Comments by "josh fritz" (@joshfritz5345) on "The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters" channel.

  1.  @sbwlearning1372  Dude, sounds like you have serious marital issues. Get some help.
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  2.  @sbwlearning1372  What is wrong with you?
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  3.  @sbwlearning1372  Yeahhhh, keep to your own country. If you want to fight off muggers and rapists in the streets of London where you need a permit to own a butter knife, go right ahead. I prefer carrying 9mm.
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  4. It isn't the best at any one thing, but there have been a number of successful "jack of all trades" weapons all throughout history.
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  5. Modern warplanes cost a lot of money to develop. They also crash sometimes. This is a known part of military aviation. As expensive as the F-35 is, it is the best multi-role fighter in the world. Expensive pieces of new military hardware very often face criticism from the uninitiated, quickly to be forgotten when the prove themselves far superior in combat to the weapons they are supposed to replace.
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  6. If the government takes your money and uses it to protect the guilty and punish the innocent, why keep them around?
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  7. The US should start sending its illegals to Brazil, or maybe Greenland.
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  8. I'm an American, and I can say we don't want these woke pedo commies here either.
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  9. The F-35 is a much better aircraft than most give it credit for. The Harrier is outdated and not suitable for the modern battlefield. Britain needs a replacement capable of short takeoff, and the F-35 fits that description. Yes, it's expensive, but despite all of the bad press it gets, it is actually a very capable aircraft overall.
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  10. Pipe guns are easy to build
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  11. I'm tall and have a full time job and I got a bite within 24 hours but it was a tranny
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  12. Deport the politicians along with the immigrants.
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  13. Close the borders and implement mass deportation
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  14. Another conspiracy theorist and armchair general here. The F-35 is a pretty good aircraft all things considered. It's development cost was high due to competing interests causing multiple revisions, but the flying F-35s are pretty much the only stealthy multi-role aircraft in the world at the moment. Other stealth fighters like the F-22 lack the loiter time and payload capacity for strike missions which the F-35 is designed for. It's common for a new weapon system to be criticized by the media, and often those criticisms turn out to be overblown. The M1 Abrams was accused of being a waste of money until it proved itself in combat. Same for the M2 Bradley, the F-16 Falcon, the V-22 Osprey and the M16 rifle. All are still in service today, and are widely considered to be successful weapon systems.
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  15. The F-35 may be expensive, but it is the best VTOL fighter in the world at the moment. Brittian's aircraft carrier is restricted to operating VTOL aircraft due to its small size and lack of catapults.
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  16.  @RomanHistoryFan476AD  Aircraft catapults are not a small investment, especially for a carrier that wasn't really designed to use them in the first place. The Queen Elizabeth class is a relatively small carrier, and it faces a lot more limitations than it's US counterparts. Maybe you could get the catapults to work if you could fit them, but the cost of doing so would be considerable, and it may be cheaper just to use the F-35. Also, a lot of the criticism of the F-35 is overblown. The project has had a series of cost overruns, but this is, unfortunately, quite commonplace in modern weapons development. As for the numerous apparent flaws in the aircraft, these are the kinds of bugs that can be expected in a new weapon system, and most will be patched out as the weapon system continues to be developed. Even the really bad sounding one, the fact that firing it's cannon results in damage to the airframe, that isn't necessarily as big an issue as it may initially sound. The F-35 was initially designed without a cannon, it was intended to be a purely missile and bomb armed fighter. Lacking a cannon is not a significant disadvantage these days, as missile technology has advanced to the point where guns are mostly superfluous.
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  17. Maybe the racists have a point...
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  18. I am a conspiracy theorist, but I've long held the belief that the conspirators are too stupid to be good at being evil. Sure, they do stuff like human experimentation, assassinating public officials, using fear to control the behavior of the people, but I believe that this is largely just the result of putting a bunch of midwit scumbags in control. They conspire from time to time, but the majority of conspiracies are small scale local things like corruption, embezzlement, extortion, election rigging, etc. None of those need to be national or global conspiracies, they could all take place on a local level in many different places at once. Thousands of poll workers could individually decide to throw out certain ballots without ever talking to each other, and a small group of corrupt FBI officials could independently decide to go after their political opposition without taking orders from any public officials.
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  19. Make Europe white again. I'm not afraid to say it. You shouldn't be either. The native population has the right to control who comes in.
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  20. My trans girlfriend said that it's okay to be transphibic against some transgenders because some of them deserve it.
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  21. I think the drawbacks of the F-35 are overstated. Yes, it's had some mission creep and a lot of cost overruns, but this isn't new to military weapons development. Some such weapons have turned out to be very effective once the end product is finally delivered. Speed and agility are not high priorities for modern jet fighters, and what the F-35 sacrifices here it more than makes up for with payload, stealth and sensors.
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  22. The F-35 is expensive, but it actually is the best multi-role fighter in the world. It's the 2nd best fighter after the F-22, but it also has strike capabilities, which no other operational stealth fighters do. Cheaper options exist, but none of them are as capable as the F-35.
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  23. The A-10 is a very cool aircraft, but its time is coming to an end. No amount of firepower or armor can compensate for the fact that its electronics are outdated and it's lack of stealth capabilities makes it vulnerable to anti aircraft missiles. An F-35 flying at a higher altitude can drop precision munitions in support of ground troops, performing a similar ground support role with a substantially lower risk of being shot down. Modern CAS is usually fulfilled by missile equipped drones, not A-10s.
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  24. To the contrary, the Russians would love to get their hands on it. It is decades ahead of anything they have in service. The F-35 gets a lot of criticism from people who know very little about modern military aircraft. Yes, it is expensive, but despite what you may have heard, it is a very capable jack of all trades with excellent sensors, stealth, loiter time and a respectable weapons payload.
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  25.  @redknight6077  That is actually normal for a modern weapon system in development. Also, keep in mind, while Russia tends to overhype their tech as being better than it really is, the US DoD is incentivized to publicize how bad a project is going because Congress's solution to every problem is to throw more money at it. Also, since our media isn't really state controlled in the same way that Russia's is, they can cover stories about screwups in weapons development. A great many excellent modern US weapon systems started out facing a huge amount of criticism, largely from people who know very little about weapons development, including some who ought to. Two famous examples of this included the M1 Abrams and the M2 Bradley, the development of which faced huge media backlash after a handful of trouble making pentagon bureaucrats known as "The Reformers" criticized them publicly for being too expensive and relying too much on unproven technology. Despite a lengthly and expensive development process, both turned out to be highly effective weapon systems. The F-35 is effectively the same story, but the amount of money involved is much larger because stealth jets are more complicated and expensive than tanks.
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  26. The F-35 is a good multi-role aircraft. Armchair generals are stupid.
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  27. White lives matter.
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  28. Certainly the only one with VTOL capabilities.
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  29. This is how the police work. They are not there to protect you, they are there to enforce the will of the state. If the state wants your children to die, they will pull the trigger themselves if no one else will.
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  30. They're good CAS aircraft, but they're no good for air to air combat, and are vulnerable to anti aircraft missiles. The F-35 may be expensive, but it is the correct path forward.
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  31. Ooga booga
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  32. The F-35 is turning out to be the best multi-role fighter in the world, and yet people will be disappointed because overzealous salesmen hyped it up to be some kind of superweapon. Modern military aircraft are very expensive, and the politics surrounding weapons development doesn't help.
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  33. This comment is testing what phrases get my comments automatically deleted.
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  34. I love the A-10 as much as anyone, but it has its drawbacks. It's electronics are not top notch, and CAS aircraft really should have top notch radar and IFF systems in order to best avoid friendly fire incidents and maximize combat effectiveness. Also, as durable as the A-10 is, it isn't invulnerable to modern SAM systems. For low intensity conflict, drones can perform a similar role at a lower cost. For high danger, high intensity conflict, the A-10 has a huge firepower advantage, but could expect to take heavy losses from surface to air missiles. In the latter role, a small stealth strike aircraft like the F-35 would perform better, since it would be almost invulnerable to anti-aircraft missiles. The A-10 is iconic, and it still has its uses, but its primary role as a tank buster and CAS platform are starting to be taken over by other types of aircraft better adapted to a modern battlefield.
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  35. This is funny. Let them make embarrassments of themselves.
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  36. Deport Mohamed
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  37. This comment is testing what phrases get my comments automatically deleted. Raising children
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  38. At least Ukraine has missiles to kill Russians with. I'm so glad that the US's imminent financial collapse was able to fund such a just cause.
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  39. Millstones for everyone involved.
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  40. She should have had a weapon, but I guess in bongland, only criminals have them.
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  41.  @femdivinemind7777  The average citizen in the UK can't legally carry anything worth carrying. Even very basic non-lethal tools like pepper spray are illegal.
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  42. I'm assuming this is some kind of FBI or CIA operation.
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  43. The F-35 is a pretty good all around aircraft. It's primary issue is that is has been suffering from a bad case of overpromising salesmen and a rather harsh media thrashing when expectations meet reality. Military historians see this pattern again and again. A fairly good piece of equipment is touted as being a war winning super weapon, and when it turns out to just be a good overall weapon system, everyone who expected miracles out of it is let down.
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  44. Guillotines
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  45. It's how they reproduce.
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  46. It's okay to be white
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  47. If you haven't been accused of racism from time to time, there might be something wrong with you.
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  48. This, this exactly. Do not make this mistake. America made this mistake already, it was a terrible idea. Don't give your government new reasons to take political prisoners.
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  49.  @Yeeeooo  Marijuana is illegal in the US so that the government can use prisoners as slave labor.
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  50. I stand in support of super-straight men and women. Not wanting to have sex with a trans man/woman does not make you a biggot, it is just personal preference.
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