• happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    The survivors of an American genocide protesting another American genocide by causing slight delays to shipping which makes plastic shit 5% more expensive.

    The Houthi should be Marvel superheroes and models of the bare minimum of protest against genocide. If they sink an aircraft carrier they won’t kill half as many volunteer sailors as those sailors have murdered Palestinian children.

    • save_vs_death [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      if even that, it’s more like 2%, of course corpos will use this moment to justify a 10% hike or something, which they will then never lower, never let a good tragedy go to waste, etc.

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      6 months ago

      You’d have to imagine that aircraft carriers have the finest lifeboats available… I doubt more than 100 soldiers would die, probably fewer.

      • emizeko [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        6 months ago

        you’d think so, but there’s a good chance the contractor pocketed all the money that was supposed to go towards making them seaworthy