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[–] 24 points 4 months ago
[–] 18 points 4 months ago (15 children)

Worth it looking at the PM's words for context:

I think that, you know, the number one risk. I answered this question three years ago or so at Davos. And I was asked what’s the number one risk in the global economy? And I said Iran and it was at a time when people were not focused on Iran because I’ve always believed that it’s the biggest exporter of terror. It was hell-bent, sorry if I can say that on getting a nuclear weapon, uh, and the force multiplier on that. Of course was terrible. And so going and getting to a position where Iran is not going to have a nuclear weapon. Look, I’m not naive about this, the reintegration of Iran. This is a regime that needs to learn to be civilized, needs to behave. That’s why you have performance measures. Lots needs to happen. We all have to support it, but moving to this position where that’s been taken off the table was worth it.

Avi's being soft on him.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Carney is the most unappealing parts of Hillary Clinton.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Is this meant to be a misogyny joke? Like, the appealing parts of Hillary Clinton are that she's a woman? Or are you saying that he's a bloodthirsty Neolib like her but we get far fewer memes out of him?

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  • But then it looks like this war failed to achieve it's objective and thus can not be considered "worth it"? Even worse it created a precedent for another economic weapon, namely blocking the Hormuz strait. Nuclear is not of the table, at least to my knowledge.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    "... biggest exporter of terror." Oh, look at that, a Canadian PM constructing self defense as aggression, how novel. I wonder what happens if we look at why Iran funds terrorist groups outside of its borders and who those terrorist groups fight.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    It's not even worth looking that far, the US is the biggest exporter of terror.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (5 children)

    What exactly did you think my comment referred to if not the US?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    My comment was just that the comment from the PM was so big of a lie that it's not even worth addressing.

    The PM just needs to make a public apology and correct himself.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Maybe you should take a lesson.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Putting on the moderator hat:

    Hey @orioler25@lemmy.ca I just got a report about this comment as uncivil behaviour (the reporter was not one of the people in the to thread). I know this is an 3 month old thread, but still, I want to give you a little heads up that you were being a bit unnecessarily aggressive and combative here. Please try to do better in the future.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Yeah, right wing chuds on Canadian communities have been pissed at me; probably going through posts and reporting.

    This person was supportive of capitalism and did not openly admit to a thread that they promoted harmful values once they realized their mistake. This comment was a reference to thst, can't see what their other comment was since it was months ago, but I reckon my language was warranted.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago*

    Looking solely in the interaction above, it looks like you read a bit too much into an otherwise benign situation where everyone seemed to be agreeing more or less, and wrote in a bit of a snappy tone. Let's give all of us the benefit of the doubt and let's raise a bit the threshold for snapping. That's all, let's not continue this.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Brookfield made bank, didn't you?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Out of curiosity, when you created a post, did you just paste in lemmy the link to the mastodon post? Or is there some other fedi magic happening? It's really neat that it auto-embeds the video!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Does he have an actual official Mastodon account? Or is someone just re-posting what he posts elsewhere?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Maybe worth it to let the U.S. reduce its influence on the world. And maybe for showing enough Americans that Trump and co are actually incompetent.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You know that's not what Carney means he's been clear he believes Iran needs to be bombed to "civilize" it.

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