Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Legal Beagle: The climate strike and the…, in reply to ,
Sounds like a school modelled on A S Neill's Summerhill
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Hard News: Music: Milk & Honey, in reply to andin,
I must confess to a sense of shame here. When I took a six-week sabbatical from Twitter for the summer, I found I could write 800 publishable words every night. I haven’t been able to do that since I reactivated my account.
That explains why Liam Hehir’s conservative ramblings via Stuff are so inchoate and incoherent – his Twitter addiction!
I thought his sideswipe at Public Address revealing though
Public Address continues to crank out posts about legalising weed and bands you’ve probably never heard of. .
But I would, wouldn’t I…
I was appalled at how fast a piece about ‘Ruth Dyson retiring at the next election’ on Stuff yesterday descended into a hate-fest of Trump-base proportions – comments were closed quickly, and I see many of the more odious and vile ones have been removed now – including the as the ‘user name’ “momo=jacinda” – there are some ugly and mean-spirited people being enabled out there.
Stuff really needs to seriously and quickly re-evaluate their comment section, people should use their own names and own their own words – far too many anonymous bullies being given succour, to what end?
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Light Blue Paper and retire…
Sean Plunket is as much an odious little oik as Damien Grant.
Grant happily uses his cosy little sinecure as a ‘columnist’ for Stuff to push out his barrow of incendiary ideas in this ‘opinion piece’
https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/110959383/aucklands-antifireworks-activists-are-barking-madStuff should have a notice at the foot or start of this piece of dog-whistling drivel that Grant is a fireworks importer – not just leave it subtly in the title of the TV One video.
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Ross Lowell, the inventor of gaffer tape, died recently aged 92. Respect.
Rock without the Roll would never be the same...
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and then there’s this:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/110703699/referendums-provide-balance-in-a-democracyOPINION: While New Zealand may indeed be one of the most democratic nations in the world, there is always room for improvement. Surely, as a society, we must strive to improve our democracy and encourage more involvement in the decision-making process from as many New Zealanders as possible.
In a country like New Zealand, where citizens are far better informed and far better educated than ever before, but where trust and confidence in the political elite is continually waning, referendums are one of the few tools available to voters to balance political elitism.
And, if we have any doubts about the referendum system, we need look no further than Switzerland which, by and large, has used the referendum process wisely and successfully for well over 160 years. …‘Far better informed and educated’!
‘Political elite’?Interesting to go look at what the Swiss referendums were and what succeeded and what didn’t and the varying turn outs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Swiss_referendums
(other years are at the bottom)
From ‘The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer’
ps:
I take it this is the same Steve Baron (Direct Marketing Agency owner) who last year wrote in The Whanganui Chronicle:"In 1841, Charles Mackay wrote a very famous book that is mandatory reading for anyone in the investment industry.
It was called Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and was a study of crowd psychology and mass mania with classic swindles, schemes and scams.”- Public referendums (and elections) can be skewed in the same way – both processes are equally open to disinformation attacks, and I would contest his assertion that we are better informed and educated – it doesn’t always show in Stuff comment sections…
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Hard News: The next four years, in reply to BenWilson,
And yet still I am not prepared for the idea that..
Lump'n Dotard is an anagram of Donald Trump
but even spookier:
Vladimir Putin = Trump I invalidIn the beginning was the word....
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The Bard of Hibbing is wistful in his dotage...
Give 'em enough trope ...
plus:
https://horror.fandom.com/wiki/Louis_Cypher -
I miss ’Calvin and Hobbes’
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