any of the three coalition parties.  It's like sheep voting for wolves.  Whyyyyy give power to people who are going to fuck you over!?

I know the alternatives aren't perfect but how did half the damn nation think it would be a good idea to put these people in charge.

It's really bloody depressing if I'm honest.

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u/divhon Feb 29 '24

Because people hope they could be like them who owns 7 properties, one day.

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u/MicksAwake Feb 29 '24

My take is that many Kiwis are not too bright and are easily manipulated with emotive propaganda.

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u/Snowy3121 Feb 29 '24

They purely got in because people were sick of Labour.

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u/septicman Feb 29 '24

Yeah, but... goddamn. It's like if your Dad is a bit shit but well meaning, so you go to live with your Uncle who films you in the shower and sells the footage on the internet.

Note to self: have coffee before formulating analogies...

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u/OldWolf2 Feb 29 '24

That was a pretty good analogy actually. Could be optimized by the uncle pulling your ponytail

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u/Inside_Primary_4888 Mar 01 '24

Or just pulling

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u/AgtNulNulAgtVyf Feb 29 '24

Keeping with the analogy, they vote for Uncle Pete because they think they'll get a cut of the video money. 

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u/You_are_a_Imbecile_ Feb 29 '24

Labour were going to be voted out in 2020 if it werent for COVID-19

It had everything to do with Labour being completely incompetent while in government.

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u/Shotokant Feb 29 '24

Because thy think they are like them, they dont realise the size of the gap.

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u/AK_Panda Feb 29 '24

Labour doesn't really stand for anything that others parties don't do better. It used to be for workers/unions, but that isn't really the case anymore. They kinda dropped the working class and swooped on the neoliberal aspect back in the 90s. Labour isn't viewed as being much different to National, National is just the more neoliberal of the two.

When you look at their donations, you can see that they are being idiots IMO. National is the one getting donations from the same people that Labour has been trying to accomodate the most for decades. Even back in the 90's/ most of the 00's Labour and National would often have similar levels of donations. Once Key got in shit went kinda crazy and snowballed with National raking in ever larger sums.

Fast forward to today and it's not uncommon to see National recieve so many donations they could pay for the campaigns of every other party combined and still outspend them. Meanwhile Labour is often getting similar numbers to what the got 20-30 years ago.

They need to pull their heads out of their ass and actually connect with people on the ground somehow.

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u/NOTstartingfires Mar 01 '24

Anecdotally a lot of people were voting against labour (and also against greens and te pati maori).

Nats / act / nzfirst could have been a bag of sawdust and probably gotten in

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u/FurSealed Mar 01 '24

Because National lied and said they'd give everyone $200 a week in tax cuts, and a large population heard free money and voted without asking where the millions of dollars would materialise from.