I’m Canadian, and I plan to never visit the USA again.

Ever.

There is no “…until” for me. The world without the US is easily big enough for me.

Two places I always wanted to see were New Orleans and Hawaii. The latter might end up breaking away, but New Orleans is probably off my list forever.

So we’ve apparently committed to buying 88 of these things. What direction out of the contract we have, and what are the consequences?

I get your point, but what is needed is for Canada to be the adult in the room.

True enough, but we can get stopgap gen 4.5 fighters at about half the price of the F-35, and with a vastly lower operational cost.

Get a fleet of Gripen Es, and run them in parallel with our existing Hornets, replacing the Hornets as they age out over the next decade or so. By then the new GCAP fighter should be in full production.

A lot of people - including me - instinctively say “good, let’s make it the four eyes and exclude the US.”

But really, we need to do away with the x-eyes program entirely, in its current form.

Shared intelligence is great, but the biggest advantage to 5Eyes has always been that it indirectly allows countries to spy on their own citizens. It’s invasive, illegal bullshit that needs to stop.

No, the show with the same name had nothing to do with the book or movie.

Screw this “waiting another 10-15 years.” We need to join the GCAP program, and get seriously active.

Lead time is necessarily immense, but we could both shorten it and improve the end product.

“Waiting for someone else to develop” has been a symptom of Canada’s Aerospace industry since the Arrow was shitcanned, and has crept into our national subconscious stream. We need to attack that attitude.

He’d be OK with that.

Sell them to Cuba.

I think Canada needs to accept a stopgap measure - the Gripen, Typhoon, Rafale, or Super Hornet - and dive headfirst into GCAP. FCAS is tempting as well, but GCAP is farther along and the countries are probably closer in goals to Canada.

Gen-X guy with possibly too much interest in the subject.

Shaving it bald for women started to become normal about 15 years ago. Trimming it was more common then, and going back to end of the 1980s, shaving was a rare and weird fetish in the western world.

As for why, I’d say it’s because porn normalized it - and porn did it because as mainstream content became more explicit, shaved pubes were both easier to keep clean for the actresses, and (more importantly) showed more.

I find it funny that now that it’s become mainstream, hair is becoming a growing fetish.

As an aside, since pubic hair is a sign of sexual maturity, some of the generations that grew up with hair down there have a subconscious connection between bald and sexually immature, i.e. children.

“What’s the point?” The point is to seize power and get rich.

They will destroy whatever they want or need in order to become rich and powerful.

Sorry, but this is pathetic.

edit To be clear, celebrity boxing matches for charity are a common, fun thing. The head coaches of two rival sports teams, or the mayors of different cities do this sort of thing. Sometimes as part of a friendly rivalry when trade negotiations are getting tense, sure.

But the US is declaring war on us. The time for fun and games with the US is over. We deal with them politically, diplomatically, and economically; and as coldly as possible.

OP is a troll, shill, or Nazi.

Millennium, 1989.

Basically a terrible disaster movie with a time travel plot. But John Varley’s short story and novelization were fantastic. They could have made a great movie, but…didn’t.

I can’t speak for anyone else here, but personally this whole fiasco was the final kick in the ass I needed.

I’m not looking for the US to fix themselves so I can buy from them again, I’m looking to divorce them for good.

They’ll probably pull back from the brink in the next few years. I will still avoid buying American.

They’ll probably go through a period of rebuilding and political/economic outreach. I will still avoid them.

Because even if they recover from Trump, they’ll eventually do it again.

Yes.

The amount of harm already done to your country by Trump and Musk is immeasurable, and will take a generation or more to recover from.

The amount of harm done to your standing in the world is equally bad. The world was skeptical after Trump’s first term fucked over the rest of the world, but we were hopeful that maybe the US had learned their lesson?

Nope. They elected a fascist. They RE-elected a known fascist, felon, rapist, idiot-child, psychopath. Worse, they bolstered Musk to get into a seat of unauthorized and unimaginable power.

When Trump announced his idiotic tarrifs, Canada collectively said “that’s it - we’re divorcing.” When he pulled back on the idea for 30 days, Canada said “don’t care, still divorcing.”

Trump is following the exact model of Hitler, and it’s only a matter of time until he actually invades either Greenland or Canada if he’s not stopped. The USA has to collapse into ruin and rebuild from scratch before anyone is going to trust them again.