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Jacinda steps away for a few minutes, and the right wing nut jobs try to take over.

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https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/nx-s1-5196056/new-zealand-maori-indigenous

Headline: 42,000 crowd New Zealand's Parliament grounds in support of Māori rights

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I would move to New Zealand, but they don't have baseball. Besides, they would not let me. Anyone know where Zealand is? It's an island in Denmark.

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Two syllables in, if that, and I've got tears in my eyes.

In addition to Hat Guy, I'm partial to the fellow who gets briefly panned over to - bald head and a suit, but out in the aisle making arm gestures that are understandable in any language.

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I'm a bit late to this party but it would be excellent for Wonkette to post the follow-up speeches, especially Chloe Swarbrick's. Well worth looking up.

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Are scientists looking to remove the asshole gene that white people seem to have been born with worldwide?

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Americans can do TikTok dances instead. Do the Fortnite!

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It WOULD be amazing if Native Americans did though.

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NZ admittedly has gone further in recognizing indigenous rights than most... but had the advantage of one having one indigenous culture to take into consideration. It's a tad more difficult here in Mexico (and other Latin American nations)... In theory, there are 60 some "official" languages other than Spanish.

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I would love to see a similar act in our Congress, people bursting into a USA protest song, like We Shall Overcome, to any legislation curtailing human rights, especially in the guise of being "anti-discrimanatory". White supremacists love to paint anti-discrimination laws as being "discriminatory". What an excellent example of protest by Maori legislators in New Zealand! Awesome!

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‘Lift Every Voice’ would also be wonderful.

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It has and does happen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7xg3CPtdVI. Of course they were all arrested and the story was suppressed.

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Excellent. Of course I never heard of this. Our media sucks at telling the people's news. Sigh

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Nancy Pelosi needs to practice her haka.

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Click on the Instagram link a bit below. She's badass.

(As an aside--made moves toward bugging out to NZ back in the aughts, but dithered. Looking like BIG mistake.)

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Onya Kiwis!! Dont let rights be stolen away.

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Ta, Dok. Brilliant.

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FAFO LOL

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So, mebbe everyone knows this by now, but this Klown Kar Secretary of Defense nominee had a sexual assault allegation (no convictions or trials) from a California Republican Women's convention in 2017. Apparently this Hegseth guy was not vetted at all. I'm sure you can find it ... .

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His vetting consisted of determining that he looked like the square-jawed Secretary of Defense in a political thriller, preferably one not starring Nicholas Cage.

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