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In the thirty years following the Second World War, there was a broad political consensus. Taxpayers & politicians alike recognised that the best defence against fascism was to ensure that everyone's needs were met through a strong social safety net and robust public services.
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“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”
December 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sounds about right.
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
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UBI isn't meant to replace the income from all jobs, and we aren't going to lose all jobs, especially if we have UBI to maintain spending. What UBI excels at is functioning as a floor and a dividend to make sure everyone gets a rightful share and a cushion to prevent the worst + enable new pursuits.
December 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
UBI isn't meant to replace the income from all jobs, and we aren't going to lose all jobs, especially if we have UBI to maintain spending. What UBI excels at is functioning as a floor and a dividend to make sure everyone gets a rightful share and a cushion to prevent the worst + enable new pursuits.
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We don't yet know the ethnicity, religion, or nationality of the two gunmen in Sydney, and their exact motivation is still unclear, but already David Seymour is linking this tragic event to the Middle East, and his followers are engaging in xenophobia and Islamophobia
December 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
We don't yet know the ethnicity, religion, or nationality of the two gunmen in Sydney, and their exact motivation is still unclear, but already David Seymour is linking this tragic event to the Middle East, and his followers are engaging in xenophobia and Islamophobia
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12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔
A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
December 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔
A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
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Fact-check: true
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Fact-check: true
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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So the cops just got caught massively falsifying alcohol test results and have held no one accountable.
Seems like a great time to roll out poorly-thought-out roadside drug testing...
Seems like a great time to roll out poorly-thought-out roadside drug testing...
Roadside drug testing is about to start: how it will work
Days before the new testing is to start, police warn drivers who refuse roadside drug testing may face significant fines,
www.rnz.co.nz
December 13, 2025 at 7:27 AM
So the cops just got caught massively falsifying alcohol test results and have held no one accountable.
Seems like a great time to roll out poorly-thought-out roadside drug testing...
Seems like a great time to roll out poorly-thought-out roadside drug testing...
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"One of the things people are commonly worried about with this kind of program is that when you give people cash they’re going to be less likely to go to work and be less productive members of society. And we didn’t actually find any evidence of that in our study."
Enough testing. Just do it. #UBI
Enough testing. Just do it. #UBI
Notre Dame study finds Rochester's guaranteed basic income program worked
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The city of Rochester announced that its Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) program, which provided families with $500 a month for a year, was successful. The Wilson Sheehan Lab for Econo...
www.whec.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"One of the things people are commonly worried about with this kind of program is that when you give people cash they’re going to be less likely to go to work and be less productive members of society. And we didn’t actually find any evidence of that in our study."
Enough testing. Just do it. #UBI
Enough testing. Just do it. #UBI
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🍃🌹🌿 #NZGreens have demonstrated they are the most evidence-based & pragmatic NZ political party with fully-costed budgets, & fiscal strategies that are meticulously researched & proofed #nzpol #Greens #NZ open.substack.com/pub/weareund...?
December 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🍃🌹🌿 #NZGreens have demonstrated they are the most evidence-based & pragmatic NZ political party with fully-costed budgets, & fiscal strategies that are meticulously researched & proofed #nzpol #Greens #NZ open.substack.com/pub/weareund...?
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IREX was ditched by Nicola Willis MP because of apparent cost blow outs leaving us with the TEMU option...
So Roads of National Significance are facing even bigger blow outs for projects that have a smaller Benefit Cost Ratio than IREX are not facing the same ditching or downscaling because?
So Roads of National Significance are facing even bigger blow outs for projects that have a smaller Benefit Cost Ratio than IREX are not facing the same ditching or downscaling because?
Tens of billions: Why the bill for planned Roads of National Significance keeps going up
Latest estimates put the cost at 23 times that of Dunedin Hospital's rebuild - but why has the bill gone up so much?
www.rnz.co.nz
December 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
IREX was ditched by Nicola Willis MP because of apparent cost blow outs leaving us with the TEMU option...
So Roads of National Significance are facing even bigger blow outs for projects that have a smaller Benefit Cost Ratio than IREX are not facing the same ditching or downscaling because?
So Roads of National Significance are facing even bigger blow outs for projects that have a smaller Benefit Cost Ratio than IREX are not facing the same ditching or downscaling because?
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Presumably this will lead to cancellation as per the iReX blowout, right?
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#nzpol
Tens of billions: Why the bill for planned Roads of National Significance keeps going up
Latest estimates put the cost at 23 times that of Dunedin Hospital's rebuild - but why has the bill gone up so much?
www.rnz.co.nz
December 11, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Presumably this will lead to cancellation as per the iReX blowout, right?
#nzpol
#nzpol
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Disabled people do not owe you their medical history or an explanation as to why they receive certain benefits
The idea that people must humiliate themselves for a meagre benefit that forces them into legislative poverty is another part of eugenics
We deserve a living wage.
We are not expendable.
The idea that people must humiliate themselves for a meagre benefit that forces them into legislative poverty is another part of eugenics
We deserve a living wage.
We are not expendable.
December 11, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Disabled people do not owe you their medical history or an explanation as to why they receive certain benefits
The idea that people must humiliate themselves for a meagre benefit that forces them into legislative poverty is another part of eugenics
We deserve a living wage.
We are not expendable.
The idea that people must humiliate themselves for a meagre benefit that forces them into legislative poverty is another part of eugenics
We deserve a living wage.
We are not expendable.
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Continuing to insist we must "earn a living" while simultaneously reducing our ability to earn anything at all is not a viable social contract and is how to get people to start building guillotines instead of resumes.
It's universal basic income and healthcare or things pop off.
It's universal basic income and healthcare or things pop off.
December 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Continuing to insist we must "earn a living" while simultaneously reducing our ability to earn anything at all is not a viable social contract and is how to get people to start building guillotines instead of resumes.
It's universal basic income and healthcare or things pop off.
It's universal basic income and healthcare or things pop off.
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No public input, not even any people in the public gallery in parliament, while the government pushes through hugely consequential and damaging climate legislation.
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#nzpol
Govt to rush climate target change through Parliament under urgency
The public will not have their say on the Govt's weakening of the methane target, even though it could raise household bills by $270 a year.
newsroom.co.nz
December 10, 2025 at 10:17 AM
No public input, not even any people in the public gallery in parliament, while the government pushes through hugely consequential and damaging climate legislation.
#nzpol
#nzpol
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Yes and specifically for NZers: bookhub.co.nz if you need an online option
December 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Yes and specifically for NZers: bookhub.co.nz if you need an online option
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Instead of trying to find the correct assassination technique for their rivals to the left, maybe the Labour Party's alleged progressive wing could instead just demand their party implement actually progressive policy.
December 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Instead of trying to find the correct assassination technique for their rivals to the left, maybe the Labour Party's alleged progressive wing could instead just demand their party implement actually progressive policy.
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The root of everything we are experiencing today. Yet governments are complicit in perpetuating this situation, apparently unable to move beyond their outmoded beliefs .
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The root of everything we are experiencing today. Yet governments are complicit in perpetuating this situation, apparently unable to move beyond their outmoded beliefs .
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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So tempting to focus on the garishness and comic villain personas but ACT is a long term targeted project on behalf of a sect of NZ’s wealthy families, corporate beneficiaries and Mont Pelerin ‘pilled’ ideologues. Their relationship with National is emergent but very much part of the strategy.
I really think a lot of centre-left Labour-supporting people, if they truly want to change the government *and* get genuine progressive/left policies over the line, need to brush up on the history of the ACT Party
I'm quite serious
I'm quite serious
December 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
So tempting to focus on the garishness and comic villain personas but ACT is a long term targeted project on behalf of a sect of NZ’s wealthy families, corporate beneficiaries and Mont Pelerin ‘pilled’ ideologues. Their relationship with National is emergent but very much part of the strategy.
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Teach a man who hates socialism and votes for authoritarianism to farm and he can receive socialist handouts for life from the government that bankrupted him in the first place.
December 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Teach a man who hates socialism and votes for authoritarianism to farm and he can receive socialist handouts for life from the government that bankrupted him in the first place.
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Luxon & Seymour's new laws are a trap. Hidden in the fine print: ratepayers must compensate landowners with cash if environmental rules stop them from developing. It’s your hard-earned money going straight to the wealthy. A kick in the guts. #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/09-...
RIP RMA: Government prays for economic boom with new bills
The government is hailing a 'once-in-a-generation opportunity to finally unburden ourselves from the millstone weighing down our country'.
thespinoff.co.nz
December 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Luxon & Seymour's new laws are a trap. Hidden in the fine print: ratepayers must compensate landowners with cash if environmental rules stop them from developing. It’s your hard-earned money going straight to the wealthy. A kick in the guts. #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/09-...
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The Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report—a major report produced by 200 researchers for the UN—says the climate crisis can no longer be seen as simply environmental crises and suggests measures such as a universal basic income, taxes on meat, and subsidies for healthy, plant-based foods.
‘Food and fossil fuel production causing $5bn of environmental damage an hour’
UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report—a major report produced by 200 researchers for the UN—says the climate crisis can no longer be seen as simply environmental crises and suggests measures such as a universal basic income, taxes on meat, and subsidies for healthy, plant-based foods.
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I like this proposal to progressively tax high CEO-to-worker pay ratios. This is what every tax should consider—how it can shape behavior in a desired direction.
I'll add that I think this should be paid in newly issued shares into a national UBI-paying fund that all corps should pay into annually.
I'll add that I think this should be paid in newly issued shares into a national UBI-paying fund that all corps should pay into annually.
December 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I like this proposal to progressively tax high CEO-to-worker pay ratios. This is what every tax should consider—how it can shape behavior in a desired direction.
I'll add that I think this should be paid in newly issued shares into a national UBI-paying fund that all corps should pay into annually.
I'll add that I think this should be paid in newly issued shares into a national UBI-paying fund that all corps should pay into annually.