Posts by MxDEJ
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Yep, at about 1:22 here:
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If you can find a replay of the haka and subsequent explosion, watch the left-hand upright behind the team. Something sizeable gets blown up, flies higher than the top of the post (I think, from memory), and falls back to earth. Whatever it was, I'm pretty sure that sending it skyward definitely wasn't part of the plan.
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Tweeted by the Herald 7 minutes ago:
"To clarify, Bryce Edwards is still writing for http://nzherald.co.nz and Cathy Odgers has withdrawn from our wide-ranging election line-up."
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Hard News: The crybaby philosopher, in reply to Michael J. Parry,
What the hell does a “New Zealander” look and sound like to you because to me it sounds and looks like anybody from New Zealand. Dismissing someone over their looks and sounds is a bigger mugs game than trying to defend the indefensible.
Bingo.
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Hard News: The crybaby philosopher, in reply to Russell Brown,
You will of course note that I and others have also criticised his argument.
Absolutely. That bit was good to read.
I'm characterising Whyte's actual behaviour and I don't see why he gets a free pass from being mocked for that.
How about because civilised, careful, fact-based debate might work a little better without the side-order of name-calling?
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Also, philosophers _hate_ it when you're calmer and more right* about things than they are.
* No pun intended
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So, Whyte requests a civilised discussion about racial law and is instead called a "crybaby", "manchild", and accused of throwing a tantrum. Sure, the way he's gone about it is hamfisted and naive, but surely the better way to oppose him is to accept his challenge to be civilised, rather than being a dick about it? This really does seem like one area that New Zealanders can't discuss like grown-ups.
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The Grafix Knox book looks like a great project, and $60 to pre-order a copy (and help them get to their funding goal) is fantastic. I first saw the project a little while ago and at the rate funding's coming in, it might not get across the line. Where is everyone? Come on!
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Hard News: Circumstance and coincidence, in reply to Russell Brown,
It also seems to represent a really remarkable degree of disorganisation to have appointed Mataparae to such an important role and then announce a month later that he’d be moving on to be governor general.
Random thought crossed with a genuine question: Was there some pressing reason to move Mateparae out of NZDF, even if it meant bouncing him in and out of the GCSB?
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It’s actually a hard question for even a Cunliffe supporter to answer “yes” to.
That's not the question's fault. It's David Cunliffe's.
