Just google "transgender news nz" or "gender affirming nz". Uncritical affirmation is the mainstream position. Critical and balanced articles like the following, by Prof Charlotte Paul, are the exception, not the norm: A Terrible Trap — North & South ...
Two millionth comment on TS! 🥳 Appreciate the sentiment of engaging in robust debate and facing your critics.
I found the actual two millionth comment from Anker. Quite appropriate for this site IMHO. https://thestandard.org.nz/while-the-gender-sex-culture-war-rages/#comment-2000000 Yes I can understand people wanting to shout fuck you. A very human response. But ...
Hiya mods and lprent, the site just passed a small milestone, the two-millionth comment! Unbelievable!!! The nearest comment I could find was this from `Descendant of Smith` at 11:14 PM last night (16 May 2024) https://thestandard.org.nz/charter-schools-...
Obligatory (doomed) plug for nuclear. Sometimes the perfect is the enemy of the good and practical. Why Leaving Nuclear Energy Behind is the Wrong Choice – Berkeley Economic Review Nuclear energy is comparable with wind and solar both in terms of ...
Beyer underwent gender surgery as an adult. Since around 2000, blockers and surgeries for minors have increased tenfold, and the procedures are uncritically lauded as a magic bullet, when most patients have a lot more complex issues. Hence the ...
The NAF coalition are vandals, wrecking public services out of spite. While the public schools are neglected and kids with extra needs are ignored, Daivid Seymour is spending $153 million on his failed & expensive project Charter school funding ‘a slap in ...
The mental health aspects are completely ignored - the media prefer to support the notion that it's a physical problem (instead of 'dysphoria' it's become more PC to use the term 'incongruence') A functional mental health system could have alleviated this ...
I know it's hard to understand, maybe you should have gone to skool more. You seem to be stuck in a narrow frame of the here and now. Look at my links to see what direction we are headed in if Seymour continues wrecking our education system.
I already stated, the 1% stand to benefit at the expense of everyone else.
State schools are neglected and starved for funds, and the school lunch programme has been cut to the bone. And if you look at the experience of the US school system, this is part of a plan by the 1% to siphon funding away from the public into their ...
Trust David Seymour? I don't think so. If this scheme had the slightest bit of integrity it wouldn't come at the price of the education and wellbeing of thousands of kids in state schools.
Seems to be a pattern here - Chhour isn't just rogue minister, a theme of this coalition government is lack of accountability to the public (press) or to the law (waitangi trib) or to democratic process (fast track) or indeed the truth.
But very few people see it as an ideology, they think in simplistic terms of gay liberation vs conservative bigots. I really appreciate the quality work of fullyinformed.nz and Dr Cass and others keeping a calm voice of sanity in the middle of those who ...
Smoke and mirrors so that his mates can run a profitable $150 million dollar scam
Not sure I can survive without BBQ chips
NACTional hates poor people and wants to minimise the cost of ownership. They are only useful for paying rent and working themselves to death for massa
And the stupid thing is, it doesn't have to be a "war". No other medical treatment has been the subject of such magical thinking and extreme behaviour from its advocates.
Some of the things Clark said on camera were shocking but that was the cultural norm of just 20 years ago. Shameful. And the cynical attitude to the Foreshore and Seabed Act, triangulating for votes, set the LP back for years. A family member has the book ...
What is wrong with cardboard and wax paper?
The BHN episode linked here adds important context to some of the comments on Māori politics today. The status quo of New Zealand is still detrimental to Tangata Whenua. We have made some good progress in the last few years, supporting Māori culture and Te...
Nice - much more listenable than "The Working Group" with Bomber's insufferable libertarian mate
National's crime-free paradise Ponsonby Road shooting: Man shot dead, local leaders ‘shocked and saddened’ - NZ Herald Time for Mark Mitchell to resign. National's Mark Mitchell accuses Chris Hipkins of personal responsibility for crime, will resign if it ...
Via The Daily Blog
Competition to see who can be the worst Tory bastard
Plenty of people don't drive tractors the length of the country because of carbon taxes, or profit from turning waterways into open sewers from cowshit, or put up racist slogans on their paddocks next to public roads.
Luxon is weak and unable to control his mad dog coalition partners. Surely some Nats are aware of the problem and want to stay in government? They need a drastic course correction - it's clear that they have gone too far too fast with their 100 days of ...
David Seymour isn't too shy about his views that the poor are a cost to be minimised, that culling hospitals is great, and old people should be euthanised. Society cannot afford rich sociopaths crushing us under their boots. They are the dragons of myth ...
Libertarians (DG) are wannabe feudal lords in liberal clothing - using the tools of capitalism and power to oppress workers & pillage resources, and using the language of freedom to act illegally & spread lies. They are the religious fanatics of capitalism
The Dominion of New Zealand is a settler colonial republic and since its establishment has always relied on plunder and extraction, enclosure of the commons or outright theft. We are past all the gold-rush money-for-nothing schemes, what is left is either ...
National are shite and traitors, but they only got into power because Kiwis were sick of Labour & Ardern's constant failure to make significant progressive reforms, despite all their nice noises and airbrushed photo ops. As @Liquid_Times put it: Does the ...
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