Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Crossing the line into idle bigotry, in reply to Scott Chris,
A stifled whisper or ten do not counteract a bully armed with an amplifier. There is no level playing field or 'free market' for denigratory speech. Accountability does not magically happen.
A rope requires someone else to tie the other end. But I'd prefer someone was handing out more megaphones.
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Hard News: Why did Stephen die?, in reply to Lilith __,
How did dope get to be so threatening?
Answer somewhere in here?
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Giving them a megaphone is not the same as rope.
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to webweaver,
Quite. The guy didn't seem to offer much credibility from the get-go.
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Hard News: Where nature may win, in reply to Steve Barnes,
eh? find a better way of framing their harm is all. That 'do nothing' line utterly failed to engage between 2008 and 2011. Public deserve better.
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Hard News: Where nature may win, in reply to Steve Barnes,
"Do Nothing"
The examples you use are all quite active destruction and harm. Please stop describing it in ways that leave govt's hands looking clean.
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Hard News: The Righteous Humour, in reply to Matthew Poole,
I'm relaxed about it.
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Hard News: The Righteous Humour, in reply to Michael Savidge,
Obama thanking his campaign staff.
Beautiful. Let's help make more leaders like that, not the whiny selfish boys we seem to specialise in here right now.
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Hard News: The Righteous Humour, in reply to Matthew Poole,
The bit about getting the best ideas from the competition between the sides needs to be hammered into a lot of tribal voters who are unwilling to countenance the possibility of any valid idea originating from a party other than "their" party.
Word
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Hard News: The Righteous Humour, in reply to BenWilson,
he orates as he thinks
Unlike some aspiring leaders closer to home who unfortunately do the reverse.