Daily review 12/05/2025

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    A review of the gun registry has apparently shown that it is proving successful to strengthen public safety, so ACT MP Nicola McKee has decided she wants a further review. If the results of the first review don't deliver the results you want, order another. Yet another example of ACT wanting to waste tax payers money

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      It might be called cantilever'age.

      When building something that is not well supported across the breadth of society, government pretends it has enough evidence for its preferred policy.

      Example

      See the period of time when there was the pretence that there was evidence for the existence of WMD in Iraq.

      This cant'ileverage was later no longer was supported – even by its proponents at the UN.

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    Under wealth cannot buy class.

    In a blog post detailing his decision, Gates does not mention Musk or the Trump administration, but says “the wealthy have a responsibility to return their resources to society,” citing an 1889 Andrew Carnegie essay.

    Musk reposted a clip from The Joe Rogan Experience in which the libertarian podcaster ... insinuated… that Gates had something to hide. Musk, 53, shared that clip early Friday morning with the addition of the bull’s eye emoji on X.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/elon-musks-aid-cuts-under-fire-from-bill-gates-for-impact-on-poor-children/J42G472S6FCUXI43R3UBNBNYHM

    The weaponising of control of a social media platform demonstrates that wealth leveraged into power corrupts.

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