US Navy destroyer adrift in South China Sea for four days after losing power (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago

It's what you get when you don't build in redundancy. On my frigate there were 4 generators plus an emergency generator. With 4 broken we could still do the bare minimum. The chance of that happening is little to none, as they were spread throughout the ship.

[-] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Trump will be requiring steam engine boats again soon at this rate.

[-] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm starting to suspect that large scale revolutionary action within the imperial core is actually nowhere near as insta-suicidal as the Vote! crowd would have us believe

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago

Historically, military flips is when serious revolutions start. Incidentally, this almost happened with Vietnam as well.

By the end of the war, around 30% of US officer casualties were fratricide. Think of the level of solidarity there was among the rank and file that nobody in the platoon snitched when somebody put a bullet in the lieutenant's back.

The wheels were really coming off the US military around 1970 and that's likely why they left Vietnam. Another year and they'd have an all out mutiny on their hands, led by the same class of people who comprised the vanguard stateside.

At best count, there appear to be some 144 underground newspapers published on or aimed at U.S. military bases in this country and overseas. Since 1970 the number of such sheets has increased 40% (up from 103 last fall). These journals are not mere gripe-sheets that poke soldier fun in the "Beetle Bailey" tradition, at the brass and the sergeants. "In Vietnam," writes the Ft Lewis-McChord Free Press, "the Lifers, the Brass, are the true Enemy, not the enemy." Another West Coast sheet advises readers: "Don’t desert. Go to Vietnam and kill your commanding officer."

[-] Zephorah@discuss.online 22 points 1 day ago

The US Navy is now powerless ships and starving sailors. MAGA really is the worst.

[-] Krinkil2705@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 day ago

MAGA really is the ~~worst~~ best.

FTFY

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 day ago

I fail to see anything negative happening here myself.

[+] Zephorah@discuss.online -12 points 1 day ago

A bunch of guys trying to do their contracted job and their employer won’t feed them while they’re on a literal floating island? Guys who probably joined as a way to escape living below the poverty line, at 18.

Sure, nothing wrong.

[-] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 day ago

Poor guys had no choice but to join the murder barge. If only MS-13 were hiring they wouldn't have to suffer so much with their conscience 😢

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 day ago

A bunch of guys who signed up for the imperial army to brutalize people around the world can get fucked.

[-] EmmiLime@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

who probably joined as a way to escape living below the poverty line, at 18.

boohoo, they could have done literally anything else but to become boots for the Amerikan empire to kill and suppress people of the global south.

No sympathies for that.

[+] Zephorah@discuss.online -6 points 1 day ago

Education is unattainable now for kids who grow up in poverty. You go from the prospect of living at home while working at Walmart and having no future, to a promise of getting job training, health care (such as it is), room and board, and a pension. Where the fuck else are you getting a pension as a kid who grew up in poverty? Maybe as a cop. The military is a way out for many.

You should listen to the kids who enlisted pre-911 talk about it. They literally say they did it to go to college, not war. Things are not quite as innocent now, but I seriously doubt the current enlistees thought Asshat Hegseth was in their future.

National guard, until this admin, did cool things like sandbagging to help with domestic flooding, search/rescue, evac. FEMA used to do cool things. During Covid, they deployed national guard nurses and nurse practitioners to help staff overwhelmed hospitals (to states whose governors acknowledged the reality of the problem).

And let’s be real, home defense against whatever, including any pot shots by any successes on the N Korean front is nice.

To say it’s 100% bad is ignorant. There are few 100%s with people.

What is largely bad and a significant piece of the gross overspending are the contractors. They rake it in while military families can find themselves on food stamps. Bernie breaks it down if you’re at all interested in details.

[-] EmmiLime@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Education is unattainable now for kids who grow up in poverty. You go from the prospect of living at home while working at Walmart and having no future, to a promise of getting job training, health care (such as it is), room and board, and a pension. Where the fuck else are you getting a pension as a kid who grew up in poverty? Maybe as a cop. The military is a way out for many.

Wow a way out of poverty is to kill other people you consider less worthy and force them into further poverty. People join ICE in order to escape poverty too. Or is it too much when you get to experience the smallest amount of pain your empire does to others?

You should listen to the kids who enlisted pre-911 talk about it. They literally say they did it to go to college, not war. Things are not quite as innocent now, but I seriously doubt the current enlistees thought Asshat Hegseth was in their future.

I don't care. 9-11 was a drop in the bucket compared to the millions yours have killed and still have the entitlement to have the entire world cry for them.

And let’s be real, home defense against whatever, including any pot shots by any successes on the N Korean front is nice.

DPRK has not once attacked anyone but your country has attacked every region ever in the past 100 years. What the FUCK do you mean defence against DPRK?

To say it’s 100% bad is ignorant. There are few 100%s with people.

It is 100% bad. What is the point of the military otherwise, if not to kill others? Amerika has not been attacked once and has always been the rabid dog attacking others.

What is largely bad and a significant piece of the gross overspending are the contractors. They rake it in while military families can find themselves on food stamps. Bernie breaks it down if you’re at all interested in details.

Contractors scamming the government is the only good thing coming out of it. I don't care about military families, they can fucking die. You think the world needs to get on their knees, salute and scream "thank you for your service!!" ??

And Bernie is a zionist who has no issue with killing people in the global south.

This is what it means to be an Amerikan; fully self-absorbed, entitled and considers themselves more important than anyone else. Why else is 1 dead Amerikan more horrible than a thousand in the "some desert"?

[-] tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Well, the guy who's in charge of the whole fucking US military is an alcoholic tv show host who fired every general or admiral that made him feel stupid sooooo...