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 6 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Very unusual.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Not very typical

[–] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 5 points 6 months ago

Is that unusual?

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[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 46 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 8 points 6 months ago

Hah that's a good one.

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 44 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 6 months 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 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Valued at 320 million

*Sold to US taxpayers for 320 million ftfy

Actual value about tree fiddy

[–] UltraGreen@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago

It's that typical low quality US manufacturing.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 21 points 6 months ago

Who could have seen this coming?!

[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 6 months ago

*citation needed

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 18 points 6 months ago

Boeing is a defense contractor …

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 14 points 6 months ago

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

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago

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

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago

Military grade

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

Yakkety Sax ass Navy

[–] KnightOfOldEmpire@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months 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 6 months ago

Someone banked $320m.

Mission accomplished.