CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoTrump announces plans for new navy warships to be known as ‘Trump-class’www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1198arrow-down14
arrow-up1194arrow-down1external-linkTrump announces plans for new navy warships to be known as ‘Trump-class’www.theguardian.comCharlesDarwin@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square55fedilink
minus-squareJohnnyFlapHoleSeed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up120·3 days agoSo they’ll be shitty, ineffective and overpriced?
minus-squareTolookah@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up24·3 days agoBut an important thing for ships, never a hole in one!
minus-squareallriledup [they/them]@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-22 days agoso you’re saying they’ll be plated with fake gold?
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 days agoPlated with lots of fake gold and shitty fonts.
minus-squarefoodandart@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 days agoAnd big bottomed. blobby shaped hulls. Slow and trashy.
minus-squareWhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 days agoWell… They are going to be American made.
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·3 days agoSeems like he might find a way to leave a contractor unpaid. Maybe several contractors.
minus-squareDefault Username@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoAnd a pedophile human trafficker.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 days 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-up1·22 hours 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-up1·15 hours 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-up1·13 hours 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 days agoIt will literally have a bridge to nowhere
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days 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!
so you’re saying they’ll be plated with fake gold?
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