Posts by SHG

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  • Speaker: Stand Up for Women,

    If you think there were ever going to BE any RoK meetups, you don't understand RoK.

    This was a marketing exercise to generate publicity for Roosh so that he can sell more books and website subscriptions. That's all. This is how it happens every time, and every time the media falls for it and does exactly what Roosh wants.

    nup • Since Oct 2010 • 77 posts Report

  • Hard News: Fix up, young men,

    Here's a vision of the Laneway of the future:

    nup • Since Oct 2010 • 77 posts Report

  • Hard News: Fix up, young men,

    I believe it's just "Lion" (a 100% owned subsidiary of Kirin) now. "Lion Nathan" hasn't existed since the takeover.

    nup • Since Oct 2010 • 77 posts Report

  • Speaker: What Star Wars can teach us…,

    Respectfully think you're trying too hard to mash together two interesting points.

    1. The Monomyth is interesting.

    2. Obama's campaign team are good at teh emails.

    Those two are not necessarily linked. You can't draw any conclusions about the narrative philosophy behind Obama's comms strategy based on the email you got, because you have no way of knowing what anyone else got. You don't know if you're part of a split test or a control group. For all you know you got a message like that because your open and clickthrough rates and response times after receiving other emails shows that this is the sort of email most likely to get a response from Kirk Serpes. Or maybe it was a test of some other element to see if that would STOP you from responding.

    nup • Since Oct 2010 • 77 posts Report

  • Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical,

    The whole idea of deporting people because they’ve committed crimes, versus not deporting people who are citizens who’ve committed the same crimes, is abhorrent.

    Why?

    nup • Since Oct 2010 • 77 posts Report

  • Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical,

    Joe Wylie- Christmas Island Detention Centre was opened by the Labor Govt in late 2008.

    nup • Since Oct 2010 • 77 posts Report

  • Legal Beagle: Into the River/Interim Restrictions,

    Old white man bans book that depicts young Maori man discovering his independence and agency in the world, surprise surprise

    nup • Since Oct 2010 • 77 posts Report

  • Hard News: Radio Punks: So many stories, in reply to Jeremy Andrew,

    Yep, Paul Martin's metal show was the highlight of Waikato radio for me in the early 90s.

    nup • Since Oct 2010 • 77 posts Report

  • Speaker: Why we need to stop talking…,

    Thought experiment.

    DAY ONE: My three friends and I live in abject poverty.

    DAY TWO: A lotto ticket falls from a passing aeroplane and I pluck it out of the air, and upon taking it to a Lotto shop I find that I have just won ten million dollars. Being a nice guy I give each of my three neighbours a million dollars.

    Which day is the best day for us? Which day is the worst day for inequality?

    nup • Since Oct 2010 • 77 posts Report

  • Speaker: Why we need to stop talking…,

    See again you're using the word "inequality" as a symbol for something that you're not explaining.

    There is a clear inequality in the number of Grammys won between myself and Tracy Chapman. I have none; she has one. Inequality.

    Do you care? If so, why?

    If you don't care about that inequality but you do care about something something disability something something productive life something? then there are obviously some specific SORTS of inequality that you do care about, and about which you think other people should care, and you - collectively, all of you - need to know how to explain the difference. And if this thread is any indication, you can't.

    nup • Since Oct 2010 • 77 posts Report

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