Posts by Brickley Paiste
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If you're not just being disingenuous as usual
Wow, dude. Is that really necessary? I asked a few direct and completely unemotive questions because I was interested in your piece. I wasn't being disingenous in the least.
I presume you're not familiar with the degree of personal vilification endured by Kiro.
No, I'm not. Hence my question. The extra information you provided is helpful.
Uh
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if that's the world you want to live in.
I generally like public officials to be held to high scrutiny even if it is by cookoo people.
But, of course, you're really just trolling from the safety of your pseudonym.
No, I was asking a question because something in your post interested me. I wasn't trolling.
Anyway, sorry if my questions bothered you.
Thanks for the post and extra information.
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doubly so when the Prime Minister is of Jewish heritage.
But his mother was an atheist and so is he.
And that's where, I think, some risk to civil society lies. It's right and good to protest, but when public servants know they will cop it simply for taking seriously their responsibilities, and the Prime Minister is compared to Hitler, the wrong signals are being sent.
Could you elaborate?
Do you know Angus wouldn't accept the job because he knows whackos are going to criticise him or is that conjecture? And even if it isn't conjecture, who cares? Shouldn't public servants cop it all the time from everyone? Craig's quote on Angus that you provided was actually pretty level, too.
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Hate speech is stupid, freedom of speech is important and there is a grey area in the middle where decisions are difficult.
Well said.
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Thanks. Great post.
I agree with everything you said. Unfortunately, I agree with a lot of what Gordon Campbell said too at least in relation to his position on freedom of speech.
I think I have a lot more thinking to do.
I'm glad in the end though that BDO didn't sign the guy and therefore the state wasn't required to legislation common sense.
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yeah rattle in the insular little Russell Brown fan club.
Ok, that was funny.
Can I humbly suggest you get over yourself and just participate in a discussion?
She's just being caustic and lippy. Did anyone sign something that said "play nice"?
Are you a middle child, Russell? Be honest. This is important.
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The really crappy aspect of that saga is that celebrity justice does exist. Veitch is a classic example. The pervasive granting of name suppression despite free speech and press. Etc. But parking fines? Fuck off.
None of these really have anything to do with the actual point of the story
None of these has...
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My apologies. I still think were overlooking Mandela's very real contribution for the sake of your argument, but I could have said that in a more measured fashion.
Accepted although not necessary. Think about it though. Which is more likely: the levers of power willingly decided that a massive blood letting was in no one's interest OR some old ANC dude Sinatra'd his way into everyone's hearts and stopped violence?
I'd recommend actually going there.
I'd love to. I hope going theat isn't a prerequisite to having an opinion, though.
When you had a system that relies on screwing the majority population for the benefit of a tiny minority, then dismantling that is gonna cause problems.
Absolutely. But the dismantling happened quickly. The ANC now effectively has no opposition at all, except from the (white) left. Many of the problems that exist now -- such as income disparity and violence being worse than they were under apartheid -- were caused by ANC corruption.
Especially for those in the minority group who suddenly lost all the privileges they previously got, just by being white. Not surprising then that a few of the whites have left.
The ANC exile community lived a life of extreme privilege. They do now as well because they've used the state to line their pockets. The whites have left because the ANC has turned the country into another third world kleptocracy. It was shit before and it's generally shit now. Apartheid was vile. It's vile now.
South Africa is doing ok.
Ok? Not really. It's turning into Zimbabwe. The Ontario refugee tribunal just gave refugee status to a white South African on a totally black letter application of the Convention on Refugees.
Sure, the government has had issues (most notably AIDS denial) but what government doesn't?
Well, most countries don't have polygamist rapists as presidents who take showers to cure HIV.
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historically illiterate douchebaggery Brickley
Sorry to ruin your Friday platitudes. It isn't historically illiterate. It's the truth. I've read a lot about it. I recommend Johnson's recent book "South Africa's Brave New World: The Beloved Country Since the End of Apartheid".
Also, for the umpteenth time, your entry to a discussion thread here consists of you hurling around scorn. You might want to think about that.
I was hurling scorn at an incompetent world leader who, as far as I know, isn't a regularly contributor to the comments in here, much as it would add to the overall coolness.
The only thing that stopped the blood shed in South Africa was the white establishment's decision not to destroy its own country. Now they've all left or are leaving anyway to live in Devonport or Northcote.
Meanwhile, consider this spicy meatball.
Pagefuckers is spreading its oozing filth across the globe.
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we sat in bed all morning and cried
At the fact that an inept Lear figure was taking over South Africa? What a disappointment. All he did was smile for a couple of years while Mbeki destroyed the country paved by Mandela's own promise of the succession. Mandela is his own hype factory and everyone forgets that his country is totally fucked despite his amazingness.
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This is, I think, to understate Key's and National's polling margin.
Most people know nothing about public policy. Therefore, most people that answer polling questions are not sufficiently informed to have a considered opinion. So who fucking cares what the polls say. Most people vote for the party they think will win. Wait until after election day, when the election narrative is set, to start the beard stroking.
But a good many voters will need to tire of National, or become uncomfortable with major policy changes, for Labour to come back into the picture. If it were to happen that quickly, of course, it would be bloody spectacular to watch. That's a long way to fall.
I don't agree. No one is in to politics right now. There is nothing on the boil. Bring on summer. Then NZ goes on pause. Then around March-May we can see politics pick up. Mainly for Supercity. Then with MMP referendum and Supercity burn out no one will give enough of a fuck to change the government.
Goff seems stranded
Horseshit. He's just punching time until the bell goes off for the first round. You trade more horses than that weak-voiced dude at the Herald.
It's a hideous idea that would see New Zealand justly plummet down international press freedom rankings.
Then its press freedom rankings would match is editorial content ranking. Just like how -40 is the same in celcius and farenheit. What a picture that would be. Did you see the pair of tits on the cover of the Sunday Star Times this weekend? Yapoze!