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Man does it suck that all this is true.
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A true masterpiece. Goty every year.
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yep, figured it'd happen eventually when I didn't magically recognize Carney's glorious splendor and perfection.
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bare minimum responsibility of the leader of a country is to acknowledge, reassure, and reaffirm their people in times of crisis. And Carney is failing to meet that BARE MINIMUM right now. Even fucking Harper was able to do that. But for some reason Carney isn't willing or able to.
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From what I've heard, the vast majority of help they'vee received have been from other provinces, and one of the Manitoba MPs has been stating that federal aid has been insufficient and even tried to push an emergency meeting on the subject that seemed to go nowhere. But... I still say the most
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It sure feels that way. They've done very little to help and he's said nothing. As someone in Manitoba right now, the feeling I'm hearing around the city is not one of 'Canada cares about us and has our back'.
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your comment just there was more of a shitpost than anything they said.
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That's my point. ALL of his first actions are very Trump-appeasing actions. I'm not feeling the 'elbow's up' attitude, nor am I feeling that Carney gives even ONE shit about even ordinary Canadians, much less the most vulnerable. This administration makes me think we elected the Cons, not Liberals.
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ya, it is hard to wrap my head around too. Understanding it is a talent I certainly am not HAPPY to have... but it is one that awareness of politics has given me. lol
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a plan for how to pay for it coupled by tax cuts means cuts to social services so the vulnerable will be worse off still comparatively. Given that increased military spending and border security were Trump's biggest asks, I don't really like Carney's priorities in that context.
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That wasn't actually the point of my first post. My first post was that I disagree with all three of the first actions he's taken being justifiable as 'first actions'. The border bill is a catastrophe, the tax cut doesn't help the most vulnerable at all, and increased military spending without
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I mean, Carney wants to repair the relationships between the federal government and the prairies - he's said as much... ignoring their massive catastrophic fires certainly isn't helping that goal.
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Even discounting the 'actually do anything about it' part... he can't even be bothered to do a press conference or release an official statement or anything. He's just... pretending it isn't happening. Presumably because he doesn't want to have to face questions about climate change.
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It is an important job of a leader to reassure people they're not being ignored during a disaster/crisis. Fuck even Biden, derelict as he was in many ways, understood that.
If a leader can't even make 5 minutes to reassure the people of two full provinces that they matter.
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And people wonder why the west feels alienated. Carney is too busy to even get a random pr staffer to release a social media message acknowledging that two provinces are experiencing traumatic and catastrophic events...
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Ya because if there's one group historically known to not abuse their power and authority it's the police.
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Because in their world politics are purely us vs them. Nobody who disagrees with them could possibly be anything but a supporter of their greatest enemy. It's the same nuanceless politics that Maga embraces in the us. If you support a politician they must be perfect and above criticism.
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And to be clear I'm not inherently opposed to military spending... But we already had a reasonable plan for it over five years. Accelerating that to one while cutting taxes can only mean one thing: cuts to social services.
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Uh... If I liked poilievre I'd love Carney. He's basically a conservative by another name. I actually thought Carney would be our best option but I'm getting buyer's remorse on that because he's sounding so far to the right.
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If studios increasing the price of the game resulted in devs getting more I'd agree with you. But I guarantee you 110 dollar games just mean CEO's get more profit.
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Garbage
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Ya Carney's fanboys are... Special. They actually kind of remind me of Maga trump supporters... Incapable of criticizing their precious leader themselves and immediately jump to dismissive insults when someone else tries to do so.
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No investment in housing, no investment in improving social services, nothing to address the wildfires, no investment in anything that will bring prices down, no climate change plan... Nothing that actually impacts our lives positively. Just more police powers and more military.
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I mean.. he hasn't yet has he? Point me to anything he's done other than military expansion, cutting taxes for the wealthy, and police powers expansion. He's showing his priorities and they're not ordinary Canadians.
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There are about fifty things I'd have preferred he got to before military spending... And expansion of police powers isn't even in my top 1000 things I'd have liked the federal government to tackle. Just because this is a shitty priority in my eyes doesn't mean there's only one thing I care about.
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I am assuming this is a reference to the archaic and terrifying expansion of police powers in bill c-2 which impinges upon Canadian rights.
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Thank you. I am proud you're representing us in the house.
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Highly disappointed in your priorities, especially as the prairies burn.
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Instead... Let's give more power to the police and more money to the military. Who cares about Canadian lives?
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Why is expansion of the military more important than helping Manitoba and Saskatchewan with their record setting wildfires? Carney hasn't mentioned them at all. Nor has he mentioned any plan for climate change to mitigate future disasters.
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Carney's priorities have been "what will make trump happy" not "what helps Canadians" and that is not a good thing.
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I want him to focus on things that matter now. You know. Why does the ridiculous expansion of law enforcement powers making people less safe from the police have to happen first before things like expansion of our safety net for internal disasters or any of the other far more important priorities?
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If that was how he felt he'd end our safe third country agreement with the us. He hasn't.
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The two things trump was most concerned about were border enforcement and Canada's military. Regardless of anything else, the message this sends is that carney, for all his big talking, will do whatever trump wants. Elbows down.
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Then why is everything he's doing early exactly what trump asked him to do?
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Ah you're one of those "fuck everyone else close the borders, people dying doesn't matter as long as they don't do it here" types. Not much point talking to you then.
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Ya... Was hoping he'd at least pretend to be not a conservative for a bit since he didn't have a majority... But I'm not terribly surprised this is happening, just a little disappointed.
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Never said we should pretend nothing's changed but my priorities would be stopping our safe third country agreement with them and allowing humanitarian refugees of people suffering persecution in the us like trans people. Not immediate massive military expansion and scary law enforcement powers.
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Our "elbows up be strong vs Trump" prime minister really isn't living up to that promise at all.
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Capitulating to trump is not what he promised us and it doesn't make me happy.
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I mean the first two things he's done have been Trump's highest priorities. Massive, terrifying expansion of border/law enforcement powers and massive expansion of military spending. Regardless of how I read it, that is simple fact.
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So your first goals are all just "what can I do to make trump happy"? I wish this was a lower priority...
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I don't mind paying taxes as long as the rich pay their fair share too and the money is used for services that help people. Far more important right now is to stop supporting the governments oppressing people right now - the Israeli and American governments. Denounce them and take action.
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Propaganda, tbh. Decades of propaganda.
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Come on ap. Be better. They were kidnapped by Israeli soldiers. I appreciate you reporting this at all but... Tell it like it is rather than just taking the war criminals' word.