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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 3h

Yup, the value is in the land. Which is why it's insane we don't tax these completely unearned gains.

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 3h

The cis white male place of joy until they realise the tax rate.

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 1d

I especially didn't like her extreme confidence saying "our reforms work for everyone, all schools, all ethnicities, all deciles." Because there is absolutely no single method that fits all kids, we are not a homogenous population, no matter how much Stanford wishes we were.

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for sharing, I was looking for exactly this kind of commentary yesterday after hearing Stanford's propaganda. I couldn't understand what her stats actually showed and how they represented any trend or growth. They don't.

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 2d

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 2d

This article about Peter Thiel reveals this strategy and you realise why the Heritage Foundations Project 2025 is able to work so well. Quite scary to know tech billionaires are pushing these ideas to keep us compliant. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 2d

Yup, especially when you realise that it's probably being incentivised by wealthy RW interests who have discovered fear and religion are a great way to keep the population from rebelling against neoliberal capitalism (ie taxing the rich).

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 3d

They're so scared because they know that they couldn't replicate their initial big windfalls because it was a time and place success. And then it's just rolling untaxed capital gains.

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 3d

So fascinating how it starts to show physically as well. I've noticed Tony Blair's exterior looks just as evil as his internal self these days.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 3d

He also said Greta Thunberg and critics of AI were "legionnaires of the Antichrist" because he's totally normal.

a man 's face is shown in front of a sign that says " live peter thiel reaction "

Alt: Thiel's blinking face is shown in front of a sign that says "live peter thiel reaction"

media.tenor.com

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 4d

NZ's worst citizen gives us a glimpse behind the curtain in his secret lectures. Thiel scared of losing unearned wealth. Tax the rich! #nzpol

“It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money,” Thiel said, according to the recordings. “An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance and sanctions architecture has been constructed.” Wealth gives the “illusion of power and autonomy,” Thiel added, according to the recordings, “but you have this sense it could be taken away at any moment.”

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 4d

And with the parents "smoking, drinking and buying lotto tickets" with their disability money (thanks Penny Simmonds, I will never forget that disgusting statement) what hope do the kids have.
The cruelest government both in policies and words.

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 4d

Oh yeah... #nzpol

Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 4d

Has everyone seen this? Seems significant that we are not just linked to 5 Eyes through sharing intelligence but also now in military cahoots with them against PRC. I'm not okay with this. I don't want to be militarily aligned with the authoritarian US regime. 😱 newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/s...

Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop

The National-led government has been avoiding questions about whether it is joining in preparations for a US military confrontation with China. A series of Official Information Act requests on this su...

newsroom.co.nz

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 5d

Unless he does a deal with whoever takes his spot to be in the 2026 honours list.

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Good C**t @c-u-next-time.bsky.social · 5d

"The deficit was based on the government's new formula, which excluded the cost of the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC)."

Cooking the books and still half a billion more in debt than last year?

Who are the "economic vandals" again? 👀👀👀 #NZPol

Government deficit of $9.3b shows 'progress', Finance Minister Nicola Willis says

The deficit - $869 million lower than predicted in May - was based on the government's new formula, which excludes the cost of ACC.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Victoria 💚 🧡 @vebate.bsky.social · 5d

As always, it sounds good until you get into the detail. JK saying all the things he's learned over the last 20 years is what everyone now needs. Nope. Not even close. Once again the neurodivergent community are clearly forgotten and how about those with mental illness other than depression?

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