alcoholicorn @ alcoholicorn @lemmy.ml

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The fighter from the 80s?

China and America kinda already are, China has it's J-36 and J-50 prototypes flying right now, America supposedly flew a prototype associated with it's next-gen fighter program, but there's just some pictures of airframes on tarmac that nobody can identify so they assume it must be the next-gen fighter.

Canada's bourgeois controlling your media isn't meaningfully better than the Canadian government, at least the Canadian government needs to pretend to represent you.

Europe doesn't have a 5th gen fighter, and they're beholden enough to the US that they did nothing when we blew up their natural gas pipeline, forcing them to buy our natural gas at exorbitant prices, during winter and are trying to fund our war even after we've stopped. America's other vassals aren't going to help you stop America.

China exports the J-35, Russia exports the Su-57. Making Lockheed stock crater when even Canada abandons them would light a fire under more congress member's asses than anything else you can do.

Then again, it's not like GD, LM, and Boeing would ever let their politicians fuck up the bag.

You'd be surprised how many top level engineers are Chinese; there's a joke about the AI race that it's our Chinese vs their Chinese.

Unlike Hong Kong, we don't have the CIA backing us and the US is not afraid of how other countries perceive its treatment of its citizens.

Nearly any non-color revolution and failed revolution in the last 2 decades is better to learn from.

One of the weird parts of a government shutdown: The Office of Management and Budget decides what still gets paid, and is appointed by the president.

So when the government "shut down" under Obama and the troops still got bombs, but the FDA stopped routine food safety inspections, it was because the guy Obama appointed decided the former was essential and the latter was not.

If Trump's guy, Vaught decides to, he can literally just declare anything they wanted to fund essential.

Of course the alternative is the republicans doing the same thing, except with the democrat's cooperation.

We don’t have that luxury.

Have you seen how big and white Canada is? There's not going to be an invasion or even drone strikes.

So maybe don’t tell us we’re weird about our own nationalism/patriotism when said evil pillaging empire threatens to pillage us?

Canada has been helping us the whole time, I'm going to be even more flippant when Britain and the EU's economies are next to be sacrificed to maintain the rate of profit.

Assuming you don't work for Bombardier, neither of us has benefited from the spoils of empire.

People like you silencing dissent is precisely how the DNC deluded themselves into believing they could win while running to the right.

The only time we see the democrats accede to popular opinion and do the things they need to get elected is when is so exceedingly obvious that there is no other path that they can't pretend otherwise, and the moment that pressure lets up, they will stop. They only told Biden to drop out when he had no path to victory, and the moment Kamala looked like she'd win, the dems embraced every policy that had killed the Biden campaign.

They had polling data, they knew that banning tiktok wouldn't increase their chances to win, but they did it anyway. They knew that sending cops to kick the shit out of politically active college students wouldn't help them win, but they did it anyway, because they thought they could do that and still win.

Texas also gets its reputation from a sort of zealous immigrant effect. People who move to Texas are more likely to embrace a new identity of their perception of Texans. So you get people who moved to Texas 2 years ago and go around in cowboy hats and talking with a ridiculous accent, further reinforcing Texas's reputation, even though those people are an extremely loud minority.

Probably, I just assume any right-wing weirdo would live there because of the confederate flag pickup trucks.

OK, excepting the weirdo MAGAs, but I assumed the Canadian equivalent wouldn't be on Lemmy. Do they even have internet in Alberta?

Leftism is when you don't have any money.

I mean my home is also the evil empire pillaging the rest of the world, so if I believed them, on some level, yes.

But no, I'd laugh at them because of how absurd it would be.

As soon as the lib media machine kicks in, they absolutely will start going on about how unelectable popular left policies are and the only way to beat Trump pt III is to run a George W Bush/Liz Cheney ticket and you're a secret russian asset if you don't think we need someone more competent than Trump to secure our borders, fund the police, and bomb Iran.

Yes, nationalism is weird, why do you identify with the Canadian government? I sure as hell don't identify with America's actions.

Rich foreigners can already get an EB-5 greencard if they invest 500K.

Feeling insulted when the PM is insulted seems weird. Do you think Americans feel insulted when someone calls Trump a clown?

You're not the guy who put tariffs on Chinese cars to appease the American car manufacturers, the US president calling him a stooge of America for doing his own bidding is genuinely funny.

Blaming foreigners for the actions of capitalists prevents you from recognizing the actual power structure, and which side of it you are on and have always been on.

You don't need to receive money to spend money if you print money. The purpose of taxation is to reduce the monetary supply.