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New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has conceded his Labour party lost Saturday’s election, as voters punished the government and took the country rightwards nine months after his predecessor Jacinda Ardern suddenly resigned.

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has conceded his Labour party lost Saturday’s election, as voters punished the government and took the country rightwards nine months after his predecessor Jacinda Ardern suddenly resigned.

The rising cost of living dominated campaigning with voters New Zealanders ending six years of Labour Party rule, the latter half of which was dominated by the country’s strict response to the coronavirus pandemic that successfully kept infections low but battered the economy.

With 90% of votes counted on Saturday evening, the center-right National Party, led by former airline executive Christopher Luxon, had amassed around 40% of ballots, CNN affiliates RNZ and Newshub reported.

  • @Burn_The_RightEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    For starters, the silencing of conservative voices sure sounds pretty appealing!

    Nearly every act of racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia and antisemitism ever committed in the U.S. has been by conservatives. Nearly every act of domestic terrorism and every attempt to overthrow the government or subvert democracy has been by conservatives. Nearly every policy position held by conservatives today supports bigotry or public harm.

    There is simply no place in a modern culture for conservatism. It is a plague of oppression and death that is long overdue for a cure.

    • @[email protected]English
      -3•1 year ago

      There will always be conservatives since it’s a relative term. But I’m guessing that you are referring to the Republican party, of which roughly half of the country belongs to, comprising everything from moderates to extremists, just like the Democrat party has. How can you preach about subverting democracy in the same breath as advocating to silence half of the country? People who cannot coexist with different opinions or world views, who lack empathy and cannot understand nuance, cannot function and don’t belong in democracy. Why don’t you drop the mask and admit to being an extremist authoritarian? and in that case don’t even bother talking about democracy.

      • @Burn_The_RightEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Half the country are Republicans? Source, please.

        You can call me names all day as your “position”, but it doesn’t help your fake argument. There is still no place in modern society for bigots and fascists, despite your weird objections.

        Your feckless, angry meandering is illustration that conservatives are incapable of entering a conversation in good faith. Every conservative thought is a Fox News talking point. Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. There is simply no such thing as an honest conservative. So, there is no reason to engage with a conservative… other than for my own entertainment, I guess.

        • @SoleInvictusEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          It is pretty funny watching them try to form a cogent argument

          Conservative parties in general are for the fraction of the population that never grew up and live in constant fear of change and “the other”. They’re a short-sighted, ill-informed plague on society. Some conservative political groups are worse (Likud party) than others (US Republican party), but they’re just varying grades of garbage people.

          • @Burn_The_RightEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            I couldn’t agree more. Here in the U.S., conservatives were seen by normal people in the pre-Trump era as just comical, creepy and unintelligent. But, now… Now they are a deadly threat.