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Trump is crashing the world economy with a dumb chart lol

@JamesHalcrow That's right

Masc bottoms do work as a concept but femboy tops don't

@JamesHalcrow That's right

Western dudebros who are in an "interparliamentary alliance on China" tweeting anything about Taiwan, Xinjiang, or Tiananmen Square

@JamesHalcrow Bunch of losers

@wevegot5years No they've been out of power for 10 years!

Incredible insights, followed in quick succession by the Taiwan independence bros who believe that China never at any time exercised any jurisdiction over any part of Taiwan

@caffadeus @irobatzy Fair!

@wevegot5years @irobatzy Lol it’s probably a sensory thing. Colorful romcoms are uncomfortable for me. Movies that are dark, emotional, visually stunning, with minimal dialogue, character isolation, and beautiful scores are chefs kiss

everyone’s comfort film is always a romcom

@MHReddell Imagine it would be an eyebrow raising momemt if Gov General was presented with a CE appt recommendation straight from a Minister without PSC involvement/support. But you're right of course, GG wouldn't turn it down. Would play out in the media with OIAs/leaks probably.

@wevegot5years Gov Gen always and only acts on advice. I imagine there is now decades of precedent in deferring to PSC, but even then ministers can have a great deal of say in specifying the qualities required in an appointee.

I see a line doing the rounds that ministers have no say in the appointment of public service chief executives. If Cabinet chooses to defer to the Public Service Commissioner that is their call, but they are free to appoint their own person to any CE job.

@Siennacalder I only read because otherwise I will feel ashamed

I’ve been trying to read one book a month to be cultured but think I’ll stick to movies, tv series and podcasts

Realised today that I don’t enjoy reading and especially not fiction

@caffadeus @irobatzy Haha they're just quite intense. But you do you, man!

@wevegot5years @irobatzy Yes. At the moment. Any questions?

@hqtred @Economissive Ah thanks. Bad soldier guy

@wevegot5years @Economissive australian vc recipient. has been charged with war crimes within the past week

Funny to be talking about what he looked like when that is why so many witnesses were able to ID him

@Economissive A soldier guy?

@Economissive Idk just being lazy I have no idea who it is

@caffadeus @irobatzy This is your comfort list?

@irobatzy Nope. No romcoms on my list. Here’s my top 10: Phantom Thread There Will Be Blood Suspiria Dune Dune 2 Prometheus The Saint The Lighthouse Tristan+Isolde At Eternity’s Gate

@sepo_efc @RepJackKimble The satire ain't working like it used to fr!

@wevegot5years @RepJackKimble Hahaha he is. Dammit, spent so much time on my response and he absolutely had me hook, line and sinker. In my defence, it’s hard to differentiate between real people and the fake people because they both hold the same views…

Getting Iran to pay the cost of maintaining the toll on the Strait of Hormuz is the art of the deal. We never had that before this war

@LeeStewartNZ @QuantVault @thealepalombo Cmon mate I had such high hopes for you. Land bankers waiting for zoning changes on the edges of cities are not taking risks and, more importantly. are not creating productivity or real prosperity. They are the real leeches, getting rich for no work and no societal benefit.

@wevegot5years @QuantVault @thealepalombo No. Reduce tax overall and gut the welfare state. Why? Because those capital gains accumulators can just as easily become capital loss sufferers and that is the risk they take.

Everyone talks about Argentina and Uruguay as the WW3 hedge. I'd pick New Zealand. Not even a close call. It's structurally harder to break than anywhere else on that list: - Genuinely isolated. A remote island at the edge of the world, not a contested continent - AAA institutions, rule of law, no capital controls - English-speaking, first-world healthcare and schools The vehicle is the Active Investor Plus visa: - ~US$2.9M (NZ$5M) into NZ businesses and funds, locked 3 years - 21 days on the ground, total, over those 3 years - At the end: PR that never expires, zero presence required: you can leave for a decade, walk back in whenever - Spouse and kids are included automatically for PR - Critically, any child born there to a PR holder is a citizen by birth You're buying an unconditional right of return to a stable, remote, English-speaking democracy, for your entire family, forever. Three years of locked capital in. Three weeks on the ground. Caribbean passports are a different story. The southern cone is great, true...until it isn't. Serious paths always outlast clever shortcuts. Also, New Zealand looks like this.

@LeeStewartNZ @QuantVault @thealepalombo I agree that 39% is pretty stupid. Do you agree that the freeloading landbanking capital gain accumulators should be paying more tax to relieve tax burden on salary and wage earners?

@wevegot5years @QuantVault @thealepalombo Yeah I’m not gonna be binary on it. Bottom line is that if we cut government in 1/2 the higher earners would create more prosperity. Getting taxed 39% on anything over 180k hurts the upper middle class.

@LeeStewartNZ @QuantVault @thealepalombo Cool me too 🤝

@wevegot5years @QuantVault @thealepalombo Yeah core is like 65k, but wider gov like councils, teachers, etc. are 440k. A lot of that is absolutely fine! I WANT the guys looking after our parks!

@Shybaltesh @blogboynick @petetweetsshit @rustie5555 He's running (from the Twitter police)

@blogboynick @wevegot5years @petetweetsshit @rustie5555

@LeeStewartNZ @QuantVault @thealepalombo And I don't think half are freeloaders. Is a young family on, say, a low waged income and collecting wff a free loading family to you? The net (income) tax point is odd to me. The labour market has valued their time and pays them for it. And then we as a society pay wff. Right?

@wevegot5years @QuantVault @thealepalombo I’ve got no problem with higher earners paying more. I have a big problem when 10% of the workforce is the government (our taxes) and half of everyone else are free loaders.