• flan [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    oh the body language experts gave an unsatisfactory answer the first time around so we brought them back in to give the right one

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      That's the advantage of various forms of augury, if you're a regular customer they'll adapt their bullshitting more and more to what you want to hear.

  • Abstraction [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Love it when my handshake gets analyzed and praised by experts

    • FreakingSpy [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      :very-smart: "so the moment he farded and pooped his pants is a subtle hint that he feels intimidated. very easy to miss"

    • AbbysMuscles [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Thanks for that, I'm watching it at work. I remember reading some book about body language back when I was a teen, and the author stressed that the main things to look for are deviations from the norm for that person. According to them, you have to already be familiar with how that person holds and conducts themselves or you're just guessing. Which made sense to me at the time; I'm curious to see if that ancient memory will hold up against this video. Cheers!

  • landlord [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Justin, your father would be very disappointed in you.

    :fidel-cool:

    • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I'd be annoyed, too, if somebody cut me off mid-sentence to say, "Well, actually, we like freedom here, ok bye!"

  • Antoine_St_Hexubeary [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    When Trudeau finally leaves office and the full narrative arc of his career comes into view, it will be "his behaviour on the world stage became complacent and sloppy because he thought every world leader would be as easy to outmanoeuvre as Trump was."

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      The placement of the sacrificial goat's portal vein clearly shows that Trudeau has mastered the sigma grindset! :so-true:

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    So I showed the clip to a good friend of mine who spent years working in diplomatic circles (no, I can't prove it without doxxing myself so please feel free to take this as madeup bullshit if you want). At the end, when Trudeau walked off by himself, my friend burst out laughing. I thought that they were laughing at how goofy Trudeau looked but when they calmed down a bit they explained why this was so funny.

    If you look to left of frame at the beginning of the full video, you see that Trudeau was accompanied by a blonde woman with a red scarf, almost certainly a Canadian staffer. It is extremely rare for a world leader to be alone at any time during an event like the G20, to the point where many countries would consider it a huge breach of protocol if their foreign affairs guys left the head of state unattended.

    Notice who's not there running after Trudeau at the end? A blonde woman with a red scarf. My friend lost their shit because the only implication they could draw is that Trudeau's aide/translator/secretary/whatever, who was there in person for the whole conversation, looked at her PM who her job demands she follow at all times and thought "nuh uh, I don't want to be there for what's going down next."

    I will gladly take the impression of one of Trudeau's own trusted staff members in the moment over the opinions of a thousand body language phrenologists after the fact.

  • LeninsBeard [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    When Trudeau cut off the translator mid-sentence like a petulant child that was actually him being manly and badass