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eyyy there goes $140 million dollars just so the chuds could take their chud-to-be tax burden kids to gawk at the military propaganda while saying "whooooa look at da airpwane"
I hate this take. Air shows are awesome, they fascinate children and adults alike. Seeing these machines first hand is inspiring...
There's little enough in this world that I would describe as "inspiring", so I'll take what I can get.
Petty name calling, what a great addition to this community.
Almost ironic really, I'm appreciating childlike wonder, and you're acting like a child.
Stfu, airshows and jets are fun to watch
See also: monster trucks, demolition derbies, fireworks, contact sports, and so much more. Wasteful and dangerous? Yep. Fun? Also yep.
In fairness to contact sports / martial arts, when done properly, they can be significantly less dangerous, teach discipline and respect, instill a sense of realism and proportionality regarding the application of violence, keep you in decent physical shape, provide your life with a routine structure, and provide some real world socializing/social group.
Many also come with some kind of a philosophy that stresses self defense and essentially a 'duty to retreat' mentality: violence is always the last resort.
They're fun as fuck. Some of the best pics I have are from an air show! f35
^f35 doing a zooom!
Air shows appeal to the male fantasy of being Tom Cruise / go really fast
Kickstart My Heart but you're avoiding Air Defense in WW3
Saw the RedBull Air Race in NYC. Amazing stuff.
there are plenty of things which are fun to watch which didn't involve spending billions of tax dollars on killing machines
you irl:
Nothing outs a shit human faster than their use of memes that rely on negative stereotypes of the mentally challenged in an effort to insult their opponent. If you can’t craft an insult that doesn’t use a vulnerable section of humanity as the root, fuck off.
okchamp.
Fucking hate it when I go to the air show and the plane sucks up my internal American flag spirit straight out of my mouth
If they were free and couldn’t kill anyone etc.
Relatively intriguing 6-foot-tall bipeds are able to travel through the air in such a manner
reminded of comic
Obviously not advocating for anything
Just “how’d humans engineer that! I couldn’t build a good bike!”
Perfect example of the kind of comment that makes social media so toxic to everyone.
Actually, celebrating child-bombing devices crashing is not toxic!
So are drag races and monster truck rallies. Big and fast machines attract and fascinate mostly men.
..which aren’t (usually) paid for with taxpayer dollars
But I’m guessing doing air shows counts towards training hours, so they’re going to be flying those planes regardless. Still feels like a massive waste when two of them crash and burn in a show though
It happens during training, too,so I don't really see a distinction.
Most airshows I've been aren't put on by the military, they are usually just invited to a segment but often times they don't even show up.
Most planes are privately owned like old planes or stunt pilots.
The military jets definitely cost money to move around so it is an extra expense
I'm pretty sure it does. Flyovers at ballgames etc do so I don't see why airshows wouldn't.
There should be an option of going to a simpler airshow. Planes takes off, circle the airfield and land, one after the other.
Most airshows have this, usually with historic planes and such. Similar with the air taxis they were showing off recently for the Olympics
Like, i know im a little odd, but i would for sure attend this if it was affordable
You can just go sit outside the airport and watch for free
As someone who doesn't attend them anymore, I think most of the fun in an air show ALSO involves the ground stuff. As a kid I actually touched and sat in a few planes.
Air shows are pretty far reaching, you don't have to be in the paid box seating to watch generally. For example in San Francisco you just have to be anywhere with view to the water, in Salinas its a pretty small airport so you can be anywhere around it but tickets to get in are like $30 so its worth it to me to go in and be able to climb around helicopters and stuff, see the robotics and other stuff people bring and the play area for our kid to socialize a bit with kids
That's definitely not true. Maybe it is in the US, but seeing machines go fast or tackle complex challenges isn't a gender-specific thing. For example, 42% of Formula 1 fans are female. Plenty of women spectating and competing at drag strips, land speed, rally, etc.
The old conservative culture of assuming things of people or pigeonholing them based on gender—like, "attract and fascinate mostly men"—is not as relevant as it used to be back in the old days, nor should it be preserved.
TIL 58% isn't "mostly."
you're just be pedantic. The issue isn't about it being "mostly", it's about if its a "men's" thing. A 42/58 isn't that wide of a gap to say that it's one gender's thing. As the difference could likely just be attributed to other cultural factors and not the thing itself.
If office workers were split 42/58, you wouldn't call it a "man's" job, even if technically there's more men.
Nevertheless, if you want to say it's not "mostly," your example ought to do better than 42%!
Well, if you look at the survey where the 42% number comes from, you'll see that 75% of new F1 fans are female and it seems to be a trend, meaning total fandom will be mostly female very soon.
https://cdn-8.motorsport.com/static/custom/piano/2025globalf1fansurvey.pdf
Just over half is mostly?
That's almost 50% more men than women
Yes, anything over half is literally what "mostly" means. Doesn't matter if it's 99% or 51%.
☝️ 🤓 reddit debatelord moment. Okbuddy.
What the fuck is your problem? Words have meanings.
Yes, they often have multiple meanings depending on context.
"It's been a big effort by the team these past three years, but we're mostly done now."
sighs of relief across the research grant board
"Boom! Right on time!"
If your friend group is 6 men and 4 women, do you tell people "I'm mostly friends with men"?
Those arent used to bomb innocent civilians... Wtf are you talking about?
also racecar/nascar, its so mind-numbing boring, but conservative seems to love any kind of sports.
Only if it's young dudes playing. Conservative men also love movies where it's mostly just young dudes (like that 300 movie where the cast is all handsome young dudes in leather panties being led by an older middle aged dude) They really seem to prefer young dudes in general I guess.
You just be really exciting at parties