@hooroo said in 2018 Black Ferns:

@baron-silas-greenback said in 2018 Black Ferns:

@stargazer said in 2018 Black Ferns:

What exactly is the need for a reason? Were people queued up outside and large delays ensued? or is he just virtue signalling over a non issue?

This is the small thing about the whole game I support. If you are going to have and advertise a game, don't open the gates on kick off. (I'm assuming minutes is only a few minutes)

If I received a kick in the head and started to enjoy this rugby and I had planned to go to this game, I would have turned up 20-30 mins beforehand to be part of the build-up/grab a beer and a pie

Has anyone actually complained? Shown they were inconvenienced and couldn't get a beer and pie before the kick off?
I bet not. You just have a virtue signalling tweet showing how woke someone is.

@stargazer said in 2018 Black Ferns:

What exactly is the need for a reason? Were people queued up outside and large delays ensued? or is he just virtue signalling over a non issue?

@Stargazer

What is the actual difference between a double header and a curtain raiser?
Because I think there is zero difference besides marketing.

Womens rugby is rubbish, almost unwatchable crap. I am sure they have skills and work hard, so what? Lots of sports people have skills and work hard.
I chuckled when you used the word prejudiced when describing people who didn't like womens rugby, because of course if you dont like it must have not seen it.... lol.. it couldn't possibly because when people watch it they just decide it is crap.

I think most first XV's in NZ would beat the Black ferns. But so what? It is about bums on seats and eyes on screens, if one day the black ferns can financially stand on their own 2 feet then great. All power to them, but they cannot. because the product they produce is just not very good relative to other options.

But we could go full virtue signal and just get rid of womens rugby and let them compete with men, I mean gender is a social construct now so.... I wonder how many of the black ferns would get pro contracts.....?

zero

@siam said in Fake News:

@rembrandt this is an effort aimed a trump and centre right electorate ain't it?

Seems like a suppression of support so that main stream media is the only voice leading up to 2020.

Will observe with interest how much fight trump puts up. I fear he has no stomach for this

I think he has plenty of stomach for it. He loves having these sorts of fights. Does anyone really like big tech companies or trust them? They are fertile ground for a president looking for a crusade.
Add the fact they are without exception that they are abject cowards and it will be a fight Trump will LOVE. How exactly will they fight back? You imagine Trump targeting Zuckerberg? How would Zuckerbeg like being made out to be the devil to 50 million yanks? He would crumple.
You know the CEO of Google? Youtube? Alphabet (parent company of Google etc)? Probably not. Trump picks that fight.. you will know the name.... all of the US will know the name. You think he or she wants that?

Tech leaders are not cut out for public fights and to be demonised.

Awkward.....

@gt12 I mostly agree, free speech is hardest to defend when people are saying stuff you dont like.
I dont really see it as a free speech issue, but can see the argument. I think it is more about that clearance being a privilege not a right. And Brennan (like Trump) has broken the mould on how to behave, a ex CIA director jumping on cable TV and ranting, making incredibly thinly veiled statements that he knows things that you don't is dangerous and not really great.
I think the unwritten 'normal' was that these people keep clearance, but they dont go on national news shows and leverage that clearance.

And congress doesnt need to be involved, it is the presidents sole job. Not up for debate really.

@gt12 What speech is Trump stopping exactly?
What stuff can Brennan now not say that he could previously?
Why is Brennan upset? Why does he need clearance?

Trump has changed lots of stuff. He has also banned his staff from becoming lobbyists.

Let's be honest Brennan was using his clearance for profit by working on MSNBC.
Any others on that list do that?

@donsteppa said in Tasman v Canterbury:

Burleigh at 12, I reckon @Baron-Silas-Greenback will tune in for this one

He is DEAD to me.

@jegga Nah.
Lets really push it and make his speech on how University bureaucrats who block free speech should be fired.

@calf said in Religion, Morality and Political Correctness on campus:

@salacious-crumb seems an overreaction but I suspect the response is driven by FIFA’s anti politics rules (and TR supporters probably knew that)

yeah... nah.
He should ahve just said that.
Instead he made statements like this.

"He said the club "absolutely accept and respect the fact that everybody holds their own independent opinions and values, but we politely ask for you to temporarily overlook those views for a couple of hours or so when attending Luton Town matches in future."

He added that any sort of prejudice "can and should be left for another day" and that embracing difference was "characteristic of 'being Lutonian'.""

So he is saying those chanting someones name are prejudiced? mmmm
And isnt stating as fact that embracing difference in of itself a political statement? Doesnt have anything much to do with soccer.