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Hard News: Behind Baltimore, in reply to nzlemming,
Or possibly a total cluster bomb.
Fucked up in all directions, anyway. -
This week’s This American Life (episode 555) opens with the “backfire effect” … and some techniques used by door-to-door canvassers to get people to change their minds anyway. Transcript here.
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And there's an initial word (above the porthole) too, suggesting the full graffito was a very literal comment: "Used to murder Maori people"
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Paul Campbell,
pony-boy will never hear the end of this
Expect to see straightfaced references to Key as National’s “show pony”.
Or demands to “pony up” over election promises and budget allocations.
Also puts “ponies for everyone” promises in a new light, doesn’t it?’Course, when a ponytail is raised,
one can only expect shit to follow. -
Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Alfie,
So he’s in denial then.
On past form, Key wouldn’t recognise an abuse of power if it crawled up his arse and clawed its way past Hosking, DPF et al to die.
(They wouldn't recognise it either: it's dark up there.) -
Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Jack Harrison,
the much needed idea of not just being a dick...
NOT being a dick, that's the hard part. So to speak.
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Envirologue: What has Neoliberalism Done…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Some features on the plans may have been too clever by half -- e.g. bungalow living room with no windows?
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it’s not “banter” (WTF does Key believe that word means?)
but also I would suggest “creepy” is not a sufficient term –
ultimately, it’s being an Empowered Big Swinging Dick
… which means not having to think about how
the “little people” (=anyone who isn’t you) may feel.
This is how power corrupts. -
Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Joe Wylie,
actual LOL!
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to ,
It’s almost amusing how DPF’s mitigating response amounts to “But Key is a good boss, who we know always behaves well, because … people whose salaries depend on him won’t say anything bad about him”.