Daily review 18/04/2023

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  1. SPC 1
    18 April 2023 at 6:02 pm

    The horrible inspiration behind one of Picasso's great works, 'Guernica'

    https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2023/04/16/have-the-nz-woke-killed-the-nz-political-left/

    Once over my PTSD and am able, I might provide an overview of this tract – and provide some analysis of the fear for the white working class man that incited it from their champion.

    The Rules

    1. "Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."
    2. "Never go outside the expertise of your people."
    3. "Whenever possible go outside the expertise of the enemy."
    4. "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
    5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."
    6. "A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
    7. "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag."
    8. "Keep the pressure on."
    9. "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. "
    10. "The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition."
    11. "If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative."
    12. "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative."
    13. "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. "

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals

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  2. Shanreagh 2
    18 April 2023 at 6:51 pm

    "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."

    I note that this lines up with the idea of my former Minister boss who said once people start laughing at you politically, you are gone.

    So Hipkins epic stumble will live on as a pointer to many women about how unimportant they are to those in power who will not hesitate to throw them & their concerns out.

    Actually far from being radical these seem to be a pretty bog standard description of how politics and issues are conducted here in NZ and have been for many a long year.

    I wonder how long it will be before we discover the limitations of, and throw out any discourse that works off, the word 'woke'?

    I reckon now would be good. wink

    • SPC 2.1
      18 April 2023 at 8:26 pm

      When used in the negative, it's only slightly more subtle than 'Jew", or "liberal fellow traveller with commies/terrorists/feminists" to rouse up the right wing white race social conservative patriarchy friendly base.

      What ever happened to special political correctness?

  3. Shanreagh 3
    18 April 2023 at 8:45 pm

    I have seen 'woke' used in so many contexts that when you put them side by side they are contradictory and I think woke cannot have all those meanings.

    I look at it as a non word really. Jargon. Dog whistle perhaps. So it may be lost on many who may have been wanting to explore an argument like TDB might be making.

    I only really persisted in reading it as you had put it up together with the definitions for radicals that I thought was interesting.

    Mostly my eyes glaze over as I try to see what argument the commentator is trying to hide behind the word 'woke'.

    • SPC 3.2
      18 April 2023 at 10:23 pm

      This began a few days ago – the PTSD resulting from watching Fox News.

      • Shanreagh 3.2.1
        18 April 2023 at 10:40 pm

        So I don't watch Fox News, or any TV news from NZ. So this kind of parody zooms right over my head. Sorry.

        I often watch documentaries from CBC/ABC. Look at Brit papers no US other than NY Times.