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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#nzpol National's latest scare tactic has been claiming 'Labour will tax households an additional $2,263.' Read my article to find out why they're either completely dishonest or stupid. Labour’s ‘Hidden Tax Bill’ is 1% of what National claims it is yknowthatjournalist.substack.com/p/labours-hi...

yknowthatjournalist.substack.com

Labour’s ‘Hidden Tax Bill’ is 1% of what National claims it is

National’s $2,263 Claim is Full of Holes

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

yknowthatjournalist.substack.com

Labour’s ‘Hidden Tax Bill’ is 1% of what National claims it is

National’s $2,263 Claim is Full of Holes

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#nzpol Made an article about 'No New Taxes' National Already Taxed Families, Especially those with Newborn Children yknowthatjournalist.substack.com/p/national-a...

yknowthatjournalist.substack.com

National Already Taxed Families, Especially those with Newborn Children

The Party of ‘No New Taxes’ is fine with taxes as long as you don’t notice

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

If you're talking about foreign labour exploitation' n such, numerically an equaling of global labour standards of living would not destroy rich social democracies, having only an effect equivalent to the GFC. Of course, any realistic plan would have this occur over many years, not overnight.

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

The Nordics, Sweden especially, prove that self-determination by colonized indigenous peoples and social democracy can easily coexist. Efficacy of scale or not, I care about the efficacy of eliminating the civil emergency that is poverty in New Zealand, don't you?

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

yo liberty party when you get a majority in parliament please implement a universal welfare state thx bye

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

That is, if we want to eliminate poverty en masse. I'm not against mutual aid or charity in and of themselves, but the idea that they can alleviate poverty to nearly the same extent as transfers while maintaining standards of living, when that's not backed by the numbers, just doesn't play out well

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

and/or miraculously be the society that adopts what is effectively democratic insurance for workers at by far the largest scale in the history of the advanced world (when the vast majority of not only today's poor, but those who without the welfare state would be the market poor, ie. non-workers)

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I think it's both far more likely and effective to adopt the systems of existing social democracies, practically eliminating poverty, than for nearly our entire society to miraculously become the most charitable in the history of the advanced world by a wide margin (1/2)

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

it seems to me that when governments gave universal cheques to seniors, their material hardship went down drastically.

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

the state could literally abolish the civil emergency that is poverty in new zealand tomorrow if they implemented the right universal welfare policies

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

1. Preferred PM argument still stands, 2. Would you be fine with him being DPM in 2017-2020?, 3. He was still finance minister in 2017-2020; DPM comparatively isn't a massive role, 4. 'This person is too unpopular to have the role' is usually about current popularity rather than electoral mandate

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

By this logic, Robertson, preferred PM of less than 1% of the country, representing a party 73% of the country didn't support, was 'somehow' Deputy PM and made some of the country's largest financial decisions in recent history. Despite that, you and I would probably agree he was fine in both roles

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I like the idea of making political parties almost like public utilities, where anyone who simply self-identifies with a party can be a member and contribute to deciding who the representatives will be before a national election

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I dunno man in the literal sense that seems like giving minority interests a voice

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

other than, y'know, the one from today

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Most I find promise to resign if something DOES happen, eg. resign rather than raise the super age, and because they're pretty specific, they don't tend to have to resign. Could you provide some examples of someone SAYING they will resign if X doesn't happen, X not happening, and them not resigning?

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Labour said they're interested in adding more 'labour' to the party so I expect their sectoral bargaining and unemployment insurance policies will probably play a bigger role next time around

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

~0.00125-0.01% minus the productivity commission sure sounds expensive

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

and again i'm skeptical of the idea that being a social democrat is contradictory to the spirit of cyberpunk and that's somehow the way cyberpunk needs to be interpreted culturally

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

importantly, i said incredibly clearly that designers saying "this is the intended way to experience our game" is completely fine and good. This is just semantics but someone playing cyberpunk 5E with a billion homebrew/misinterpreted rules is not playing incorrectly, just not in their best interest

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

man don't mind sophie whatever her name was; be sigma

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Do you mean the balanced economy part?

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

i agree that they clearly intended to do that, but i don't see how that justifies or validates that it IS in fact incorrect to play like that. plus, you don't just think it's not inherently wrong; your first reply indicates that you agree that it's incorrect to play like that.

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

i dunno maybe i started using bluesky two days ago so idk the culture very well lol. i'll stop if you'd like

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

cy_borg is not just 'being direct about intention,' clearly I'm not only completely ok with that, but I also highly encourage it, I don't think there's enough of it especially in TTRPGs. instead, it's telling people that playing otherwise is wrong/that they shouldn't play.

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

We could apply that reasoning from nazis to anyone with any sympathy for the police or capitalism, but i i feel like i, a social democrat have more moral authority than a nazi and it's probably ok for me to play a game where i'm a poor boi fighting totalitarian governments and superweapon monopolies

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I don't think the intention of the artist must dictate the interpretation of the consumer. VotM tells nazis not to play their game, cause they flat out say that they don't like them, and don't want them to play, which is fair enough, not that they're playing the game wrong.

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

any sympathy for the police or capitalism is not playing nice to both the literally totalitarian governments and the completely unrestricted superweapons monopolies of cy_borg. let's say it's not cyberpunk and just cyber. my friends and i would probably have more fun playing cyber with the system

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I like interesting themes but then you get games like Cy_Borg which essentially tell you that if you have any sympathy for police or capitalism you can't play the game or are playing it wrong.

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I wouldn't be surprised if they used back to basics frequently on the campaign trail even if it wasn't a slogan

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

'Back on Track,' same diff as far as I'm concerned

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camwing @camw.ing · 05/12/2024

In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising. I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping. If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.

A screenshot of PayPal's terms of service. Big wall of legalese text, which I will be pasting in below. You don't need to read it, here's the important part:

"The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop."

Here's the whole paragraph:

We are updating our Privacy Statement to explain how, starting early Summer 2025, we will share information to help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you. The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop, unless you live in California, North Dakota, or Vermont. For PayPal customers in California, North Dakota, or Vermont, we’ll only share your information with those merchants if you tell us to do so. No matter where you live, you’ll always be able to exercise your right to opt out of this data sharing by updating your preference settings in your account under “Data and Privacy.”

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I dunno man seemed to work for National

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y'knowthatguy @yknowthatguy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Some thing I would add to the Greens' new plan (including their other policies)? #nzpol -Free/Further Discounted Public Transport -A plan to further reduce free carbon credits -Reconsider moving from the ETS to a border-adjusted carbon tax -Consider a carbon dividend -Expand Warming-Up-Homes

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