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grte ( grte@lemmy.ca )  to New Democratic Party 🍁 Nouveau Parti Démocratique@lemmy.ca · 4 months ago

Avi Lewis (@avilewis@mstdn.ca): Prime Minister Carney says the war in Iran was "worth it". I want to know who he thinks it was worth it for.

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Avi Lewis (@avilewis@mstdn.ca): Prime Minister Carney says the war in Iran was "worth it". I want to know who he thinks it was worth it for.

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grte ( grte@lemmy.ca )  to New Democratic Party 🍁 Nouveau Parti Démocratique@lemmy.ca · 4 months ago
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Attached: 1 video Prime Minister Carney says the war in Iran was "worth it". I want to know who he thinks it was worth it for. #cdnpoli #iran #iranwar #NDP
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  • Avid Amoeba ( avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ) 
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    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.

    • prole ( prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      That’s weird, as someone living in the West, I’ve never felt threatened by Iran in any real way.

    • eestileib ( eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      Carney is the most unappealing parts of Hillary Clinton.

      • Avid Amoeba ( avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ) 
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        Ouch

      • orioler25 ( orioler25@lemmy.ca ) 
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        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?

        • eestileib ( eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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          The latter.

          • orioler25 ( orioler25@lemmy.ca ) 
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            Oh good, it’s always tough to be gracious with people on here.

            This could work as a meme, but I don’t think we’ll ever get Carney to give a Pokemon Go soundclip on camera.

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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.

    • orioler25 ( orioler25@lemmy.ca ) 
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      “… 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.

      • ILikeBoobies ( ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ) 
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        It’s not even worth looking that far, the US is the biggest exporter of terror.

        • orioler25 ( orioler25@lemmy.ca ) 
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          What exactly did you think my comment referred to if not the US?

          • ILikeBoobies ( ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ) 
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            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.

            • orioler25 ( orioler25@lemmy.ca ) 
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              Maybe you should take a lesson.

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                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.

                • orioler25 ( orioler25@lemmy.ca ) 
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                  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.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk ( SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Brookfield made bank, didn’t you?

  • acargitz ( theacharnian@lemmy.ca ) 
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    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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      I just pasted the link, everything else was automatic.

      • acargitz ( theacharnian@lemmy.ca ) 
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        neat!

  • N-E-N ( NENathaniel@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Does he have an actual official Mastodon account? Or is someone just re-posting what he posts elsewhere?

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      That’s his account.

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