Justin Trudeau

meeeeh wrote: »

I don't have issues with his policies, I do however have issues with dumb political discourse around him. I don't care if politician is attractive or if he photobombs people while running or if he wears Star Wars socks. All this is just ridiculous noise to drown out criticism of his policies.

A politician was buried last week. He was overweight, unsophisticated, failed miserably at relationships with those closest to him and yet he shaped Europe in the last 30 years more than possibly any other politician. And yet we don't discuss Helmut Kohl, we are talking about Trudeau because he is cute and wears Star Wars socks.

but this is After Hours, supposed to be lighthearted afaik:)

why don't you open a thread in the politics forum, discussing Helmut Kohl, I would be in..:):P

Deleted User wrote: »

Yes. And?
Many online right-wingers use that term to refer to themselves, some even take pride in it. It's a description, not a baseless pejorative.
So you can redirect that :rolleyes: back towards yourself.

To me ALT Right is a keyboard sequence.
Add in CTRL and see what happens.

Maybe some label themselves as such, but I do think it is often a term fired out at anyone not subscribing to the media driven, facebook/twitter generation idea that everyone, every idea, every ideology, every religion is equally the same and equally deserving of respect and accommodation.

Except the real truth is that even those subscribing to the above ideas of equality usually do not actually believe that all are equal.

Anyone seen as being on this right are actually deserving of condemnation and even being physically attacked.

There is usually uproar if someone goes on the media or posts on the web that it was ok and perfectly acceptable for a muslim or minority to be assaulted.
And only an idiot would condone such assaults.

But then just watch how many people, posters even on these forums, think it is acceptable and actually laud the physical attacks on those they view as right wing.

Christians, catholics in particular, are often ridiculed and lambasted for the behaviour of their clergy.
White males are often blamed for all the ills of the world.

There is this mindset currently at play that anyone not subscribing to modern gender political correctness, positive discrimination, unfethered immigration into Europe and the Western world by a group of people primarily subscribing to an ideology often completely at odds with that of most of the Western world, is automatically a racist gay bashing sexist misogynistic christian white supremacist nazi oaf.

And the real laugh is when suddenly someone like Milo Yiannopoulos comes along some have a hissy fit because suddenly all of the above no longer applies.
Likewise with non white anti islam protesters who no longer fit the narrative about white racists.

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

I've already had enough of this guy today and then I see a picture of him trying to play hurling on the paper today.I love hurling but is there anything more cringeworthy than everytime we have a foreign visitor we invariably make sure he has a hurl or pint of Guinness in his hand, and whats worse is they brought out Ciaran Kilkenny for this hurl picture which doesn't make any sense seeing as he doesn't play for the Dublin hurlers anymore and decided to play football instead.

Why have we fallen in love with Canada all of a sudden I can't remember any big hoo ha being made over any other Canadian Prime minister visiting here.

(If this post appears to be anti Canadian it isn't I really like Neil Young,Maple Syrup and Ice Hockey).

Because he's hawt like our Leo. All about the aesthetics.

As for the obligatory hurl and pint routine, it'll be interesting to see if the anti-Trump agenda will be put to one side if he pays a visit. Sure we all love fawning over the celebs, and who are we to break tradition

Billy86 wrote: »

But then again, most of the recent terror attacks in Europe have come from people born in the EU.

? not true. the Nice, London Bridge and Berlin attackers for example and also two of the Attackers from 15. Nov. 2015 in France were born outside of the EU. The Charlie Hebdo shooters were french, the Manchester and 4 of the five Brussels ones too.
But to say most of the recent attackers were born in the EU is not the case. Maybe 50/50.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Berlin_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2017_London_Bridge_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks

Can we have one thread that doesn't turn into Islamist terror and Trump please?

ligerdub wrote: »

Can we have one thread that doesn't turn into Islamist terror and Trump please?

you are completely right there.

I wonder, what do the canadians think of him. we are all outside of his 'real action place', so kind of arrogant of us to judge anyway. aren't here any canadians who can give us a picture.?

but then again, there are also people who will like him and people who don't..

If just Justin as he's known to the Irish media moved to Ireland and implemented his Canadian tax laws, he would be considered far-right. These people have no perspective or knowledge of foreign regimes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_taxes_in_Canada

I feel he's given an easy time by the media because he's young and considered easy on the eye.
But like Macron at the moment.
That and he says the "right" things e.g. his comment on a gender balance to Varadkar.

That said he lauded the passing of a dictator.
Also his countries restrictions on Syrian refugees would have people here up in arms.
But no that's brushed over and all we here about is how welcoming Canada is and how much it supports multiculturalism.

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

A worker in Canada earning the equivalent of 31,000 euro pays 15% effective income taxes & charges.

A worker in Ireland on the same wage pays 16% effective income taxes & charges.

1% difference. Far-right?

You need to try more than one figure.
As you go up in wages the Canadian system would start to offer very nice savings for the higher earning tax payers of this country.
Given how our Taoiseach is already been compared to Thatcher and his party compared to the US Republicans, I don't think such a suggestion would be well received.
I wouldn't put it past certain political parties to brand such a move as far-right.