Posts by linger
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To be scrupulously fair, the extra $4000 is the cost for two replacements: it will
include the price of a back-up flag “in reserve for weather damage"
Because obviously we’re going to have some extreme weather events (in Auckland!?) before the referendum ends this storm in a teacup…
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to izogi,
… not least because that sort of misdirection wasn’t part of the job description for Clark.
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Seriously? Conflating “ignorant” and “deranged”, in response to multiple comments pointing out why this was a bad-faith thing to do? At best, it's a wilful refusal to stop digging.
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to Richard Mayes,
None of these terms is as offensive as the cynical deception its use entails. Whichever you choose, you're still ultimately brandishing a piece of shit in a smear campaign. Why keep digging for a fresh turd in that semantic field?
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to Alfie,
And in both cases, the term is used as a pre-emptive smear of any and all opposition: it is a rhetorical device that projects the user’s extreme partisanship onto their target and indicates bad-faith argument. (Stripping away the psychobabble, it's just another way of calling your opponent crazy.)
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to Richard Mayes,
The reference is to Bush derangement syndrome (coined 2003).
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How hard can it be to require in a contract that the final cost should bear some resemblance to the estimate provided?
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Legal Beagle: The flag referendum:…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Where is the Abalone Ranger?
He’s got Haliotis, hence the mask.
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Legal Beagle: The flag referendum:…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Hey, if you’ve understood the rules, you haven’t played it properly :-P
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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Alfie,
It's like Weldon is being paid to fail.