Posts by Russell Brown
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For him to have suggested you might be interested in joining the libenz, you surely would have spent a fair bit of time agreeing in these criticisms of the government. Find it hard to believe you were asked to join after discussing tax rates, privatisation or welfare.
You assume so much! From memory, we discussed education, property rights and gun control.
I put it to him that if he held property and contract to be sacrosanct, and to be protected from state harm at all costs, he should surely be marching alongside Maori in support of their right to reclaim the private property taken from them by the state. It didn't seem to sink in.
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Surely he just copy'n'pasted a Redbaiter comment from Kiwiblog?
Now that I read it again, I am minded to make of it a poem.
**Poo**
Stench
Stooge
Stranglehold
StridentSnivelling, whining socialists
I have to go off to my debate soon, but readers are invited to spend the rest of the afternoon making poems from the words they find.
There will be coffee for the best poem.
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That is Stoddard's very tongue in cheek application for sycophant of the year. It should see him move up the pbulic seervice very rapidly. What esle is a VUW pol studies graduate to do? Be objective? Yeah ...
Cool! It's a test!
How many poo labels can you count, kids?
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They've now noticed over at SOLO Passion.
Intriguingly, they're all in fits over the academic language, but seem to find nothing untoward in the crazy-assed stuff Stoddart quotes.
Oh, and Perigo is evidently in the throes of his latest crypto-Marxist deunciation fit. Currently, it's fellow libertarian Richard Goode, who I presume has been a splittist or a traitor or something. Whatever, priceless.
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I'm sure it's targets will simply dismiss it as yet another example of the hegemony defending itself ...
Yeah, right -- like they'd use a lesbian commie word like "hegemony".
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I'd agree with what Paul said, but note that the extreme left already has its own extensive set of poo labels drawn from particular understandings (or misunderstandings) of Marxist theory, as funneled through innumerable parties and organisations over the last century.
And again, we come back to the stylistic and rhetorical links between the extreme left of yore and the poo-flingers of the 21st Century. They are the embarrassing Marxists of their age.
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Can I just say I'm quite happy with how we've ended up with such a useful and expressive term as "poo labels".
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Maybe Perigo did suffer a mental collapse that occured coincidentally with a change of government occuring in 1999. Or maybe Russell's party of choice obtained power and Perigo's criticism sounded less astute, more silly.
Yeah, good try Angus. I think any longitudinal analysis would show a significant qualitative deterioration in Perigo's language and the ideas he is prepared to express. Read the paper, or the press release Lyndon linked to and tell me he talked like that in early 90s.
Also, your argument only works because you invented something for me to say in the qualifier "when offering criticism of a government". That's really cheating.
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I guess the next logical move in his career is to stand on street corners in his underwear screaming obscenities and handing out photocopied pamphlets about John Galt.
No need to reinvent the wheel here: Zenith Applied Philosophy is still going.
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My non-authoritative interview with Florian Habicht is here. He's a very interesting man.
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