If only they said "despite our disagreements, my heart goes out to the grieving family" or some other tasteful bullshit to dodge it. I'd look the other way, I'd say that politicians do what they have to do.

But they don't. They are straight up sucking up to his corpse for no reason at all. Also, Carney was really happy about the attacks against Iran, so fuck him all over.

Carney's playing politics, riling up Trump or the Republicans would just put his statements into the news cycle for weeks and then the 51st rhetoric would go around again.

That being said, yeah, saying nothing sounds good. If it wasn't nothing, I would have preferred him just keep it far more neutral.

The last sentence would be acceptable, first two weren't really true

Lewis is working pretty quickly to make the NDP relevant again. That's why Poilivre is being kept around despite no hope of forming a majority - to drive Canada towards a two party system.

Liberals have been acting like the USA democrat faux progressives for a while. Like when smaller parties started running on voter reform to avoid getting stuck in the same two party 'fascists vs faux opposition' deal that has already turned the states into a corrupt pillaging competition. Liberals suddenly ran on voter reform, and when Trudeau won he was immediately like "oh THAT'S what voter reform means? Oh of course we're not doing THAT lol." and all momentum for voter reform was lost.

Corpo fascists in anti fascist clothing, and local progressives can't seem to gather without chasing all of the effort out of the group with local toe stepping, and god forbid instead of bombs we ever get money put into taking modern understanding of complex systems and using it to scale heterarchical cooperation between non-identical groups with honest progressive intents.

So you have fascists pretending to be progressive, and progressives attacking different kinds of progressives instead of the fascists, and everyone gets mad when you try to make this particular framing more salient.

I got weird looks when I'd originally been asked what I thought about Carney before his election, and I said "he is saying and doing the right things, but I only expect that to last as far as it's opportunistically useful.

He's playing the political game now in a way that legitimizes that fascist regime that keeps threatening our country, and I'm not on the side of 'safely' capitulating to fascist regimes.

“The NDP don’t have their shit together” brother what the fuck are you talking about? They had an election for a new leader that went really well(ranked-choice voting is awesome) and Lewis is sending out a strong, clear message. They’ve always been available but Canadians fall so easily for the idea that the Liberals are the “default” that we chose 95% of Pierre Poilievre to avoid him instead of raying behind the party that actually demand real change. In 2021, the NDP got well over half the votes that the LPC did but because the seats didn’t work out proportionally everyone just went “the NDP has no support”.

I know you have your regrets, and glad you’ve seen the problem eventually, but deflection isn’t going to help anyone.

did anyone seriously expect the investment banker to be on any side but status quo?

I'm curious to see if he makes it past 1 term at this rate. The problem is, now that Libs and Cons are blurring, does the NDP get stronger or was fascism in Canada only briefly delayed?

I lost all respect for him the moment he started proposing bill C-2 (now C-22) and others.

He....very much did say nothing. Like that's the most generic ass "I told an intern to write a condolence" eulogy I've ever seen. That shit doesn't have one anecdote in it, even though the pacing of the text offers three, maybe even four places for personality.

This right here was some performative respect, and that's putting it nicely.

Centrists are the least informed and ironically are the most authoritarian bunch of the left-right paradigm.

Shoulda said nothing. I highly doubt anything material and good comes from this message. Saying nothing would've avoided the rest.

Why the fuck is the Canadian prime minister commenting on the death of an American senator AT ALL??? What a fucking joke.

I keep wondering if Carney is gambling on the rapist kicking it sooner rather than later and just spewing platitudes to keep rapists eyes on other things.

Some would say being authentic goes a long way these days. Artificial platitudes don't land like they used to.

Lindsey Graham has called for the invasion of Canada. You know what else is good politics? Knowing when to shut the fuck up.

That's just it.

In Canada the proper politics would be to celebrate another dead yankee.

To appease the US you can write a message like this.

Meeting in the middle is saying nothing. So the good pragmatist makes no statement.

Never praise war criminals

Are you serious?

I mean I'm glad we didn't get PM PP but let's be real Carney is kind of shit.