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Even worse, long car rides are the worst part of a vacation ... and people choose that as the main activity?

Yep. And it has like a dozen different English translations, depending on context.

The original quote is "den vielleicht schwersten Kriegsverbrecher unserer Zeit".

I think "most severe war criminial" would be a better translation.

So you agree that that is the publicity stunt part, which the activists can then use to shine yet another light on the evil that is the Israeli government.

Yes, that is very often the point of activism.

Like not long ago we had a string of climate activists basically vandalizing random art and monuments. People called it great activism (especially here on lemmy), because it got attention. Even though these actions obviously couldn't have any direct impact on the core problem that was protested.

So I think this flotilla is already much better activism. At least they are trying to do something meaningful, even if the attention is the main objective. I feel like you somehow think that I disapprove of this action. That's not the case.

Let me ask you this, what are you doing to make the world better or shine a light on things?

I write comments on lemmy.

Right, just that one of these options is highly more likely than the other. And everybody involved knows it.

Not really, more like a deterrence. Unless you park a carrier next to the territory permanently it's not defending it. And in that case you might just build and airbase instead.

australia has our head so far up the US’s ass

I guess I know what you mean, though I wouldn't quite put it like that.

Australia is a giant island with a tiny navy, so you almost completely rely on the US for deterrence and protection of your sovereign water. That gives the US a lot of leverage on arms-deals. It's also pretty much the reason Australia has joined every single US incursion into the middle east with boots on the ground.

It's more like the US has you by the balls instead of your head being up their ass.

Easily reachable from land-based airbases with some aerial refueling.

Cousin Liz from All in the Family, aired 1977.

And we need power projection to protect our sea trade like the bab el mandeb strait, the Suez strait, and more.

I agree. But we're far from that. Let's bother with developing a carrier capable plane when we have started building some more carriers. If relations with the US continue to deteriorate we can even get the Brits on board again next time.

The rafale having a naval variant didn’t stop many overseas countries without airplane carriers from choosing it with its non-naval capabilities.

Acquisition of expensive military hardware is very political and France has some good international relations. So with two planes of such similar capabilities that really doesn't say that much about the plane.

And the rafale is better. It sells better, too, exports better, has better dogfighting capabilities, etc…

Kind of, Kind of and no. The Eurofighter has the better trust to weight ratio and is more maneuver. Not dogfighting is really relevant anymore anyway.

Also most orders have nothing to do with it's carrier capabilities.

And once again, not only does Europe need to have aircraft carriers

You can argue for that, but that will be far in the future (if it happens at all). So we can worry about that on the next jet. For now the amount of carriers we do have doesn't justify the development of a carrier capable plane.

India has aircraft carriers and bought rafales

They have two small ones and we have another couple in Australia (but I suspect they'll be going for the F-35 on them as well), so it's actually a tiny market that already has competition. There is plenty of export opportunities for land-based planes.