• grte@lemmy.ca
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      No, I just try to keep my eye on the wider picture.

      Really. The UK, a basket case of a country that is coming apart at the seams, with a separatist party running each of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, gets this kind of treatment but the continent of Africa doesn’t even get a guy to go check things out? Despite everyone saying it’s set to boom and Carney having a mandate to seek out new trade relationships? Give your head a fuckin’ shake.

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        18 hours ago

        I’m sure in your mind somewhere, there is a very logic link.

        But realize that for everyone outside your bubble, picking between a South Korean’s company submarine model and a German’s company submarine model has absolutely no relation whatsoever with Africa, and probably not much to do with the UK either.

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          18 hours ago

          The point was to illustrate Carney’s Eurocentrism with an example, seeing as people seemed to assume my opinion was settled based on the submarine news alone. I wasn’t trying to link Africa with South Korea, Germany, or Norway.

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            5 hours ago

            If you want an example, use $150,000,000 in taxpayer dollars to enter Canada in Eurovision.

            And maybe this public ‘eurocentrism’ might be a good idea with our current negotiations with our largest trading partner who insists we need them.