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[–] [email protected] 112 points 2 months ago (3 children)

He's just saying the quiet part out loud though. This was always the rule.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Yes. Now we need to convince his followers he does this with everything so they stop insisting he means XYZ instead of what he said. We are doomed.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Right? I'm sure the CIA has software backdoors in there for just the same event.

I'm sure if our former allies were smart or able to, they would look for and clean those

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So once it stops phoning home then the backup backdoor is used to disable the jet in some way? Is that too paranoid?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'm just theory crafting. They could do a lot of things. They could have a throttle governor that prevents it from getting top speed, or a delay on firing by a few milliseconds or whatever

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

By the time we're selling this jet for export, we'll be flying the next jet in public and the one after that out at Groom Lake.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Not everything gets tested at Groom Lake. There's also the Lakehurst skunk works.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Planning to backstab your friends means you aren't a very good friend.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Expecting your friends to backstab you means you know you aren't a good friend.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

With Boeing making this jet I don't think it's going to be an issue.

[–] RamblingPanda 13 points 2 months ago

In this context, toned down means the hatches are ripped out pre flight.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's impossible to tell if he actually said this or not.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

uuu someone is using Leta

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Hard to blame you considering the dystopian waking nightmare we live in.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

To be honest, they're not really our allies now. He's made sure of that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Russia, North Korea... the usual.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This isn’t new. If a foreign country buys F35s they can only buy certain spare parts from the US.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Did they brag about it to 8 billion people?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

My caption to this could have been "A self fulfilling prophecy".