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I would say that the US is a very weird place, but then I remembered that this
is the flagship of the ~~British Navy~~ First British Sea Lord. She hasn't floated for literally 100 years.
So mostly I guess it's just that militaries are weird.
There's also a statue of George Washington in England. Except the US shipped a bunch of dirt all the way across the Atlantic from Virginia so he would technically not be standing on British soil.
Humans do weird shit just to make a statement.
Dracula did the same when he moved to England
But is Dracula twelve stories high and made of radiation?
Is George Washington!?😨
I heard that motherfucker had, like, 30 goddamn dicks
He was a gundam.
I heard... that... motherfucker had, like... thirty goddamn dicks.
"What do we do with all this rubble and old dirt?"
"Ship it to the UK and call it patriotism"
The state is entirely based on lies and delusions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion
The USS Constitution is still fully crewed, floats, and occasionally fires a few cannon shots.
Keeping history around isn't weird. Though I do think it should be contextualized.
Her nearest competition was decommissioned in 2015.
The USS Theseus?
You're telling me no ship in the current fleet besides that old ship has sunk an enemy vessel?
I guess it's because technically the US hasn't been at war since WW2, and so ships sunk since then were not considered enemy ships. Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Gulf, and Iraq were all technically not wars but just "special military operations" or whatever. Where do you think Putin gets most of his aspirations and ideas?
The last ship to sink an enemy vessel was the USS Simpson in the 1988 Iran-Iraq war, which retired in 2015. Every conflict after has not had any naval combat resulting in a loss of vessel.
That's very surprising to me. Do they not count random pirate boats and so, or did they really sink no vessels at all since then?
I think many of the actions have been against what are considered non-state actors. So I think it’s just what’s considered an “enemy vessel”
They do not count anti-pirate operations, the US Navy has never counted anti-pirate operations.
What about all those Venezuelan ships?
They focus mainly on murdering innocent civilians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion
Seeing her out of her slip is kind of weird. She was accompanied on either side by tug boats, like an elderly person escorted by nurses or family members fearful they may fall over.
US Navy sails the Constitution up to a Russian submarine.
Fires full broadside.
Refuses to elaborate.
Leaves.
Ah, I'm mostly joking. Victory is a really cool museum, almost as cool as the wreck of the Mary Rose that's displayed in a building next to her.
Militaries see a lot of value in convincing their members that they'll be remembered after dying.
Some good things have happened because people sacrificed themselves for the greater good.
Do I wish this wasn't necessary? Fucking of course.
But history doesn't repeat itself so much as humans just don't change.
We're talking about the US here. It's mostly about the greed, slavery, oil or invading farmers.
I'll assume that you're talking about Luigi Mangione (allegedly) and move on.
I was thinking of some of the Revolutionary War soldiers, actually and the allies fighting Nazi Germany.
Not really sure where Luigi came from.
Small correction: The HMS Victory is the flagship of the First Sea Lord. The current Royal Navy Fleet Flagship is the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales.
but what about ceremonial anime swords in the US military?
I'd like to know more
https://www.twz.com/25409/the-usaf-uses-huge-swords-fit-for-he-man-and-the-thundercats-to-honor-officers
Me too
https://www.twz.com/25409/the-usaf-uses-huge-swords-fit-for-he-man-and-the-thundercats-to-honor-officers
The state is an evil, goofy religion.
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion
Is she not beautiful? Do her curves offend your insecure masculine sensibilities?
She's too beautiful. So beautiful in fact, that I am now banned from Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
For shame, for she has many suitors but not nearly enough who will polish her portholes
I somehow never considered that there were literal flagships.
The USS Enterprise (pretty much any of them, including nonfiction) have been flagships.
The fleet flagship of the Royal Navy is currently HMS Prince of Wales.
The Royal Navy flagship is HMS Excellent (which is an island, not a ship).
Victory is the flagship of the First Sea Lord, and also has the largest crew of any vessel in the navy, as personnel are assigned to her on paper by default until transferred to an active unit.
Every state is based on total bullshit. That's part of why the state is garbage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion
Yeah that's weird. You gotta keep your wooden boats in the water like we do. Our navy owns a forest for repairing our stupid wooden ship
When they took our wooden boat out of the water it turned out that she'd hogged by around 500mm. Which is quite a lot for a boat. In fairness, she was 150 years old by that point.
Now there's a vast system of hydraulic rams supporting her in the dry dock, to the point that they reckon she's better supported now than when she was afloat.