Posts by Simon Sjorn
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Yes. Izogi I am not sure if you are critisising me but I AM claiming what you seek to satirize -that sadly people Do look for conformation from these idiots to tell them what they think. It is horrible and exasperating and baffling but I think that is the case - although I AM now slightly inebreiated. So maybe I AM unreliable. But anyhow that's why apparently pointless, meaningless things can in fact be important. Toast.
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I cannot claim to be a dog person but I see him as one of those types of dogs whose faces seem to fold in on itself with hangy downy folds of skin. I'm going with dog.
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Yes but what does Facebook mean. Look at that funny Cunliffe he has such puppy dog eyes.
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I see you were referring specifically to the 'debate polls'. I was meaning the general election polls. But yes those polls - specifically and arguably the most prominent one - the tvnz poll which was posted immediately after the 'debate when many 'on the fencers' would have been making up there minds, was absurd. Since it was going from the start of the 'debate, and had a large gap in the middle, it hardly seemed worth posting it at all as any kind of gauge of who actually 'won'.
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Bogus or not, I think polls can effect people's perception of a party. Just like one or two emotive words in a headline and article can, if used over time be used to create a perception and attitude which is hard to shake.
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I know polls are but a small sample but I think voters like to back, almost apparently more than good policies, someone who is a winner. Labour has been beaten down and beaten up for so long that voters still seem to lack faith in what is in front of their eyes. I think Labour just needs a poll, any poll, to show some significant upward movement and then surely they will be away - others might feel confident if they know others see things the same way. It conforms the nagging thought in the back of their heads that Cunliffe might actually be a better option. Cunliffe seems to have either at least held his own or beaten comfortably Key but when does the headway show?It just is remarkable to me with so many negatives for National - just how little impact all of this seems to have had on polling. I mean there is some but not much. I guess that just shows how entrenched people's attitudes are.
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Sorry for using rude word. Feeling despair.
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Yes. The Prime.Minister has said a few times "it was unsecured anyway" as if this makes theft somehow ok and no one challenges him on it? This episode has not only highlighted to me the awful poisonous beetles we have running our.country but also underlined in bright red vivid the failings.of.our journalists. The question is are our media just clueless or are they actually somehow in league with these arseholes?
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With all this generalised talk about negativity and 'reaction to the' talk - no one it seems.is.actually looking into the substance of the allegations themselves. Are journalists afraid? The Herald skips around this by giving Hager an article but that will do nought to convince anyone already zombified or on the fence. The lack of courage or willingness to find the truth is so depressing. National in full control -really they seem to have every base covered. I was also creeped out by the suggestion of 50 cent gang - with the way everything seems to be so expertly controlled and each potential crisis managed with apparent ease, this idea or some version of it does not seem that far fetched.
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People behaving like reasonable, responsible, humane adults you mean.