this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
980 points (100.0% liked)

Canada

9310 readers
1609 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


🍁 Meta


🗺️ Provinces / Territories


🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales


🗣️ Politics


🍁 Social / Culture


Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 83 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Could have imagined this happening as little as 3 years ago.

An ally sending a nuclear deterrent into our waters as a message/warning to the US. This normally happens to countries like Iran or North Korea

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 48 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Hey. Guess what? At the moment, we're the bad guys...

[–] XenGi@feddit.org 31 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

At the moment? When was there ever a time the US weren't the bad guys?

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Briefly the us was the good guys when we killed a bunch of slavers and then when we killed a bunch of fascists. Those were exceptions to the rule though.

[–] starshipHighwayman69@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Looks at founding fathers... Yeah killed the slavers. Puts blanket over Native Indians. Hides Chinese rail workers under rug. Renames Irish "Indentured workers"

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

They also killed the Nazis, except for the ones that were useful, of course.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They were clearly talking about the Union during the Civil War...

[–] starshipHighwayman69@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah that's pretty obvious what's your point?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's the relevance of the founding fathers, then?

[–] starshipHighwayman69@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The original slavers you mean?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm repeating the words you used. What's the relevance?

[–] starshipHighwayman69@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

You forgot to say please.

I kinda root for them in the war of independence

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Pretty much all Western countries looked up to the US between 1945 and 2016 (or so).

Presumably, you're the kind of person who thinks we've all been the bad guys the whole time, though. And TBF shit things were done, it's just that everyone else has been even more shit.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

To be accurate, this is a nuclear propelled attack submarine. It does not carry nuclear warheads and is not what we normally call a "nuclear deterrent".

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I believe you, but do you have a source? That's a pretty big distinction when *they're calling it a "nuclear attack submarine"!

EDIT: Clarification

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info. I'm curious if you have more details on what that job was (if you're able to share)! Why did you move on from it?

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My current job is to operate electronic sensors on board of an aircraft. I used to work with anti-submarine helicopters. The kind of helicopters that usually operate from a military ship. Now I've been moved to work on a search and rescue aircraft. It's a nice change to be looking for people who actually want to be found.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's cool...

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

What would be an example of a submarine that isn't an Attack submarine, only surveillance?

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

It does not but can carry nuke tipped missiles and even though we have the screw signatures of our allies…this is still a message that the rest of the world except Moscow is looking down on us in disappointment