The liberals did not give a standing ovation to charlie kirk. It was performative political theatre from the cons. A conservative MP made a statement praising kirk, framing kirk as a beacon of family values. The liberals could rise to support those values or remain sitting and be accused of supporting political violence. It was a no win situation set up by the cons. The next day the libs had a "standing ovation". If you are outraged by the story ask yourself who wins from your outrage.
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WTF
What the fuck is that
yeah see the thing about this is that most people would say that good stuff
but good people don't also say the bad stuff
and anybody who thinks somebody is good solely because they said some good stuff is a fucking idiot, you have to consider the bad and change your view accordingly (like hopefully that woman did). but most maga nutjobs aren't rn, they just ignore what they don't like
You cannot be a good person and a nazi, you are still a nazi.
Of course he isn't a good person, he is a fucking Nazi and deserved what he got
I think the point is that just about everybody who thinks this was a good guy is like a Christian; they've only been fed the positive parts and blurps, and are wholly ignorant of the dark side of the subject because they were never shown what it really was about
I think we need to continue posting his real messages
What is with all this 'deserved what he got' insanity? I know it's the internet and all, but calm down. He was a person, flawed just like the rest of us. He had views that many of us found disagreeable, just like everyone else.
Black people are upset that he died, gay people are upset that he died, trans people are upset that he died; why? Because he wasn't some evil extremist calling for violence. He was a moderate and calling for debate.
Where is all this hate towards Kirk coming from? And please don't cherry pick a handful of out of context quotes. There are thousands of hours of video discrediting all these random quotes people are using to showcase his villainy.
can we stop applauding nazis in parliment for gods sake.
Misleading title. Yes, Charlie Kirk's assassination sparked a conversation about the importance of free speech and disavowing political violence. The standing ovation was not for Charlie, but for the outcome of that speech.
Still, you'd think they'd at least TRY to be reasonable with the optics of the conversation.
Our country is governed by chronic losers and fucking idiots.
But isn't what Kirk did constitute as hate speech here in Canada. We don't have freedom of speech, we have freedom of expression.
He didn't deserve to die but he was toxic in every sense of the word.
They don't seem interested in optics given their other clown behaviour of inviting PJ2025 galaxy brains to speak behind closrd doors.
Canada didn't cancel on them from backlash. The garbage people they invited did.
Propaganda works, yβall. Itβs serious.
I hope somebody is keeping a list of all these people because it's straight up a list of fascists.
Me when I read the headline: DAFUQ
Me when I read the article: oh, ok.
Me when I realized it was yahoo: God damn me for falling for click bait.
Thr moment I saw thr link I thought "This has GOT to be really shitty bait."
Conservative MP for Lethbridge Rachel Thomas pays tribute to Charlie Kirk in the House of Commons, calls for the defence of free speech and against political violence. She gets a standing ovation from the Conservatives and the Liberals.
Emphasis mine.
So a Canadian talks about defence of free speech when we don't even have free speech as a right. We have limits on what we can say.
Thank you. Thst makes more sense but the optics still aren't good.
That's right. If they had not mentioned him or mentioned a few examples, him among them, that would have made the optics very different.
Problem with that though is their intention was specifically him. You're removing their motive from this by saying they could have not talked about him. Their motive was him. Honoring him. Lionizing him. Making a ~~murder~~ martyr of him. You can't take away the motive.
I think someone already made a murder of him. Maybe the word you meant was martyr?
Damn voice to text, thanks.
... in relation to the death of a fascist
Why the fuck is our supposedly liberal government giving standard ovations to conservative pundits? What do they hope to accomplish by pushing this rhetoric? Right wingers will never see this and think βwow maybe Iβll vote liberal next electionβ you fucking idiots. I hate everything.
That's cause our liberals have been moving further right. Carney himself is pretty much an old school conservative.
Liberalism is inherently a right wing political ideology. It uses socially progressive issues for the working class to promote financial and commercial policies that benefit the ruling class.
Correct.
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15-20 years ago, Carney's platform would be PC, and Polieverre's failed platform would have been a joke.
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NO!!!!!
Kirk wasn't a 'conservative pundit,' he was a bigot, a homophobe, a white supremacist, a sexist piece of shit who cheered on the deaths of others.
Make it clear: he was a source of hatred and violence.
Potato potato.
Canadian politicians have never heard of this thing called "optics" before. It's a very isolated and fart-sniffing group of people
Why the F does anyone in Canada think they need to capitulate to the absolute worst of America? This is beyond pathetic.
There was two mentions of Charlie Kirk, in a speech that I'd say was focused on condemning political violence, in a mostly non-partisan way. I'd like to think that in Canada we're above using weapons to prove a point. If we need to beat back the intolerant we'll do it in an enormous show of non-violent force like Torontonians just did at Christie Pits.
Anyway the speech is what I'd expect from a Conservative, but it's nuanced enough that I get behind the primary message being conveyed.
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Sharing a post from Skeletor π
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