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Holy damn I just couldn't stop reading.

Omg yessss

Oh my god I didn't know it was still up anywhere. I regret not getting a copy of the book way back when but I was a student and had no money. It was a very good comic.

Some guy replied with an imgur link that seems to have a lot of them

Can't afford clean water for indigenous people when you want to exterminate indigenous people.

Frequently those problems could be solved for the cost of a single aircraft.

idk about this one, idk much about canada, but water infrastructure is more complicated than just "here's some money" and there's also the inevitable governmental over spending problem that seems to encroach everything.

it's also worth noting that we're comparing two irrelevant things here, it's like me comparing the worlds loudest yell to the sound of an f35 flying at altitude. Yeah they're comparable to each other. In the sense that they both make noise.

Canadians and Belgians can probably feel okay. As an American I'm disgusted by the waste. But that's kind of our bag and there's a long list of things that we waste money on.

It is a negotiated treaty from the 1800s, though it took until the 1970s to get clarity on a big part of their rights. But they're still on reservations and their ancestral lands are partitioned up. They've acquired some of those lands back through various ways: legal battles and just plain buying it back.

Though mind you I'm relating something I remember as a teenager, from teenagers with politically active parents.

But more importantly my point was to highlight a lens into a different perspective. They knew they would have been just like the Kurdish villager in the comic had those planes been invented back then. I had never considered that viewpoint at the time.

When we do it, it's only a "pseudo-occupation"

When Nazi Germany occupied France, was it only a "pseudo-occupation" because the Panzers then "protected" the occupied territory from the British? What a ridiculous line of logic.

I mean, their parents were involved in the Fish Wars, so the whole treaty rights thing was especially salient to them and their family.

This sort of thing is so... annoying.

An art exhibition of a fake person having a breakdown who has imposter syndrome that itself proves the depression isn't art to me. It doesn't make me consider the world, or my place in it. It doesn't evoke nihilism or humility or philosophy. It's just... annoying. Marketing depression. Dishonestly.

I say this as someone with treatment resistant chronic major depressive disease. As someone who was first hospitalized for suicide in middle school.

Compare this garbage with hyperbole and a half and their honesty and their struggles and their openness and it's...

Burning a copy of a book you sold to someone when they dare to email you asking for it? Fuck that.

GPS is literally from the concept of nuking the USSR. Thank your ass the cold war happened the next time you get lost, it's the only reason you aren't lost now.

modern flights often happen from aircraft carriers anyway

Eh, no?

Aircraft carriers are ridiculously complicated and expensive, hence even the us only having around a dozen or so? Russia famously has none. Great Brittain has like 2 or so, France like 1?

Its been a while, I don't remember the exact numbers, but the number of aircraft carriers in the world would be in the very low dozens because they're damn near unaffordably expensive.

The beyond vast majority of modern flights still happen from airports

tbf that's mostly because they're really fucking loud, all of the time. Military air fields are probably quieter for longer periods of time lol. Although still rather loud im sure.

Active duty flights would’ve usually happened nearer to the front, and modern flights often happen from aircraft carriers anyway.

to be clear, this wouldn't matter, we're talking about airshows, most people living near the front lines are going to be gone anyway. And even if we were to grant this point, it still wouldn't diminish my statement. national pride is a weird thing.

The comic is making fun of the fact that an airshow idolizes machines of war.

i mean sure, but im pretty sure humanity has always idolized the military and it's armies, as well as it's ability to project force. It's the stable of basically every great empire. Humanity seems to have an inherent connection with the ability of projecting force. It would be evolutionary advantageous, so that's probably why.

As cool as they are, it’s good to remember that those machines are instruments of death, and often used against people of no immediate threat. Regardless of the necessity, I don’t think that’s something to cheer for.

i mean sure, but morbidity is the calling card for a lot of things, the dahmer netflix series for example. Should we be treating that the same? Like to be clear, i don't disagree, but every time you pick up an angle grinder do you really need to think about how many people have been horrifically inujred by it and pray to the grinder gods for you safety? Or should you just be conscious of how you use the tool, and be careful with it.

and often used against people of no immediate threat.

also idk about this statement, maybe for the case of like the russian artillery units for example. I doubt that f-16s have been primarily used on like, someones dog. More than people of actual consequence. It's also really vaguely defined, which doesn't help.

yeah that's pretty much the case. I guess my main point was that it will probably even out to some degree.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

The 40s ones are based because it was fascists getting bombed

Yeah Trump fucked them over, because he's a dishonourable coward. Good thing he'll never be President again, right?

Hey now.

It's just old fashioned artillery they drop on the volunteer civilian aid workers in Kurdish Syria.

Maybe I'll live to get to say Rojava one day instead.