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[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 80 points 1 month ago

This is only a problem if you think the purpose of the pier was to provide aid to Gaza. If you understand that everything the US military does is simply to provide public money to private interests, then this is a completely unremarkable event.

[-] DoctorNope@lemmy.one 49 points 1 month ago

So you’re saying the front fell off because a wave hit it?

[-] CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago
[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Not very typical

[-] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago

Is that unusual?

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[-] frippa@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 month ago

The Mediterranean has a right to defend itself! Are you anti-seamitic?

[-] cordlesslamp 8 points 1 month ago

Hah that's a good one.

[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 45 points 1 month ago

The US once again going through a dozen Suez Canal crises all at once, each one somehow more cartoonishly stupid than the last.

At this point I feel like if you want to radicalize someone just point them to a picture of that barely-welded-together mess and tell them their tax money went towards that to the tune of $320 million.

[-] context@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

yeah "valued at" my ass, but nice of them to announce how much the grift garnered some already rich assholes and their closest friends

[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Valued at 320 million

*Sold to US taxpayers for 320 million ftfy

Actual value about tree fiddy

[-] UltraGreen@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

It's that typical low quality US manufacturing.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 month ago

Who could have seen this coming?!

[-] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

Also this is the Med, it’s not the Pacific or the Atlantic or like the Drake Passage. It’s the Mediterranean. It’s not exactly the roughest sea.

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

*citation needed

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 month ago

Boeing is a defense contractor …

Damn it, idiots both in the US and Israel will see that as a sign from God.

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

That was the cheaper alternative to just not selling bombs to Israel!

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

Military grade

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Yakkety Sax ass Navy

[-] KnightOfOldEmpire@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

I see the army is battling against the sea. They'll have their entry in the history next to Caligula.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 month ago

Someone banked $320m.

Mission accomplished.

this post was submitted on 26 May 2024
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