Oh look, X is awash with a story about the F-35 again.
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No matter what you think of the F-35, comparing a ban on civilians owning a weapon to defunding a government weapons program is dishonest.
Even people who want the US government to stop funding the F-35 probably don't want a ban on it being sold to other countries.
You can go out and buy a gun and use it yourself if you want to become an expert on it. Despite this, journalists publish rivers are idiotic lies about even the simple AR-15.
The F-35 can't be bought. You either work for Lockheed or the DOD and that's the only way you're going to know anything about it.
So all your average normie knows about it comes exclusively from "journalists"... The same journalists who are too retarded to know how an AR15 works and lie about it even if they actually do.
For about a decade, it was extremely popular and very good money to spread ragebait about the F-35. And that's all they did was spread bullshit. And who could possibly ever call them out on it when there's zero chance of anyone not on the program of finding out otherwise?
So when it comes to the F-35 and "omg it sucks", literally all of it is filtered through the mouths of retards, and it gets believed by other retards. And those retards think that everybody else they talk to also couldn't possibly know anything so they all get comfortable lying to each other about it.
u/theaustrianpainter just wrote "The F-35 is a failure". I asked what he bases that on. I didn't get a response, nor do I expect I ever will, because he will be forced to admit that he actually believes journalists. Because there's literally no other way he could possibly know anything. Dude probably delivers porta-potties to festivals or some shit, but has really strong opinions about what might as well be alien technology to the masses.
In other words, the people who will tell you that CNN lies will be the first in line to link you to a CNN article backing up their criticism of the F-35.
Ok, fine. Journalists are trash.
So what do you base your opinion on? What Lockheed says? What the DOD says? Personal experience flying or maintaining one?
You've typed out a lot of words conveying opinions but so far I haven't seen an ounce of credentials as for why anyone should give a shit about them.
Why do I have to provide credentials? Credentials for what?
If you actually pay attention, notice I haven't actually said anything about the F-35 specifically. Or at least, only extremely little. A comment about the fuel capacity of the F-35B and some remarks on the maintainability of the LO coating.
I haven't gushed about the capabilities of MADL or the time-to-climb performance, the post-Block 3F unrestrained roll rate, its safety record etc. A remark that the IPP system is very complex and superior to the F-22's APU.
I could, but I don't actually need to. Nor does it matter, all that does matter is that we both know you do not know anything, yet, you will certainly still hold opinions on it.
Opinions that could not have possibly ever come from any source except by way of repeating what a journalist told you to think. Like some kind of... NPC.
Ok, you're just a retard.
You might even actually know what you're talking about -- but you're still a fucking retard.