Kjetil Rohde

Splitter nye feiltrinn.

[Ali Al Hussein @AliBinAlHussein]

There is no shortage of issues regarding FIFA. Let me start by clarifying what some of these are from an FA perspective, in particular that of Jordan going into a World Cup for the first time.
We are a small country with a minimal budget for our FA and had to deal with enormous hurdles. First, getting our fans into the USA: not all were granted VISAS, even though they had tickets -which we also know were sold at exorbitant prices. Secondly, we are being taxed by the US govt through FIFA for our participation. Money that should go to players and staff. This was not the case for those who played and set up camp in Canada and Mexico. But we happened to be in the USA so now we face these huge costs in taxes for having participated.
Thirdly we have been waiting for reward money for our players since December for the Arab cup in Qatar, which is a FIFA event. The money our team should receive for having reached the final has not been delivered yet, while at the same time FIFA brags about how many billions they have in reserve.
It is clear the problem really is with leadership. For months, FIFA has been refusing to help us on any of these or other matters- until it was verbally communicated to me during the World Cup that if I endorsed Infantino it would go a long way to helping our FA out.
We pride ourselves in Jordan in upholding ethical values. We did not endorse him before and certainly will not now. But the whole situation amounts to blackmail and we refuse to give in to that.

[Count Dankula @CountDankulaTV]

The Afroman Trial.

-Cops raid Afromans house for bullshit reasons.
-Steal money, break his door, fuck his house up.
-No criminality found whatsoever, no charges at all pressed on Afroman.
-Afroman spends the next 3 years making songs that make fun of all the officers involved by name, even using footage of the raid from his own CCTV cameras.
-Songs had titles like "Randy Walters is a son of a bitch" and "Lick Em Low Lisa" accusing one of the officers of being a lesbian and sleeping with the other officers wives.
-During the raid one officer looked like he was about to eat some lemon pound cake sitting on Afromans counter, Afroman made a whole album calling the officer fat.
-The cops get mad and file a lawsuit for defamation.
-Afroman turns up to court in a whole American flag suit.
-Officers performatively mald and cry while listening to the songs really trying to oversell how badly the songs upset them.
-One officer was suing because Afroman made a whole song about him saying he was fucking the officers wife. When the officer was asked if Afroman was really fucking his wife, he said "I don't know". Nuking his own case and establishing that there is a non-zero chance that Afroman might actually be fucking his wife.
-As his only witness for the trial, Afroman brought a deputies EX FUCKING WIFE.
-The jury ruled completely in favour of Afroman.

This entire thing has been a great win for free speech and absolutely fucking hilarious.

[Kjetil Rohde @KjetilRohde]

@EBL2017 Liverpool could just play Wirtz on the left wing. It worked fairly well earlier in this season. You get all the good things in the final third, intelligent press both high and low, you could get the best out of Kerkez and it's room for Sobo in the middle.

[Kjetil Rohde @KjetilRohde]

@FathalliMo Changing the position of Jones against Fulham was an insane move by Slot. It's like sabotage. He must be deeply confused in some way.

[Kjetil Rohde @KjetilRohde]

Kennet Eichhorn, for en spiller! Beste siden Di Stefano? Må vurdere fotballtur til Berlin.

[Yogesh Kumar @YKwolfpec]

Best performance at seoul Korea 🔥

[Kjetil Rohde @KjetilRohde]

@aarmlovi Thanks a lot!

[Kjetil Rohde @KjetilRohde]

@aarmlovi Hi, I am studying enviromental management i Norway. Could you point me in a direction to learn more about GDP relating to nature and environment? Where did Kuznets write about this? And do you know of other interesting reaserch or opinions?

[Kjetil Rohde @KjetilRohde]

https://t.co/P9oFivYB3s

[Kjetil Rohde @KjetilRohde]

Naturkrisen er dessverre en realitet, også i Norge https://t.co/QI2mqszEPl

[Burnley FC @BurnleyOfficial]

Let them off the plane ⏳

[Norske Googlesøk @norskegooglesok]

Regjeringen foreslår å skrote seksuell lavalder og innføre BDSM-seminar for barn helt ned til 2-års alder som en del av barnehagepensum! Ufattelig!! 😡😡 Pedoregjering! Støre nå er NOK her sånn! Syke syke verden! Også har SSB lagt ned X-kontoen sin! Hva faen SKJER? 🇳🇴

[Luca Dellanna @DellAnnaLuca]

Correction: it seems like the numbers cited by the Guardian above, which I used as the source for the computations above, were incorrect. Instead, a recent Q&A with the Norway Ministry of Finance, linked below, reports that only $4.3 of wealth left the country in 2022-23, resulting in a net gain of about $100M rather than a loss of $448M.

This means that the immediate result of the wealth tax increase was net positive. That said, it doesn’t mean that the Laffer Curve isn't wrong. It is very much right; it just means that Norway’s current position on it isn’t as far to the right as I previously thought.

The long-term net result of the wealth tax is still to be seen, though, as some billionaires might take longer than one year to move their fiscal residency. Moreover, people moving out of Norway hasn’t just an immediate negative effect on wealth tax but also a longer-term negative effect on economic growth – which is why the optimal point on the Laffer curve isn’t the apex (point B in the chart above) but a point somewhere to the left that maximizes growth (point A). However, as mentioned, at least the immediate net result was positive, and we got better information about Norway’s Laffer Curve’s shape.

Apologies from my side for having taken for granted the numbers reported by Guardian without double-checking and
many thanks to @jdcmedlock for pointing out the error and providing a solid source for the correct number.

This is, by the way, why I’m glad I provided the sources for my computations: hadn’t I done that, spotting the mistake would have been more difficult. Also, I’m grateful to James for having not just pointed out the mistake but also provided a better source, which made it easier for me to verify and correct.

I hope that the 4.5k people who retweeted my tweet will also retweet this correction.
I also hope that @CitizenX and whoever plagiarized my tweet will issue a correction, too. This is one more reason why plagiarizing is bad, especially if you do it like @CitizenX, who copied the text but not the sources, making it difficult for their audience to check the claim and spot the mistake. Don’t plagiarize but if you do, please also copy and publish the sources.

https://t.co/7D7aVkn5qd

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

In 2022, Norway increased their wealth tax to 1.1%. In response, some high profile billionaires moved out of the country. According to a viral claim, this resulted in a net loss of revenue. Is this true?
No. Over the next two years, wealth tax revenue soared to all time highs.

[Kjetil Rohde @KjetilRohde]

@SigmundBook Det var på tide!

[Kjetil Rohde @KjetilRohde]

@SigmundBook Sex, vold, drap og sport...

[Kjetil Rohde @KjetilRohde]

@kamilkazani Unite and accomodate.

[Kjetil Rohde @KjetilRohde]

@jordanschneider The logo is a mix consisting of H (��) from the younger Futhark B (ᛒ) from the elder Futhark. Haralds initials, kind of.

[Kjetil Rohde @KjetilRohde]

@jordanschneider Yes! Cool, right.

[Kjetil Rohde @KjetilRohde]

@jordanschneider It's allegedly inspired by the diplomatic tactics of Harald Bluetooth. Something about Harald getting his enemies to connect for negotiations.

[Kjetil Rohde @KjetilRohde]

@jordanschneider Harald Blåtann