On NRT: ACT supports slavery - https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/01/act-supports-slavery.html
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"A former ACT leader has also written in support of historic chattel slavery - with whips and chains and rapes and murders ..."
@norightturnnz, 2026
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/01/act-supports-slavery.html
Wow. Rodney Hide has gone full Lindsay Perigo.
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@strypey @norightturnnz Um - claiming modern taxation is worse than slavery (while being a twisted argument) is not being 'in favour of slavery'.
@richardh
> claiming modern taxation is worse than slavery (while being a twisted argument) is not being 'in support of slavery'
Is that really a slippery slope worth dying on?
If the condition of a worker in a modern democracy is worse than that of a chattel slave, how is this not an argument for replacing employment with slavery as an incremental reform towards a better life for workers?
A quote from Hide's article;
"Here’s a question that came up over Christmas: who took the most – a Southern slave owner or the modern democratic state?
The modern democratic state. It’s far more rapacious."
https://www.nbr.co.nz/a-southern-slave-owner-vs-the-modern-democratic-state/
This is a clearcut example of what @pluralistic quite rightly calls lower-my-taxes brainworms.
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