ProfessorAdonisCnut

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[–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is kind of a nothing article. Like, obviously battleships built in the 40s would be pretty worthless in a peer/near-peer war even if they were in perfect working order. Even at the end of WW2 the utility of battleships was limited, and now missiles out-range their guns by 2 orders of magnitude.

Even the US knows it though, they're all retired museum ships now. They were kept around as long as they were because some politicians had the same fixation on needing them for shore bombardment as they have for keeping low-speed flying bathtubs around for close air support.

Give me USS Liberty or give me death

That's as much a matter of isolating the person as shrinking the yield

[–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The propaganda ***is *** the part that cares, it's material policy that ignores you completely

[–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

China puts the first human being on Mars, who declares the dawn of the Red Century. Everyone claps and abandons capitalism.

[–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My one regret in not having children is that I won't possibly exist in the Gestalt consciousness of the saviour of humanity, the God Emperor Leto II Atreides

[–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is like 5% the weight of the Codex Gigas

Bush's time out of office when that aired is pretty much the same as if they did that premise now about Obungler, and Ford showing up at the end is equivalent to Bush Jr if he'd been a single-termer

I'm weary of applying respectability standards anywhere, especially with something like funeral practices, but it does take real effort not to cringe at this

Biden packs the court but it's for this bullshit

Jair Bolsonaro eat your heart out

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