Trudeau is a refreshing change from our previous Prime Minister Harper in many, many ways, but he is a politician, first and foremost. What that means is that regardless of his personal or stated positions on anything, he has to make concessions to certain political realities.

He is a pretty awesome human being.

Better than the last guy. Still breaking promises like most average politicians, but in this world, having an average lying politician in power is ideal.

He is more awesome than not, despite some of his blunders lately.

Gabrielle shoots from outside the key and *SWHOOSH* - 3 point shot!

He seems like a good person. He does a good job representing Canada on the world stage and doesn’t embarrass us for the most part. I’ll leave it at that.

I think it’s safe to say that my country is a little perturbed at the moment with Trudeau because he seems to be backsliding on some of the “promises” he made when elected. However, he is still immensely popular, has a very decent outlook and yes, I still have faith that he will work towards doing the right things.

I’m Canadian (Montreal). From my perspective, he’s more centre than left. I think he’s good, but he could be better.

This is so deliciously good.

OK, suppose you put your hands on me like she did to him, and I pull out a knife and stick it in your gut, then start carving up your face.

But hey, we’re both in the wrong right?

As I recall, she had her face smashed in pretty good. Mixon’s escalation was way over the top and completely disproportionate.

You expect me to believe that a man who would punch a woman would also make a gay slur?

Hey there, false equivalencies!

How exactly does it exacerbate the issue?

Yup. “I voted for Hillary!” isn’t some kind of backpat and excuse to be done. Nope, us white guys have to go back to our families and do the hard work of figuring out which we can convince were idiots for backing Trump...and if they won’t come around simply abandon them as lost causes to focus our energy on people and…

Yep. “Freeze peach” people don’t give a fuck about free speech. They just don’t want to lose an audience.

“You don’t have the right to a platform.”

I like you. Keep fighting the good fight, I’ve spotted you giving this advice in a few other threads and I think it is a good idea. People tend to want to trash the troll (a understandable and commendable feeling!) but that just draws attention to their bullshit. Good luck!

Please don’t ungrey the trolls. Even if well intentioned. Drawing attention to how stupid they are by ungreying them sin’t going to fix anything. If anything it derails meaningful conversation because everyone focuses on calling out the troll that before you know it he’s at the top of the threads. If you see a troll,…

Fuck, this comment section is Deadspin at its absolute worst. Fuck everyone here who thinks Mixon was in the right, or that his reaction was understandable.