Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Up Front: Choice, Bro, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Thank them all, make them realise their good behaviour.
Quite – and there’s two more rounds before it becomes law. It’s not only polite to thank people who’ve acted well, but Colin Craig et. al. aren’t going to go away. And there’s a few MPs I’m going to make a special point of thanking (and encouraging to stay on the line), because I know their yes votes were well outside their comfort zones. IMO, that takes real clarity and courage and should be encouraged.
Mind you he’s catholic, and used to run the local Catholic hospital, there might really be a bishop calling his vote for him, we constituents may have been pipped by his religion here
Paul, I don’t mean to tone police but could you please be extremely careful about insinuating any MP votes according to directions from outside parties? While I totally disagree with them on this, the New Zealand Catholic Bishops’ Conference have been up front to a fault about their position on marriage equality. They’re also perfectly entitled to lobby MPs. But directing Catholic MPs how to vote on legislation is a line too far.
Oh, and please don’t make extremely offensive and stereotypical presumptions based on someone’s religion. Plenty of people of faith support marriage equality, and it's neither fair nor helpful to lazily equate religion with homophobia.
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Up Front: Choice, Bro, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Entirely possible, but Marriage Equality had him listed as a definite no
Well, that page still has my local MP - Maggie Barry - listed as "undecided" which, when it counted, she wasn't. And I initially thought she voted NO because those damn voting sheets are confusing, but (for once) I'm glad to be wrong. Having to issue Barry a public apology on Twitter for the serve I gave her was... mortifying, but I survived. :)
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Up Front: Choice, Bro, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I’m assuming that NZ First, UF and the Maori Party don’t have youth wings. (
The less I think about New Zealand First the happier everyone else is, but even if Winston's personality cult had a youth wings why would you think he'd take a blind bit of notice of it?
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Marriage equality causes abortion. Beat that.
I’d rather not get fuckwit juice all over my good riding crop. Will this seal club I prepared earlier do?
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Old Nat feeling very proud of ALL the younglings today.
In a rare move of political unity, the Young Nationals, Young Labour, Young Greens, Mana Rangatahi and Act on Campus have issued a joint statement urging all their MPs to vote in favour of Louisa Wall’s same sex marriage bill at its first reading on Wednesday.
Does make one feel the scar tissue wasn't for naught.
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Up Front: Choice, Bro, in reply to Russell Brown,
And for balance, Bruce Logan is invited in to make some weird arguments against it.
His argument is not so much "weird" as tossed-off word salad that would get a WTF? F in a first year philosophy paper. I can't respond to something where there's no actual argument to engage with.
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Up Front: Choice, Bro, in reply to Paul Campbell,
Of course it’s about more than a word, it’s also about adoption too – something no one’s really talking about
To be fair, Paul, there’s been a lot of talking about adoption law reform for years – and it’s as messy as it is complicated. But it’s not as sexy for the lamestream media as “OMFG, teh gayz are greasing the slippery slope to Crazy Cat Lady forming a harem of bestial polygamy with her petz!”
It feels wrong to be on the same side of a debate as that man.
Yeah. Well. Whatever. Never voted Labour in my life; exceedingly unlikely I ever will. But during the term of the Fifth Labour Government, even I had to admit the Liarbore Dykeocracy got it right occasionally. :)
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Hard News: Media3: Where harm might fall, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Yes it does.
I'd suggest Rep. Akin is entitled to display his dangerous belief that the wombs of virtuous women can magically repel rapist semen to the same extent as any other moronic fuckwit, but I remain unconvinced it deserves some higher degree of protection simply because he's mouth-farting in the context of a Senate campaign.
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Hard News: Media3: Where harm might fall, in reply to Russell Brown,
It says that political speech requires the highest degree of protection.
Which is something I'm a little ambiguous about, because let's be frank... does Todd Akin's "legitimate rape" fuck-wittery deserve such protection simply because it's "political speech"?
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Hard News: Media3: Where harm might fall, in reply to Bart Janssen,
So somehow they know good behaviour in the real world but don’t know good behaviour online.
I'm not really sure that's even true -- there has been some rather lolsob arguments going on in geekdom around sexism both online (the truly gastly on-line harassment of Anita Sarkassian) and in meat space (the fallout from sexual harassment at Readercon). Seems to me that people willing to be lady-hating, harassment enabling assbags on line aren't any better in real life.
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