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upset223

110 comments · +1,778 / −512 · rank #706 of 40,276

How about thanks for modern living!! while the rest of the world had harnessed the power of intelligence and technology the maori were using sticks and stone for tools woven flax and basic skins for clothes, they were barely a step away from cavemen that had a basic level of agriculture.Compare the maori of 1800 to the Romans of 200bc the English of 1000ad or any European country at the same time, and honestly tell me that they didnt need help to move into the modern world

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it is necessary to ask these questions to a female, maybe a change in manner would be in order but you must ask the question, because if you dont and a young girl turns up pregnant and the xray damages the baby then the hospital is to blame.

+77−2

victim blaming is a pathetic way of saying to the victim of an event dont worry you cant be held accountable for the choices you made to get you in this situation This teacher is giving an insight into the direction that a specific pattern of decision making will lead a person and should be commended for doing so. After all is she not in the profession of teaching children?Children are growing up with the idea that actions are divorced from consequences. Its becoming more and more dangerous as these children become older and behave in a manner that shows no regard for others, as they dont think of their actions having consequences

+35−2

schools are struggling to teach our kids to read and write in English. by making maori compulsory you will only make our kid able to fail at two languages. lets focus on the raising illiteracy rates before introducing a dying language as compulsory learning.

+34−1

And the whole time men are turning up to work day in and day out doing their job. Does the gender EARNINGS gap start to make sense now. Its incredibly laughable that women are campaigning for equal right on one day and then special right on the next. The more you push for this kind of nonsense the more employers will see women as a liability to employ.

+29−2

The argument used to accept abortion is being used to deny bereavement leave, go figure.Is it a baby or is it an embryo? you cant have it both ways and complain when one way doesnt fit your purpose. A legal decision needs to be made as to clear up all the legal grey area.If its a baby, abortion becomes murder but bereavement becomes logical.If its an embryo, abortion is just a procedure and bereavement becomes illogical.

+35−9

So now it will be the governments job to dictate the pay rates of female dominated industry. how about they choose professions people go into aswell, enforce strict 50/50 quotas, decide when people can take holidays or reproduce. They could even design universal uniforms to help combat sexual harassment/desire. the control people are conceding to the almighty government sickens me.

+23−2

technically England werent the evil Colonisers they are made out to be. In fact they were just ahead of the curve and just bringing diversity to the world

+28−8

I would be ok with that men have built this society with their blood and lives its about time we get a break. women you go work you fight the wars you sweep the streets and clean the sewers and die for society. Us men will make the beds and sweep the floors and make dinner and play with the kids. Women dont realise that they have always been the protected class and men have died in service for them since life began

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You are 100% correct. I am a licenced firearms owner who shoots in sporting competitions. I, along with all others I associate with that have firearms licences, want the police to have the resources and support they need to tackle the firearms crime. That is only half of the job though, the courts need to punish these criminals with such severity that the thought of being caught committing a crime with a firearm is no longer acceptable.I love having the privilege of owning and using firearms in a safe, constructive and legal way, and dont want to see these privileges disappear due to criminals misuse and the public being put at risk.Give police the tools needed, and make the courts back them up with mandatory sentencing.

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linguistic racism wow you invented something quite interesting. So any language you dont want to learn makes you a racist towards that culture? So racism has been redefined so that you cannot be racist against white people, and watered down so that now refusing to learn a language is now an act of racism

+18−1

and feel entitled to question whether our personal experiences really happened in the way we say they did.Have you ever listened to a witness statement and also watched the video evidence? Witnesses are the most unreliable when the event has a element of danger. Men tend to inject themselves into the event as a hero and women tend to exadurate the danger as the FEEL it was extremely dangerous for themselves. Thats why both men and women are asked about personal experience

+19−2

I have a couple ideas1) Strip every nicety and comfort, for the prisoner, out of the prisons. use the money saved to give a better standard of living to pensioners. We give criminals a better life than our elderly.2) Reduce welfare payments they are able bodied and should be working, not being compensated for bad life choices. Most elderly have worked their whole lives paying tax into the system and receive less than beneficiarys who do nothing but take from the system.

+15−1

For me the giving away a daughter is a special thing in a wedding. For me it is the handing over of a mans responsibility. I as a father was the first do hold my daughter when her mother birthed her into my hands. I have and will continue to love, care, protect and provide for her until I pass that responsibility onto her husband, note I say responsibility and not burden. Thats what it means to me

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how about thanks for modern living!! while the rest of the world had harnessed the power of intelligence and technology the maori were using sticks and stone for tools woven flax and basic skins for clothes, they were barely a step away from cavemen that had a basic level of agriculture.Compare the maori of 1800 to the Romans of 200bc the English of 1000ad or any European country at the same time, and honestly tell me that they didnt need help to move into the modern world

+17−5

If the women were as good as their male counterparts there would be parody. Instead of penalising men for being good at their job, how about expecting women to steep up to the level.The soft bigotry of low expectations has damaged womens credibility, but nowhere as much as demanding quotas to create parody with under preforming women.

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I disagree with you saying that no one should be allowed to have pistols. there are about 36 000 privately owned pistols in nz, Gun crimes are not done with this type of firearm, why you ask? Because these are some of the most controlled items that a licenced person can have, people that have them are mostly very secretive about it. A case cannot be made that those people shouldnt have them because a criminal broke into a house and stole some. Nor for the fact that they have not been recovered, I am more than positive that if the police were proactive with this crim the firearms couldve been recovered.With 12 convictions the police know who he is and who he associates with. The police have been neutered, if they had the tools and the teeth they could have recovered those guns

+14−3

I would leave this chick. you have to be attracted to her and ill bet she has deal breakers that you must comply with. Find someone you dont need to change, and she will find someone that that doesnt want her to change. win win

+25−15

you are right 100% #Metoo started by focusing on the Abusers and harassers, but has now diluted to target those men that treat women badly eg hurt their feelings, share a bad joke or just disagree with feminist talking points. #Metoo has become a weapon hanging over the heads of men like the executioners axe, just waiting for a man to say the wrong thing or have a wrong opinion. Look at the latest from a certain lawyer. He said he wanted a harem, women got offended ( read offended not abused ) and now take him down, make him loose his job. #Metoo is a weapon for female career advancement not a movement

+8−0

the media now are nothing but left leaning entertainment. they have been caught staging events and planting people to fit their agenda. This article straight out the gate tries to make a comparison between Hitler, Stalin and Donald Trump, I guess to drive home their point that media good Trump bad. Articles like this are a sign that the msm are acknowledging that the majority of people dont trust them.

+12−4

If women really arent happy I propose a simple solution. lets swap roles, in every legal document, law, bill of rights, privilege, and responsibility we swap the gender from female were written to male and where male is written change to female. if the females are truly oppressed they will love this idea.

+7−1

Women are advocating for unlimited, safe and FREE abortions, but a tv show is slammed for aborting a ds baby. So it is seen as acceptable to kill a healthy baby because of circumstance in real life, But on a televised entertainment fictional program it is seen as abhorrent to terminate a unhealthy compromised baby.The world today.

+9−3

there is only one law for all but how it is applied is anything but fair and equal. just ( since using law as an example ) look at the sentencing rates in prison for the same crime. Women , even though they are the majority and claim to be equal, are treated as if a protected species

+6−0

I am making an assumption about the commenters ages here, but I would bet the comments are either older happily married people proud in their successful marriage (and they should be proud as it is hard to go through life and even harder to share it with someone), and young people trying to justify their feeling of being alone

+7−2

was the job the guys did physically demanding? was it dangerous? were there negative health effects? did they create value?as for you. was your job physically demanding? was it dangerous? were there negative health effects? did you create value? were you replaceable?Now as far as I am concerned if you put your body on the line you should be financially compensated. If you wanted more pay you couldve jumped on that workshop floor, and I bet you wouldve if it were in fact easier than your job doing paperwork.And on top of that you believe you personal choice to be a solo mother which is completely unrelated to your work life is some sort of reason to have your employer value you more?

+8−3

And at what point would you expect the individuals to take responsibility for their own lives? Highest unemployment. Is that because they would rather get welfare than work?High rates of family violence. how is that the colonisers doing?Highest incarceration rates. So whites are to blame for maori not being able to obey basic societal laws

+5−1

Yes we do but all that happens is men get talked at, and treated as if we are collectively responsible for the actions of someone who has the same genitalia.Woman says - we have a raw deal treat us equally, I want what you have.Man says - men dont have it easy either, I worked for what I have you do the same.Woman says - we have a raw deal treat us equally, I want what you have.And repeat thats roughly typical of the conversations Ive had. one side (feminists) refuses to listen

+4−0

I would bet money that in this ladys youth she would have been one of those young hot women you mentioned with no look to settling down. Now she has hit the wall shes upset that the caliber of guys she wants are not interested in her any more

+7−3

and so does he. its funny when a woman has a preference it is fine but if a guy has one its not. it has to be acceptable both ways

+17−13

yes he had an opinion shared by a lot of his people which were severely disadvantaged and oppressed as a country by COLLECTIVE GUILT & PUNISHMENT after ww1.Men are being treated the same way with collective guilt for the wrong doing of a few. I dont think it will be too much longer of this treatment before men generally refuse to take part in society, its happening now with MGTOW and will continue to grow. Women you have pulled out of every social contract with men but insist men keep up their part of it, it wont last much longer

+3−0

its not different free speech SHOULD be universal regardless of what is said or who says it. But we are talking politic here and both left and right are as slimy as a mud eel. If the free speech coalition is worth its salt and wants to remain credible it will fight for this persons right to speak. the only hiccup is that Chelsea is a convicted felon and the Canadian duo wasnt. It should have no bearing on weather they can speak or not. But entry into the country for a convicted felon Im not sure where that line should be drawnPS Im right leaning but also believe that whistle blowing is essential to keeping our government in check.

+3−0

what she did was not self defence it was a retaliation. Self defence is not striking back when you are attacked first it is defending yourself from imminent harm. Because the offender was walking away and she is not in imminent danger her actions are assault in retaliation. In no way am I condoning what this guy has done, but he posed no physical danger to the woman, and her attempt to physically assault this guy put her in far more danger of him defending himself from a person causing physical harm on himself. She only survived unscathed because this guy, as wrong as his actions were, didnt intend her any actual harm.

+23−21

lets work on it being 99% accurate. with over 250 000 licenced firearms owners, that would be 2500 firearms owners made into criminals by an administrative mistake. Now lets say that every owner has on average 4 firearms (thats incredibly conservative) that make 10 000 firearms that are unaccounted for, incorrectly documented, or incorrectly classified. How much man power would it take to work through these problems? And thats not even keeping up with sales and transfers.

+2−1

Mum guilt, what a crock. I work hard so my wife can stay at home with our kids, in doing this I am missing a lot. we are struggling financially but our kids benefit from having mum at home for those crucial first years, and will look back fondly in 20 years time at our financial sacrifice and the benefits it gave our kids.Its not mum guilt or dad guilt, it is the reality of the working parent.

+3−2

I tell people that the first year sucks a lot broken up by snippets of good bits but very quickly changes to the reverse after that year and the child become more independent and starts to develop and show their personality. A beautiful thing to watch

+1−0

No relationships arent dictatorships, but in my experience my partner does things with her appearance that I prefer and in turn I do thing that she prefers. We want to be desired by one another, and are happy to make small superficial changes to please each other. If a partner is unwilling to do something as simple as shave, that goes both ways either legs or beard, then what they show is a complete disregard for the needs and desires of their partner.

+13−12

easy to say behind a keyboard. A real man would equip his daughter with the tools required to take on the world. I would bet money it would be you visiting the dentist after the altercation. What a dumb thing to say.

+2−1

I Disagree I am a 33 year old guy who is part of two different clubs. I would say that there is a shortage of interests not a shortage of clubs. Dont join a random club join a club that aligns with your interests then you will meet people that have similar interests to you. I have met may people through my clubs and a few good friend along the way.

+0−0

I would also say there has been a social change in that motherhood isnt seen as a noble occupation, and women are being pushed, by feminism, into following the career path as opposed to a family path. The real horror story is the mothers that feel horrible for missing their child grow due to an unsatisfying career.

+0−1

But it is a gender thing. All of the latest proposed special leaves have been female specific, so dont try pretend it isnt a gender thing. And your male colleague that took the day off to look after his kids with his stay at home wife, I would bet that they werent even sick and it was an excuse for a cheeky day off.

+0−1

Just take away the dpb. I guarantee women would start being more responsible with the men they choose to have a child with. and in turn men would start being more responsible so they could have a family.When they made the state take the place of the male/provider/father/husband they allowed women and men to shed the responsibilities of reproduction and caring/providing for their offspring

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