Posts by Russell Brown
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Speaker: Data Love or: How I learnt to…, in reply to BenWilson,
t’s heartening that there is a strong enough undercurrent of sane people in American to build a protest movement against Trump before he gets too powerful. He may well mobilize the youth there, in a way that he did not intend.
As Josh Marshall points out, not all the protesters are acting sane either, and Trump's rhetoric is ramping it up all round. See Someone Will Die:
Again, this is not meant to equate the two sides. As I mentioned yesterday, Trump has repeatedly claimed that instances of crowd violence at his rallies occurred when protestors - "bad dudes" - attacked his supporters and his supporters fought back. Until the events last night in Chicago, there is no evidence that anything like this ever happened. Not once. It is all lies. It's still not clear exactly what happened last night in Chicago. I have seen numerous reports from the event that show that the great majority of protestors were peaceful, in many cases there as families, from various political and community organizations. But clearly there were scuffles and disorderly behavior inside that both sides participated in - who started what, I have no idea. It was a qualitative advance, or descent, from what had come before it.
But let's go back to the incident with Dimassimo, who appears to be a left wing activist affiliated with Black Lives Matter and similar groups. This is not only totally unacceptable behavior, it is also totally unhinged behavior. When you try to rush the stage when a presidential candidate with Secret Service protection is speaking, you are literally taking your life in your hands. This is the kind of crazy thinking, which even if Dimassimo didn't intend to hurt Trump, leads to very bad outcomes. And this is from the anti-Trump side!
The climate Trump is creating at his events is one that not only disinhibits people who normally act within acceptable societal norms. He is drawing in, like moths to a flame, those who most want to act out on their animosities, drives and beliefs. It is the kind of climate where someone will eventually get killed.
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Trump claimed today that they who tried to rush him onstage is connected to Isis.
His evidence? This patently falsified video. And all the rubes believe him and are just that bit more angry and paranoid.
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Meanwhile, Cruz's pastor goes into a biblical rant about how the penalty for homosexuality should be death –– and the introduces the candidate.
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This Rachel Maddow video tracing Trump's escalating rhetoric about using violence against protesters is chilling. There's something very bad going on here.
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The new ad for the Average Rap Band album. I'm all in favour of the fact that Tom Scott is making his own videos now:
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Beatles'…, in reply to Ana Simkiss,
confidently predict The Beths will be huge! I saw them maybe a year ago and they were superb live. I beleive they’re at the Portland Public House on Saturday, if you can I urge you to go!
Damn, I'd have been 100% up for that – I love a show I can bike to – but I'm indoors this weekend getting over having a lump cut out of my nose and the nearby skin correspondingly rearranged. Missing Anthonie Tonnon and Nadia Reid tonight too! Wah!
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I’m genuinely surprised at how clueless mayoral aspirant Vic Crone is.
From a report on an appearance with Goff at an East Tamaki business group:
Crone hit out at the CBD cycleways being constructed when other areas like Rodney are still waiting on sealed footpaths.
Presumably she plans to take the money that central government provides for the construction of urban cycleways and smuggle it out to Rodney to build footpaths. Cunning.
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Hard News: Friday Music: The Beatles'…, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
More recently (2013),Matthew (One Man) Bannister reinterpreted Revolver as Evolver. I prefer the original any day but here’s his take – Tomorrow Never Knows
Yeah, I like this too – it's sort of Madchester. I got a video of it live at the Thirsty Dog:
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Hard News: Paths where we actually ride, in reply to Gareth Davidson,
Priorities much?
This is nuts!
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And from the same source, NW cycleway usage at Kingsland.
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