Posts by chris
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Hehe. Yeah, not so convinced by the 'beautiful game' rhetoric either...
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It's a racket, but with an ending like that Sacha, I hope you think twice.
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Finally, I know the Wellington City Council mean well, by providing a big screen at Queens Wharf so that football fans can gather and watch the games. But have they noticed the temperatures recently?
A show of solidarity is required. Try to survive with the All Whites (or whatever we're called now).
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TV as a news source is so 20th C..
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but it seems evident that he must have had some talent for the job, given that he kept getting work.
or perhaps he just paid off the right people.
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Thanks for your understanding Islander, sorry to lurch at you like that so often. I'm definitely down with the homeland looking a little further ahead. Particularly concerned about the damage caused by this imported pollution Christopher brought up. Also apologies for the possibly unfounded accusations about your viewpoint for the umpteenth time, I guess you hit a nerve. But that's what nerves are made for. Good luck with the pantaloons.
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Environmental problems are one thing, environmental problems destroying a Government in a one party state is a tall order reliant either on military invasion, revolution, coup or natural disaster.
Yes many areas are currently fucked, but the fucked is defuckable. The Chinese seem way ahead of New Zealand in term of technology and understanding of humans' ability to defuck the fucked. to recycle the recyclable. Evident in the use of fucked - absoluteness in this context.
I don't see this Government and it's 200 year plan being destroyed, by coup, revolution, natural disaster or your willpower Islander, for the myriad dissatisfied there are a billion others working hard, making a slow step up the economic ladder. There's no incentive to destroy a Government in these conditions, people are working too damn hard to find the time.
Ultimately, you'll hear very little about the destruction of the Government from within China, not because people are scared. but because there is a widespread understanding that the victor in the destruction of this Government would be the imperialist powers. The western system. The colonial machine. That there are only a handful of countries worldwide that have withstood the swarm of the great white wrath, is all the more reason to cling to this state as a real alternative to homogeneity.
What concerns me, are the the motivations (which I read to be cold war hangovers) for willing the destruction of the Government, which in today's economy would bring an international depression that would make ye olde great depression look like an episode of Fawlty Towers. And would destroy the lives of 100s of million of people. gladularity over others' potential failure is inhuman.
Sure This government puts the ends ahead of the means every time, product over process, quite often to the detriment of contemporary inhabitants. But there is a long term plan, imposed in a cultural discourse that doesn't spare homage to notions of finiteness either in terms of the environment or of time span or of manpower.
The environment is in flux.
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China has fucked huge amounts of that country's environment and that is the matter that will destroy current government.
I see it differently.
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<hits a smooth number on the jukebox>
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I've gotta say, the general fuss about all this and that fact it made headlines at all does say good things about New Zealands attitude to race, which although far from perfect, sets a hell of an example to the rest of the world.