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Polity: So who exactly placed conditions…, in reply to SteveH,
It’s an illustration of what sort of debacle asking “would you like to change?” first could result in.
Of course, that counterfactual results from retaining the same problematic step that gave us the current selection: the undemocratic (and far from transparent) narrowing of choices by committee. If, after a successful vote to change, a popular vote had led to the current shortlist, that would be a very different thing. With neither of those preconditions, we have, as Alex says, an unsalvageable mess.
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outright $26m spend on political game-playing by the government
Whether or not the flag changes, the process benefits National – not least, by free opinion polling about how to market itself in an image NZers identify with. And it didn’t exactly hurt their brand consciousness that the design submission phase was framed as a survey about national identity.
Even if Key doesn't get his preferred result, that doesn’t harm National much in the long term, if you believe this was going to be Key’s last term anyway. -
Polity: Refugees and aid - we’re laggards, in reply to David Hood,
People are just making the assumption that he is a [...] student
Troll = troll. Among all the post(ur)ing, that’s all we can be certain of.
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I can use any source I like to gain information.
A fallacy of entitlement, if you’re including “any online community” within that range of sources. In a community, you can ask anybody to help you seek information. But the locals may choose to help, or not. Dunno about you, but doing homework for someone who is not clear about what they want and why, and who doesn’t seem quite to get that there are real people on the other side of the screen, doesn’t sound a very productive use of time to me.
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*sigh* I take it, from the similar posting history and discourse structures employed, Shannon C is a classmate doing the same Comms assignment?
You guys might want to talk to your tutors about the methodology and ethics of conducting participatory research. Most people tend not to like having their buttons pushed just to see what happens. -
Polity: Refugees and aid - we’re laggards, in reply to Shannon C,
Don’t you think that it is pathetic that we are arguing to put non New Zealand citizens before NZ citizens
No, I think it is pathetic that we are not doing anywhere near enough to help either group, instead preferring to waste time arguing that one group is somehow more deserving than another.
This is not a matter of funding. It is a matter of our shameful government deciding to prioritise corporate welfare over looking after ordinary people.
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To me subtweeters just seems to fill a gap in the spectrum between subwoofers , woofers and tweeters … so, not following this at all.
Is it something used for a dogwhistle? -
Speaker: Saying what we actually mean on…, in reply to BenWilson,
What data are you suggesting be used for dimensional analysis? Presumably some quantification of party (or personal) policy positions other than actual voting records. The latter exercise was attempted in 2008 for parliamentary votes in NZ. (You and I discussed some of the pitfalls here at the time.) And of course, in many cases the votes cast by individual members are not independent (even where there is no directly enforced party line, there are still groups of like-minded politicians). Under such conditions, a multidimensional PCA capturing variance in voting behaviour would probably not be as informative as a cluster analysis identifying “faction membership”.
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Polity: New Zealand and the TPP: “Or…, in reply to Tinakori,
Stop playing the blame game for a moment.
Do you support the TPP yourself, and if so, why? -
Polity: Too much to swallow on the TPP, in reply to andin,
Slightly more charitably: the fact that Labour originally started these negotiations, with other nations that are still involved (before everything got subverted by American corporations), might explain why they're reluctant to turn entirely against it just yet.