Posts by Greg Dawson
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Simon Bennett,
in the belief that their prejudices are typical of a big lump of the population.
And we're hiring more police every election year, so that lump is getting bigger.
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Hard News: Narcissists and bullies, in reply to Russell Brown,
Hales on Hi5:
Dreams: To become a Police officer.. If not then a famous Singer/Rapper
He spelt it wrong.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Russell Brown,
I think this young woman nailed it:
Mr Wewege’s messages were criticised by Brittany Raleigh, the chairwoman of the Young Nats’ northern region, who called it “emotional abuse”.
“It’s important that we speak out against bullying those you’re in an intimate relationship with for personal political gain,” she wrote on Facebook.
That jumped out at me as well, although she could have stopped before "...for personal political gain".
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Hard News: So long, and thanks for all…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Does Labour have the luxury anymore of testing your hypothesis?
Because now is unlike any time before, so drastic measures are called for and the abandoning of long held principles is a necessary part of that.
Are you sure you're aren't still thinking about the GCSB bill?
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Hard News: So long, and thanks for all…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
It just means you need to start talking about what is relevant to those who labour. Housing. Wages. the cost of living. Those sorts of issues. Labour has lost those who labour. Pointing out that making a gay machine politician from Wellington leader will do nothing to win them back is not being a bigot.
Can't a labour leader do all those things at once, and without being an asshat?
I really don't understand why it is impossible for a "gay machine politician" to address those issues.Seriously though, I'm confused by your labels. Is he a robot? New Zealanders in any sort of collar might vote for a terminator - it worked in California.
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Speaker: Naked Inside the Off-Ramp, in reply to Euan Mason,
where the executive should have control not just over policy discussions but also ultimately over people’s rights to express opinions or mount arguments against the status quo
Something like "You've had your debate. There's no need to write any more." ?
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Hard News: A GCSB Roundup, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I really like the juxtaposition of the kiwi 1984 and the orwellian.
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Tom Semmens,
bad taste and offensive insults at the teams on the field (for that is the charge, no one is is saying they were using expletives)
This is an interesting distinction. What are expletives if not bad taste and offensive words?
ETA: except for improved versions of "very" that is
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OnPoint: What Andrew Geddis Said, But…, in reply to steve broca,
The raiders election in 2008 has simply legitimised the disloyal behavior of those people….
Rather than blame "disloyal public servants" for being secretly National supporters while Labour was in government, you could make the same argument based on the more reality-aligned view that the cause was growing tendencies to corporate management styles (and all their economic baggage) within public services.
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Legal Beagle: On Consensus, in reply to BenWilson,
Maybe related to where if you're angry, you're assumed to have lost the argument (even if there is no argument)?
I'm not sure how long it has been around in our communal psyche, but I know there is nothing more annoying to me than someone who gets patronising because you're angry about something - their thought process is that you're angry therefore you must be irrational.
We've lost rational anger, except as spectacle on the internets, and getting excited about that is irrational too.