Posts by Sacha
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Just gets better. Pagani posts a response at his own blog titled "Does replying to trolls only encourage them?".
Danyl also posted "The blogger’s reply to the strategist" earlier, but his other thread seems better.
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Sacha,
John Pagani
Discussed by Danyl's commenters. Pagani even joins in:
But the hard issue for Labour is that pubic opinion iapproves of the Government’s direction. I’m not seeing your commenters engage with that , other than to assume it’s all because Labour hasn’t whacked the Government hard enough. I think it’s true that Labour could have attacked them harder, especially in the last couple of weeks when they inflicted a few of their own wounds just as National left some huge openings. But would that have changed the high approval ratings the government is getting? Not enough.
That’s not a comfortable position for the left to be in, but it’s one that has to be dealt with and no amount of abuse of me will change it.
Someone on talkback this morning argued, ‘All Labour has to do is ask “are you better off now than you were three years ago?”‘. Most people aren’t better off, and a few are much better off as a result of being looked after very well by the National Government. Why isn’t that a winning combo? Is it because Labour has done such a poor job of opposing – or is it because voters have given the Government a pass in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, earthquakes and relief that they haven’t launched another Mother of All Budgets?
Could we do beter at inspiring and motivating; and at managing our own stuff? Absolutely. We can do better at selling our values as well. But is that a satisfactory explanation for the state of the polls? Only in a world where we pretend voters want exactly what DimPost commenters want. But that is not the real world.
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Lianne Dalziel seems to have given an answer in passing.
Essentially we couldn’t vote for Gareth’s amendments when we had agreed a compromise on the bill with the government.
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Hard News: Friday Visions, in reply to Rex Widerstrom,
Steinman, eh.
For a period in 1983, two songs written and produced by Steinman held the top two positions on the Billboard singles chart, with "Total Eclipse of the Heart" at number one, and "Making Love out of Nothing at All", performed by Air Supply, at number two.
Don't worry, I won't torture others by linking to those tracks. You're not wearing boat shoes and jeans by any chance? :)
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Good. Seems at least John Pagani has been given marching orders from Labour. More.
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Russell Brown,
I commented
bloody well, too
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Muse: Hey Greg O'Connor, Krup You!, in reply to Heather Gaye,
'swallop
like
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Russell Brown,
Not the filesharing bill, no. That's in the US position on TPPA.
Rick Shera has just confirmed for me that Russell is right about this.
Nothing on TPMs in new Act but under #TPPA breaking a TPM would count as a strike even if underlying material out of #copyright
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Is it? The distinction between bills that have been through the select committee process (the Copyright stuff) and bills that have been rammed through without (CERRA) seems important to me.
You're commenting about one theme of Dalziel's post (second sentence quoted below). I'm talking about the other (first sentence):
But don’t blame Labour for voting for an agreed compromise rather than letting the bill remain in the form it was in when introduced. And don’t use the fact that the remaining stages were passed under an urgency motion when it meant nothing more than extended siting hours.
I am certainly not holding Labour responsible for Natonal's use of urgency. What gets my goat are utterances like this:
I am mindful of the fact that Labour introduced the original s92A that required termination to be the end point of a negotiated protocol between the ISPs and the rights holders. The agreement wasn’t reached...
How hard is it to admit you got it wrong rather then distort matters so your hands seem clean? Integrity is an attractive quality.
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Russell Brown,
Curran has already said she'd recommend a repeal bill to her caucus
I've seen that quoted in one article. One. Not said anywhere on her own thread on Labour's own blog despite repeated invitation to do so. And Curran supposedly has a comms background? Pffft