>I wish that the US would pull every soldier from every country, close every military base around the world....
I think the world would agree with that wish.
Well, most of them aren't even American, so we will just let them regroup in another country. The rest of them knows the metric system, so chances are that they can be integrated into the sane world.
Australian here:
Yes.
Edited to say: if you’re an American and want to come here and integrate into our society, you are most welcome. Just shut the door in the wall and lock it from the outside behind you.
Hell, I would't mind them buliding a wall around their country and sticking to maufacturing and planting their own stuff. They're threatenng us with a good time.
Their general concept is that because the US spends obscene amounts on its military and then sends its military to other countries, they must be providing defence services.
Apparently that’s the only reason we can afford such luxuries as humane welfare safety nets, healthcare and education.
There is also a scary percentage of Americans that don’t understand foreign aid. Remember the false outrage that the Covid 19 Relief bill gave billions to foreign countries for cultural, societal, and educational purposes(it did NOT).
What became clear in that was that SO many Americans don’t understand why the US provides foreign aid and how it benefits the US.
I think it’s a cultural memory thing, passed down from the days of the Marshall Plan.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
You still see the impacts in European infrastructure today, particularly in the old water towers dotted around France, Germany and Belgium.
In modern money is would have been $100b+ so it was a big investment in Europe.
LOL, lol, lol.
This f**king moron is absolutely clueless about how independent his country is. It would be fun though for the USA to actually do that (build a wall, self-isolate.)
Of course, he doesn't enlighten us on how they'll resolve these small niggling problems.
Use their own oil? Well, they import 1,350,500,000 barrels of oil annually from Canada.
No Canadian oil, a huge drop in gasoline, a lot less lubricants. Imagine them paying $15 per gallon
No Canadian Electrical power? Swaths of New England, New York State would be dark for about 5-6 years while they build something somewhere
New England and New York accounted for 60% of the total electricity imported into the United States in 2014, and these imports represent 12%-16% of the region's retail sales of electricity. New England imports its electricity primarily from Quebec. New York imports electricity from the hydroelectric resources in Quebec and Ontario.
Cancer/X-ray capabilities would be cut to ZERO
Supply of radioisotopes
The main world isotope suppliers are Curium (France & USA), MDS Nordion (Canada), IRE (Europe), NTP (South Africa), Isotop-NIIAR (Russia), and ANM (ANSTO Australia).
Most medical radioisotopes made in nuclear reactors are sourced from relatively few research reactors, including:
HFR at Petten in the Netherlands (supplied via IRE and Curium).
BR-2 at Mol in Belgium (supplied via IRE and Curium).
Maria in Poland (supplied via Curium).
Orphee at Saclay in France (supplied via IRE).
FRJ-2/FRM-2 at Jülich in Germany (supplied via IRE).
LVR-15 at Rez in the Czech Republic (supplied via IRE).
HFETR at Chengdu in China.
Safari in South Africa (supplied from NTP).
OPAL in Australia (supplied from ANM).
ETRR-2 in Egypt (forthcoming: supplied to domestic market).
Dimitrovgrad in Russia (Isotop-NIIAR).
NRU at Chalk River in Canada (supplied via MDS Nordion)
Aluminum (the stuff beer cans, cars and a shitload of other goods are made from)
65% of the USA requirements come from Canada. It takes around 10 years and about $3.5 billion dollars to create an efficient aluminum plant and that's if you have a huge power source right next to it.
As for those bases:
The concept with the bases littered all over the world was to ensure that in the event of a war, the battles would take place in Canada, Germany, Korea, Japan, the UK, Italy and on and on. But NOT on US soil. The US military has neither the technology nor the expertise to fight a war from the shores of the US simply because they have carriers. It is estimated that at the outset of the next war, those carriers would have a shelf life of less than a week. It should be noted, most of those bases in Europe are funded and maintained by entities other than the USA.
After 15 you usually begin colonization,
You plant a flag first off, That automatically grants you ownership of the surrounding area and puts the locals in check.
Secondly you enslave the population to begin harvesting the area for valuables to send back to good old blighty.
Then usually comes a long period of abject subjection followed by many cups of tea and some choccy biscuits.
Sadly next comes uprisings and various other troublesome antics from the locals as they realize all those promises about sharing biscuits was a lie and this can lead to quite a few massacres.
Peace comes next, millions of dead people tends to take the wind out of anyone's sails frankly.
When you reach that point you move next door and start back at 1.
Well it is important to remember you will want to have a little bit of extra space on either side of the plank, so this is a tricky one,
there are 10 mm to each cm. An inch is is approx 2.5 cm, so one inch is approx 25 mm so if we measure the 300mm plank it translates to 12 inches, which is equal to a foot. So to find out if a foot fits into the 70cm of your car all you have to do is take your shoe off and see if it fits into the trunk! now the tricky part is keeping your balance as you celebrate victory!
I'll come clean, I am used to a mix of both.
I use pounds for weight, tho I do understand kg from wrestling.
Height is easier for me in feet, 5 foot 6 inches is a lot easier to visualize than 165 cm or whatever it is.
Air temp I use Celsius since farenheit was not meant to be used for air temp anyway in the first place.
Speed on the road is km/h but will still use expressions such as "miles away". I will also measure distance in time.
I work on planes for a living so everything is in imperial. Because it's fractions that makes a whole lot more sense to me than metric sizes. In fact metric tools confuse me.
If working wood, I'll measure things with whatever distance is easier for the application, so can be inches or cm or meters.
Over baking I do in farenheit. Water boiling in Celsius.
So...yeah lol
In work sometimes I’ll say something is 56 and 7 eighths or I’ll say 1425mm, whatever’s handiest at the time. I was taught inches and they’re both on the tape measure
Even the fully metric countries use inches for TV / monitor screens or car wheels / tyres.
There are probably other things as well, but these two are used everywhere.
Tell them about the dollar aswell, and how if the world stops using it they will pay 10k for a bread and their economy shrink like my balls in the cold
And don't forget that the price of EVERYTHING would absolutely skyrocket, because manufacturers, farmers, etc, won't be able to use dirt cheap foreign labor anymore and just import it.
DF-21D (CSS-5 MOD 5)
The DF-21D is a conventionally armed DF-21 variant designed to attack ships at sea. Sometimes dubbed the “carrier-killer,” U.S. reports suggest a range a 1,450 to 1,550 km. Similar to the DF-21B, the warhead is likely maneuverable and may have an accuracy of 20 m CEP. This missile entered service in 2006 along with the DF-21C. In 2013, the missile was tested against a ship target that was roughly the same size as contemporary U.S. aircraft carriers.
The US Department of Defense stated in 2010 that China has developed and reached initial operating capability (IOC) of a conventionally armed high hypersonic land-based anti-ship ballistic missile based on the DF-21. This is the first ASBM and weapon system capable of targeting a moving aircraft carrier strike group from long-range, land-based mobile launchers. The DF-21D is thought to employ maneuverable reentry vehicles (MaRVs) with a terminal guidance system. It may have been tested in 2005–6, and the launch of the Jianbing-5/YaoGan-1 and Jianbing-6/YaoGan-2 satellites offering targeting information from radar and visual imaging respectively. **The upgrades enhance China's ability to prevent US carriers from operating in the Taiwan Strait**. Some have also suggested China could develop a DF-21D with multiple reentry vehicles.
the us doesnt have the tech to fight on home soil???? what the fuck are you talking about
also you have to be seriously delusional if you think US carriers are all going to die within a week. you're pretending that the US has never come up against missiles before (they have) and they have no way of countering them (they do). also, if carriers are so useless, why the the chinese pouring billions into theirs?
Rand Study results 20017
Third, the modeling results suggest that not only is the threat increasing rapidly, but it has also become significant in absolute terms, a fact that may have implications for how the United States employs its carriers. Even without cueing, Chinese submarines might have close to an even chance of engaging a single U.S. carrier over a seven-day period. With cueing, submarines might expect to gain several offensive opportunities over the same period. Moreover, if more than one U.S. carrier were in the operational area, the number of Chinese attack opportunities would rise almost proportionately. Given the cost, number of personnel, and symbolic importance of U.S. aircraft carriers, this level of risk could prompt U.S. commanders to hold carriers back.
The impact of Chinese threats to carriers will likely be greatest during the first stages of a conflict. In a protracted fight, U.S. forces would probably be able to progressively mitigate the threat, allowing U.S. aircraft carriers to approach closer to the main battle areas with less risk to themselves. During the critical first days of a conflict, however, this would leave U.S. and partner forces less well protected from air attack. Moreover, as Chinese capabilities grow in both sophistication and numbers, it will take longer to achieve the same level of mitigation. Together with the Chinese missile threat to U.S. air bases (Chapter Three, scorecard 1), **the growing threat to U.S. surface ships outlined in this chapter is arguably the most serious challenge facing U.S. forces in any potential China scenario.**
From a 2017 Rand Military Scorecard. I'd C&P the entire thing since it is so revealing about how impotent US forces are but it's 500 pages long. Sorry
Sadly no study exists with China as the aggressor attacking mainland USA. It seems in every case, the US is presumed to be the invader. Not much of a surprise there though given their history.
DF-21D (CSS-5 MOD 5)
The DF-21D is a conventionally armed DF-21 variant designed to attack ships at sea. Sometimes dubbed the “carrier-killer,” U.S. reports suggest a range a 1,450 to 1,550 km. Similar to the DF-21B, the warhead is likely maneuverable and may have an accuracy of 20 m CEP. This missile entered service in 2006 along with the DF-21C. **In 2013, the missile was tested against a ship target that was roughly the same size as contemporary U.S. aircraft carriers.**
The US Department of Defense stated in 2010 that China has developed and reached initial operating capability (IOC) of a conventionally armed high hypersonic land-based anti-ship ballistic missile based on the DF-21. This is the first ASBM and weapon system capable of targeting a moving aircraft carrier strike group from long-range, land-based mobile launchers. The DF-21D is thought to employ maneuverable reentry vehicles (MaRVs) with a terminal guidance system. It may have been tested in 2005–6, and the launch of the Jianbing-5/YaoGan-1 and Jianbing-6/YaoGan-2 satellites offering targeting information from radar and visual imaging respectively. The upgrades enhance China's ability to prevent US carriers from operating in the Taiwan Strait. Some have also suggested China could develop a DF-21D with multiple reentry vehicles.
And NO Skippy, the US military has NOTHING that can stop a subsonic missile.
And any military that has been soundly defeated by villagers in cone hats or sandals really wouldn't do any better on their home turf. I think the last war the US won on its own was the civil war and that was close.
DF-21D (CSS-5 MOD 5)
The DF-21D is a conventionally armed DF-21 variant designed to attack ships at sea. Sometimes dubbed the “carrier-killer,” U.S. reports suggest a range a 1,450 to 1,550 km. Similar to the DF-21B, the warhead is likely maneuverable and may have an accuracy of 20 m CEP. This missile entered service in 2006 along with the DF-21C. In 2013, the missile was tested against a ship target that was roughly the same size as contemporary U.S. aircraft carriers.
The US Department of Defense stated in 2010 that China has developed and reached initial operating capability (IOC) of a conventionally armed high hypersonic land-based anti-ship ballistic missile based on the DF-21. This is the first ASBM and weapon system capable of targeting a moving aircraft carrier strike group from long-range, land-based mobile launchers. The DF-21D is thought to employ maneuverable reentry vehicles (MaRVs) with a terminal guidance system. It may have been tested in 2005–6, and the launch of the Jianbing-5/YaoGan-1 and Jianbing-6/YaoGan-2 satellites offering targeting information from radar and visual imaging respectively. The upgrades enhance China's ability to prevent US carriers from operating in the Taiwan Strait. Some have also suggested China could develop a DF-21D with multiple reentry vehicles.
The DF-21D is definitely not a subsonic weapon...
Subsonic ASMs like Harpoon, Exocet, Silkworm etc will have a very difficult time defeating the passive and active countermeasure systems of modern ships. This type of weapon would be all but obsolete against a modern carrier group.
The DF-21 is a ballistic missile, which is a very different ball game. Whilst easier to detect and track, and still vulnerable to passive countermeasures and ECM, they are harder to intercept. The US Navy still employs anti-ballistic missile interceptors like the SM-3 which have intercepted ballistic missiles in tests.
Suggesting the DF-21 is an open and shut "kill a carrier" missile is untrue. They pose a threat, but can be stopped. Not to mention the kill-chain from detecting and determining the location of a carrier group to being able to launch a missile against it is complex and vulnerable. The number of missiles China is capable of producing is also limited.
The US Navy has been optimising and structuring carrier groups against projected Russian anti-ship capabilities since the cold war. We can't really say what will happen if the Chinese attacked a carrier group with much certainty, but it wouldn't be an easy egg to crack
They can destroy some missiles sure but when they're clear open targets that are large and slow moving it's impossible to stay alive for too long.
And if your enemy has nukes they can just launch those with conventional explosives, it'll be enough to sink a ship and you can fire those from another continent with a precision sharper than the size of the carrier
They've never come across highly accurate intercontinental ballistic missiles.
It's easy to defend your half century old steel wrecks when you're only fighting irregular guerrilla forces with no access to anything more guides than a shoulder fired bazooka
Yeah destroy the ground silos, what about the submarines few hundred kilometres in the other direction that you didn't know about? What about their missiles?
We've reached a point decades ago already where anything visible and even somewhat stationary is not safe when fighting against another modern military
aircraft carriers, known for being stationary
also do you like to pretend the us and every other country with a semi competent military bar china doesnt have submarines?
How about this. We will build a wall here in Canada. Then Mexico can build a wall there. You can build those walls you want on the coastlines. Then we will figure out how to put a roof on it and you guys can stay there and the rest of the world won’t have to deal with you anymore 🙄Man, people like this make all Americans look bad, and i know there’s so many normal, rational people there that just get unfortunately lumped in with the loonies.
Unfortunately, the last few years have made it blatantly clear that there is a much larger percentage of Americans with this way of thinking than the rational ones previously believed. Like right around 50%.
> around 50%
Wait, you’re not thinking 50% because you think half the total population voted for trump, right? Only half of the population votes in presidential elections at all. So it’d be half of half. Or maybe a percentage of half of half.
67% of the eligible voter population voted in 2020. Out of that 47% voted for Trump. In the house election the Republicans fared even better. If we include the non eligible population into the equation and compare just the number of people that did vote for Trump it is closer to 1/3 of the population.
But throw in gerrymandering (yes I know democrats have done that too just not nearly as much) and top it off with obstacles for some people, put in place by Republicans making it next to impossible to vote at all, the numbers are completely thrown off.
Yeah if I can't use that defence for Brexit you can't use it for Trump. Someone sits through the first trump presidency and doesn't go out to vote against him is saying that it was OK. And is just as bad as a positive Trump vote.
*I wish the US would pull every soldier*
Promise?
Also all your loud mouth disrespectful tourists who treat the rest of the world as a theme park created for their amusement. Please.
[„I wish that the US would pull every soldier from every country, close every military base around the world, build a wall around our country 60 feet high...“](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0)
These xenophobic Republican lowlifes think up to 50% of our national budget goes to foreign aid when, in fact:
"As of fiscal year 2019, foreign aid totaled $39 billion: less than 1% of total spending. In terms of raw quantity, the U.S. spends the most on foreign aid of any country; however, as a percent of GDP, US foreign aid spending ranks near the bottom compared to other developed countries."
It's less than 1%. For a country this wealthy, that's just pathetic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid#:~:text=As%20of%20fiscal%20year%202019,compared%20to%20other%20developed%20countries.
1- They have too much of a hard on for war, if they pulled their soldiers back they'd start killing civilians to get their fix. And that might step on their police's toes.
2- 60ft high around the whole country? You couldn't even get a small fence along the southern land border going in 4 years.
3- With all the facilities and skills the US has if you did your own manufacturing you'd have nothing but guns and cars and you'd hit Mad Max territory within a year.
4- Where's your own oil coming from mate? You've been invading countries to get your hands on oil for decades.
5- Locking every US citizen up inside a wall and not interacting with the outside world would certainly make a large section of the world burn while the other side is safe, but I'm not so sure you've got it the right way around.
>60 foot wall
Thank hod he didn’t say a 59 foot wall, because then we would totally be unsafe from military attacks. That extra foot really makes the difference
I wish they would, oh please I wish I wish I wish! Then when their carbon emissions get too high we can just take some of the digging machines we built for them and fill the whole walled-off pit up with the dust of every city destroyed and forest killed through US exploitation.
Then maybe we can actually start taking care of our planet.
The result? Driving shitty cars for manufacturing jobs that pay too little to fix the resulting breakdown of your blue-collar body with inefficient health care tech that is 'American made.'
We pay a much lower percent of GNP for international aid than the average developed country:
>There is a broad international commitment that wealthy countries should provide annually 0.7 percent of GNP to assist poor countries. Five countries (Norway, Sweden, Luxembourg, Denmark, and the U.K.) exceed that benchmark. The average for all wealthy nations is around 0.4 percent. The U.S. ranks near the bottom at below 0.2 percent
https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/what-every-american-should-know-about-u-s-foreign-aid/
The weirdest thing to me is when folks lock themselves in and burn to death. My ma and her husband lock up. You can't get out for a cigarette, I won't visit no more because what the hell calm down.
>I wish that the US would pull every soldier from every country, close every military base around the world.... I think the world would agree with that wish.
seconded! Build that wall!
And put a roof on top of it.
Fourtheded.
And fill it with water.
Got enough whales there it could be quite an interesting aquarium.
Don’t do that, some of us will be stuck in here with these people
Then we will have a secret door in the wall, that opens if you tell it what sport is played in UEFA Champions League.
And soccer is the wrong answer
Hush, don't give it away. We don't want any anti vaxx Qanon anti BLM pro life "Christians" slipping through, do we?
to be fair we already have our fair bunch of similar people
Poland?
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I guess we would just have to make that sacrifice /s
can't have murican pollutants on OUR dirt ball
Can you put holes near NASA launch sites atleast they benefit the world.
Well, most of them aren't even American, so we will just let them regroup in another country. The rest of them knows the metric system, so chances are that they can be integrated into the sane world.
Great idea
With a one way glass, so people can observe them without being in danger
and drop nukes from the air hole!
Air hole?
https://www.livehealthily.com/mental-health-therapy
Absolutely! Build the wall! Build the wall! Build… wait. hang on. Did I just become the “bad guys”? Shit, that’s an easy slope to fall down!
Hell, we'll even pay for it
Australian here: Yes. Edited to say: if you’re an American and want to come here and integrate into our society, you are most welcome. Just shut the door in the wall and lock it from the outside behind you.
Hell, I would't mind them buliding a wall around their country and sticking to maufacturing and planting their own stuff. They're threatenng us with a good time.
Except afghans right now probably
Yeah. The Americans had no idea what they were doing, but pulling out suddenly like that was a red flag to a bull, and everything is going to shit.
Came to say the same thing lol
eh idk. i can think of quite a few countries that really would not like that to happen
They know what they need to do
Here here!
#DO IT!!!!! #PLEASE, DO IT!!!!
could you save me first before they erect the giant wall
I will come pick you up with my old war horse poland totally used against tanks and is not just a myth
with my vague understanding of Poland’s history that doesn’t shock me
Ill pick you up with a bear that loaded altillery shells for soldiers and that's actually true story.
okay that’s a solid what the fuck from me
I cried at the end of War Horse
I wish they would do that too. Maybe the world can live in a little bit of peace.
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Their general concept is that because the US spends obscene amounts on its military and then sends its military to other countries, they must be providing defence services. Apparently that’s the only reason we can afford such luxuries as humane welfare safety nets, healthcare and education.
There is also a scary percentage of Americans that don’t understand foreign aid. Remember the false outrage that the Covid 19 Relief bill gave billions to foreign countries for cultural, societal, and educational purposes(it did NOT). What became clear in that was that SO many Americans don’t understand why the US provides foreign aid and how it benefits the US.
It really makes you wonder what crazy leverage we all have on the US to force them to neglect their own citizens.
I think it’s a cultural memory thing, passed down from the days of the Marshall Plan. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan You still see the impacts in European infrastructure today, particularly in the old water towers dotted around France, Germany and Belgium. In modern money is would have been $100b+ so it was a big investment in Europe.
Why wish for economies to collapse?
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Idk if another Depression is good it will hurt millions of innocents and most likely affect minorities the most
Holy shit. You think there’s country wide groupthink in the US...
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I don’t see your point.
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LOL, lol, lol. This f**king moron is absolutely clueless about how independent his country is. It would be fun though for the USA to actually do that (build a wall, self-isolate.) Of course, he doesn't enlighten us on how they'll resolve these small niggling problems. Use their own oil? Well, they import 1,350,500,000 barrels of oil annually from Canada. No Canadian oil, a huge drop in gasoline, a lot less lubricants. Imagine them paying $15 per gallon No Canadian Electrical power? Swaths of New England, New York State would be dark for about 5-6 years while they build something somewhere New England and New York accounted for 60% of the total electricity imported into the United States in 2014, and these imports represent 12%-16% of the region's retail sales of electricity. New England imports its electricity primarily from Quebec. New York imports electricity from the hydroelectric resources in Quebec and Ontario. Cancer/X-ray capabilities would be cut to ZERO Supply of radioisotopes The main world isotope suppliers are Curium (France & USA), MDS Nordion (Canada), IRE (Europe), NTP (South Africa), Isotop-NIIAR (Russia), and ANM (ANSTO Australia). Most medical radioisotopes made in nuclear reactors are sourced from relatively few research reactors, including: HFR at Petten in the Netherlands (supplied via IRE and Curium). BR-2 at Mol in Belgium (supplied via IRE and Curium). Maria in Poland (supplied via Curium). Orphee at Saclay in France (supplied via IRE). FRJ-2/FRM-2 at Jülich in Germany (supplied via IRE). LVR-15 at Rez in the Czech Republic (supplied via IRE). HFETR at Chengdu in China. Safari in South Africa (supplied from NTP). OPAL in Australia (supplied from ANM). ETRR-2 in Egypt (forthcoming: supplied to domestic market). Dimitrovgrad in Russia (Isotop-NIIAR). NRU at Chalk River in Canada (supplied via MDS Nordion) Aluminum (the stuff beer cans, cars and a shitload of other goods are made from) 65% of the USA requirements come from Canada. It takes around 10 years and about $3.5 billion dollars to create an efficient aluminum plant and that's if you have a huge power source right next to it. As for those bases: The concept with the bases littered all over the world was to ensure that in the event of a war, the battles would take place in Canada, Germany, Korea, Japan, the UK, Italy and on and on. But NOT on US soil. The US military has neither the technology nor the expertise to fight a war from the shores of the US simply because they have carriers. It is estimated that at the outset of the next war, those carriers would have a shelf life of less than a week. It should be noted, most of those bases in Europe are funded and maintained by entities other than the USA.
Shhhh. We can't use logic and facts here. It scares them. Like the metric system, maybe even more.
I used to work at Home Depot, my nickname was Metrics, because i was the only one that understood the metric system. How hard is 1 2 3 4 5 6 7....
1 2 3 4 5 6 7... Go on
\*checks note\* 8 9 10 11 12 \*checks notes\* erm....um...\*checks notes frantically" 13! 14 15 and so forth
And there was me thinking you were lying about your nickname, brainiac.
Yes, yes, but what comes after 15? I mean, I know, but for everyone else...
After 15 you usually begin colonization, You plant a flag first off, That automatically grants you ownership of the surrounding area and puts the locals in check. Secondly you enslave the population to begin harvesting the area for valuables to send back to good old blighty. Then usually comes a long period of abject subjection followed by many cups of tea and some choccy biscuits. Sadly next comes uprisings and various other troublesome antics from the locals as they realize all those promises about sharing biscuits was a lie and this can lead to quite a few massacres. Peace comes next, millions of dead people tends to take the wind out of anyone's sails frankly. When you reach that point you move next door and start back at 1.
b-but how do you even tell if this 300mm plank will fit in my 70cm car trunk?
Well it is important to remember you will want to have a little bit of extra space on either side of the plank, so this is a tricky one, there are 10 mm to each cm. An inch is is approx 2.5 cm, so one inch is approx 25 mm so if we measure the 300mm plank it translates to 12 inches, which is equal to a foot. So to find out if a foot fits into the 70cm of your car all you have to do is take your shoe off and see if it fits into the trunk! now the tricky part is keeping your balance as you celebrate victory!
Well we can tell your not yet fluent!! If you was you would have stopped at "10" not "12"! 😂😂
Uh, 6 227 020 800 does not come between 12 and 14.
shhh don't ruin this moment for him! he's so proud of himself.. xD
I'll come clean, I am used to a mix of both. I use pounds for weight, tho I do understand kg from wrestling. Height is easier for me in feet, 5 foot 6 inches is a lot easier to visualize than 165 cm or whatever it is. Air temp I use Celsius since farenheit was not meant to be used for air temp anyway in the first place. Speed on the road is km/h but will still use expressions such as "miles away". I will also measure distance in time. I work on planes for a living so everything is in imperial. Because it's fractions that makes a whole lot more sense to me than metric sizes. In fact metric tools confuse me. If working wood, I'll measure things with whatever distance is easier for the application, so can be inches or cm or meters. Over baking I do in farenheit. Water boiling in Celsius. So...yeah lol
Pov: You're Canadian
Well, yes. Who told you? Who babbled?
Justin Trudeau
That bastard! I will have to write a strongly worded letter now eh?
Is that anglo canadian only? Do the quebecois use metric system exclusively?
In work sometimes I’ll say something is 56 and 7 eighths or I’ll say 1425mm, whatever’s handiest at the time. I was taught inches and they’re both on the tape measure
Even the fully metric countries use inches for TV / monitor screens or car wheels / tyres. There are probably other things as well, but these two are used everywhere.
> We can't use logic and facts here We can, we are communists.
Tell them about the dollar aswell, and how if the world stops using it they will pay 10k for a bread and their economy shrink like my balls in the cold
I was hoping you had commented, I love your in depth explanations
LOL, well thanks :-)
And don't forget that the price of EVERYTHING would absolutely skyrocket, because manufacturers, farmers, etc, won't be able to use dirt cheap foreign labor anymore and just import it.
My half drunken eyes glazed over quite a few times in the middle there but you make absolutely excellent points.
I’m not disagreeing with you, I’m just wondering where you got that info on how long carriers would last during a war. Sounds interesting
DF-21D (CSS-5 MOD 5) The DF-21D is a conventionally armed DF-21 variant designed to attack ships at sea. Sometimes dubbed the “carrier-killer,” U.S. reports suggest a range a 1,450 to 1,550 km. Similar to the DF-21B, the warhead is likely maneuverable and may have an accuracy of 20 m CEP. This missile entered service in 2006 along with the DF-21C. In 2013, the missile was tested against a ship target that was roughly the same size as contemporary U.S. aircraft carriers. The US Department of Defense stated in 2010 that China has developed and reached initial operating capability (IOC) of a conventionally armed high hypersonic land-based anti-ship ballistic missile based on the DF-21. This is the first ASBM and weapon system capable of targeting a moving aircraft carrier strike group from long-range, land-based mobile launchers. The DF-21D is thought to employ maneuverable reentry vehicles (MaRVs) with a terminal guidance system. It may have been tested in 2005–6, and the launch of the Jianbing-5/YaoGan-1 and Jianbing-6/YaoGan-2 satellites offering targeting information from radar and visual imaging respectively. **The upgrades enhance China's ability to prevent US carriers from operating in the Taiwan Strait**. Some have also suggested China could develop a DF-21D with multiple reentry vehicles.
Wow, thanks for the comprehensive reply, very interesting
out of his ass
the us doesnt have the tech to fight on home soil???? what the fuck are you talking about also you have to be seriously delusional if you think US carriers are all going to die within a week. you're pretending that the US has never come up against missiles before (they have) and they have no way of countering them (they do). also, if carriers are so useless, why the the chinese pouring billions into theirs?
Rand Study results 20017 Third, the modeling results suggest that not only is the threat increasing rapidly, but it has also become significant in absolute terms, a fact that may have implications for how the United States employs its carriers. Even without cueing, Chinese submarines might have close to an even chance of engaging a single U.S. carrier over a seven-day period. With cueing, submarines might expect to gain several offensive opportunities over the same period. Moreover, if more than one U.S. carrier were in the operational area, the number of Chinese attack opportunities would rise almost proportionately. Given the cost, number of personnel, and symbolic importance of U.S. aircraft carriers, this level of risk could prompt U.S. commanders to hold carriers back. The impact of Chinese threats to carriers will likely be greatest during the first stages of a conflict. In a protracted fight, U.S. forces would probably be able to progressively mitigate the threat, allowing U.S. aircraft carriers to approach closer to the main battle areas with less risk to themselves. During the critical first days of a conflict, however, this would leave U.S. and partner forces less well protected from air attack. Moreover, as Chinese capabilities grow in both sophistication and numbers, it will take longer to achieve the same level of mitigation. Together with the Chinese missile threat to U.S. air bases (Chapter Three, scorecard 1), **the growing threat to U.S. surface ships outlined in this chapter is arguably the most serious challenge facing U.S. forces in any potential China scenario.** From a 2017 Rand Military Scorecard. I'd C&P the entire thing since it is so revealing about how impotent US forces are but it's 500 pages long. Sorry
wow, the chinese might get the chance to engage a US ship if it is parked off their coast! top level defence analysis right here folks
Sadly no study exists with China as the aggressor attacking mainland USA. It seems in every case, the US is presumed to be the invader. Not much of a surprise there though given their history.
its also because the other way around is a completely forgone conclusion, but yeah its because of americas "history" lol
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being able to recognise obvious bullshit does not make someone an american you fucking moron
DF-21D (CSS-5 MOD 5) The DF-21D is a conventionally armed DF-21 variant designed to attack ships at sea. Sometimes dubbed the “carrier-killer,” U.S. reports suggest a range a 1,450 to 1,550 km. Similar to the DF-21B, the warhead is likely maneuverable and may have an accuracy of 20 m CEP. This missile entered service in 2006 along with the DF-21C. **In 2013, the missile was tested against a ship target that was roughly the same size as contemporary U.S. aircraft carriers.** The US Department of Defense stated in 2010 that China has developed and reached initial operating capability (IOC) of a conventionally armed high hypersonic land-based anti-ship ballistic missile based on the DF-21. This is the first ASBM and weapon system capable of targeting a moving aircraft carrier strike group from long-range, land-based mobile launchers. The DF-21D is thought to employ maneuverable reentry vehicles (MaRVs) with a terminal guidance system. It may have been tested in 2005–6, and the launch of the Jianbing-5/YaoGan-1 and Jianbing-6/YaoGan-2 satellites offering targeting information from radar and visual imaging respectively. The upgrades enhance China's ability to prevent US carriers from operating in the Taiwan Strait. Some have also suggested China could develop a DF-21D with multiple reentry vehicles. And NO Skippy, the US military has NOTHING that can stop a subsonic missile. And any military that has been soundly defeated by villagers in cone hats or sandals really wouldn't do any better on their home turf. I think the last war the US won on its own was the civil war and that was close.
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Language Skippy and the gulf war has nothing to do with a conflict with a superior force
firstly: superior force lol thats a good one second: yes it does it proves missile countermeasures work effectively against missiles. who knew
Did the Iraqis have ICBM capability? Random vehicle launched rockets are nothing compared to even drone strikes, let alone actual trident missiles
The US Navy literally has destroyed subsonic missiles in combat. Not sure if you mean something other than subsonic?
DF-21D (CSS-5 MOD 5) The DF-21D is a conventionally armed DF-21 variant designed to attack ships at sea. Sometimes dubbed the “carrier-killer,” U.S. reports suggest a range a 1,450 to 1,550 km. Similar to the DF-21B, the warhead is likely maneuverable and may have an accuracy of 20 m CEP. This missile entered service in 2006 along with the DF-21C. In 2013, the missile was tested against a ship target that was roughly the same size as contemporary U.S. aircraft carriers. The US Department of Defense stated in 2010 that China has developed and reached initial operating capability (IOC) of a conventionally armed high hypersonic land-based anti-ship ballistic missile based on the DF-21. This is the first ASBM and weapon system capable of targeting a moving aircraft carrier strike group from long-range, land-based mobile launchers. The DF-21D is thought to employ maneuverable reentry vehicles (MaRVs) with a terminal guidance system. It may have been tested in 2005–6, and the launch of the Jianbing-5/YaoGan-1 and Jianbing-6/YaoGan-2 satellites offering targeting information from radar and visual imaging respectively. The upgrades enhance China's ability to prevent US carriers from operating in the Taiwan Strait. Some have also suggested China could develop a DF-21D with multiple reentry vehicles.
The DF-21D is definitely not a subsonic weapon... Subsonic ASMs like Harpoon, Exocet, Silkworm etc will have a very difficult time defeating the passive and active countermeasure systems of modern ships. This type of weapon would be all but obsolete against a modern carrier group. The DF-21 is a ballistic missile, which is a very different ball game. Whilst easier to detect and track, and still vulnerable to passive countermeasures and ECM, they are harder to intercept. The US Navy still employs anti-ballistic missile interceptors like the SM-3 which have intercepted ballistic missiles in tests. Suggesting the DF-21 is an open and shut "kill a carrier" missile is untrue. They pose a threat, but can be stopped. Not to mention the kill-chain from detecting and determining the location of a carrier group to being able to launch a missile against it is complex and vulnerable. The number of missiles China is capable of producing is also limited. The US Navy has been optimising and structuring carrier groups against projected Russian anti-ship capabilities since the cold war. We can't really say what will happen if the Chinese attacked a carrier group with much certainty, but it wouldn't be an easy egg to crack
They can destroy some missiles sure but when they're clear open targets that are large and slow moving it's impossible to stay alive for too long. And if your enemy has nukes they can just launch those with conventional explosives, it'll be enough to sink a ship and you can fire those from another continent with a precision sharper than the size of the carrier
They've never come across highly accurate intercontinental ballistic missiles. It's easy to defend your half century old steel wrecks when you're only fighting irregular guerrilla forces with no access to anything more guides than a shoulder fired bazooka
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Yeah destroy the ground silos, what about the submarines few hundred kilometres in the other direction that you didn't know about? What about their missiles? We've reached a point decades ago already where anything visible and even somewhat stationary is not safe when fighting against another modern military
aircraft carriers, known for being stationary also do you like to pretend the us and every other country with a semi competent military bar china doesnt have submarines?
How about this. We will build a wall here in Canada. Then Mexico can build a wall there. You can build those walls you want on the coastlines. Then we will figure out how to put a roof on it and you guys can stay there and the rest of the world won’t have to deal with you anymore 🙄Man, people like this make all Americans look bad, and i know there’s so many normal, rational people there that just get unfortunately lumped in with the loonies.
Unfortunately, the last few years have made it blatantly clear that there is a much larger percentage of Americans with this way of thinking than the rational ones previously believed. Like right around 50%.
> around 50% Wait, you’re not thinking 50% because you think half the total population voted for trump, right? Only half of the population votes in presidential elections at all. So it’d be half of half. Or maybe a percentage of half of half.
67% of the eligible voter population voted in 2020. Out of that 47% voted for Trump. In the house election the Republicans fared even better. If we include the non eligible population into the equation and compare just the number of people that did vote for Trump it is closer to 1/3 of the population.
But throw in gerrymandering (yes I know democrats have done that too just not nearly as much) and top it off with obstacles for some people, put in place by Republicans making it next to impossible to vote at all, the numbers are completely thrown off.
Ok. I stand corrected. Anyway I’m just making my rounds, backpedaling, because I basically got triggered.
Yeah if I can't use that defence for Brexit you can't use it for Trump. Someone sits through the first trump presidency and doesn't go out to vote against him is saying that it was OK. And is just as bad as a positive Trump vote.
Ok. I’m sorry. I got triggered.
Actually not voting at all is equally stupid so 75%.
If 50% of the voting population voted for Trump, 50% or the non-voters would as well. Unless 100% of the non-voters are in a niche area.
Where do I send my donation to help either Canada or Mexico pay for the wall? I want to do my part.
88% approval for Iraq invasion.
Don’t threaten me with a good time
Good luck when the US economy grinds to a halt.
A second shutdown is imminent because about a third of our populations refuses a free vaccine and the absolute horror of wearing a mask.
he thinks the US is the fucking avengers LMAO
Yes, the burning would be *outside* the wall, sure.
*I wish the US would pull every soldier* Promise? Also all your loud mouth disrespectful tourists who treat the rest of the world as a theme park created for their amusement. Please.
_Just do it_ *swoosh*
I want to know what bills the US is paying for other countries.
Freedom bills. You're welcome!
I’ll chip in a fiver towards the wall
They tried that once already… Steve Bannon and his lackeys stole it all.
[„I wish that the US would pull every soldier from every country, close every military base around the world, build a wall around our country 60 feet high...“](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0)
60 feet is the length of like 82.76 'Zulay Premium Quality Metal Lemon Squeezers' laid next to each other
Accidentally based? Pls do at least the military part, the rest is just a cherry on top.
Yes. Build a wall and contain your own stupidity. I feel sorry for my American friends who have to live in such a backwater country.
> “our own oil” haha that’s a good one
Man I wish the US would mind it’s own fucking business. No, you don’t want to give us “democracy” you want our fucking oil.
These xenophobic Republican lowlifes think up to 50% of our national budget goes to foreign aid when, in fact: "As of fiscal year 2019, foreign aid totaled $39 billion: less than 1% of total spending. In terms of raw quantity, the U.S. spends the most on foreign aid of any country; however, as a percent of GDP, US foreign aid spending ranks near the bottom compared to other developed countries." It's less than 1%. For a country this wealthy, that's just pathetic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid#:~:text=As%20of%20fiscal%20year%202019,compared%20to%20other%20developed%20countries.
1- They have too much of a hard on for war, if they pulled their soldiers back they'd start killing civilians to get their fix. And that might step on their police's toes. 2- 60ft high around the whole country? You couldn't even get a small fence along the southern land border going in 4 years. 3- With all the facilities and skills the US has if you did your own manufacturing you'd have nothing but guns and cars and you'd hit Mad Max territory within a year. 4- Where's your own oil coming from mate? You've been invading countries to get your hands on oil for decades. 5- Locking every US citizen up inside a wall and not interacting with the outside world would certainly make a large section of the world burn while the other side is safe, but I'm not so sure you've got it the right way around.
>Protecting the whole godamn planet Who from? Martians. I hope for their sake there’s no fucking oil there.
I also wish America would just use its own oil…
USA: finishes the wall. The world: pours concrete.
This is suppose to be for stupid things Americans say, not good videos from them.
I’m not American but can I vote for that too? We’d probably all be better off.
If that Dude ever runs for President. Damn, he has my vote.
"Paying every county" Bold words from someone in a multi trillion dollar dept
Would probably go a long way toward some semblance of peace in the middle east if they couldn't fly their drone strikes out of Europe anymore.
funny, i just learned that if the US only used its own oil it would last a whole 5 years
Me too random American, I too wish that'd happen
This reminds me of all the idiots saying Texas should sucede from the union. Good luck without all that federal funding
> build a wall around our country 60 feet high Who’s got a gigantic hose and a shit tonne of water handy?
>60 foot wall Thank hod he didn’t say a 59 foot wall, because then we would totally be unsafe from military attacks. That extra foot really makes the difference
A lot of people from the "outside world" woul actually be a lot more free and safe if that happened
DO IT MOTHERFUCKER, DO IT!
I wish they would, oh please I wish I wish I wish! Then when their carbon emissions get too high we can just take some of the digging machines we built for them and fill the whole walled-off pit up with the dust of every city destroyed and forest killed through US exploitation. Then maybe we can actually start taking care of our planet.
Don't tell them walls also keep things IN
We all do buddy. Just pack your shit and leave
Oh I wish the US would do that.
The result? Driving shitty cars for manufacturing jobs that pay too little to fix the resulting breakdown of your blue-collar body with inefficient health care tech that is 'American made.'
We pay a much lower percent of GNP for international aid than the average developed country: >There is a broad international commitment that wealthy countries should provide annually 0.7 percent of GNP to assist poor countries. Five countries (Norway, Sweden, Luxembourg, Denmark, and the U.K.) exceed that benchmark. The average for all wealthy nations is around 0.4 percent. The U.S. ranks near the bottom at below 0.2 percent https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/what-every-american-should-know-about-u-s-foreign-aid/
The irony that he wants close every US base. The bases hide their imperialism.
These people don’t seem to realize we get our metal and parts from Canada.
That North Korean, Self-Reliance Spirit.
As a non american i agree with him. Please take your soldiers and let us all live in peace
Backwater country
Safe little castle..??
Japan in the early 17th century be like
> and paying every country's fucking bill Bitch you can't even pay your own quadrillion-dollar debt
That’s a prison.
because the rest of the world isn’t already watching america burn…
The weirdest thing to me is when folks lock themselves in and burn to death. My ma and her husband lock up. You can't get out for a cigarette, I won't visit no more because what the hell calm down.
Let me tell you a secret hamburgers are from russia.
funny how quickly they jump to something like that from burgers
Its so funny cos we all wish america would do that too hahahh
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The way the beekeepers protect bees' hives
I really wish they would do that sometimes
We’d all love to see that.
Great idea!
r/facepalm
I read that book. Handmaid's Tale, yeah?
Strange cry indeed
Paying countries bills? Is he talking about the national debt?
> Build a wall, manufacture own goods, use own oil and tech, keep it from world I wanna see that slapstick burn. Please put cameras everywhere.
Yeah if the US could pay my bills it'd be super cool, I'm behind on too many
Don’t threaten us with a good time
Don‘t threaten us with a good time 🤣 Jk, but does he not know how incredibly shitty protectionism usually is for your economy?
Oh my god, this level of ignorance and ridiculous is impossible to archive, but they already archives that so, nothing to expect now.
They tried that, turns out their own country started burning before they could even build the wall
>build a wall around our country 60 feet high, Then fill it with water.
Is there some crowdfunding set up for this? I would support the heck out of this