Posts by Che Tibby
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to alobar,
so whats the difference between a Maori and a Māori ?
in the employment market, about $30k per annum. </serious>
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to Russell Brown,
anyone who sees Bin Laden in those terms simply doesn’t understand what he believed.
might just be the same quandary as well-heeled hipsters in Che t-shirts.
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to Russell Brown,
He called on Muslims to attack Australia for its support of another indigenous people, the Timorese in their “separation from the Islamic world”.
sure, but there the attack is on an active opponent al qaeda, for their support of some people leaving the Umma.
i think the issue is that what OBL might have thought of maori is irrelevant. you can argue that misguided people like the old duffer Walker shouldn't see OBL as any kind of hero, but you're ignoring the old maxim 'the enemy of my enemy etc".
if you're a pissed off and impoverished *anyone* with a grunge against colonialist like the NZL Crown or the US of A, seeing someone like OBL sticking it to The Man will raise a cheer.
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to Russell Brown,
i mean, you're assuming what OBL might have thought of maori.
we have no evidence that he'd even heard of them. my weak knowledge of his worldview is that OBL would likely just think them to be "potential muslims".
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to Russell Brown,
none of those Maori making sympathetic utterances seemed to have any grasp of what Bin Laden would have thought about their culture.
do you think that might be an assumption?
and, aren't maori used to missionaries patronising them?
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Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to Isaac Freeman,
i wish i could find the article i read a dew days back.
it had a guy outlining how they should have paraded OBL thru the countries in which he’d had men, women, children, muslims, and christians killed.
regarding titles, theocracy needn't be totalitarian. but what we saw in afghanistan was *probably* aptly described that way -
Hard News: The witless on the pitiless, in reply to Isaac Freeman,
ditto on the fascist call. “fascism” is the wrong sort of political system.
“totalitarian” might be more apt. or, perhaps something like "totalitarian theocratist"?
but, then, meh. they’re all fcking nuts.
including the american snipers who shot dead women in falluja while pursuing al qaeda in iraq.
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note sure about this embedding thingo
-there, worked a treat. "Dogs" by Page France.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Lew Stoddart,
It's more that I want to swap him for grant.
Charles is a friend of a friend, but... not the man for the denizons of newlands
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Lew Stoddart,
This is probably apostasy, but I'd consider dunne. Only because chauvel is about as far from my electorate as you get on the representation scale.
Democracy is still all about reps to me, and an urbane chap in oriental bay just doesn't remind me of the middling classes I take the bus with.
Plus he spams with taxpayer funded letterhead...