Watching the power of Tommy Robison in the UK and Trump in America, it needs to be reiterated and restated that there is a place for Kiwi blokes on the Left.
I appreciate that the woke identity politics activists have done everything to alienate and push men out of the movement, Â forget them, they’ve all been exiled to Bluesky.
Look at the realities of this terrible Government.
16 000 jobs in construction have gone, the vast majority of those jobs are men.
National’s solution to the damage they’ve caused?
Import more male workers at lower pay scales than you have!
Not only have National damaged your industry, their solution is to bring in migrant workers who will be exploited for lower wages than you charge!
We have had our anger manipulated by culture war bullshit.
Not one working family in New Zealand is sitting around the kitchen table cancelling each other for misusing pronouns, they are trying to work out how to pay the bills!
We are citizens before anything else, and we need to vote like citizens, not self interested, wounds.
Pure Temple Politics and the narcissistic social justice minefield of hashtag activism kills the Broadchurch solidarity of class and allows for arseholes like Trump and this terrible right wing Government to get elected.
Brothers, Comrades, Mates & Fellow Blokes
There is a place for you on the NZ Left!
Just because you have a penis doesn’t make you toxic!
Don’t feel alienated by the more woke voices of the Left, you should not side with the corporations and the Billionaires and the speculators.
300 000 years of evolution that have gifted you the altruism to protect isn’t a sin!
As a man AND as a citizen, you have an obligation to protect everyone weaker than you, and you should stand against corporate interests, implemented because our anger and alienation have been manipulated by their social media hate algorithms.
Look.
We hate each other thanks to social media.
While we hate each other more than ever before, we are more lonely than we have ever been before.
We are lonelier, more depressed and sicker.
Our loneliness, our depression, our sickness are all fomenting the spin of social media hate algorithms which only further polarise our debate into All Tribe and No Village politics.
I think we are a clever ape who has evolved over 300 000 years. Because we have to compete against other sentient and self conscious clever apes and work with them as groups so our intelligence and ability to use tools could change our environment, we have had to bond and understand each other over hundreds of thousands of years of evolution.
When we meet in person, our bodies and brains and taking in millions of different details subconsciously and we are working each other out through facial cues, pheromones, gait, stance, smiles, eye contact, etc etc etc: we have taken those 300 000  years of evolution and replaced that  with flat screen interaction where we lose all that unseen evolutionary advantage and instead become brainwashed and trapped in rabbit holes of demented reality.
Flat screen interaction is warping our human capacity to tell what is true and what isn’t because we don’t have that sense of the person in front of us and all the million ways we asses each other in our evolved brain.
We have become an ocean of spite and resentment in an All Tribe No Village politics distorted by social media hate algorithms because 300 000 years of evolution can’t work in a flat screen interaction loneliness.
We need got fight against this anathematizing of our hopes and aspirations.
Turn that flat screen interaction into a platform where we can challenge this empty intimacy!
Brothers, Comrades, Mates & Fellow Blokes
There is a place for you on the NZ Left!
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If you think that white males who do not routinely wear cardigans or who feel compelled to apologise for things they have not done will be voting for any govt that includes the Greens and TPM you dreaming – Marama Davidson made it clear how she feels about us so f**k the lot of ya.
A bit late for that Martyn. The modern left hates straight white males.
I might be wrong but it seems to me the majority of people who comment here (apart from the trolls) are disillusioned with the “left” because it is essentially a slightly less malevolent version of the far right coalition we have in power now.
Why does this never get addressed? Until Labour renounce neoliberalism many people will never vote for them regardless of their woke stupid shit.
If you think that white males who do not routinely wear cardigans or who feel compelled to apologise for things they have not done will be voting for any govt that includes the Greens and TPM you dreaming – Marama Davidson made it clear how she feels about us so f**k the lot of ya.
Not going to happen. Who wants to become part of what the Left now proudly represents (i.e. hatred and intolerance)?