The president portrayed the move as a boost for American shipbuilding and vowed to be personally involved in the ships’ development. “The U.S. Navy will lead the design of these ships along with me,” he said, “because I’m a really aesthetic person.”
No one is even going to have to torpedo this thing because it’s going to be solid gold and immediately sink to the bottom of the sea.
Aesthetics? For a military vehicle? It’s not a shitty casino Don, it doesn’t matter how pretty it is, anyone with half a brain knows that focusing on appearance will only make it a worse functional vehicle.
Building the biggest and heavily armed and armored dreadnought of the second world war, when technology pushed to using planes as a form of combat, led it to being nearly useless
Well also the admiralty was paranoid about it being sunk so it basically never left the Japanese home islands. Personally I think the Bismarck is a better comparison, especially since it was more or less taken out by a swordfish an aging plane design with way too many names taken.
No one is even going to have to torpedo this thing because it’s going to be solid gold and immediately sink to the bottom of the sea.
Aesthetics? For a military vehicle? It’s not a shitty casino Don, it doesn’t matter how pretty it is, anyone with half a brain knows that focusing on appearance will only make it a worse functional vehicle.
Even for things that require purely aesthetics, he is terrible at it. Gaudy nonsense is not at all aesthetically pleasing except for trash like Taco.
Counter argument: Marvel. Huge ratings.
Yuge
Can’t wait until they fix the asthetics of all the stealth aircraft.
All I can think of is The Vasa, which suffered from similar fools and a similar fate.
And the Yamato battleship of the Japanese empire.
Building the biggest and heavily armed and armored dreadnought of the second world war, when technology pushed to using planes as a form of combat, led it to being nearly useless
Well also the admiralty was paranoid about it being sunk so it basically never left the Japanese home islands. Personally I think the Bismarck is a better comparison, especially since it was more or less taken out by a swordfish an aging plane design with way too many names taken.