Posts by Kumara Republic
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Hard News: Ten Thousand Maniacs, in reply to Graham Dunster,
By overreacting, by following in such footsteps as the Australians with their unacceptable policies to refugees and residents, all we do is create more disaffected people rather than a more harmonious society.
Civil rights autor James Baldwin put it best: "There is no bigger danger to society than a man with nothing left to lose."
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Hard News: The GCSB and the consequences…, in reply to Amy Gale,
I think there are multiple real issues, and postgrad ICT schools could potentially address one of them – the movement of top undergraduates to overseas graduate schools, quite often never to return. Though we’d still lose all the people interested in these restricted areas, it seems.
I was recently accepted into DevAcademy, only to be left with no choice but to pull out after being rejected for a Harmoney loan. Besides, I'm wary of 'finance companies' as it is. Guess I'll have to wait for the NZQA to grind its gears, whenever that may be.
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Hard News: Ten Thousand Maniacs, in reply to Henry Barnard,
I found these reflections from across the Tasman by Ghassan Hage useful about thinking about this issue in the context of living in New Zealand.
Irfan Yusuf is also worth reading, when he gets round to writing stuff. No Twitter presence so far, but he's probably not missing much.
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Hard News: Ten Thousand Maniacs, in reply to Russell Brown,
The Guardian reports on a complex picture emerging around the identity of the attackers:
If most of the perpetrators turn out to be French-born or naturalised, then there are parallels with the London 7/7 bombings a decade ago. Londoners, being what they were, still by and large kept calm. And carried on.
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Polity: An Orwellian Alice in Wonderland, in reply to Mark Graham,
I fear we’re moving increasingly into the partisan divide we’re seeing in the US.
We had one in 1981.
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Speaker: My Story, in reply to Sue,
where our male political leaders act like american frat boys
One of them basically got off scot-free in the Maryville rape trial, courtesy of his grand-daddy being on the state judiciary. And to rub salt in the wounds, he was unrepentant on Twitter: "she wants the D".
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Up Front: How I Learned to Stop Worrying…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
“We can make her an honourary bloke”
“Honorary blokes” pretty much sums up any ladder-pulling IGM;FY women in power. Among the same crowd are those who think of themselves as “honorary millionaires” and “honorary whites”.
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Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Right now I want to my break my screen in half. Our movers and shakers are becoming a law unto themselves, FFS. I hope that everyone who treats the political system as a beauty pageant and a gossip mag loses everything in a bubble burst and gets denied a state bailout.
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Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical, in reply to Russell Brown,
Dan Parker allows the women who walked out of Parliament to tell their stories. My eyes were welling up and then Marama Davidson spoke and I just felt really angry about the way she’s been treated.
The clip also includes video of detainee Ko Rutene – back when he was a soldier working Key’s security detail in Afghanistan. Key refused to discuss his case.
So far the whole debacle has gone from detainees to ‘soft on crime’ to ‘turning a blind eye to rape culture’. The dead cat might just backfire.
On that note, how seriously do tough-on-crime types take rape culture? With the usual bluster of the usual suspects? Or do they take the ‘uncovered meat’ view and fob it off as PC gone mad?
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Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical, in reply to Kumara Republic,
In Britain, it only happened to John Trevor in the 17th century because he was done for bribery. The only other known case was Michael Martin, in the midst of the parliamentary expenses scandal.