Appeasement never works. In fact, it always has the opposite effect. He just doubles down as soon as he sees “weakness”. You either fight him until he backs down, or he’ll roll right over you.
Fuck Trump. Carney needs to do what we voted for him to do, and fight.
Carney literally did the whole speech about appeasement is bad and that’s all he’s being doing
Unless you’re like, you know, paying attention.
You cannot appease the orange shitbag
At least you shouldn’t appease it
I think the article’s “appeasement” angle is pretty bullshit.
No one in NATO is boosting military spending to appease Donald Trump - it’s the inevitable response to the realization that the largest NATO contributor is unreliable.
The recent “MAGA” line was an appeal to American investors to spend money here. It appropriated Trump’s language, but that’s the opposite of what he wants.
Carney campaigned in decreased reliance on the US, not on severing all ties.
Actual examples of appeasement would be things like ending the digital services tax, and I’m sure we’ll see more like it when the CUSMA talks get started.
Thanks for this and you hit the nail on the head. Fighting openly with Trump is exactly what he wants and will just escalate things. You always have to smile, nod, take a deep breath and play the long game with him
Adding some much needed nuance to the conversation
Appeasement doesnt exactly have a great track record as a strategy… 😅
Maybe a different strategy? Please?
Shut the fuck up, Donnie.
Just spinning the Wheel of Distraction at this point
So sick of news about his bullshit. For discussion’s sake, I’m wondering if anyone here shares my view with regard to dealing with his threats:
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Carney needs to stop trying to play nice with this clown. The Canadian people will not get shit from him.
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Canadian media needs to stop reacting to his shenanigans all the time in outrage or fear because it legitimizes him as a tyrant. We need to be mentally prepared for the worst but play it cool. Make him aware that we know that he’s a fucking moron—not a big scary yank emperor that he wants to be seen as. “President of Israeli colony and Epstein File headliner shakes baby-sized fists at Canada in anger… Again” would be a much better title, no?
Honestly the world should fucking laugh at MAGA.
The only time they collectively freaked the fuck out was when Walz was calling him weird. The media had a conniption that someone spoke such a blatant truth to people.
- It’s not a bad thing to be a diplomat and a statesman. 2. Isn’t most Canadian media owned by the usa billionaire crowd?
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I don’t think Carney was playing nice. He’s pragmatic. It is going to take a long time for Canada to shift off exporting to the US. May as well sell what we can until we have other markets. He’s just using Trump’s language to flatter him because, why not, it’s free, and often works. I don’t think Carney, or 90% of Canadians, believe our long term solution is to go back to the way things were with the US. That relationship is dead and gone.
He is really good at playing the “game” and right now it is easy because he opponents are idiots. You don’t lead two central banks without learning how to navigate through politics.
Why do so many presumably educated people not know how fascism works? It’s gone down the same way every time in history and there’s no reason it would be different now. You can’t appease it or go along with it, everyone is consumed in the end because that’s how fascism fucking works.
I think lots of presumably educated people underestimate how fascist Trump can be. It’s not that they don’t know how fascist ideology works, it’s more like they can’t come to terms that the worst predictions about blatantly fascist Trump get are still not pessimistic enough.
And also, I don’t think the “appeasement” of fascists come purely from not realizing that they’re dealing with fascism. It’s more like a tight rope where you know you’re fucked but if you play it right you can reduce damages. While I’d love to tell Trump to eat shit, that can’t be our foreign relations policy.
I can’t imagine the Canadian people not revolting at a forced annexation, and the moron needs to be removed because of this type of bullshit.
We have plenty of guns. We don’t use them to shoot up schools, but we have some good ideas about what they can be used for. Show up and find out, MAGA.
