Posts by rodgerd
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What I'm saying is Machiavellian, but that doesn't make it untrue.
It makes me think I'd never, ever hire you in the first place.
Personally I've done quite well as a contractor thus far by documenting and sharing knowledge. My clients appreciate it and keep asking me back.
Watching _Life of Brian_ tonight has been enlivened after reading some of the stuff that's come out in the past few weeks, and some of the nonsense Russell is covering in this post is a prime example.
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Why is it that a big chunk of 20th century history has cones and tape round it and you can't go there without offending people?
The millions of dead people make it kind of obviously a bad comparison to anyone who isn't a complete fucking idot.
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Naming someone a 'terrorist' in New Zealand should be viewed with ULTIMATE gravity. It is the worst appellation you can assign to an individual in the modern world. When a government does it then every other government listens.
Someone, somewhere will defend a terrorist as a freedom fighter. I'd rather be called a terrorist than a pedophile.
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Pogrom = Russians v Jews
Actually, pogrom is used more widely than that; for example to refer to Polish massacres and explusions of Jews.
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ethnic cleansing
This bugs me. Can we call it what it is, please? Pogrom. Genocide. "Ethnic clensing" was a euphemism invented by Milosovic's mob to try and downplay their murderous ways.
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Rodney Hide's crusade against Mallard,
Was Rodders this insenced when a certain future National deputy leader was beating up pensioners?
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but the country and its people have a chance of a decent future now,
I'm sure women being beaten and murdered for wanting to attend schools and hold down jobs would be happy to discuss that perspective with you.
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"Thank god we're not playing Fuck up the Middle East at the Superdome!" A bit repulsive even.
Well, it certainly makes it a bit hard for anyone who isn't a complete hypocrite (as well as being a worthless piece of shit) to complain about Saudi Arabian terrorists deciding to blow up buildings in New York.
Better to play an away game, right?
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The judgement rests on the counter factual of how things would have evolved in Iraq had the invasion not occured.
I think we can safely assume women would, in general, have been in a considerably better position than they are now, given the old repressive regime was considerably less mysogynistic than the current one.
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Actually, the thing that gives me the biggest shits in so much of this coverage is the self-pitying tone for US and British coverage. "Oh, it's a tragedy, we've lost 171 British troops."
Volunteer members of armies that invaded another nation, fueled by a pack of lies, and are responsible, directly and indirectly, for some indeterminate number of hundreds of thousands of deaths, but they're the real victims.