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Spine and Punishment: A review of Swarbrick v Brownlee (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 10 months ago by BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz to c/politics@lemmy.nz

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ACT's Simon Court accused MPs of bandying around "Hamas propaganda", described Chlöe Swarbrick's description of the situation in Gaza as "hallucinating outrage", and intimated that the UN agency UNRWA was "enabling terrorism".

So ACT gets to call MPs terrorists and terrorist sympathisers but Cloe gets banished for a week for saying people don't have spines.

This government is embracing fascism.

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[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 2 points 10 months ago

If there is ever a Labour or a Green speaker in the future I hope they take every opportunity to remove and name members of NZ First, ACT, and National for weeks or even months at a time. Precedence be damned apparently so when you have power use it to it's fullest extent. There is no better use of power to than to fight authoritarianism. None of this turn the other cheek crap. As long as they keep getting away with it they will escalate and before you know it entire parties will not be allowed to vote in parliament.