CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTrump announces plans for new navy warships to be known as ‘Trump-class’www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1200arrow-down14
arrow-up1196arrow-down1external-linkTrump announces plans for new navy warships to be known as ‘Trump-class’www.theguardian.comCharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square59fedilink
minus-squareJohnnyFlapHoleSeed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up121·2 months agoSo they’ll be shitty, ineffective and overpriced?
minus-squareTolookah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up24·2 months agoBut an important thing for ships, never a hole in one!
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minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoPlated with lots of fake gold and shitty fonts.
minus-squarefoodandart@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoAnd big bottomed. blobby shaped hulls. Slow and trashy.
minus-squareWhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 months agoWell… They are going to be American made.
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoSeems like he might find a way to leave a contractor unpaid. Maybe several contractors.
minus-squareDefault Username@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoAnd a pedophile human trafficker.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoI mean, that would’ve been true anyway, since battleships haven’t been useful since WWII. Trump’s involvement just means they’ll be extremely so.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThey were actually still worthwhile up into Korea but the Korean war is the weird middle child between WW2 and Vietnam that everyone forgets about.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoIt’s not that I forgot about the Korean War, it’s that I wasn’t aware it had any significant naval component for which battleships were relevant.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoThey were used for artillery along coastal regions, while not exactly the designated purpose of such ships it was highly effective. But yeah it was basically the last hoora of an aging design that had already started to become obsolete.
minus-squareHeikki2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoIt will literally have a bridge to nowhere
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoAlso completely incapable of telling friend from foe
So they’ll be shitty, ineffective and overpriced?
Don’t forget tacky.
But an important thing for ships, never a hole in one!
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Plated with lots of fake gold and shitty fonts.
And big bottomed. blobby shaped hulls. Slow and trashy.
Well… They are going to be American made.
Seems like he might find a way to leave a contractor unpaid. Maybe several contractors.
And a pedophile human trafficker.
I mean, that would’ve been true anyway, since battleships haven’t been useful since WWII.
Trump’s involvement just means they’ll be extremely so.
They were actually still worthwhile up into Korea but the Korean war is the weird middle child between WW2 and Vietnam that everyone forgets about.
It’s not that I forgot about the Korean War, it’s that I wasn’t aware it had any significant naval component for which battleships were relevant.
They were used for artillery along coastal regions, while not exactly the designated purpose of such ships it was highly effective. But yeah it was basically the last hoora of an aging design that had already started to become obsolete.
It will literally have a bridge to nowhere
Also completely incapable of telling friend from foe