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.
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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
"What do we do with all this rubble and old dirt?"
"Ship it to the UK and call it patriotism"
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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.
The Constitution is also the only ship in the current U.S. fleet to have sunk an enemy vessel, having defeated and burnt HMS Java in 1813.
Used today primarily for ceremonial and educational purposes, only 10–15 percent of the frigate actually dates to the original construction due to centuries of repairs and restorations.
The USS Theseus?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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.
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Holy shit George Washington would hate this policy. He was done being commander in chief! That's why he stepped down after 2 terms! I get it's symbolic, but his whole thing regarding the office was "don't deify me."
Which would really explain why he might come back as a zombie. The rage just builds until he pops up out of his grave and shouts, "DID I STUTTER?"
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It’s the year 30,000. God-Emperor George Washington moans to life and leads Earth to war against the rest of the universe.
A man reads the news of this break on his shigawire paper. "Huh that sucks," he says, desensitized. "Still not the worst thing to happen this year" he muses to himself. He turns to get back into the food line, the zombie apocalypse on distant Terra already forgotten.
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Calling it now, once Trump finds out this exists, he’ll do something to try and supersede that to put him at the top.
Maybe a 6 star general with the pips arranged like a Star of David.
US Presidents are literally thenCommander in Chief (the highest ranking military position).
The beautiful thing is: Washington was literally the 1st President, so nothing Trump does or says can change that.
~Albeit, I wouldn’t be surprised if he tried. #gulfofmexico4ever~
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"Dearest Zombie Martha: Winter at Valley Forge is exceedingly desperate. The harsh wind whistles through the men's exposed rib cages, and our supply of brains is running low."
That's probably America's greatest defence against zombies. Any outbreak will starve to death in short order.
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this tradition stems for Washington holding a general rank in the British military before rebellion, and the US traditionally never having a rank higher than the one he held in the British military, so when we actually did need those ranks because practicality, they just bumped him up.
A reanimated body couldn't be worse at governing than our current administration.
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He missed the opportunity to leave a standing order to kill any president that ordered illegal orders.
Usual US militarism
Chat, is this real?
Yeah. We're just really grateful he got us an ohio
Definitely no cult of personality there™
if the zombie apocalypse ever happens, there will be a lot of Black people he owned wanting to play football with his decapitated head
North Korea does something similar. America needs to get over the founding fathers and progress as a country.
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Do zombies follow rules of engagement and chain of command?
Cripes. Wait until the demented rapist hears that. New EO incoming.
Oh God, we put the enemy in charge of our own military, our brains are doomed
I doubt there’s that much left of him apart from the dentures.
That sounds just weird as hell
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