• Nils
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    2 days ago

    I feel like people believe what they want to believe. And Carney being a sweet talker does not help.

    I have some lovely neighbours, but they truly believe Carney words. Best way to help is to be sweet about it with some thought tickling questions.

    Them: Oh poor Carney, had to do this bad stuff because of negotiations with Trump and the negotiations did not progress. Me: It might be tough being PM, all the information we don’t have access. I wonder why he did not make the bad stuff a condition to the negotiation, and bring back the good stuff in case it fails.

    It helps to start some sharing of thoughts, but I don’t push harder than this because it always ends with the “UCP would have sold us by now”. And that is the reason I think makes the Liberals prevent PR. People will keep voting on them with fear of the other party.

    That said, I often fall for Carney words as well. He does something bad, I get upset, he goes and does an interview, and midway I am falling for it. Wait a minute, let me check the data.

  • BootLoop@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    How many Prime Ministers are we going to go through who promise this and don’t follow through before you stop believing it?

  • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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    3 days ago

    We wont get it man. Trudeau RAN on that shit in his first term, like major platform.

  • Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    You’re unsure still?

    Take his suit jacket off and his shirt literally says “I SAY THE RIGHT THINGS”*.

    *not really

    • cecilkorik
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      3 days ago

      I constantly told people during the election that I was torn because he was so perfectly saying ALL the right things, it was very alluring, but I couldn’t bring myself to believe him.

      At least now I know without any doubt I shouldn’t believe him. (Doesn’t matter if I had voted for him anyway, because we don’t have proportional representation and my riding flipped thoroughly Conservative *shrug*)

      I’ll probably never believe a federal Liberal again. So at least I’ve got that going for me.