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Marty

@cleemartin.bsky.social
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Gen X. Read a lot. Try to live gently. Above all else be kind.

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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 2h
Good to know they’ve got rid of all the DEI hires and are only appointing on merit
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Stuff you know in your bones is often stuff you learned curled up in a parent’s lap before you even knew you were learning. If you don’t get good parenting role models then there’s big gaps in your skill set - if others don’t allow time and space to show you those skills later then the gaps remain
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m mean some aspects of USA and indeed western capitalist culture are harmful and regressive but I’m not sure that’s what he means
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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This week on CZM! 🧪📹🏃🏾‍♂️
This week on CZM! 🧪📹🏃🏾‍♂️
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Where are all the breathless articles about hypothetical ambulances, pregnant women off to deliver babies, meals on wheels and kindly nuns- all held up by the protests in the style of a’Just Stop Oil’ protest? Nobody was allowed to have ‘legitimate concerns ‘ that day. It lays bare the hypocrisy
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Tell me ‘there’s a problem with how society views people who also have a disability’ without telling me ‘there’s a problem with how society views people who also have a disability’
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Ah yes. Like the lesson of the famous parable, the Good Samaritan. Look after your own and sod everyone else - at least now we know who’s got poor reading comprehension and weak thinking skills
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Farce and the willingness of the British to openly mock and ridicule those in power is one of our finest qualities. @countbinface.bsky.social exemplifies this in droves. His campaign has brilliantly highlighted political corruption on a personal and systemic level. Three cheers for Count Binface!
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 07/08/2026
This violence is not exceptional or limited to the actions of extreme individuals It's the direct result of years of mainstreaming led by mainstream media and politicians who have legitimised racism and other forms of exclusion Arrests will not stop this spiral www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Norfolk police arrest two men after officers injured during unrest over asylum plans
Homes of people believed to be asylum seekers attacked during two nights of violence in Thetford
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
4 billion people from every culture, age, socioeconomic group, differing religion, cultures, sexuality & they all act the same. One man imagines something about 4bn women is not the same as 4bn being what he imagines. We need to teach all kids about the nature of reality & subjective experience
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
You keep using that word….
Screen shot of inigo Montoya character from ‘the Princess Bride’. When he utters the immortal line…. ‘You keep using that word.  It does not mean what you think it means’
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This Blockbuster movie grossly oversimplified my favourite book, flattened the delicate characterisation of the original, mucked about with the plot and left out key bits & characters’ isn’t controversial. It’s what everyone who ever read the book before the film came out said for all books ever.
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So true. That’s what is behind the mythic nostalgia for the 1950s - a time when they believe their privilege was unquestioned and treated as the natural order (although it has always been questioned and unnatural - just enforced with violence that varies a little in the degree to which it is overt)
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The ignorance & stupidity of the trump/musk brigade is the most crushing aspect of the current moment. Such mediocrity! The world is ruled by toddlers. It’s embarrassing - they won’t debate on the real issues because they don’t even understand them money=power=me is their whole politic
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
And yet nearly everyone around carries on as normal and just ignores the evidence in front of their eyes.
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What a confession- universalising his experience to all marriages then taking zero responsibility for the fact that his wife was so miserable that she left him (I bet she tried all she could think of to fix things [him] for years first, sobbed & blamed herself) I sincerely hope she is happy now.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
There are fundamental questions like who is society for? If we organise the whole system for the benefit of all people it’ll look Very different than if we organise for the benefit of a tiny number of very rich ppl who can get deliveries without seeing poors-while the majority struggle to survive
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Local Govt officer-UK -Genuinely v useful framing of rights discourse -as we see calls for migrants to be stripped of long standing rights in this country - discourse being used to build permission structure for policy then legislative changes -now I can articulate my objections better. Thanks.
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Vote Binface
Vote binface poster urging constituents to vote for count binface in clacton to defeat farage
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
There’s only one cunt in this story and it’s male.
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Ppl who make generalisations like this are revealing they have zero empathy- they can’t even conceive of a person having a different opinion to them. they then inherently dehumanise anyone who does- like a woman with tattoos?- not a real man - help the poor?-not a real American. Major red flag!
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
But surely the goose is labour. Labour plus capital = value but they’re so determined not to recognise workers inherent right to the value they create that call us geese. Fucking insane.
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I feel your pain. My friends laugh indulgently like I’m Complaining about birds flying over my house. If I try to tell them it’s serious they act like I’m crazy. Most days i hope they’re right and i am wrong.
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It’s essential to drain the the fight out of dead revolutionaries and portray them as passive recipients of societal largesse asking nicely and being treated respectfully lest they inspire a new generation enraged by the cruelty of the powerful that learns to fight for their freedom
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Almost like capitalism is a system that enables psychopaths to succeed by empowering them to exploit then crush people with kindness and human decency
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 10/06/2026
Good, clear coverage: "Those playing a pivotal role in the spread of the footage on Elon Musk’s X included the far-right activist known as Tommy Robinson, fresh from a meeting this week at a sumptuous Moscow hotel with the billionaire’s father" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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How Belfast knife attack became the latest far-right ‘trigger event’
The rapid spread of footage shows how social media is pivotal in enabling far-right agitators to mobilise internationally
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
For me, B is easier to read but I’m colour blind so my colour perception is terrible & I don’t make a good exemplar of a ‘typical’ person in this regard. I can read either though so that’s probably useful information. Making key lines bold or in another way discernible than just colour really helps
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Tbf it was in Ipswich so that’s pretty normal for that part of the world. The whole place is like the first ten minutes of a horror movie where everything seems normal but you know they eat outsiders on the full moon
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Millions are suffering, talks stalled, cease fire breaking down - no solution in sight - yet we can just pause the war of choice for a moment so a really rich person can exercise a whim - this is gross.
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I’ve never negotiated an international peace treaty but I’m guessing it’s fairly involved. Unlikely to be sorted in a few hours. It takes us longer to decide what takeaway to get. The 1st meeting surely is just about building trust, showing you want to negotiate not dropping an ultimatum
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Note the framing: ‘she mad at you’= she’s unwilling to accept your unacceptable behaviour- so you signal your barely constrained desire to batter the fuck out of her - refuse to accept responsibility for your initial action, blame her and want to be treated like the hero of the piece. Run girl!
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 05/04/2026
According to Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, updated in Oct. 2025, "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only" and "Don't rely on Copilot for important advice" (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 02/04/2026
Pretty obsessed with this group of Thai kids who absolutely shred (have to do this one on two parts)
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I write a bit for work. Not art, reports but I’m sicck of ppl trying to pass off AI as work. It’s crap. Even the summaries don’t realise what important. Put in trivia & miss keply points If you skim it it may look like writing but it makes little to no sense.
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
People who live in that area will know where this occurred and who this person is. I really hope that person is shunned and shamed for ever until their roof quite spontaneously damages itself and starts letting in all the water - then no roofer will agree to come to fix it after what they’ve done
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 23/03/2026
“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Ms Rachel is a chuffing legend.
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
media.tenor.com
a woman with her hair blowing in the wind says " you 're welcome "
ALT: a woman with her hair blowing in the wind says " you 're welcome "
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Thanks @monkemma.bsky.social these debunking explainer threads are so important. They’re useful for me & anyone else who is trying to halt their relatives’ gradual slide into geriatric fascism. The fact that they have to lie to secure the people’s support is a small glimmer of hope in a bleak world
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Ffs. Try using that defence in a bar fight. It’s precisely that ridiculous.
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The only sad part of this is how easy it is to be gentle and kind yet often people choose not to be. This person eloquently lays out the powerful impact of his reaction- we could all be like this, it’s not difficult and what a wonderful world we could build.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 03/02/2026
Ok I turned this into an essay about fascists and shame, for easier sharing:
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Shaming fascists: Not enough, or too much?
If shame was helpful, we would have solved all our problems by now because it’s the primary way people relate to each other in colonial cultures.
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Daisy has your back.
Old pretty pug dressed as a cowboy. She’s called daisy and is very grumpy
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Cute fur babies still in bed this morning sending love from the UK.
Two cute ferrets. Still asleep. Heads just popping out of bed.
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Both Political parties represent their donors - a small group of rich people who want the proles quietly & calmly controlled versus those who want them publicly & cruelly controlled- either way most of them believe we only exist for them to exploit in order to grow their wealth - until we revolt!
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Maybe you’re right about military policies but a lot of poor kids see it as a way out. Bad people, deceived & wrong ppl even evil ppl get old, sick & need help sometimes. Compassion is not only for those you agree with. That logic that leads to ICE. Nurses are heroes whoever they care for.
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
If the very wealthy are concerned about crime - paying more tax, reducing wealth inequality & ensuring everyone has a home, food to eat & access to healthcare would be the most effective response. Creating a police state & Organising society to benefit a small subset of ppl and screw the rest isn’t
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Marty @cleemartin.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Thanks. I’ll use that line next time I speak to my Dad 😂
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