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Organisational employees "know" what the boss actually wants, regardless of all the corporate statements and slogans, and they deliver that
His general instructions may be "keep me informed, no surprises" but if he doesn't want to know or can't be bothered, that's what he will get

Sometimes, when the times are desperate enough there is virtue in recalling Horatio at the Bridge
The big question is how you know that it is time, and then whether you have the personal courage to act on it
Dem Senators not showing a lot

Exactly
Universal playbook

Anyone heard from/about Erika Kirk lately?

Yep
A major problem is that it mirrors the whole social/political/economic/psychological landscape, with added special powers to apply state-sanctioned force
So any suggested reforms will be systemically resisted and the more broadly supported, the more the fascist factions in power will reject them

If Judith Collins WANTED to be believed, she would have added that she had personally been in touch with the victim, invited her to parliament for 2 conversations,
1. Appropriate compensation and acknowledgement
2. Her possible role in the upcoming deep review and reform of the policing system

Fair point
I was thinking more at the operational level where the trust has to be unconditional & instant. Once that is institutionalised, the bad guys sit within it and use it
RN the US military is being issued illegal orders, & following them because personal loyalty is overriding legal obligation

And those who might want "broken windows" style policing, can they please explain the significance of 150k+ fraudulent breath tests as an indicator of corporate culture?

Saw an interview with a US military commander who said that HIS job, above and beyond everything else, was to identify the 5% who were a risk to the unit, and get rid of them
Otherwise 15% more would be corrupted and the rest would stop trying
Key task for every level, fire the shonky ones

and maybe a punctuated career path, for every step up you have to take 6months sabbatical in the ranks every couple of years, with an upper limit, the commissioner role taken by the board?
Whatever, it needs to be radical or nothing changes

And even loyalty is weaponised, plenty of cases where women especially are kept in line by the threat of it's withdrawal in a tough spot
We need, at least, a permanent board of diverse backgrounds, led by women and Tangata Whenua, including disabled, LGBTQ+, gang reps with legal support from a KC

Wasn't it supposed to be "a trial", albeit with no controls, no ethics OK, no actual aims and objectives, methods or lit review, but anyway, a trial

We have the results

Evidence based or do we just keep on the fetid swamp vibe?

Must be the day for it. Wikipedia is next, then Secret Santa, but since Givealittle uses Windcave, and, given their T&C I don't use them, can someone, foxy? DM me a bank account I can send directly?

The more I think about it, the more I like it, an empty suit nattering Luxonisms would get RIGHT under his thin skin

I await the shemozzle when a whole raft of their owners, with Gloria Soames and clifftop views, foreshore mansions with their own boat ramps, wake up one morning to the gurgle of a tidal surge sucking the sand out from their foundations

Redundancy there, pretty much any suit, of any colour, is more sentient than Luxon
But otherwise, yes, I'd like to see it, someone needs to pull a Gary Trudeau on him

He genuinely believes that stealth aircraft are invisible in the visible spectrum