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Free Speech Purists Targeting Samoan Journalist

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 9 May 2026

A podcast episode examines the controversy surrounding Mikey Sherman's remarks, the backlash from free speech purists, and the legal implications of flag desecration, while also reflecting on personal grief and media ethics.

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  • But one thing I would say here, and look, for the debates this is key, if this argument comes up that everyone's getting taxed, the question needs to be who are you describing? Who is the person that we are coming for? And I'll tell you you're wrong. But more to the point with what Nicola's saying here, the nasty big government reaching into my back pocket. profit and taking my hard-earned wages it's the same as buying any anything like You are happy to pay a price if what you get for it is worth it. Now people start bitching about their tax dollars when their hospitals don't work, when their public transport is unreliable, when their schools are falling down and broken and their roads are full of holes and that sort of thing. That's when people go, I'm not getting good value from my taxes, I don't think I should pay so much. And it's a self-replicating. process at that point you don't see a lot of Scandinavians complaining about their 60% tax rate because they've got free education and free health care and public transport that fucking works and amazing roads that don't have holes in them because it's got wet and cold you know they're at the top of happiness index Every year, tax to bejesus. But the societies seem to be pretty fucking good for it. So why can't we have that? And that's because people like Nicola Willis use these terms to scare us to think we're being personally targeted. No. It's not us. The line that the Greens were using previously of just going, do you make over $150,000 a year? No. Well, then don't worry. We're not coming for you. But everybody is getting dental. Everybody is getting early childhood care. It is worth doing it.
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