@ClintVSmith you do remember that government that lost the election in 2023, merely 3 years ago.
ask a certain Grant Robertson, who is employed by Otago University, what exactly the country got for his spending, and if any of it was to prepare for a possible fuel outage akin to the 1970s.
National's tax cuts are costing more than $20b over four years - that's $100m a week.
The Government’s fuel crisis support (going to 7% of families) costs $7m a week. They say they can't afford more.
Gee, where did our emergency buffer go?
@voltaire_nz@ClintVSmith No that would be the money that was agreed by all parties with national wanting to print more! Unfortunately labour came into $70 b debt from Mr Key.
@ClintVSmith Tax cuts don’t “cost” the country—they stop the government from taking your money in the first place. The real cost is the $20b+ Labour spent like drunken sailors, leaving the structural hole you’re now whining about.
@cmaa726@ElDubs2@NerdyKat23@WhiteBabyFac@TradAdvocate My husband is my partner not my boss - we are a team! Being submissive to a man is just creepy! Jesus made me to be equal to my husband. Men are the worker bees that’s why they are physically stronger. Women are physiologically stronger than men and have emotional strength.
There are a lot of social advantages that would come from having an all male workforce, with all women being dedicated to taking care of their homes and families.
Young children would all be raised by their mothers instead of having to go to daycare.
Grandmothers would be much more available to help with the grandkids because they'd have no job/career obligations taking up their time and attention.
The risk of infidelity would be much lower because men would always be surrounded by other men while at work, and housewives would be surrounded by other women in their neighborhood while the men are away at work.
Businesses would likely run much more efficiently because men are more geared towards competition, meritocracy, and accepting blunt criticism.
There'd be much less need for HR departments - men wouldn't have to worry about getting accused of sexual harassment by coworkers or tiptoeing around women's feelings.
With an all male workforce nobody would be able to get promoted based on their sex appeal or by "sleeping their way to the top".
With the labor force being reduced in size (since women all left the workforce) men's wages/salaries would be higher and it would be much easier for families to live off of one income.
Instead of meeting romantic partners through college or work, you'd likely be introduced through family members.
Fathers would have good relationships with other men through work, and could introduce good potential husbands to their daughters.
Mothers would have good relationships with other housewives and would know their children well, and could introduce good young women to their sons.
This would help young women avoid relationships with irresponsible men, and would help young men avoid relationships with women who aren't good wife material.
@cmaa726@NerdyKat23@ElDubs2@WhiteBabyFac@TradAdvocate But he is not doing half the work - he works 1 job 40ish hours a week and women works 24/7, you are placing the value on the money. 60k doesn’t afford the work an at home mother does! Add up, home manager, social worker, nanny, chef, driver, prostitute, gardener etc etc
It isn’t slave labor. In marriage you are in a legally binding contract where all money and assets are shared property. If the husband makes 60k you were paid 60k.
I agree about the power imbalance. The fact that the woman can divorce at any time without demonstrating just cause, and get the house, pension, 401k, lifetime alimony. Child support, her lawyer fees paid and take the man’s children places the woman in a power position over the man. In that scenario how can he even consent to sex? Poor guy is raped! We really need the laws reformed so men can consent again.
Our focus remains on staying ahead of the potential risks to New Zealand and minimising the impacts on inflation and growth in our economy.
That means ensuring we continue to secure the fuel we need to protect Kiwi jobs, livelihoods and the wider economy.
The fuel update today shows that New Zealand continues to have sufficient fuel stocks in the country and there is more on the way.
Fuel importers have not reported any issues with future orders or shipments. And therefore, we remain at Phase 1 of our National Fuel Response Plan.
@RD9Woody@PsPeterMortlock It’s worth looking up the impacts COVID has on the brains of children when debating risks/benefits of vaccine - it’s quite scary.
Hipkins needs to be accountable and be fired!
He knew that the vaccine had risks of myocarditis and did not say anything! (And by the way, it is not rare.)
He says that it was not his role to speak on or get involved medically, yet he and Jacinda mandated two shots. If that is not involvement, I don’t know what is?
@cmaa726@NerdyKat23@TradAdvocate@ElDubs2@WhiteBabyFac Not one of my comments have attacked you but I would expect someone with your viewpoint to have a victim mentality - it’s part of the submissiveness conditioning.
@NerdyKat23@TradAdvocate@ElDubs2@leekinnz@WhiteBabyFac You claim to be a Christian and you’re attacking a Christian woman’s page publicly? Is that appropriate behavior for how we correct a sister in Christ if we are concerned?
@cmaa726@NerdyKat23@ElDubs2@WhiteBabyFac@TradAdvocate So you are comparing a marriage to an employment situation? If this was true your scenario would see the husband committing the crime of slave labour, paying below minimum wage, and power imbalance - are you starting to get it now!
No Mamm. You have this all wrong. You make the presumption that if one person is under another’s authority and must submit to them, that this means the person is LESS THAN or OPPRESSED. That is not the case.
An employee has no less worth as a human being than their supervisor. A supervisor isn’t typically oppressing their employee. It is a an employment contract that both parties willingly entered. The staff at a company function in a hierarchy so the business as a whole can accomplish its goals.. the same is true in the family unit.
The husband is the leader, the wife assists him and births and cares for/teaches the children. The children submit to the mother, the wife submits to the husband, the entire family unit is in submission to Christ. When everyone is in their proper role, the household produces many healthy, well adjusted, godly children.
@IrnBoru@morpork3333333@ClintVSmith If you like I can even tell you why males age 18-30 are prone to myocarditis from ANY virus. It might be a bit cerebral though.
@leekinnz@morpork3333333@ClintVSmith Your grammar is horrendous so that's not a good advertisment.
"oh I pretty good at research......"
And you think Hipkins and the horse did a good job during covid, so that right there excludes you from adult conversations.
Get back on the gin.
sceptical of the 'you'ld like him if you knew him better' line on politicians because it feels like quietly blaming voters
Luxon could do more direct comms like Jacinda did on FB. Instead, he's doing less & less comms, because the more voters see him, the more his polls fall
@IrnBoru@morpork3333333@ClintVSmith Yes I did note my error, I do have a life and didn’t have time to amend. I don’t think they did a good job they did a great job as per the facts! Please include facts in your replies not just negative emotions.
@IrnBoru@morpork3333333@ClintVSmith No I don’t think I’m educated I know it - I know how to critically think, critique literature assess levels of evidence, look for multi peer reviewed literature - read scientific papers, oh I pretty good at research too and often sought out for this reason.
@cmaa726@NerdyKat23@ElDubs2@WhiteBabyFac@TradAdvocate He allowed women to be judges, and he was discovered by a woman when he rose again - his view of woman was totally opposed to that of men! Hence why they have held women down for so long.
@cmaa726@NerdyKat23@ElDubs2@WhiteBabyFac@TradAdvocate Yes because that’s what suited men! Its man made not god made - what were Jesus’s actions - spoke and educated the prostitutes and taught women when they were regarded as property - He was born of a human female, he allowed women in the temple - he was the 1st feminist!
@ClintVSmith And we'd probably like Hipkins more if he apologized for the lies, mistakes and tyranny of Covid but I don't think it would be a good idea if he asked his ex-wife to do an interview
@ClintVSmith We don't have to be besotted with our top admin guy.
Our last uber-popular PM lacked in all the ways that actually matter.
Dissatisfaction with politicians has been signalled as an ongoing thing for the foreseeable.
Ditching first-term govts won't make things better.
@aniobrien@dpfdpf Our local national mp pulled up to petrol station I was at in a huge diesel guzzling Nissan SUV I was appalled to think we are paying for this - should be in a small economic vehicle.
Filming yourself complaining about petrol prices… while filling up a vintage Holden Kingswood 🤔
It’s like moaning about grocery prices while pushing a trolley full of caviar!
A car designed in the 1970s… Carburettor. Built like a fridge. And drinks fuel like it’s still 50 cents a litre and Muldoon’s on the telly.
I asked AI to do the maths:
Kingswood: ~12–22+ L/100km
Corolla: ~4–7 L/100km
Hilux (ute): ~7–11 L/100km
That’s 2 to 4 times the fuel burn.
So yeap, if you choose to drive a rolling museum exhibit, filling it up is going to hurt.
Normal Kiwis don’t have the luxury of turning inefficiency into a lifestyle. But here we’ve got Labour MP Dan “Koru Club” Rosewarne staging a social media moment in a gas-guzzling classic and presenting it as evidence of hardship.
Mate, skipping one Kingswood fill could probably keep a few Corollas running for a week.