I'm not sure if "too stupid" is the right wording. I think too "ideologically anti-communist" is better. No matter what amount of evidence he'll see to the contrary there's no way a man of his age is going to turn around and reject a life-time of neoliberalist ideology (even though China's economic policies are also steeped in neoliberalism themselves).

Canadians are anti-communist first and liberal/conservative second. It's how we were all raised.

Oh, and fervently loyal to the trans-atlantic "rules based international order" (which ofc means the yanks make the rules and we vassal states follow the orders, and as long as we're facilitating western capital accumulation then we don't actually have to follow international law because it's just a pretend game)

[–] juniper@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I agree with all you said, which is why I consider it stupidity. Somebody ostensibly so smart unable to critically analyze the situation is fundamentally stupid in my book. If you're addicted to the trashcan of ideology you are a dummy brainworms

Of course it would be exceptional if somebody in his circumstances would be able to have that realization, but plenty of class traitors in history have done so, many of whom with far weaker credentials.

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

I don't want to give Mr. Banker too much benefit of the doubt, but it's also possible that there's a lot of shit getting said to us from The Burger Reich behind the scenes that the public is not privy to. I mean, if Trump's willing to threaten us with annexation publicly, I wouldn't want to know what kind of shit they say in private behind closed doors.

I guess with Carney's recent trip to China we might start to hear some more public statements from the Burgerlanders. I dunno. But barring us developing a nuke, or hosting Chinese missiles on our territory aimed directly at Washington DC, I don't know what other effective deterrent we could possibly have that would allow us to navigate our own independent foreign policy.

After all, we're very explicitly part of the Donroe Doctrine now.

[–] QuietCupcake@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

"too stupid"
"too ideologically anti-communist"

same-picture