I'm no angel myself, but it's a bit sad to see people digging into each other like this.

Like I will say at the end, some people know a lot and some people don't, but everyone is a fool to the Lord.

Now on tack:

However, open or defensive hostility do not change basic facts. Using my strong basic intelligence, common sense and intuition its quite easy to tell who is right in the vast bulk of these arguments.

 

JP Bergerac and especially Darth America are probably telling the truth, they seem to know complicated things to a degree which would be hard to fake. Herald seems to be an expert (so much to the point that when I fooled around on these forums regarding very soft issues such as politics and values that he didn't even reply (first of all those subjects are quite subjective, second of all expertise usually doesn't bother with arguments that are plain especially if they are self-aware of their amateur nature) in his fields. Experts can sometimes be wrong, but they usually aren't. Perhaps he lacks real-life experience in the cockpit, flying, but it is elementary to know that most of his knowledge is not the kind of paper that can be disproven anymore. Bluewings assertions that the different experts here are paper-pushers shows a lack of sufficient intelligence to intuit what kind of 'paper-jobs' do not require an accurate theoretical view of reality.

 

Furthermore BW corrects himself... you do not even know that your airforce modified on some pods on your fighter. You're obviously highly patriotic and deluded about the capabilities of world fighters. Google searches work great for an education in simple fields and can give an accurate overview on complicated subjects if you have the wisdom to tell the enormous amounts of chaff from the wheat (I can't either if there's no wheat present, but I'm adept at indetifying who is most on their subject matter). You also follow basic ways of argueing that ignores the points others made or making accusations that are off-base because you expect them to write it again or didn't understand what they said. Political clout aside, the main motivation to buying something really expensive is VALUE. I'm surprised you think you know better

And it's not all about price either. I'm sure plenty of people would buy a few Rafales just to have a private look at them if they had one fifth of the stuff you claim.

France has made a misstep and you can't accept it but live on in your delusions, and thus you can't increase your knowledge or wisdom.

You even post the wrong pictures... and this is still relevant... but your English isn't too good. This will have an effect on your comprehension, and if you were truly able to debate with Herald on knowledge - his character aside (I make no comment, he might have savaged me in one of the threads I didn't return too ^^, not that I don't deserve any savaging at all, but I think I'm quite nice by human standards most of the time) that is specific to his professional levels of expertise then you at least need enough intelligence and wisdom to counter soome of his MASSIVE advantage... and language skills are one of many indicators as to intelligence (I'm not saying you're dumb, I hope you're smart, but I believe you are of below average intelligence... people around normal would at least have given in to some of the more plain anti-Rafale arguments... the only thing I've seen you give in to is price, so maybe you're smarter than you seem.). You make SO many EXCUSES... you seem to NEVER learn unless it's from a RAFALE LOVER telling you about the stuff that has thankfully been updated. It doesn't seem like you have much wisdom either as thus, as another form of intelligence. Your opponents call you stuff which is probably sinful and mean, but some of what they say is right. You call people stuff too, and some of what you say about their character may be right but I'm confident in sensing that you're off-base more than 95% of the time and imprecise the rest.

 

France is screwed thanks to De Gaulle. You shouldn't have left NATO in the first place. You should have forgotten your pride once you lost your colonies (I would have stuck it out in Algeria but I don't know about the subject). Or best of all, you should've stuck it out in Algeria and gotten NATO involved and stayed within their beautiful, beautiful network. This French confirmation bias I see in most French posters here make me wonder if it would really be better if you had lost your dreams and cunning.

You'll have to excuse the distraction, I have ADHD and some other else stuff.

 

You're a fanboy B