• 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I think that was amazingly awesome. The people saying there’s a time and place, you’re correct. This was the time and place. Take a stand, make noise, make people uncomfortable. Quiet compliance is what got us here in the first place.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Also like, it’s fucking Aoteroa. In colonial nations one must be prepared for indigenous members of their government to perform cultural acts of resistance when the colonist faction of the government gets up to some shit.

      From the other side of the world I saw her actions powerful and warranted. Though I do come from a country with a history of far less reasonable displays of dissatisfaction in our legislature.

      • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        Which one is that and what are the displays? (if you don’t mind sharing, of course)

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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          2 hours ago

          It’s America, so in the modern day it’s mostly relegated to shit like reading the phone book or if lucky reading incredibly long relevant things. But we’ve had fist fights and duels as a result of congressional conflict.

    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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      6 hours ago

      The people critizing her think Americans politics are the best model.

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          26 minutes ago

          They are the locals. They are indigenous New Zealanders and they are doing something that is customary in their culture in the kind of situation they were in during that session.

          The New Zealand lawmakers were trying to pass a bill that would have severely reduced the rights of the locals, and this reaction is part of how the local culture demands people to act.