Posts by Jeremy Eade
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to martinb,
I just dig Ifill. He could be premiership but he's here.
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The Right see people as inherently irredeemably flawed and in need of firm guidance.
Yeh, harsh but I can't see any other conclusion. John Key is the dream Pakeha.
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I love secret knowledge. It's like insider trading for the mind. What are you DCB? Does your religion have a name. I'm looking.
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Atheists can dismiss religion as primitive superstition as much as they like (and we do, oh how we do!), but at least it (in principle) treats every human being as a human being. Unlike most political ideologies. Or science.
Atheists love because it's the highest exploration of their existence. Love is nice. Harmony is nice. Science is the religion of the Atheist. It's fucking amazing, far more spiritual than stained glass and wine.
But Jesus would be very welcome at my bbq. What a motherfucker and Muhammad.
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Or is it simply politically unacceptable because people are generally far too punitive towards those unlike themselves?
Yep, this is a core of the fear of the Winz class. As Johnny Banks reminded us only a few months ago, they be smoking P, watching porn and then running out of money to do that, so they will ROB EPSOM.
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I used to work at a nightclub where only certain Sneetches could get in. And it had fuck all to do with money, class, race or anything other than whether you had the right attitude. Complete fucking wank of course, but it was fun and everyone was happy and on E, and the rest of the time they were bitching about each other.
Which one? Is it the one I'm probably thinking of? The nineties? I agree.
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Or, if you are socially mobile, it’s usually in a downwards direction.
Yes, this is a fluidity that goes back at least three generations in my extended families, of course that's when they all arrived.
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In my lifetime I've seen the growth of a "Winz" class, a class you know when you are in when you get married to those horrible offices. 40 hours a week within weeks makes me feel middleclass , I start to plan middle class shit.
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I want to be middleclass primarily because the extra $15,000 to $30,000 a year helps with a car, with health, with food, with family. To live outside comfortable weekly allowances means you inevitably see that class as desirable and then when you realise many in that class are either ignorant or downright dismissive of the struggle of life below that class and it can piss one off.
It's the slow process of giving jobs and money to the underclasses in New Zealand , a process that retreats constantly under the thunderous chorus's of "bloody bludgers" that in a way disgusts me. So a discussion of poverty can't help but get a bit edgy and emotional. For what its worth discussion does get heated here but the topics are generally big troublespots that don't at all worry the minds of our smiley "Key" people.
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Good news, Mount Roskill has their M.P back. Goff wants to fight on. Goff needs to represent that fine Auckland suburb well. I'm glad he's staying on.
and Paul Ifill, what a footballer. He will influence the game here.