Posts by BenWilson
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We get to come here and play around on the best blog site in NZ, and you're too damned stingy to watch the ads in return for all the entertainment?
Yup, soz. I justify it myself by flattering myself that I add content. When I was just a lurker I left the ads on. Also, I've never ever ever ever clicked on an ad, so really it would be wasting PA's bandwidth.
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Well done. Look forward to seeing it.
As for your partisan love of the EFA, I think what John was trying to say is that you haven't had a cry about it every single day like the fair and balanced media do.
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I'm pretty sure Godwin was a man.
Heresy!!
Don't worry, Godwin's Law is definitely female. In fact, it's a bitch.
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Yes, serious lack of girlz here today. Let's get sexyist. ;-)
I'm pretty sure Godwin was a man.
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HE always wins, even when HE loses.
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To whom and how would you calculate value?
To anyone trying to cross it, and I guess how much they would pay is a fair estimation.
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Alluding to Godwin is Godwinning.
Again in hindsight, I guess I should not be surprised. A party whose main point is to represent Maori has no real left-right affiliations. And I guess the "traditional" leadership structure and set of beliefs would probably be classified as "conservative". It's almost the definition of conservative.
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In the battle of cliches, it's hard to see if the FSA queered Labour's pitch more than it stole National's thunder. The clearest effect to my eyes is that it launched the Maori Party. I think that is a good thing even though I seldom actually agree with the Maori party about anything. It just seems better for politics that historical Maori grievances now have a clear political voice, rather than relying on Labour to do it for them.
I will be surprised if the Maori Party can work with National, but that could be because they have been under Labour's wing for so long that there is a feeling that they are more aligned than is actually the case. When I hear the Maori Party speak on social policy I often wonder how they were ever in bed with Labour.
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Now Maori are tied up having to pursue through negotiation something that it looked very much like they already owned, because white people suddenly learnt that the beach might not actually be theirs.
This white man thought the beaches were everyone's including Maori. That they could become the property of some particular Maori group (not Maori as a whole), was an alarming prospect. In hindsight it was a grossly inflated prospect. But I expect that Brash would have continued to inflate it, following up on his fantastic Orewa surge. With 20/20 hindsight it is obvious that the FSA did huge damage to Labour's Maori support. It is unknown whether they would have fared better if Labour had left things as they were and Brash had swept in on a racial fear ticket.
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In other news, Tim Shadbolt is still a dick
But he's still got the funniest voice in politics. Very Goofy. If Banks could get a Donald Duck going when he's angry, he might steal the crown, though.
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