Political rock bottom

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Just when I think I'm overly cynical about politics, I read a story like this one, wherein my supposedly "good" Liberal government, you know, the one led by a dreamboat male feminist with a Haida tattoo and the star of so many Meanwhile In Canada memes, stands by its existing arms deal with Saudi Arabia despite its monstrous repression of its own citizens, its genocidal war on Yemen that has left unknown numbers of people dead and 13 million facing famine, and fucking dismembering a journalist with a fucking bone saw. Chrystia Freeland, who can't help that her granddad was a Nazi collaborator but could theoretically choose to not be one herself, justifies this disgusting move because “it’s important for Canada’s word to last longer than any one particular government.”

Um, when has Saudi Arabia ever had a government that wasn't filled to the brim with the worst possible people on the planet? Or maybe she was talking about Canada's government, which I guess has never not been willing to collaborate with murderers, torturers, and war criminals.

I thought I was over news stories making me puke but nope. This sickens me such that I'm almost glad that climate change is going to kill us all off.