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If Canada needs to make the USA squirm, just buy one (1) J-35 from China.

So they're gonna change the MiG-15 reporting name right?

We live under Trump, and our last vote was a choice between Trump and Trump's 2016 platform, what meaningful democracy?

You're on the same trajectory as us, with a choice between "progressive" neoliberals continuing to hollow out social programs while poisoning indigenous people's water at home and supporting wars of imperialism on the other side of the world, and conservative neoliberals doing the same, and you're probably going to end up with the greater evil this time.

Also who the hell can afford a house?

Why do you think every time there's a school shooting, it's a weird right-winger, and the only leftist mass shooting in the last decade was directed at congress?

If mass shooters were randomized among <30s, we'd expect way more lib and left shooters, because most <30s are lib and left.

Saab Gripen

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Federal taxes don't actually work that way. The federal government prints its own money. All taxes effectively go into a giant shredder and are unrelated to spending.