• harderian729@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Yes… they were protesting their government’s support.

        Meaning their government currently supports it.

        Why does this need to be spelled out for you all?

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          8 months ago

          Why does this need to be spelled out for you all?

          Because you seem to be arguing from a ridiculous assumption that the government is more representative of people from New Zealand in general than the people protesting its support for a genocidal apartheid regime.

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            8 months ago

            Really? The people in power are more representative than those without it?

            Who would have thought? Lol.

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              8 months ago

              Fun fact: while the rest of the people get to choose which of the options to vote for, they don’t get to choose the options. Besides, it’s not like the majority of the people elected to the NZ government ran on a platform of "let’s help good ol’ Bibi commit genocide.

              Unconditional support for the Israeli government is one of the many things most Western governments do against the will of the majority of the people to not get on the bad side of the US global hegemony.

              Like when the countries go to war, the people don’t get a say. It’s not how democracy is supposed to work, but that’s how it is right now.

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                8 months ago

                You are doing a lot of mental gymnastics to avoid admitting that New Zealand’s government is representative of their people.

                It’s not like they have a dictatorship, lol.

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                  8 months ago

                  Miss me with that ridiculous false dichotomy.

                  There’s a shitload of room between “dictatorship” and “everything the government does is perfectly in line with what the majority of the people want them to do.”

                  This is clearly an example of the government not being perfectly representative while also not being a dictatorship.