Kulturkampf

[killamajig]

The defence issue the UK is facing is....

An under-equipped military is now also facing the challenge of an unreliable partner (USA) that might pull support at any moment. Even the UK, a supposed nuclear power, needs the USA to keep those nukes operational.

I agree with Mark Felton that this is an issue, and the fact that the UK also rents its nuclear missiles was news to me and a bit silly. I think all of Europe should ensure they can defend themselves and their interests without the USA.

[benji]

Nuclear weapons are not really a defense issue, nobody is going to use them unless they're launched at first. Most of the countries that have them have more nukes than they ever will need to use.

The "Ukraine is stupid for giving up nukes now look" talk is stupid unless you think Ukraine should have nuked Moscow and got wiped off the Earth in return.

NATO makes having your own nukes unnecessary as well because of the US promise to destroy the world in retaliation.

[Ribosome]

The F35 has been a mess from the start. I remember first hearing about it back in 2002 when it was a hot button political issue. 

I think Trump is just the perfect excuse the European countries need to write them off this early and go with other planes.
Even before Trump some EU countries wanted to stop supplying parts for the F35 because they were being used by Israel to bomb Gaza.

That's the thing though. 

There is no other plane.

The US offering the capabilities of the F-35 to partners at such a competitive price made sure that any comparable European fighter never even left the drawing board. 

While there is no true kill switch, in terms of product support all roads lead back to Lockheed Martin so you're bound ever tighter to the US for support for decades to come.

[killamajig]

You're going to "well actually" me saying nukes are part of defense.

[benji]

Sorry, it was a MAD situation.

[killamajig]

Well, in my Utopia we include Nukes in our defense spending. Also, that's going to be my only defense. A "all nuke strategy" I developed. 

There is no downside

[Eric Cartman]

I guess I'm just questioning the scenario where there is a war that is actually worth having in the first place where having or not having nukes is going to be the deciding factor, because its kind of assumed a war that goes nuclear means even the 'winners' are left kinda irreversibly fucked if they don't have their space colonies shit ready to go.

Any kind of war where victory is more than "We died last tho" is going to rely on things like quality of training and equipment of ground troops, quality of training and equipment of ancillary forces (sea, air, etc), logisitics and supply chains and quality of the various types of intel (sigint, humint, etc).

[Besticus Maximus]

Nuclear weapons are not really a defense issue, nobody is going to use them unless they're launched at first. Most of the countries that have them have more nukes than they ever will need to use.

The "Ukraine is stupid for giving up nukes now look" talk is stupid unless you think Ukraine should have nuked Moscow and got wiped off the Earth in return.

NATO makes having your own nukes unnecessary as well because of the US promise to destroy the world in retaliation.

You can be as sure as shit we're launching nukes if it looks like the UK is being invaded and going to lose, there will be zero fucking around in such a scenario, the public would demand it

Mainland british aisles that is, not random islands here or there

[benji]

Good talk.

[HaughtyFrank]

[Nintex]

Trump is just going to claim air superiority with the F-47.

I bet they shat bricks in China, Greenland and Canada when they unveiled a plane with no tail has been flying for 5 years.

With US allies though, Trump is not referencing to France and Germany, that ship has sailed. He's likely talking about Saudi Arabia, Israel, Hungary and Argentina. 
Who knows, he might sell a few to Russia and North Korea 

[killamajig]

Well at least we know what all thoses things were flying over New Jersey. Remember that?

[Alpacx]

Trump is just going to claim air superiority with the F-47.

I bet they shat bricks in China, Greenland and Canada when they unveiled a plane with no tail has been flying for 5 years.

With US allies though, Trump is not referencing to France and Germany, that ship has sailed. He's likely talking about Saudi Arabia, Israel, Hungary and Argentina. 
Who knows, he might sell a few to Russia and North Korea 

The US hasn't exported their current air superiority fighter, the F-22. Why would they export its successor?

[HaughtyFrank]

[HaughtyFrank]

This is amazing 

“We heard from readers who were upset that we labeled the taco a lesbian when it seems more likely she was bisexual
We heard from readers who questioned the consent of the sexual encounter between the taco and the hot dog bun. We heard from readers who found the taco to be a damaging portrayal of a predatory queer woman"

[killamajig]

Man, if he didn't do all that morning prep he could have slept in longer.

That was my take away.

[HaughtyFrank]

 
"Incompetent thief and Nazi"

"Pedo Guy" 

[benji]

You can tell Elon's been talking to Trump because that's always been Trump's interpretation of what you can sue over.

[benji]

[benji]

The law firms in question have taken cases from Democrats at times and/or taken cases on the opposite side of the government:

[benji]

[Polident]

Regardless of how one feels about trans stuff or even Elon, trying to make somebody noteworthy for disliking their father is really weird.

We’re gonna write about this 20-year-old adult who has nothing going on in their life, past present or future, because they’re angry at their dad. This is somehow meant to do something. We can try calling them drumf and muskrat again if this doesn’t work. Our top minds haven’t developed strategies besides middle school cattiness.

[Nintex]

The "hate men" sentiment in the media has ruined a lot of things. They pretend to hate Musk or Trump but truely their main message is to hate men in general. 

It took me a while to realize that's why the main stream media is what it is. The single cat ladies and feminists are their audience. And it's going to get worse, because all the single ladies in their 30s and now bordering 40s that think a guy needs to earn 500k minimum and be as a attractive as a hollywood star to even be worth considering are going to resent all men for keeping them single and the attractive or rich men for not wanting them as the mother for their children.

Now of course you could argue that a lot of alternative media catered to men adds to the problem. But while media catered to women is mostly designed to stop them from having loving families, children, relationships and at times even sex. On the side of men the focus is to get the men the pussy they want. Overall the message of clean up your room, get rich, lift, looks max and date 10 years younger yields more results for men than "fuck these men, grow a forest out of your armpits" does for women  .

[HaughtyFrank]

[Uncle]

https://imgur.com/gallery/snow-white-06EtIdr

[HaughtyFrank]

Also note the empty rows

[Potato]

https://imgur.com/gallery/snow-white-06EtIdr

Everyone is the retard here

[benji]

https://x.com/esjesjesj/status/1903171840174067995

Man, if he didn't do all that morning prep he could have slept in longer.

That was my take away.

[HaughtyFrank]

[HaughtyFrank]