Dear Men of NZ – the Right manipulated your anger – there is a place for you on the Left
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, 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.
You need to meet more white tradie males. I have friends who share my political views, and while we don’t think much of the social engineering that the Greens are known for, all parties have some divergent thinkers. Our contempt for the current government means that the Greens & TMP are still a better option. As a male who respects females, does not think of them as sex objects & is capable of agreeing to disagree, I have never been in any situation where false or true accusations of improper conduct could be leveled against me, so while I don’t agree with lots of things that people do, I am secure in my identity and do not feel threatened by whatever weird trend is happening.
I am a project manager working with tradie’s every day so we can strike that one out and as a dad to 4 girls / married to a great woman we can strike any issues around respect for females as well.
Well mate, I’ve run many projects myself, worked on some of the biggest construction jobs in the southern hemisphere as a boilermaker welder.. Ran painting crews in NZ, and played my guitar for a living after that in Australia, and Europe, and I consider your comment, to be shallow, reactionary, and hint of an innate bigotry…
Being the boss doesn’t automatically give your opinions(bigotries) weight beyond the air you expel to utter them…
You are obviously in the camp that would rather see this country decimated societally and economically than have to drop the prejudices that underpin your political “beliefs”
You, and your ilk are actually part of the problem… and you, and your ilk will always be the last to realise that…
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.
Disappointed and disillusioned, Rangi. If they were holding to Labour principles there’d be plenty of men wanting to join them.
Greed and snobbery have a lot to do with it as well and imagining that they are in a ‘class’ other than working or middle class. That elite class doesn’t actually like them or feel they should be included, but they are useful, they swell the numbers and make the right look much more impressive than it is.
Young men with plenty of money tend to think they have that money because they know everything. Like you know who!
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.
From experiential observations abd learnings , those right-wing males…they are definitely not men…are like dealing with babies.
Just showing those smug pictures makes me hangry.
Youre not going to go Jacqueline on us I hope Kerry.
‘Insisting that men with penises are women just because they put on a dress.” Really Zelda! I am shocked!
You always said that was our special secret and now you tell everyone!
No chance, between hating on self employed trades and that stupidly long Auckland lock down I rather not vote.
I used to vote green, and voted Labour. Now i could dare support the woke rightness of the left. Winston for me.
Yeah nah – the Right are far too stupid to affect my voting behaviour. The self-styled progressives alienated me singlehanded.
People who support Trump either don’t have two brain cells to rub together ( yes that includes the supposed god bothers) or worse are rich and just don’t give a f**k about anyone at all. You can be conservative/right and think he is f’ing idiot and you’d be correct. All this label bullshit is tiresome. Its up there with generation this and generation that. It’s all so repulsively American. Large parts of the world probably don’t go about compartmenting the population (ok it’s probably about class instead) based on when they were born.
Let’s face it the people who voted for this cowpat of a government were manipulated and still repeat the bullshit messages that National in particular campaigned on. They keep banging on about inheriting a mess. So the answer is what? Make it so much worse but throw in race baiting crap (that was the opposite of the previous National government). Wake up.
Of course the non right, because you can’t call Labour left, got duped too. The difference being the Labour terms were not built on selling out for the 1%. Call them whatever they weren’t openly bought and paid for like this lot.