If I was voting in my own self interest I should have voted National. I'd get a very nice tax cut thank-you-very-much.
I've already voted. As a Green Party member I was always going to vote Green. For a myriad of reasons. I've been thinking through the logic of this, and trying to prepare myself for Saturday. Last election I was so emotionally invested, when National won ...
I think you're onto something there Incognito. I'm a woman (as my name suggests) and I will not engage in a site with no moderation. Because it quickly turns into a slanging match of the worst kind. I'm pretty tough, but I have zero tolerance for being ...
I live and surf in this area, Ruakaka is one of the surf spots we visit regularly. Checked out the closest surf spot we could get to Marsden Point recently for the first time (usually go a bit further south to Power Station or Race Course) at Rama Road. ...
True, The bit you've failed to acknowledge is that CO2 and CH4 have very different properties. CO2 does not hold as much energy as CH4. CH4 can hold as much as 30 times more energy in fact. Climate change can be understood at its base as a problem of ...
"I haven’t had the chance to read the policy yet. Hence, was hoping someone would have the answers." Stop being so damned lazy and expecting others to read it and summarise it for you. Or in more abbreviated and less polite terms, fuck off.
Such a predictable response. And so sadly common in middle NZ today. Your statement has at least these three unacknowledged assumptions. I would like to think you'll consider this, but I fear you will not. 1. At the time of conception all prospective ...
Gender card? Is that some special card that I can get as a woman? Where do I get this card from? What advantages does it give? Because I don't have one. Also, if I get a gender card, can I also get a special victims card? Because I'm one of those too, and ...
Waiting for your comment that the heavily male dominated lists of all other parties are sexist... *crickets* Yep. Pretty sure your outrage is faux.
"The DOW is at 22000; that tells me we are months, maybe weeks away from the greatest collapse and depression the world has ever seen." I'll just address this one aspect of your comment because this is my area of expertise. While I do tend to agree with ...
As a middle class conservationist Green party member... What utter bullshit and drivel your comment is. You've really no idea.
ACT have suggested forced sterilisation. Pretty sure they're right wing. And anyway, I made zero mention of left or right and I don't give a f**k. I've seen this type of conversation devolve pretty quickly into suggestions of forced sterilisation from both...
The problem I have with this tired old trope being trotted out, is it usually quickly devolves into bashing women (metaphorically) and suggesting forced sterilisation. Of women. Somehow rarely men. The argument ignores three very important points: 1. No ...
"Empowering women via education and access to contraception has done exactly that" Exactly. And I'll add, RESPECTING women and their right to make decisions about their own bodies and their own fertility. Give them the tools, don't shame them when they use...
+100 Exactly. Follow the money.
Oh no, come on now. Jonathan Pie is entertaining. Bomber, with all his "comrade" BS is just annoying. And Pie does tend to make rather a lot of sense really.
You've made some unacknowledged assumptions in your comment. First, yeah, I'm earning a lot ATM, but you're assuming I'm "ahead". Income at any one point in time does not necessarily mean I'm "ahead" nor does it mean it will continue on a stable nor ...
Oh FFS, I bloody well know what my tax rate is. And my accountant minimises it, but there's a limit to what I can legally do. Yeah, my income is very good. Still leaving. Trying to get ahead after divorce, retraining and starting a business... watching ...
To some extent you're right Bill. I was referring to acts outside of war. And if we want to include the Kurds we could claim women are responsible for much more violence. And I'm not "pooping and going". So much as disillusioned with the conversation here ...
The most common attribute of mass killers? Close to 98% male. But we're not allowed to talk about that now are we Bill. And others. Men on the left don't like it.
I'm paying close to 50% of my income on tax. Most weeks I put more aside for tax than I am able to save for myself. I'm leaving NZ as soon as possible. So that during my most productive years I can save and get ahead.
Excellent points Matthew, love the comments. And to Red and Mordecai, go here to find plenty more real life examples of sexism in the work place leading to a lack of promotion and lower pay for women. It's really not hard to find this information. But the ...
Not necessarily. Enough defaults and the bank faces bankruptcy. It happened plenty after the 2008 crisis. It'll happen again.
Why, thank you Sir
We are told that this National government is better for the country because they understand business, and they'll run the government like a business. Which is supposed to be a good thing. Yet here they are completely and utterly asleep at the wheel making ...
I agree, that's the right age to introduce it and it's necessary. I wonder though if when introducing that idea, we also introduce the idea of it not being okay to try and force someone else to do something for you. Like, if another kid doesn't want to ...
How about men take responsibility for dying younger?' See how this works? Gets us absolutely nowhere. And WTF has life span got to do with equal pay anyway? Way to go to try and avoid the issue.
Paragraph breaks. Organise your thoughts. And provide some bloody evidence. South Africa bestows every right to man? Not so at all. You confuse laws with interpretation, with the reality on the ground. That's just stupid.
They wanted to. And the women of Poland protested. Peacefully. And for now, have changed their minds. Yes, peaceful protest can work.
"the mental agility of a cauliflower" LMFAO almost spit my coffee all over my screen there :-)
True. Canada has it's problems, and it's climate isn't for those who don't like the cold. It's still looking a lot better than the USA. If I were a refugee I know which one I'd prefer.
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