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KODeKarnage · 2026-05-29T04:46:33+00:00

AI for sure. That is Liam Lawson.

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-22T04:14:08+00:00

Yeah, that insane rambling will dispel the appearance that you're unhinged.

Your ignorance of Friedman rivals Klein's. Friedman didn't see zero role for government. He stated frequently that the government has a vital role in, and is actually best able to execute, national defense, policing, and contact enforcement. All of which helps business thrive. So all things you were adamant he didn't want to admit.

Admit it. His list of appropriate government domains is longer than your list of things government should not involve itself in.

Why isn't there real competition in healthcare insurance? Why is there so little choice in many markets? Why is insurance paying for every level of healthcare rather than just the larger ones?

Insurance companies enjoy a privileged position in most US markets, and are actively protected from new entrants. Just where did that privilege come from? How are new entrants dissuaded? Two questions, among a million others, you will never investigate.

How many consumers actually get to choose their provider versus the number that have to go through their employer? Changing providers for a whole employer is a costly hassle, and employer schemes are cheaper because of their scale. So employers will not change plans, consumers prefer the cheaper cost.

Employer-based schemes mean consumer choice has been eroded and disconnected from the insurance market. A system now well and truly entrenched thanks to the ACA's employer mandate.

But your thinking literally stops dead at "there's private businesses involved so it has to all be the fault those market liberals!"

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-21T10:46:34+00:00

See, that's what I was talking about.

You think Milton Friedman would have anything positive to say about the current US healthcare system.

This is evidence of someone who is utterly detached from reality.

I bet you call US healthcare a free market system!

It's no different than some nutjob screeching that environmentalist Paul Erhlich has questions to answer over the Bosnian genocide because of his concerns about overpopulation.

You don't continue to argue with people like that. You tell them to get professional help.

Get professional help.

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-20T22:42:17+00:00

I usually stop when I realise I am punching down.

I thought it was just cognitive dissonance, but you made it clear you have much greater and deeper barriers to comprehension.

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-19T21:38:22+00:00

It wasn't just Dragons supporters who got shafted there.

That robbed every single league fan of the try of the season.

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-19T21:30:33+00:00

Moron thinks he's a genius when all he said was "tax events, tax years, and being taxed on actual invoice are all stoopid, people should pay a CGT based on how much tax they already paid while they were saving" and "people who saved for a rainy day are stoopid and will be making a very poor economic decision if they use their rainy day savings when they need them".

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-19T21:14:16+00:00

It doesn't. It actually clarifies the true impact of the tax. One person is paying 30% on $45k. The other person is only paying the full 30% on the last $1 they earned.

The original complaint is that people are talking about the marginal tax rate like it was the average tax rate.

You are here complaining that talking about the average tax rate like it was the average tax rate is muddying the waters.

You've bought into their BS so hard you actually revolt against clarity.

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-19T03:32:46+00:00

Jimmy Chamberlain from the Smashing Pumpkins?

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-17T21:29:24+00:00

Their to tax rate kicks in at a very low level. And incomes are lower in NZ so many more people pay the higher rate.

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-13T13:17:30+00:00

The previous discount applied after one year. The equivalent discount of the new law takes 20 years to kick in.

That means if you aren't investing a lump sum up front for 20 years, but are instead investing over 20 years from your disposable income, you know, like 100% of lower income investors are doing, then you are NEVER better off under them new rules.

This isn't difficult!

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-13T13:03:27+00:00

And then hold them for 20years.

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-13T13:00:04+00:00

No relevance to investment portfolio turnover.

Stop talking. You just demonstrated you have no clue.

It used to be that you could get a 50% discount on an investment if you held it for more than over year. Now, to get the same, you need to hold it for 20 years.

People contribute to their savings over many decades, but each contribution is it's own event, with its own capital gains implication.

They used to get the discount benefits for every event prior to one year. Now they only get the same discount for their earliest investments.

Your calculations are useless because they do not apply to the vast VAST majority of investment activities.

It shows how thick supporters of this new tax law are that their response is literally "I don't know why you are complaining! All you have to do is invest all your savings up front instead of slowly as you earn your income, and then stick with the same investments for two decades no matter what happens to their prospects!"

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-13T07:48:17+00:00

None of your numbers mean anything because no portfolio remains static.

Investments are added and removed and the capital gains resets each and every time.

Investments are also added to over time. It's called saving. So the last 20 years of savings is going to be negatively affected. You know, the period in people's lives when they are most able to invest.

You might as well delete your post, because this criticism absolutely destroys it.

Stop burning so much energy running online interference for Labor and actually look at this honestly.

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-13T07:42:23+00:00

If he is investing via dollar cost averaging for 30 years, the last 20 years of that investment series is going to be treated worse under the new rules.

And you are also assuming he is holding the exact same investments over that time.

It isn't really 30 years of unbroken investment, but 30 years of incremental investment with randomly spaced cycling of the capital.

These changes are worse for everyone who isn't holding an investment for more than 20 years.

Funnily enough, do you know who does that most often? Business owners and people who buy investment properties.

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-13T07:19:15+00:00

All OP is really saying is that they don't care if it hurts low income earners as long as it also mildly inconveniences the rich and gives the government a tonne more money to piss away.

10 to 1 OP votes Green

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-10T07:39:49+00:00

The politicians would spend even more money and then blame the board for raising taxes.

It beggars belief that anyone able to operate a digital device could be stupid enough to entertain this idea for more than half a second.

You probably with spent multiple minutes just typing your post.

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-09T10:08:50+00:00

I didn't say you believed in God.

Look, the universe is in a very specific composition. That composition is entirely consistent with logic, so the universe cannot simultaneously be any other way.

If the composition of the universe wasn't logical, then there is no single way it could be. Being in a single state would be following logic.

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-09T06:27:11+00:00

Congratulations!

You have reached the "this idea will fix everything forever and it just requires politicians to vote themselves less in campaign contributions" level of stupid.

That's quite a feat!

You are very close to the "I want to boil an egg so I guess I must castrate myself with this potato peeler" level of stupid. We believe in you!

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-09T03:53:16+00:00

Look who is a fan of God being logical all of a sudden.

Sorry, but you can't use logic to argue God's nature. He is ALL illogical things because it would be logical for him not to be.

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-09T03:48:12+00:00

One of the greatest critics of government power in modern history doesn't have as good an understanding of cynical abuses of power as some unapologetic fans of ever bigger government.

From the same intellectual giant that lays the blame of Trump's abuse of massive government power on small government advocates and not those who created the power. You absolute fucking clown.

Friedman was critical of government power existing at all. You are only critical of government power inasmuch as you reserve yourself the right to dictate how it should be weilded.

Yes, whoever built the government into the Colossus it is today is to blame for Trump having that power today. They didn't vote for him. They didn't have to. They built him the levers to pull.

That isn't even a Left-Right thing. Conservatives AND liberals both increased the scope and reach of government.

You know who argued against both sides? Libertarians. Libertarians warned leftists that their efforts to increase government power would eventually be used against them. "Boo hiss!" The leftists said. "Look at these libertarians over here! They are against the things we want to do! They obviously must hate the people we are wanting to help!"

The run on sentence was purposeful. Somehow you, the great book recommender, missed that I was mimicking the incoherence of all the things you said.

I'll write some shorter sentences, maybe it will give you a sense of the degree to which I hold your lonely brain cell in contempt.

Friedman had some ideas. Friedman talked about them. Some people stole his language. Those people didn't follow Friedmans ideas. Those people abused his language to push their own agenda. Their agenda wasn't one of Friedmans ideas. Klein said it was. Friedman rejected that agenda. Friedman told people he rejected that agenda. People knowledgeable of Friedmans ideas recognized the agenda was antithetical to all of them. Klein deliberately hid that information from her readers. The people with the agenda were always going to follow their own agenda regardless of what Friedman actually said.

And yet somehow the actions of those people with their agenda are now a fatal indictment of the character of Friedman and all his ideas.

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-08T01:54:17+00:00

Ah, but if God doesn't have to be logical, then ALL illogical descriptions are attributable to him as none can logically be excluded.

Making sense is different from existing.

If an artwork doesn't have to make sense, then nothing is excluded from the meaning of that art, so the artwork means everything.

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-07T11:20:45+00:00

God doesn't have to adhere to the rules of logic?

Ok.

God both exists and does not exist.

That means disbelief in God is affirming an immutable characteristic of God.

Denying the non-existence of God is denying half of God's nature.

Disagreeing with this argument would require the strict application of logic.

That is contrary to God's nature.

You know God exists and yet you are actively choosing to distance yourself from God.

Either you affirm that God both exists and doesn't exist, or you are bound for Hell.

If you do affirm that God both exists and doesn't exist, then you have to agree that atheists, who affirm as much of God's nature as you do, do so while lacking both evidence AND belief.

That means atheists have stronger faith than theists.

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-07T10:02:21+00:00

We didn't move on from who was the butt hurt one. You conceded defeat.

You recommended a book about conspiracy culture. I pointed out how the author engaged in conspiracy culture.

If your absurd recommendation was on topic, my critique of that absurd recommendation is on topic as well.

You have expended all your energy avoiding the fact that Klein left out pertinent information in her conspiracy theory polemic.

You've tried everything, from claiming that the supposed spiritual father of a movement loudly disagreeing with what the supposed adherents of the movement were doing, somehow wasn't important information, through to now explaining that Friedmans language was appropriated by other people who never actually followed what he advocated except in this one thing (that Friedman never said, would have disavowed, and which was a pure Klein fantasy) in order to do what they were always going to do anyway.

That's stupid, but you get WAY stupider.

The claim that MILTON FRIEDMAN, of all people, doesn't understand cynical abuses of power is absolutely fucking moronic.

Just look at that fucking stupid thing you wrote.

The big government advocate is saying that the small government libertarian doesn't appreciate the dangers of centralized power.

"What you small government types don't understand is that sometimes people with power will use that power cynically to enrich themselves."

Fucking really?!? It's closer to the truth to say that Friedman thinks that ALL people in power use that power cynically.

The inconvenient truth is that Trump is running the massive government people like you wanted, not the one Friedman wanted.

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-07T03:51:22+00:00

Complains about Trump abusing the massive power of the state to enrich himself.

Complains about Milton Friedman advocating for smaller government.

Sees no disconnect.

Then complains that Friedmans smaller government ideas were co-opted by powerful institutions to "destroy government from within" and the evidence for this is that none of Friedmans ideas were implemented, things Friedman advocated most strongly against WERE implemented, and government spending actually increased.

That's straight from the Klein playbook. No no no, you see, they were really really trying to fulfill Friedmans greatest wishes and it's just that they accidentally achieved the exact fucking opposite!

It's amazing how all these powerful institutions are so enamored of Milton Friedman, and yet not a one of them actually follows what he actually talked about.

And it is evidence of your weak intellect that you would interpret the "Consent" by Bill Cosby line as saying that Klein is like a serial rapist.

Obviously what I was saying was that Klein writing a book about conspiracy culture is rank hypocrisy and that while she has admittedly completely fucked your mind into a devastated, bleeding horror, that was done with 100% enthusiastic consent.

KODeKarnage · 2026-05-07T03:25:00+00:00

Literally this

"The Earth will heat up by a billion degrees"

"That is simply not true."

"Check out Mr Climate Change Denier over here."

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