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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
She is just so insincere and the Liberal way is talking down to Canadians. Out of touch politicians mansplaining household budgets. Contrary to Liberal beliefs, Canadians are able to do math and decide were they need to cut their personal costs. The ignorance in her statement is that she simply ignores the fact that sadly for some households, it's not about deciding between Netflix, Crave and Disney+. The decisions are between keeping the thermostat at 22 or 17, a tank of gas or a cart of groceries, skip a utility payment this month or a credit card payment. These are the true realities many are worried about. I mean, at least she didn't go with the "cup of coffee close", but the out of touch mansplaining and horrible personal anecdotes, is part of what makes this government, most governments, intolerable.
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Except the anecdote only includes all of this context if you put it there yourself.
For a lot of households, little changes like cutting a streaming service is a normal, smart thing to do.
So should we praise her for her smart, practical advice? Or condemn her for her ignorant, insincere comment?
I’d argue both are fairly stupid and both require a lot of bias to buy. I don’t find it particularly convincing when people who already dislike a politician have to make up the context of a statement in order to get mad about it. If you have to assume all these negative things about it, are you mad at Freeland? or are you just made and busy figuring out what about?
Some Canadians are deciding on things more dire than cutting a streaming service. But most Canadians, including those Canadians, have bigger things to fret about than whether a politician said she’s cutting Disney+. You don’t, which is fine, but maybe you’re a little out of touch yourself.