• Binzy_Boi
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    6326 days ago

    I think he was trying to say “gagged” but it does sound like “gay” lol

    • @Taniwha420@lemmy.world
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      2626 days ago

      … You might be right. He has a weird accent, and if he pronounced the ‘a’ like an American and swallowed the ‘gg’ …

      Or maybe that’s the secret do defeating the Conservatives? “We can totally make an LNG pipeline to the coast, but … err … that would make you all pretty gay.”

      • Binzy_Boi
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        1326 days ago

        Re-watching it, and yeah, has to be gagged. If you listen closely, there’s a small “click” after what at first sounds like “gay”, which is likely an “ed” sound.

        • @Taniwha420@lemmy.world
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          124 days ago

          No… Not at all. “gae” Vs “gahgged”. Gay has a hard A, gagged had a soft A. Plus gagged had a ‘gg’ sound in the middle, and also a D sound at the end. Actually, the only thing they have in common is starting with a G.

          Do they sound the same to you?

      • @bricklove@midwest.social
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        826 days ago

        It reminds me of my teacher from northern Wisconsin that would say words like “bag” and “flag” as “bayg” and “flayg”. She would say “back” and “flack” like you’d expect but for some reason “-ag” words got the different vowel

  • @AGM@lemmy.ca
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    1625 days ago

    This and referring to everyone on stage as “contestants” were both pretty funny.

  • Magnus
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    1525 days ago

    The term is Freudian slip. And Carney’s reaction means he knows; they all know 🙃

  • @Daryl@lemmy.ca
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    1325 days ago

    Wow. Just silliness. The only residual discussion after the debate is “Did he say ‘gay’ or ‘gagged’?”

    Says a lot about the importance of the debate in the overall election.

    • @el_muerte@lemm.ee
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      725 days ago

      Think I read some study several years back (probably following the Trump-Clinton one) that concluded almost everyone always perceives their “team’s” candidate as having won the debate, and the number of voters swayed by a stellar performance from another candidate is negligible.

      Yeah, they’re pretty damn pointless…

      • @Daryl@lemmy.ca
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        125 days ago

        Except the news media thinks they are, so we will probably continue to have them, if not just for the entertainment value. They fill in some of the ‘air time’.

  • JokeDeity
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    925 days ago

    Gagged. Are you all really hearing gay or is this a big troll?

    • AChiTenshi
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      1025 days ago

      I heard gay on my first viewing. After playing it again I picked up on what he was actually trying to say. I think k it’s something along the lines of mondegreen where you can hear the wrong words in songs.

    • Shadow
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      Not a troll. I heard it when I watched live and didn’t figure out he meant gagged until he said it a second time. Listening to it again I can hear it either way, his pronunciation at the end is just a little off.

      • @twopi@lemmy.ca
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        125 days ago

        I think that’s why conaervatives like PP but not JT.

        Conservatives want to be the bottom so they don’t like leaders they can fuck but rather prefer leaders who can fuck them.

  • Lectral
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    525 days ago

    He just took a drink of water too. Imagine if Carney had done a spit take.

  • @GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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    526 days ago

    Every accusation is a confession…

    Seriously, probably meant to say gagged, and failed miserably. I still think it’s a shit excuse.

    • @turnip@lemm.ee
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      As far as Pierres response, is it okay that the Liberal cabinet encouraged people to ship the opposition off to China to be prosecuted for tweeting against the Chinese government while in Canada, and does it seem like the people with the clearance havent done much to fight the active involvement by China?

      You even have his replacement being linked to China which is a little suspicious, makes me what whats up with this riding:

      https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/federal_election/liberal-candidate-peter-yuen-attended-chinese-military-parade

      • @spector@lemmy.ca
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        Liberal cabinet

        Stopped reading there. You know why.

        For everyone else who doesn’t. They’re lying through their teeth. It was a random MP. Not the Liberal cabinet.

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          Ah sorry you’re right, I wrote this quickly.

          But he was also allowed to retain his seat without objection.

      • @GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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        At this point, this clip is the entirety of the debate that I’ve seen, but I will say two things about this general issue.

        If your argument is that his opponents are doing shitty things so it’s okay if he does shitty things, take a look through history or south of our border to see how that ends up. And I’ve never seen Pierre give a real alternative to any issue he’s identified, whether those issues are real or not. The few stances he’s taken are usually tired conservative agendas that have failed every time they’ve been tried, yet he drags their mummified remains onto the stage, dusts them off, and pretends that it’s a novel idea that will solve the issue it’s targeted at with a single step. Mandatory minimum sentencing? This is a primarily punitive measure that ignores the main issues with our prison system, that it is overloaded by people who have little hope for a better future and few options besides crime for anything but the most meager of existences. But sure, longer sentences will fix that. No? Well, at least it’s something that can happen in one term. And that’s representative of every ‘idea’ he puts forward. An alternative whose only merit is the thinnest veneer of emotional relief to charged topics and not enough depth or nuance to actually address the problem, let alone solve it.

  • Redex
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    325 days ago

    He obviously said gagged. It literally sounds more like gagged than gay even if he did mispronounce.