Posts by BenWilson
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to Emma Hart,
It's been massively plugged at Auckland Uni. Every wall has a sign telling you to go vote, most theaters this week had flyer on every desk.
There's still a disheartening number of students who expressed no interest, though. Perhaps it's only science students, who I'm most involved with.
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Thanks for that Gavin. I'll be plugging that link tonight.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Richard Aston,
To Ben Wilson for sharing the Internalized Really Complicated Situation in his head as he works out
You know we can't change the government with our ghost votes.
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to Jannene Allwood,
Many thanks to all the public address writers and commenters - so full of great information. You've made me re-embrace twitter and made my working output far less.
LOL, kia kaha and word up to that.
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For the first time, we’ll vote as a whole family, and it’s been rewarding watching both our sons consider their decisions.
Me too, although obviously the kids won't vote. But I'm going to take them to see the whole process. They been most intrigued by it all, to the point I was asked to explain who would want to vote for each party. I'm doing my best not to initiate them into a tribe, and I think the fact that I probably won't vote the same way as my wife brings the point to them.
I'm curious if anyone knows whether I can actually take the children into the booth with me to show them the ballot paper, and the marking thereof.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to nzlemming,
Leaves me cold ;-)
'Hopster! Hopster! Help! Help! Stopster!' they screamed
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to ,
Yes that’s a bit of a bummer about kelvin Davis. I am going to vote for IM anyway. Bugger the polsters.
Good call. It's still a signal, even it if doesn't result in political power.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to blindjackdog,
And the Greens just come across as such wet tossers these days, to be frank.
That's not my take. They go plenty hard enough, but their focus is not mine. I'd be quite happy for them to cover that focus full time and for their social/economic policy to remain in second place if a party with the opposite ordering of top priorities were around to complement them. They'd work well together, I think, having basically a very similar set of policies, but with a different ordering of the number 1 position. I like their very detailed and well worked out positions with a scientific focus. But I think that focus is necessarily limited, that I still have a lot of opinions on matters outside of science, and at the moment those are important to me. In the long run, environmentalism is vital. In the short term, social equality is a bigger concern for me.
I like how organized and professional the Greens are. That has a lot of appeal. But we have an opportunity created by the perfect storm that created the bizarre personality with a ton of money, an electorate representative with real credibility, and a time of massive and increasing youth disengagement to create a strong extension to our national left wing. I want to help, if it isn't futile.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Dean Wallis,
On Planet Key I am not sure what language is spoken, could it be Troll?
Listen for the Jamaican accents </nerd joke>
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Jake Starrow,
My point is that personality-driven politics or government can be good or bad for democracy. Lange, Kennedy, Clark…..good. Mao, Hitler, Stalin, Key bad.
But not all bad.There, fixed that up for you. But why Godwin a perfectly good concern troll?
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