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Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 4:13 pm, February 10th, 2025
Bomber replaces the govt with the left bloc: https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/02/10/shock-new-taxpayers-union-poll-labour-greens-mp-are-government/ All it took was a poll and his declaration, and reality switched accordingly! This tactic may work for other ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 9:40 pm, February 5th, 2025
I preferred Manfred Mann's version, but listening again to Bob copy Woody Guthrie's style of singing reminded me that "you don't count the dead when God's on your side." So presumably neither side in the Gaza conflict are counting them. We could call it ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 3:27 pm, February 5th, 2025
I made tv ads mid-'70s to mid-'80s & get your darwinian point. The constraint on effectiveness is attention, which naturally wanders, so suck them into a narrative & dress it up with imagery to glamourise. I could see how the ad agency hotshots manipulated ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 3:18 pm, February 5th, 2025
Precisely. As a design tool, it works similar to the swiss army knife. I've advocated the thing here, but it will only get political traction if a party becomes progressive enough to adopt it. No sign of that yet, eh?Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 2:21 pm, February 5th, 2025
moderators are pretty clear that they rule on behaviour, not principles Which makes moderation arbitrary, seemingly unprincipled. However users must accept the norms of any group they participate in. I've explained my common interests with leftists often ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 2:07 pm, February 5th, 2025
Seems to me your view is essential. I would add that it is so on the basis of holism, but some folks here would become hysterical. The question of rights parity can be separated from the Treaty (Seymour's advocacy conflating them is an exercise in ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 2:02 pm, February 5th, 2025
Yes, your point about the common good is one I often make in different political contexts, ever since I resonated with Jeanette Fitzsimons telling the Greens to prioritise it. Obviously those in parliament have failed to get that message - otherwise ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 11:08 am, February 5th, 2025
Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 8:51 am, February 5th, 2025
There's so much good news coming out of the White House right now that the msm can't keep up, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tells Hannity in this Fox clip: https://www.foxnews.com/media/media-cant-keep-up-good-news-flowing-from-trump-white- ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 7:52 am, February 5th, 2025
The trade war is now declared a happening thing by the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7vdjpj7pe3o Beijing's promised tariff retaliation - including new levies on imports from the US of oil, agricultural machinery and some cars - is far less ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 7:41 am, February 5th, 2025
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/politics/education-department-trump-executive-order/index.html Education must be eliminated due to everyone being taught a bunch of crap all the time. This shit has been happening since the 19th century. It's how to ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 7:34 am, February 5th, 2025
Seems sensible so I'll quibble... State funding means taxpayer funding and most people won't want to pay for such a bunnch of hopeless losers. I suspect they will be dead keen to pay to have them eliminated though. Iwi upper house would mean preserving ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 7:25 am, February 5th, 2025
My view encompasses all that you describe so well. Perhaps my framing seems too simplistic: one's personal framings are aesthetic choices, and I prioritise communicating complex topics is simply as possible to optimise comprehension. Doesn't mean anyone ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 7:55 pm, February 4th, 2025
Latest polls, no big deal : https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/02/04/second-poll-of-2025-showing-labour-leading-government/ https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/02/04/even-new-roy-morgan-poll-shows-government-dropping/Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 7:49 pm, February 4th, 2025
I have commented here in the past a few times in support of the feminist position. I don't claim any competence around gender since I grew up back when it was used as a simile for sex and haven't encountered any explanation of difference that stuck in my ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 7:43 pm, February 4th, 2025
Whereas evolution works via mutation & selection (theory), male & female are the norms that enable reproduction. Those who are attracted to same sex don't reproduce unless they are also bisexual & do the normal thing. That makes 3 obvious categories: male/ ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 4:01 pm, February 4th, 2025
conflating biology and social identity Not equating them, framing them as an inevitable complementarity. Some people have their identity anchored in biology. Others self-define it.Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 3:22 pm, February 4th, 2025
They both knew traders are supercool. So what's the market rate for these folks? One poll of Greenlanders suggested only 6% of Greenlanders want their country to become part of the US, with 9% undecided and 85% against. Traditionally, Danes have viewed ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 2:59 pm, February 4th, 2025
It's a tetrad. I'd up-grade it to incorporate fun as 5th essential since all culture emanates from it! To do a reality check, ask around friends & family to ascertain the viability of life with no fun. Big Norm clearly had a tacit acceptance of there being ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 2:53 pm, February 4th, 2025
Sorry https://thecritic.co.uk/owen-jones-vs-robert-webb/Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 2:17 pm, February 4th, 2025
I'm confident I'm not missing the dimensional drivers of the trend. Realism has two sides: binary people cling to their tradition while trans people know they don't belong in the binary. Denial of trans reality is silly and cannot prevail socially. The ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 10:38 am, February 4th, 2025
Konrad the Kool does exemplary enterprise: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-04/engaging-young-australians-punters-politics/104878384 His first reel, "How dumb are Aussies?" skewered the decisions of successive governments that he said allowed ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 8:47 am, February 4th, 2025
US govt censors bad words: Researchers were told to remove any mention or reference to a list of terms. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-orders-papers-withdrawn-forbidden-words_n_67a02486e4b0521901454fe9?ime That list includes “gender, transgender, ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 8:14 am, February 4th, 2025
Trump chalks up another win: https://www.foxnews.com/world/panama-pledges-end-key-canal-deal-china-work-us-after-rubio-visit Panama's president vowed Sunday to end a key development deal with China after meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 8:07 am, February 4th, 2025
Panopticon alert: https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/02/03/mass-surveillance-fascist-nz-corporation-demands-more-mass-surveillance-powers-with-zero-accountability/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon Privatisation of mass surveillance has happened and ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 7:55 pm, February 3rd, 2025
Well, you may indeed be simulating their state of mind accurately but I'm the guy who raps a knuckle on their forehead & asks "Anybody home?" I mean, even if a geriatric comes across lucid most of the time, you still got a geriatric. Falling down at random ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 7:46 pm, February 3rd, 2025
Trotter does the maths, gets an exact match, thinks it's good for the left: Over the 33 years between 1990 and 2023 (and allowing for the aberrant 2020 result) the average level of support enjoyed by the Left and Right blocs, at roughly 44.5 percent each, ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 4:18 pm, February 3rd, 2025
From your source I get this key bit: Article II, Section 2 of the constitution: “He [The President] shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur…”. Treaties are the ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 2:37 pm, February 3rd, 2025
Having a primary seems a no-brainer given Biden's series of performance failures. Inexplicably stupid of the Dems to have ruled one out!! That said, I do feel Biden did surprising well overall, even if only as a placeholder, although I'm sympathetic to the ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 2:17 pm, February 3rd, 2025
That's interesting, thanks. It does raise the question of what T's legal advisor is smoking, huh? Not to mention viability of any consequent prosecutions of state agents. I'll watch this space awhile to get a sense of the unreality...
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