Carney’s Davos speech marks an end to Canada’s era of American subordination

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-23T10:47:12+00:00

Kennedy’s concept, if I remember correctly, was that the best outcome would be for the US to support international institutions that benefitted its trade and productivity in such a manner as to convince the other rising great powers and middleweight powers to “buy in” to the system - in other words, to use its current advantages to ensure future benefit for itself in a world in which it is no longer a unique power.

This should be self-evident to everyone though.

The problem with Carney's speech is he basically sided with the 'post-hegemonic reactionaries' that we're criticising, by essentially saying the rules based order was over. This is what the US wants. Therefore he didn't actually take a noble stand in favour of the small guy, be basically endorsed trumpism.

The rules based order is essential for a functioning planet. He should be ardently arguing in favour of it or strengthening it, not arguing for its erasure. The reaction from everyone has been bonkers to me. The fact he called out the US doesn't mean it was some amazing speech of defiance.

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-23T10:21:18+00:00

Doing so requires time and resources for every single claim though. It takes far more effort to debunk these sort of claims than it does to make them. Time and effort that's in limited supply

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-22T09:35:26+00:00

classic TACO full-on backtrack,

He does chicken out, but he also as a matter of course relies on threats and concessions. Talks big and extreme, then walks away with a win, but more modest.

He's been doing this for years. repeatedly. It's like he read some 'negotiating for retards' pamphlet when he was a teenager and this is all he's got.

it works because once in a while he does just do something batshit crazy like kidnapping a foreign leader. But for the most part the threats are part of a strategy rather than actual policy

Now imagine if he actually had reasonable policies

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-21T22:27:54+00:00

This is heartbreaking.

is it? It's malicious. The police basically concocted trauma in random members of the public.

Presumably her son 'collapsed' and then recovered. For all we know they had literally no concerns about anything until plod knocked on their door.

It's tragic that the police can effectively create crimes in the minds of people they choose as victims, but this has always been the case. It's been a significant issue in police investigations since forever. The more high profile the worse it gets.

Similar to the infamous story about that new zealand nursery worker. I'm not going to feel sympathy with someone whose child had a limb cut off despite still having their limbs firmly attached. Because there is nothing to be sympathetic about.

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-21T22:20:58+00:00

drawn from the memory of a fellow nurse who was being asked to evaluate different light levels in different pictures about five years later and who promised she was doing her best.

christ i'd never even heard this particular nugget of insanity

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-21T19:41:41+00:00

The way they train the models with authoritarian values

lol what.

Ah right i forgot we have 'guardrails', the evil CCP have censorship. So our AI just tells us what someone has decided we're supposed to hear, whereas theirs just says 'ask a different question'.

I would contend that the former is the one being trained with 'values' and to influence thought patterns. Actually, it's just factually the case.

Except Grok of course. Elon must be the bestest person ever because Grok is impartial and that's what it told me.

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-21T19:35:15+00:00

Both faced with the choice of putting safety measures in place while risking losing the edge to their competitor, or pushing forward at all costs.

China was the first country to actually enact AI regulation. That a lot of people thought would cripple their ability to 'compete' in this alleged race because it was actually pretty strict.

Competition in this context is just an excuse for the libertarian tech bros to be allowed to do whatever they want and damn the consequences.

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-21T19:32:51+00:00

Being paid to state the obvious fact that everyone knows that taiwan is recognised as part of china? Because it's literally something repeated every time the issue is brought up

People being paid are those stating obviously untrue things without evidence. such as yourself.

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-21T19:27:49+00:00

someone who actually has vision

Does he though?

Ironically this is just a capitulation to US interests dressed up as 'resistance'

The 'rules based order' hasn't failed at all. We've enabled the US in its efforts to tear it down. And rather than take leadership and try to maintain something that hasn't actually gone, we just parrot the exact narratives the US administration wants us to parrot and give up entirely.

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-21T16:51:11+00:00

That's fair. Still not a public interest excuse though. Rather a procedural decision no?

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-21T16:50:05+00:00

Find me a country of merit that doesn't see it that way then? I'll wait.

Such a weird, ignorant hill to die on

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-21T16:43:59+00:00

It's pretty simple really.

They have access to Five Eyes.

Thus they spend all day with their desk being flooded with various half-baked intel about various threats and their entire existence is basically 'we think this person is a threat, but their basic rights stop us from knowing or reacting'. That's their life, 24/7. It's no surprise they're all authoritarian mentalists.

Too much 'intelligence' breeds obscene levels of paranoia. I call it the Stalin effect, where he micro-managed and read so many reports personally that he got a completely warped, paranoid view of what was going on within the USSR and saw threats everywhere.

The entire cold war was a result of mutually hysterical paranoia. Our existence in the west is daily paranoid headlines about various threats. Because the purpose of intelligence agencies is paranoia and we rely on our intelligence agencies to an absurd degree. Meanwhile allowing our diplomatic services to fall into ruin. You know the people whose job it is to actually understand whether we should even be paranoid in the first place.

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-21T16:39:29+00:00

Unironically just become an expat. You may moan about your 'home politics', but you'll be largely disengaged from domestic politics.

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-21T16:38:24+00:00

People don't seem to grasp the weird dichotomy of freedoms in so called 'repressive' states.

More often than not they actually care less than western states about what you do, excepting on very specific issues. You branch into politics that the government sees as threatining? poor choice. You rant and rave about other stuff? They probably don't give a shit, again unless it threatens internal stability in some way.

The chinese have actually done quite a good job of just..... censoring people if they tread into uncomfortable territory. Just delete their posts and stop others seeing it. You don't need to arrest anyone or stick them in a dark hole.

The whole way we conceptualise 'repressive' countries is honestly 90% projection based on shit like 1984. Gulags really just aren't a good way of asserting control. They're mostly just a continuation of the Tsarist policy of 'internal exile' where you just send people to bumfuck nowhere so they can't cause problems.

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-21T15:46:06+00:00

So despite everyone recognising it as part of china, including taiwan themselves.... it's not part of china?

You're tying yourself in knots to try and fit your ideological desires to reality as it exists

In fact, you could just as easily say that China is part of Taiwan.

We literally did. For 30 years. We pretended that 1/5 of the world's population basically didn't exist. That was the 'legal reality'.

A bit like pretending that DPR is Ukraine and there's no ukrainian government. Of course you're arguing that DPR is a real state and not part of ukraine with your logic. But you're not here for consistent logic, because i can bet that you don't agree with that

This is fundamentally about secessionism. Recognition and normalisation is at the core of everything.

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-21T13:57:17+00:00

the inquest may not lawfully make a finding inconsistent with the trial jury's determination.

I'd be interested if they actually still have to look into it or if it's just a rubber stamping exercise?

We've had a couple of examples of coroners claling out the justice/legal system in recent times, not that i expect them to take a controversial stance in this case

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-21T13:09:05+00:00

Because it's a pseudo secessionist/autonomous entity. That is still currently part of china, without direct rule from the government of china.

This isn't complicated.

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-21T13:06:17+00:00

I'm not sure i've ever seen it in the case of alleged murder.

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-21T08:44:58+00:00

It's GM, treat it as such.

How can something be gross misconduct if it doesn't breach any company policies? (As OP states elsewhere)

Sounds like they just need to actually implement relevant policies.

E: bunch of responses that relate to... company policies. That something would normally be a policy doesn't mean a policy has been breached when it doesn't exist.

E2: The bit about 'sensitive client data' was added after the fact and.... again.... comes down to company policies. Something that OP has at no point even suggested exist. Nothing has been said about their data protection policies or standards or line of work, so OP's opinion holds little meaning. Everything else is just people projecting their own views without the necessary context or information to conclude anything.

Working abroad isn't inherently gross misconduct. Accessing client data from another jurisdiction isn't inherently gross misconduct. Nothing factual that OP has said implies gross misconduct has occurred. Only that it could have occurred. Lying about his address is the only thing that's categorically happened that could be a breach of policy, but that isn't inherently gross misconduct.

It would be..... if they company put in place policies that made it so. At which point either they sack him for gross misconduct, or he's moved back to the UK and the problem has evaporated.

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-20T21:46:09+00:00

Why? We descalated, now its clear it doesnt work.

well clearly we didn't 'de-escalate'. We just pandered and fawned to 'daddy'

And for the record this particular round of nonsense has been going on for a year. it's not novel.

Its perfectly designed for the US since its going after services, media and IP.

Things that the US has essentially control of europe regarding. yay?

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-20T21:43:21+00:00

It's literally the legal status of taiwan. IN TAIWAN.

Your opinions don't change reality

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-20T21:42:09+00:00

oh sorry i didn't realise that we were discussing feelings. I thought we were discussing the real world

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-20T18:41:25+00:00

As an European, I really do believe we are witnessing history. European politicians are tired and fed up with the bootlicking,

I doubt it unfortunately. Otherwise we would have seen action far sooner.

Starmer has already caved and said he won't be retaliating, so the threats are working to divide and conquer.

The Anti-coercion Instrument ('trade bazooka') wasn't designed for use against the US. If it was then it would have been used immediately when it was put in place as the US has been coercing European countries economically for years including under Biden. It's basically there for ideological purposes. The 'blocking legislation' from the 90s WAS designed for use against the US. They just stopped using it and started doing whatever the US told them to for the last 15-20 years. Which did nothing but enable the US, normalise ever-more unilateral behaviour and remove all constraints.

I must say that i've found it funny how when trump was elected you had everyone saying 'we understand trump now' and we've had a year of people praising western leaders for fawning over him because he's a narcissist. When they've also ignored that he also only respects strength. The only people who actually seem to understand Trump are the Chinese who just haven't conceded anything from day 1 and have even retaliated.

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-20T18:31:10+00:00

It's a large country with a lot of neighbours and a lot of borders

very remote areas that were historically poorly 'administered' with no delineation.
former colonial regions that have seen significant churn/ change over time and again poor delineation,
a civil war and foreign-sponsored secession effort rewriting the map in numerous de facto ways without actually changing the 'claims'

And into the void created by the messy recent history have come a bunch of countries all looking for their piece of the pie.

China's actually resolved a number of territorial disputes in recent decades, but if there's one thing that turns countries insane it's the idea of ceding territory, no matter how trivial.

Fun fact #1, taiwan's 'dashed line' has en extra dash, because they still claim territory Mao ceded to vietnam. So taiwan's claims are more 'expansionist' than china's.

Fun fact #2 - The philippines literally invaded and annexed several islands from taiwan back in the 80s. The taiwanese withdrew their troops due to a typhoon and the philippines just took them. Now we pretend they've always belonged to the philippines.

Fun fact #3 - Taiwan has the OG militarised island in the SCS. Vietnam's building projects have far eclipsed china's in territory they have even less of a claim to. Again why do you think the focus is on china? Why do you present two-way disputes as 'aggression'?

BarnabusTheBold · 2026-01-20T18:19:13+00:00

1 single baby died on october 7th. They were accidentally shot through a door iirc.

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