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The “Burmese Way to Socialism” may have failed as an economic experiment, but as a statist mechanism for perpetual military dictatorship, it has proven to be a devastating success.
This is what I’d call the government spending spiral – a self-reinforcing doom loop where each dollar spent justifies even more spending. PepsiCo alone spent $2.8 million last year lobbying to keep their highly processed junk food eligible for food stamps.
We can’t recapture the $16 trillion wasted on a false crisis. Sunk costs are, alas, sunk. The one sliver of good news is that it appears the climate change neuroses have finally started to subside.
There’s nothing stopping the government banning ‘ISIS brides’ – except the will to do it.
Can we stop pretending there is no correlation between transgenderism and dangerous mental instability?
NZ First implements ban to stop the “rape of the rockpools”.
Vic Labor try to shoot the anti-corruption messenger.
“Sally Jade Jones”, “Caoimhin B Morcant” and “Charles Gray” are fake Facebook accounts being used by a far-left activist to acquire data on thousands of political opponents.
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Some men have learned. They have done the work of unlearning the old rules: man up, harden up, don’t be soft. But some men are still learning. Not because they don’t feel deeply, but because they were taught to lock it down, praised for being tough and rewarded for being silent.
The law makes it clear: parliament could abolish the Māori seats tomorrow with a simple majority – no referendum needed, no special entrenchment – yet a politically convenient referendum is being offered instead.
Transforming the revenge fantasies of anti-immigrant populists into enforceable public policy will not be easy.
