"#NewZealand MPs who performed #haka in parliament given unprecedented punishment

#TePātiMāori co-leaders and youngest member to be temporarily suspended from #parliament after performance protesting controversial bill"

The bill in question (the #TreatyPrinciplesBill) wanted to reinterpret the #TreatyOfWaitangi (1840), which upholds #Māori rights

The bill was defeated

I think the proper response to a bullshit punishment for protecting #MāoriRights is a lot more hakas

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/15/new-zealand-mps-haka-parliament-suspended

New Zealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given unprecedented punishment

Co-leaders of Te Pāti Māori and its youngest member to be temporarily suspended from parliament after performance protesting controversial bill

The Guardian
@benroyce not really best behaviour in a parliament
@LoranJohn @benroyce Karl Popper?

@Robo105 @LoranJohn

yup

if we tolerate intolerance intolerance grows and tolerance shrinks

large swaths of the world will come to learn this lesson

hopefully the easy way

countries like mine, the USA, look to learn it the hard way

that someone is being "uncivil" in response to serenely delivered disrespect is merely a trick

tolerance is the baseline

without it, nothing is possible

certainly not civility

thus you want to support those who become "uncivil" in response to disrespect

@benroyce

tl;dr "it's always OK to punch Nazis"

@Robo105 @LoranJohn

Before you continue to YouTube

Punch The Nazi by Phillip J Rhoades

A text adventure

itch.io
@howtophil @benroyce @bytebro @LoranJohn And the state has tanks and wants to see violence unleashed as that brings them support from the undecided. Large peaceful sustained protests without violence leads to change as it is much harder to crush

@benroyce

This video is on my Always Rewatch list; whenever I see it I drop everything and rewatch it

Never gets old
@bytebro @Robo105 @LoranJohn

@trochee @bytebro @Robo105 @LoranJohn

never. gets. old.

Aamer hit the height of comedy in this little bit:

the medicine of blinding blazing truth delivered for easy digestion with the sugar of laughter

@benroyce @bytebro @Robo105 @LoranJohn Yeah, I prefer to let my fist do the talking.
@benroyce @bytebro @Robo105 @LoranJohn
Unpopular counterpoint: Putin says the Ukrainians he is killing are all Nazis.

@jhavok @bytebro @Robo105 @LoranJohn

that a nazi calls people fighting for their lives nazis, in elementary school "no, u!" level galaxy brain genius, to "justify" mass murder, doesn't mean much

@jhavok @benroyce @bytebro @LoranJohn which is complete and utter falsehoods. Ukraine like most Europeans and North American countries has a problem with the rise of neo-nazi which would include Russia but that doesn't mean the governments are fascists with one North American exception
@Robo105 @benroyce @bytebro @LoranJohn Of course it is. But just saying the people you are attacking are Nazis is not a justification.

@jhavok @Robo105 @bytebro @LoranJohn

But of course there are actual Nazis. And that's who *we* are attacking. That some malicious ethnofascist like Putin plays a "no, u!" game has no meaning about that