@strda221 @PronouncedHare Public sector employees could move in larger scale to Australia (or move to private sector employment). The way markets work is if you set the pay too low for teachers or nurses or cops you don't get enough of them
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Nicholas O'Kane
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@PronouncedHare Without collective bargaining, public sector employees would find themselves on vastly lower incomes because of budgetary pressure.
But let's drop the pretence. You lot have hatred of unions in your political DNA.
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@PeonyPrincess27 @Joserob23924933 @AronDeen @MickeyDollens No, the age of consent is 16. So not statutory rape. Do you view 2 17 year olds having sex as mutual rape?
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The bill to ban child marriage in Oklahoma has become law!
Despite 36 Republicans voting against & Gov. Stitt declining to sign or veto, SB504 will go into effect without his signature.
18 to marry. No exceptions.
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@vlxw8w1 @JackWalkerFarm @Linda__Stevens @MickeyDollens @BobInPascoFl @GovStitt Should we ban 19 and 20 yeats olds from marrying too as they can't drink? Would you object to two 20 year olds in the 1960s from marrying as they couldn't vote back then as the voting age was 21?
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@JackWalkerFarm @Linda__Stevens @MickeyDollens @BobInPascoFl @GovStitt Cant even drink or vote, fuck outta here with that shit
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@ClintVSmith Would the issue be the fiscal cost of the average over 65 year old is higher than the fiscal cost of an under 18 year old? So if the average over 65 year old is say double the average cost of the average 18 year old we should do a weighted dependency ratio
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in 2001, there were 1.22 people in work per person aged <18 or 65+. Now it's 1.37. The cost of super & education is being spread among more workers.
In 2001, super & education cost a combined 8.1% of GDP. Now, they cost 8.4%. (the increase is all due to new ECE funding)
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the 'raise the super age' crowd claim the number of workers per superannuitant is getting unsustainably low. Not true, for 2 reasons.
1) more working age women are actually working than previously
2) kids are dependents, too. including them, the dependency ratio is *improving*
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Nicholas O'Kane retweetledi
Labour's have confirmed all their electorate candidates for the 2026 election:
Auckland Central: Naisi Chen
Banks Peninsula: Dr Tracey McLellan
Botany: Anae Neru Leavasa
Christchurch Central: George Hampton
Christchurch East: Reuben Davidson
Coromandel: Glen Bennett
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@JayEandmore @EchoesofEmpire_ The authenticity of this photo is disputed
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@EchoesofEmpire_ I still cannot believe, with the limited amount of photography they did in those days and the millions of soldiers that must have been there during those four years, someone depicted this corporal on the street as he was passing by…
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Battalion courier Adolf Hitler in May 1915, with his rifle slung over his shoulder, on his way to deliver a message during WWI
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@StephenBeban @jbview Is there any realistic way to depoliticize the Supreme Court? So it has less impact on politics
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“Best option is to ‘pack’ [#SCOTUS]...
Court-packing... creates an obvious arms race: Republicans would retaliate as soon as they had the chance...” @jbview politicalwire.com/2026/05/05/wha…
This dynamic would incentivize support for a constitutional amendment for staggered term limits.
Stephen Beban@StephenBeban
“At the state level, Republicans now engage in court-packing... to move [state supreme] courts to the right... If Republicans in Arizona, Georgia, and Utah can do it, why can’t Democrats do it [to #SCOTUS]... to de-Trumpify the #SupremeCourt.” @imillhiser vox.com/politics/47757…
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@dilanesper Was this because of the Germany first strategy?
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This is a weird criticism. The Pacific Theater has ALWAYS gotten far less attention in World War II, and that lack of attention goes all the way back to the time. V-E Day (and defeating Hitler) was considered the big prize, culturally, and was treated as the bigger deal.
Andrew Feinberg@AndrewFeinberg
The president is posting a proclamation for what he calls “Victory Day for World War II” — actually the Russian name for what we call V-E Day — seemingly ignoring the fact that final allied victory in that war didn’t come until V-J Day on August 15 when Japan surrendered.
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@posted989 @stevemorris__ @StatisticUrban 22 days is the shortest on record between nomination by the President and the Senate voting to confirm. Shorter is possible but anything under two weeks is very difficult
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@stevemorris__ @StatisticUrban SCOTUS trumps all of those except Trump trying to overturn the election (which Congress isn’t involved in)
ACB gets confirmed in two seconds flat if RBG dies anytime before Jan 3
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@stevemorris__ Realistically she needed to make it to Jan 3 tho
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@StatisticUrban @stevemorris__ Wouldn't she have just needed to make it to 2020 as after Scalia died Mitch McConnell created the principle that if a Supreme Court Justice dies in an election year the next President gets to pick the judge?
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The thing with Ginsburg that always gets me is, for all the ways it looks like an obvious miscalculation in retrospect, how close she actually got to making it. There were 2,190 days between November 2014, when Dems lost the Senate, and November 2020, when Biden won — she made it through 98% of them. Just a little bit of luck would have changed everything
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban
Always remember: in 2014 when Ginsburg could’ve retired under Obama with a 55 vote Dem Senate majority, she was *81* and had already had cancer and a coronary artery stent.
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@zackbeauchamp @SeanTrende Why would it be so catastrophic?
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This from @SeanTrende is correct. I still think Dem margins will be large enough to overcome gerrymanders, but this tail risk scenario just became more plausible and it is an absolute *catastrophe* for American democracy.
We're talking system-meltdown territory.
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@Berkeleykid96 @Uncrewed @ECaliberSeven The court ruling was about the Virginia State Constitution, not the federal constitution. Thus the Virginia Court is the highest court
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@Uncrewed @ECaliberSeven To me this isn’t even about that. It’s about the unfucking fairness of how these fake judges treat redistricting in dem states vs Republican states. The VA ruling should be appealed to the US Supreme Court. If SCOTUS affirms it, atleast voters will know they are hacks
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do the math here folks. GOP currently has a 3 seat majority, redistricting will probably end up netting them around 5-6 more, so the Dems only need to flip about 10 seats.
Are you telling me with a straight face that a generic congressional ballot of D+6-10 won’t flip 10 seats.
Zachary Donnini@ZacharyDonnini
Boy oh boy. The redistricting war is shaping up to be a major win for Republicans. That means the U.S. House is very much on the table in 2026. Our forecast will update soon to reflect the new landscape, we'll be hard at work today.
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@aethelamerican @dilanesper How about same sex relationships?
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@dilanesper This isn’t rape, it’s just not. Let’s stop pretending as a society there’s no difference between men and women
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this is actually a good case for age of consent hypotheticals. This is a 19 year old girl who had sex with a 14 year old boyfriend. Let's assume the sex was consensual.
1. Should this be legal?
2. What should the punishment look like?
New York Post@nypost
Female World Cup soccer hopeful accused of raping 14-year-old boy with braces multiple times trib.al/dHDcazl
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How many Melburnians live within walking distance of our railway stations - I crunched the numbers, and unfortunately, it's less than half, but it differs greatly across council areas.
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@roadracerkev @henrycooke How so? It was fully implemented. It was always "up to $250pwk"
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@henrycooke Their family boost package turned out to be a pack of lies. Releasing it this early just got peoplle’s hopes up and probably had a significant bearing on the election result.
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Column today: Labour’s lack of ideas and direction is wearing extremely thin
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@Dp2Dr @henrycooke It was "up to $250pw" and that promise was implemented. Small parties have fewer staff and resources than big ones
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@henrycooke lol. Remind me, how many people got the $250pw the Govt promised?And the Brightline that Luxon reversed and then benefited from…the Bootcamo fail, and the horrendous ‘water done well’’ it would be better if u spent some time asking other small party about policies n report that!
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@PaulLambertNZ @PronouncedHare Which ones in New Zealand?
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@PronouncedHare What. You thought they’d give up and start reporting on things that actually matter?
To be fair, leaders have won a vote of confidence before only to fall not long after
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@LewisHoldenNZ What happened to this proposal? Did it not get resource consent?
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Oops got it slightly wrong. NZ Rail wanted a new terminal at Kaiwharawhara. They also proposed it in 1993... pending resource consent. The Glasgow Wharf site was not assured as Port of Wellington wouldn't lease it...
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@benbawan The rediction in births from the 20 to 24 year old age group is more important
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It's indeed fascinating to see that the higher birth rates of the US in the 1990s and 2000s were basically all down to teens and tweens having more babies.
And when that changed, they didn't just suddenly have more babies when older.
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National is on 28% in a new TPU/Curia poll out this morning, according to MPs and staffers who have seen it.
thepost.co.nz/politics/36096…
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