Posts by Richard Aston
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to Russell Brown,
A simply awesome column on it all from Toby Manhire.
Brilliant piece of writing and re-framing but Toby's brave new world was a little scary in places and hey no autonomous anti gravity flying machines.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to BenWilson,
You know we can’t change the government with our ghost votes.
Want a chip bro?
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Hard News: A call from Curia, in reply to tussock,
It's an old fashioned push poll
Far out ! Didn't even know these existed , thanks Tussock.
My paranoia is right up nowHey and great work Russell in recording and publishing this
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to Grant McDougall,
It really has been a most craaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzyyyyyyyyyy election campaign.
+1 Insane even
Big thanks to you Russell and the Hard news community for providing a sane (mostly) haven to discuss and think though the complexities of this election.
Its been really hard to filter the spin, discover the truth and try to come to some kind of understanding of it all. The discussions, revelations and links here has helped me immeasurably.
My hope is the result will be the most MMPish of any election where the power of office sits on a delicate balance of divergent interests that is wide enough to be someway representative of us the voters.
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Speaker: Things I have learned running RockEnrol, in reply to Russell Brown,
EC has not covered itself in glory in this election campaign.
But they could have if they had backed RockEnrol
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Good on ya Laura , sounded tough in places but I bet you made a huge difference in upping the participation rate, especially the youth vote.
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I am just loving this thread , loving it. I just wished I had more time to contribute but at the very least I want to thank some here in what little time I do have .
To izogi for a great take on the dark side of presidential branding and the kick ass, “Tread on people like this instead of including them and they’ll do more than just disagree with you. They’ll start to hate you “
To Dean Wallis for his passionate call to take our country back . A country where we have a “real job, making real stuff for real people who need it” . Brilliant!
To Ian Dalziel , our own wild eye mystic running through the village, wildly waving and yelling at the death cult, proselytizing tinkers in our midst, mist veiled by their own dissonance. Shine on, shine on you dalziel diamond.
To mark taslov for so laterally linking Lewdness with the nuances of privacy, I feel so.. naked, writing emails now.
To Ben Wilson for sharing the Internalized Really Complicated Situation in his head as he works out – so fluidly- a beautifully constructed coalition , still a work in progress. “Our ability to signal is not limited to our vote.” Great signal work Ben .
More Vision than Dumbassery here.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Angela Hart,
Why encourage him? He’s distracting, he’s annoying and he’s wasting time we could be spending in a valuable exchange of ideas and information. IMHO he’s best ignored, attempts to get him to engage in sensible discourse have been made aplenty.
On the other hand we wouldn’t have had Ian’s pearl without Jake’s irritation.+1 Angela
The irritant has done its job now and can be washed down with a nice Chardonnay with the rest of the oyster, a wee burp, then ignored.As for Ian's Pearl its a , well its a pearler, love it . still re reading it , he's a treasure here, a public address Taonga
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Jake Starrow,
Just today, I’ve been called “an imbecile” “a sock puppet” “a troll bingo” and “creep”
And now a bunny .
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Jake Starrow,
Lift your game !
To the level of your game Jake ?
What is your game by the way?