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  • Barabas [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Also, the US fed is paying more for healthcare than most countries with "free healthcare". It isn't that it would cost too much, it would lower profits for healthcare companies.

    • Lovely_sombrero [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yea the funny thing about M4A is that it is... wait for it... fiscally conservative compared to status quo.

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  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Actually the F35 is a great allegory for the US Healthcare system because it's the product of bloated profit-seeking enterprise that has delivered underwhelming results for a massive public expenditure.

    Also, they both fail catastrophically and kill the user way more than necessary.

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Defective anti-lightning equipment means F35s can't fly in conditions with risk of lightning.

        https://www.defensenews.com/air/2020/06/24/the-f-35-lightning-ii-cant-fly-in-lightning-once-again/

          • doctor_sociology [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            The F-35B and F-35C will follow after, Seal says, although she declined to comment on how many aircraft require the fix. In 2020, the Joint Program Office restricted the F-35 from flying within 25 nautical miles of thunderstorms or lightning. That restriction is expected to remain in place until all of the affected aircraft can receive the fuel system fix, which will hopefully be before the end of 2025. Seal says a software update coming this year will alert pilots whenever dips in the OBIGG system’s performance are detected.

            once again, problems into sales opportunities!!!

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        It's a BVR only fighter for wars in which every engagement requires visual confirmation that the target isn't civilian.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Literally worshiping at the blood alter of imperialism.

    I've said it before and I will say it again:

    Its [capitalism] total form is something that is difficult to truly comprehend, and once you actually learn enough to glean even so much as its outline, the more one tends to recoil in horror or embrace it wholly. We’re essentially all raised as acolytes of this death cult for a dark god of our own making.

    Expanding on this analogy, reading theory is akin to reading the Necronomicon, if you manage to come out with your sanity intact you suddenly realize how petty and meaningless electoral politics are (particularly in the west and especially in the belly of the beast) and will galvanize your resolve to destroy it.

    Once you glimpse the cosmic horror that is the total shape of the US empire and the monstrosity of capitalism that drives and is driven by it, unthinking unfeeling, insatiable, with a singular purpose of consuming everything on the planet without regard for life it takes immense mental and emotional resolve to possess that knowledge without sinking into despair or becoming misanthropic. Everyone of you here may not feel like it, because it’s a hell of a burden to bare, but you’re all incredibly strong people who I admire very much.

    :solidarity:

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      The way 'imperialist' and 'capitalist' have been turned into signs by which whoever criticizes it flags himself as to not be taken seriously is one of capitalism's greatest tricks. I've noticed it a lot in popular media.

  • Grownbravy [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I know nothing about the combat effectiveness of an F35, but the actual effectiveness of the F-35 in crashing into carrier decks and not flying in the rain is second to none.

  • StLangoustine [any]
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    2 years ago

    Kinda feel for Americans. They can't have shit, let them at least be proud of cool looking planes.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The bazinga brains need the suffering to have mattered somehow, so they believe very hard that the suffering was in exchange for something other than the rich getting richer.