Posts by giovanni tiso
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As far as I am concerned, Rodney Hide is "new era" fascist in the Berlusconi mode and he does not believe in the primacy of democracy.
Ye gawds. You mentioned two politicians who couldn't be more different. And what you insist in calling Hide's Fascism is in fact is avowed neoliberalism: a current of thought with precise orientations and history and aims, which is entirely worthy of your contempt and strenuous opposition, except you won't be able to do a thing until you learn to recognise it and call it by its proper name.
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One can say that a mouse slightly resembles an elephant in some respects without claiming that they are the same thing, you know.
It's obviously not how the word Fascism was introduced in the conversation. And, more to the point, the mouse (National) resembles an elephant (Fascism) as much as a cat (Labour) does. So what's the point of making the comparison? And then of course there's the far more serious issue that if we devalue the word, if we call anything we don't like Fascist, then should politics in NZ really take a totalitarian turn we'd be out of words to describe it.
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When people hear the word Fascism (with a capital F) they often think of Hitler's Fascism. Mussolini's Fascism was less focused on 'racial hygiene', and more on the merger of state and corporate interests.
You guys are nuts and need to stop it right away. And quite frankly, the European Commission and lots of left leaning governments are also enthusiastic about running local services through corporate models. This doesn't mean they are freaking Fascists.
(Under Fascism, boy and girls, there were no elections, no freedom of speech or of the press, you could be jailed for being against the government, the schoolbooks were rewritten so that all of Italian history could be taught as a prologue to Fascism, groups of fun-loving black-shirt-wearing people would organise punitive expeditions against unlike-minded fellows (or gay people), opposition MPs - before opposition was made illegal altogether - were being beaten to death... oh, and we invaded a couple of African countries who could barely defend themselves and proceeded to gas their citizens. Just like life under John Key, ay!)
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Well, you got me there. I don't know what word that would be. But it's a trick question, right?
In my experience, people who insist we should have one-word descriptions for everything are generally Fascists. (Smiley face.)
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I've calculated some of it's claims based on local sales data and Information is Beautiful is only out by around 1962.8%.
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Not at all. As I've said ad nauseum
I'm going to have to turn this into a t-shirt: "It's ad nauseAm, bro".
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Those words have specific meanings and there is no definition of fascist that covers whatever National is doing.
Thank you. Saved me a wee rant.
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The threat that if they dared give Bryers community service (gasp! the horror!) it would hurt the creditors' chances to get what little money might be coming to them is I think the most appalling low in this whole saga. Which is saying something.
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I'm still not clear how their use of poll numbers is any less kosher than many other media outlets.
The sample is just as ridiculous as that of online polls, but the questions are far more leading. Which is actually one hell of an achievement if you think about it. Plus the regular Granny's polls are never dressed up as citizens' referendums.
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I'm probably also way out of line assuming that The Aucklander exhibits any editorial judgement in giving that sick fuck Nazi comparison the prominence it did.
Agreed. I mean come on, of all the letters to quote... and "in wrapping up" the whole thing? And without taking any distance from it? It's hard to fault Craig's judgment on this one.