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Ma1 t1_iwcbswy wrote

Reply to comment by Talldarkn67 in India a step closer to getting its fifth-generation aircraft: What is this advanced fighter and why we need it? by Gari_305

If you think American defence companies exclusively use American innovations and technologies you’re wrong.

American companies are just first to design and build weapons because your government writes blank cheques for tools of death while the rest of us are paying for universal healthcare, paid medical leave, and affordable education.

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Flaky_Bee_2599 t1_iwdg3gi wrote

Don't you think it's hypocritical to complain about US defense spending then expect the US to use said big military to support you when the bad guys come knocking at your door?

You're Canadian. You don't have to spend on defense because the implicit threat of the US.

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Ma1 t1_iwenqij wrote

You spend more on defence than the next 10 countries combined. You could reduce your military budget by 75%, give your citizens a better life, and still kick the shit out of any country that started trouble.

And honestly, when was the last time you had to defend against a large scale threat? All your military has done lately is destabilize the Mid East based on a bunch of lies cooked up by the Bush administration. Sure Hussein was a shithead, but he wasn’t a nuclear threat. Oh and you got your ass kicked by a bunch of cave dwelling theocrats in Afghanistan. Money well spent.

You wanna fight a real threat to the world? Put your military up against climate change. Oh wait they’re too busy killing whoever happens to live atop the oil your politicians are entitled to.

Gimme a fucking break with this military circle jerk nonsense.

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Flaky_Bee_2599 t1_iwft5pa wrote

LMAO you didn't even answer my question.

Your country's foreign policy relies on a strong US military. So does Australia, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and all of western Europe. You and almost all of the western European countries underspend on your military to an extent where you're completely reliant on the US if you get into a war.

Where do you get off sitting on your high horse criticizing US military spending when a large part of the reason your spending is so low is because ours is so high?

Also if you think the US could reduce military spending by 75 percent without Russia and China making significant moves you're fucking delusional.

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Ma1 t1_iwgn30x wrote

It’s amazing how deeply you are propagandized.

China doesn’t need to make moves with their military. Your country is in their pocket. They say jump you say how high. Anything else is just empty posturing. And Russia hasn’t been a real threat since the Cold War. They’re can’t even easily win a conflict against Ukraine. They’d be no match for 1/10th of your military.

You under estimate your allies, overestimate your enemies, and GREATLY over value the need for America to police the world. China literally just slapped your wrist about Taiwan.

Every country you listed sees you as a fucking joke. Not our great saviour. You are the one who is delusional. And it’s costing you and your fellow Americans a better life. Go back to school you fucking simpleton.

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Flaky_Bee_2599 t1_iwgy7pf wrote

You know the worst type of idiots are the ones who think they're smarter than everyone else. I'm sorry your degree didn't help out in that regard.

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Ma1 t1_iwch97b wrote

Medical insurance is not universal healthcare. But if you want to give a bigger chunk of your big, fat income that you're fragile enough to brag about to State Farm, you have at it, champ.

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vwlukefairhaven t1_iwcpn6i wrote

If capitalism was truly used health insurance should be cheaper. Right now the US pays much higher portions of their incomes for health insurance than any other G7 nation. It also has the worst health of the G7 as well. The taxes used for the other nations for health care are much lower than the insurance payments made by the US. So we pay the most and get the worst right now.

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arkwald t1_iwda3dp wrote

It pays a portion sure, but it is far less than it used to be. When you consider the evolution of the system for the past 50 years, the writing is on the wall. Profit driven Healthcare as we know in the US will end. It is simply inefficient at doing the job it is supposed to be doing, much as how planned economies always fail for performing much the same way. Question is how.

If it is going to follow out approach to decarbonization, it will be maintained at ever increasing cost until finally someone finds a better way or reality crushes it all like a tin can at depth. People will wonder, point fingers, and blame some outside source. In truth, it's all because we as Americans are lazy proud ass holes who seem to enjoy being repeatedly anally raped by guys in suits because anything less is socialism that is somehow and intrinsically un-American. Americans are inept idiots with barely enough competent people around them to hold it all together.

It's hilarious how people used to hold up the ideal of the industrialist hero who made a fortune making the world work. In reality, the true force was all those lower than dirt people toiling away their lives. They are the ones who made America. All the names you hear, they are all filthy thieves. Should be a wall of shame. No, America celebrates the con artists who do shit but receive all the benefit. Fucking joke.

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vivtorwluke t1_iwec5qs wrote

When a system that works gets put in place it usually sticks. Social Security was deemed to be Socialist and in a way it is but no one wants to get rid of it who wants to live. Same will go for healthcare when it finally goes one payer.

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thatnormalperson t1_iwcgx6p wrote

I think they mean for everyone, not just those with "bigger pay checks"

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rustle_branch t1_iwd6i64 wrote

Well, jerund has what they need. Everyone else can go fuck themselves. This is america, after all

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Talldarkn67 t1_iwchgas wrote

That was my point too. America does everything first and then everyone else follows along. Which is strange since the same countries claim to be anti-America but spend their time and money copying the US.

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Ma1 t1_iwchoaa wrote

>America does everything first and then everyone else follows along.

Unless we're talking about supporting its own crumbling infrastructure and struggling population.

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Talldarkn67 t1_iwcj7nl wrote

Again, in regards to infrastructure the US was one of the first countries in the world to build things like subway, highways, internet etc. they built it all so long ago that now a lot of it needs to be repaired. That doesn’t mean they don’t have infrastructure in place.

Of course some countries are only now building these types of infrastructure(over 100 years after the US did) so they look new while the ones in the US look older because they are.

That doesn’t stop people from countries like India and China immigrating to the U.S. in massive numbers.

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urumipayattu t1_iwd3tlb wrote

Ahem.. Autobahn... Ahem...

But yeah America great!! Exprezzways were the first roads in human history..

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235_and_five t1_iwo115i wrote

He said "one of", and let's not act like Germany's highway infrastructure was their priority around the 1930s and 40s

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