• rekabis@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    Canada needs to put the Gripen factory on an accelerated track, cancel the entire F-35 order, and move ahead with an immediate purchase of min. 50 Gripens using the F-35 funds to cover the gap until Gripens start rolling out of the factory.

    Canada’s complete F-35 promise will cost the country $28,000,000,000 ($28B) with billions more needed to bring them up to full operational efficiency, and yet the Gripen costs only $65,000,000 ($65M) per aircraft, allowing us to buy 430 fully-functional Gripen jets instead of 88 partially functional F-35 jets.

    Remember: tech superiority does not win battles. WWII demonstrated this overwhelmingly. The Germans had Tiger tanks that could face off with 6-8 Shermans at a time and win with barely a scratch on their hull, but when 10, 20, or even more came roaring over the hilltop for every Tiger that was fielded, their tech superiority ended being absolutely useless. They got overrun and overwhelmed with sheer numbers.

    The F35 can be rendered equally as useless with enough Gripens in the air.

    And the Gripens don’t come with a remote kill switch like the F-35 does.

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      Agree with everything you say, and yes quantity has a quality of its own, but I think that in addition we should fly the Gripens and the F35s that we have against each other and figure out how to beat the F35s with the Gripens. Then share that info with our new allies. If we need to modify or augment the Gripens then we can work with them Swedes to do that.

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      Competent pilots cost too. We need to invest in unmanned capabilities much more. All humans should just be behind their desks fighting a war remotely from Hawaii or something

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      Us gear has kill switches in it.

      Not only that, for decades now it’s been rumoured the us has secret code on most all computers, a kill switch, blue screen of death.

      I bet corporations have their own.

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        As far as regular CPUs go, it’s not a rumour. Any AMD or Intel CPU made in the last 15 years can be remotely disabled via the network, even if the device is turned off (but connected to power).

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          Do you know how that manifests? Like if they killswitched it remotely, how would it stop working do we know?

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      4 hours ago

      Why anyone would visit disneyland over a national park or coral reef idk in the first place.

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      5 hours ago

      Boycott US products and services in general too. Switch your online accounts to non-US companies.

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        For the Canadians : shop app is a part of shopify to replace Amazon. Plus you can filter it to Canadian only. Canadian tire is like Amazon but in RL.

        Petrocan

        Go Canada computers instead of best buy

        Gem

        Kobo instead of kindle or audible.

        Where you can’t find a Canadian substitute for American: get a European one. They are usually way better quality than American anyways. Better standards

    • hector@lemmy.today
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      No. For too long your geese have flouted our border conteols with impunity. While you hide behind your fake politey. I say build the wall! /s

      Seriously though canada hosts some of the worst corporarions in the world, mining conglomerates responsible for untold atrocities worldwide.

      Then they have an ageing oil pipeline under the straits of mackinac, it is a when it bursts, using corrupt influence on our captured judiciary to prevent shutting it down, or even putting pressure cut off switches so if there is a leak or rupture it automatically gets cut off.

      This same company, Enbridge, already had a large spill in battle creek they corruptly avoided cleaning up, same year as deepwater horizon in the gulf.

      Not so polite indded, eh?

  • megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Lmao, straight up he’s got no fucking attention span or patience. He’s just going in circles pushing on issues, trying to find one that will budge with just mean words rather than having to spend money or do anything material.

    He wants some sort of “win” something concrete he can point to and say “look how much we’re winning” because his poll numbers are in the toilet. He’s surrounded him self with incompetent yes men who keep failing to give him meaningful results, and he’s terrified of losing the house and senate in 11 months.

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      he’s terrified of losing the house and senate in 11 months

      This makes me think you’re a bot shilling hope that isn’t real

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        This makes me think you’re a bot shilling hope that isn’t real

        This makes me think you’re a bot shilling apathy to prevent the GOP from losing.

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            That’s the message that won the GOP the last election. Are being paid by them, or did you just believe someone else paid by the GOP who told you not to vote?

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              I never said don’t vote.

              I said don’t depend on simply voting to fix things.

              Don’t sit around for another year expecting the midterms will fix things.

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    It feels like the world is in a late game stage of Civilization and the most recent hotseat player is just fed up with the grind and feels like nuking something.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

    Close

    The

    Border

    Shut the lights off. Stop the oil. Sell the bonds.

    Time to pull that bandaid off.

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      I would say stop selling the potash so there’s a famine. The one thing that causes all dictators to be overthrown from within, is a couple missed meals in a row. The whole world should get Americans to fight America by shutting then off from sustenance until the mess they created is cleaned.

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        Yes I believe this is exactly what the Russians had in mind when they installed him.

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    He’s a Russian asset. He’s trying to destabilize the US as well as NATO, and our other allies. The more time we spend on infighting, the less likely we’ll be to stand up to our enemies

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    Bring it fucking on! No longer elbows up, time to drop the gloves!

    Fighting Nazis sounds fun. Pussies.

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    I guess he’s going to annex every ally at this point. Make America NATO Again!

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      and the US isn’t getting a pass when this is over. maybe in a few generations IF they hold the fascists to account and implement systemic change.

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          Two be fair many other countries have the same issue but it doesn’t have such horrendous consequences because they don’t have a two party system.

          IMHO countries that claim to be democracies should switch to Lottocracy anyway. That’s the only way we end up with decision makers that don’t just do stuff to get voted again.

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            The two party system is all too common in way too many countries; a good chunk of us has probably spent most of our lives, and will probably spend the rest of them, seeing stupid people being elected because the alternative is another clown from the other team. What nobody else has is the firepower of the next 20 nations combined. To the surprise of absolutely fucking nobody, too much power can turn you into a bully. The US military complex needs to be dismantled by the rest of the imperial core or the imperial core won’t last much longer, and let’s not even get started with the UN.

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    You’d this Orange Moussealini would have learned that where Hitler went wrong was fighting more than one front at a time. He thinks just because the US has the strongest military it can beat anybody, but he, and his peabrained cabinet, doesn’t have the mental capacity to understand that invading a country is easy; holding land indefinitely is very difficult. Let alone multiple countries at once.

    The absolute arrogance of someone this stupid is astounding. And yet millions of people voted for him as many as 3 times. This truly is one of the worst timelines

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      USA really sucks against insurgency, like with iraq/afghanistan, its just carpet bombing this, and sending large amount of troops. this is pretty much akin to RUSSIA’s meatwaves., just have hundreds orcs, but with usa its just bomb this or that.

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        And now imagine an insurgency that looks and talk and acts just like you. It’s a nightmare scenario.

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    We’ll that would be an interesting front on the upcoming war with the rest of NATO.

    Seems like fucking with Canada would not be the best idea. Didn’t work out so well for America the last time it happened (the war of 1812). And this time Canada would have more allies in the fight than just Britain and some of the native American tribes.