Read my other comment in here. Thinking Carney is doing good things for Canada requires a heavy amount of not paying attention to what he’s doing. He’s literally running the Liberals closer to Harper-era Conservatives than anything and we desperately need aggressive progress, not weak, middling responses.

If “Canada will unconditionally supprt the US in its attack on Iran” is what you call a strong response I mean fucking yikes, dude.

In what way? “Just give in to the endless cycle of the right getting worse and the center-right doing nothing to fix it” is your plan for a better tomorrow? Sure thing bud, that’ll definitely work this time!

He’s fucking useless. He’s firing tens of thousands of federal workers and recently just made a deal with Doug Ford to wave off $8.8bil worth of development fees for new homes which will not lead to lower house prices but will lead to taxpayers in more responsibly built places subsidizing low-density neighbourhoods even more than they already are. Weird that he could find a way to wave $8.8bil dollars but still needs to fire so many people in a time where the unemployment rate is already so fucking high.

Air Canada flight attendants exercise their rights? Don’t worry, Carney will be there to declare the strike illegal and try to force them back to work. He had more to say about the CEO not saying “sorry for your loss” in French than about Air Canada’s horrible payment practices.

He’s also giving massive breaks to O&G companies, many of which are based in the US, and some of those little bits of help are letting them tear up our environment without review.

When the US attacked Iran it took only a few hours for him to declare that Canada would “unconditionally support” the US.

STILL no electoral reform, too. The fact that the Liberals refuse to execute on that, because the non-partisan in committee found that they’d likely never win again, should disqualify them in the eyes of most any voter who actually wants a real democracy. It’s not hard to do, they simply won’t do it. Ten years and still nothing.

He’s fucking terrible, has no clue how to actually run a country, and I have no idea what you’re smoking that makes that look like good leadership but you might want to lay off before it fully cooks your brain.

The US is a fascist country with the only opposition being “centrism”. Centrism is a relativistic political ideology which really only exists to provide an incredibly weak alternative to conservatism that doesn’t immediately scare voters with things like actually doing anything different and of value.

Look, as much as I’m sure you aren’t wrong about it being a conservative mouthpiece Carney is just a really shitty person who has no idea what he’s doing actually running a country.

Interestingly, the Liberals are barely left of the Conservatives but if people start seeing them as functionally the same as Conservatives then we become a proper multi-party country again, and if we’re lucky we even start seeing the conservative vote being split while the NDP enjoy some space. This country is only going to get worse, in the way it’s been getting worse in front of out eyes for a long time now, if we keep this up.

Sure, I don’t disagree with that and I probably would have voted if I were in the US. At some point, though, it’s not the fault of people who refuse to vote for the controlled opposition. They’re sick of the cycle, sick of this “strategic” voting crap, and sick of lending their voices to the validation of major human rights violations. I really cannot blame them for their decision.

The US clinging to false, centrist comfort instead of doing the uncomfortable thing to get shit done is a big reason why they’re in this mess.

A large parking lot takes in heat from the sun and the releases it when the surrounding air becomes cooler. It heats the air, the air rises, new air comes in. A data centre produces heat all on its own, all the time, without ever stopping. It’s the difference between putting a cast iron pan in the sun and just straight up lighting a fire and keeping it burning day and night.

Why didn’t those people vote? It wasn’t because Harris was a progressive and they thought she wasn’t progressive enough, it was because she was already just a corpo centrist and refusing to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza was the nail in the coffin. All she had to do was say the truth and she refused.

And then she fucked off immediately, leaving everyone else to the GOP because actually caring isn’t her style.

In a place where elections don’t happen, or are obviously rigged? Sure, mostly agree. In the US, though, tens upon tens of millions of people gleefully, zealousy voted for Trump. When Biden was in the primaries with Bernie lots of the supposed “left” voted for Biden even before the DNC really got fucky with it.

US citizens really need to understand that it’s not enough to be acting like stupid, scared little babies who can’t be held accountable because they had a surprising amount of control over the situation for decades and yet still let this happen mostly voluntarily. As a Canadian who has always voted progressive, it’s the same situation here, arguably worse in some ways because we’ve even had a viable third party option the whole time. Our two countries are embarrassing, and acting like a dude saying “not all men” whenever someone expresses anger over our collective actions doesn’t help anyone.

I’m sure all those Palestinian/Iranian/Lebanese people killed by US/Israeli strikes, with unconditional help from Canadian resources, would really love to hear how it wasn’t your fault, specifically.

Stock assets to show scale, probably.

You have to actually listen and pay attention to more than the most absolute surface level stuff. He wants people who are worse.

The enemy of your enemy is not your friend if they’re just looking for a power grab. In fact, they could very likely be a lot worse.

Kings of ashes are worth less than the ground they stand upon.

Or, to return to reality for a moment, China has invested in new technologies and education for the prupose of having new technologies and an educated population while the US has long engaged in innovation only if it will make money(while actively stifling new things if it means competition) and in dumbing down its own population so that they’re easier to control. The US exists as a machine to enrich, in the short-term, a handful of people and anything that does not work to that end is seen as a waste. No public infrastructure, no investing in science for advancement’s sake, no education poor people, no nothing.

The US has failed because of deliberate effort by itself to shoot its own feet and legs before diving head-first into an intellectual wood-chipper. It is 100% voluntary and you cannot hide behind “it must’ve been inevitable!”.

I am aware, it is to make a point.

Microsoft has had a lot of resources for decades and sucked at the most basic stuff the whole time. Not taking a stance on AI usage here, just saying that the idea that a company having more money is rarely connected to the quality of the product they create and, in fact, chasing profits often leads to products being worse.

That’s fucked up about the grocery thing. My small town where I’m from would probably have the same issue, come to think of it. There’s sorta a bus that replaces a 10-15min drive to another store, but it sucks and even once you get there there’s a giant parking lot to cross. No way an elderly person is making that trip with any frequency, which they would because they wouldn’t be able to carry that many groceries.

But anyway, I think it’s also something ya’ll need to still take responsibility for. Each state still has its major failures that don’t need to be taken in a larger context in order to be criticised. They still influence the federal election, and popular vote-wise the far-right is still incredibly numerous in the US. The best the US can muster is woefully inadequate and the worst is incredibly dangerous to everyone else on the planet including themselves. So many chances to have stopped the country having gone in this direction and yet there have been decades of embarrassing failures to stop this crap. No country is a monolith, that’s not an excuse.

Oh, and as much as they were horribly wrong, awful people, Jan 6 insurrectionists showed up.

How much money you think we’re saving by cutting diplomatic jobs and leaving those people jobless versus taxing the rich even just a little bit more aggressively?

This government would rather shutdown a children’s hospital than make a rich person even a dollar poorer and it’s insane that we’re putting up with it.

Well, that and also people in France can take public transportation to cross the country quite easily. In the US, most people can’y even get groceries without a personal vehicle.

Not saying it’s an excuse, they’ve gotta figure this out because holy fuck, but yea. Deeply unserious country.

Boy that’d be something. Mark “Elbows Up” Carney became Mark “Knees Down” Carney so damn quick after getting elected. Really just immediately cowed to every single US demand, at best was just a normal negotiater but hasn’t actually been able to put his foot down over much of anything of consequence. When they attacked Iran he wasted no time saying Canada would “unconditionally support” the US.

So fucking weak.

Stone? Whatever their hearts are, it’s something capable of being rotten. I just don’t understand why we thought electing the party that cancelled electoral reform, specifically because they’d lose if we had a real say, would actually give a shit about us. People get real aggressive with their speculation on what the NDP is and isn’t capable of but the Liberals keep showing us who they are those same people keep voting for them.

Embarrassing.