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[–] 105 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (34 children)

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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  • [–] 42 points 11 months ago (13 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (8 children)

    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.

    Her nearest competition was decommissioned in 2015.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    You're telling me no ship in the current fleet besides that old ship has sunk an enemy vessel?

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 37 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Militaries see a lot of value in convincing their members that they'll be remembered after dying.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    but what about ceremonial anime swords in the US military?

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Is she not beautiful? Do her curves offend your insecure masculine sensibilities?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    It’s the year 30,000. God-Emperor George Washington moans to life and leads Earth to war against the rest of the universe.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    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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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago* (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Well, he does want to be first king

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  • [–] 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    "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."

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  • [–] 52 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    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."

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    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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    And then after he says that, he turns slightly and says, "not that there's anything bad or wrong about people who struggle with their speech. What I'm saying is, IF YOU HAD TROUBLE HEARING ME, YOU SHOULD'VE TOLD ME AS MUCH IN 1799!"

    "...You named how many cities after me?!"

    "...The Capital?!"

    "...And also an entire state?!?"

    "Nope, you know what, fine. I am a god. And I am vengeful."

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Counterpoint. These are military titles and not presidential ones. When Washington left office he wanted his official formal title to return to General and not President. Meaning he would be more okay with this.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    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.

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    He missed the opportunity to leave a standing order to kill any president that ordered illegal orders.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    Usual US militarism

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    if the zombie apocalypse ever happens, there will be a lot of Black people he owned wanting to play football with his decapitated head

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    A reanimated body couldn't be worse at governing than our current administration.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    Zombie Washington probably wouldn't/ couldn't rape children, so yes. I'll give it to you.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Pretty sure Washington oversaw the rape of many many slaves, assuming he didn't participate himself.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_and_slavery#Interracial_sexual_relations

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    Your phrasing there is intentionally misleading.

    The wiki you link discusses 20 people of obviously mixed race, with half? of those likely parentages seeming coercive. 'Many many' sounds like dozens.

    I guess you mean that the number is rapes likely far exceeds the number of people conceived from rapes? The wiki also mentions guests expecting sexual gratification from slaves, but not whether or not those expectations were met. "Overseeing" any activity, kind of implies you're managing said activity, seeing it through to it's completion. Looking the other way would certainly be complicit, but it's not the same thing as commanding and ensuring those rapes happened.

    Also, I set the bar intentionally low for zombie Washington. Child rape was the bar. There's no amount of revision of American history that has lowered Washington to Trump levels of evil yet. And I further wrote couldn't rape kids with the expectation that zombie dicks probably fall off.

    So anyway, zombie Washington still gets my vote over Trump.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    Do zombies follow rules of engagement and chain of command?

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    Cripes. Wait until the demented rapist hears that. New EO incoming.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Oh God, we put the enemy in charge of our own military, our brains are doomed

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    I doubt there’s that much left of him apart from the dentures.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Definitely no cult of personality there™

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    They actually ignore history and background behind the founding of their country and how it isn't so grandiose.

    But, the propaganda is so ingrained, it's literally tied to their personalities. And then they force it on every social platforms (because they own major platforms) and pretend their patriotism is different from the ones in North Korea and China.

    It's SAD

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    So in the 41st century, George Washington will be the God-Emperor of Mankind and the Omnissiah.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    That sounds just weird as hell

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    only a necromancer would be able ressurect george washington.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It must be nice to have zombie Washington on your side.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Damn, nice to see a Sandy Petersen post somewhere other than !rts@reddthat.com.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    TranscriptionA Tweet by Sandy Petersen @#SandyofCthulhu

    Whenever the US Army has created a new higher rank, George Washington is promoted to it, and if he isn't the first, his promotion is postdated so that he has seniority. So when we instigated the rank of 3 star officers in the Civil War for Grant & Farragut, and the rank of 4 star general in WW1 for Pershing, George got to be that rank too.

    This means George Washington is always the highest ranked soldier, senior to every other officer. This means in the zombie apocalypse, he will be in charge.

    [A photo of George Washington, edited so he has blood stains around the neck, a partly-healed wound on his forehead with the stains of blood dripping down from it, and unnatural eyes, so he appears as a zombie.]

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago

    That means the military is still run by enslaver trash. Still worships enslaver trash. No surprise we live in a fascist hellscape.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

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