• SuperDuper@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        “Samir, this is America! Come on. Sit down. Come on. This isn’t Riyadh. You know, they’re not gonna saw your hands off here, all right?”

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          10 months ago

          I was referring to Darth Vader getting his hand chopped off.

          Wait, that was Luke 🤦… nevermind…

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              10 months ago

              I have, but I forgot the storyline… well, remeber it kinda vaguely. The original trilogy is what is burned in my mind, I was a kid, it was a great trilogy.

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    10 months ago

    I mean, Star Wars was meant to be a direct allegory for the War in Vietnam so….

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        10 months ago

        Yeah I’d personally much prefer the world’s shipping lanes be patrolled by the US navy than taken over by pirates.

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      Edit: I was looking at this from an American perspective and assuming these were all 'murican ships and aircraft. There aren’t. Nothing I previously wrote would align with the video since the British navy is weird. So, I just erased my assumptions. They were likely all wrong anyway.

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        10 months ago

        Judging by the fact that the front of that flat deck has a ski jump, I’d wager that it’s the HMS Queen Elizabeth, which does in fact have a dual-island design.

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          That explains my confusion. Something looked really off and and my brain couldn’t compute what I was seeing, TBH. The elevators looked right, but I still wasn’t sure.

          Edit: There more. Is that whole group British? The last two fixed wing aircraft that fly by aren’t 'murican either. I see a Black Hawk-type helicopter, I think. We use SH/HH-60s in our Navy that have their rear strut moved way forward. The British and Americans both use LCACs as well. The leading helicopter might actually be a Merlin followed by some Wildcats. Alas, all I can make are stupid guesses now.

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    10 months ago

    Unfortunately most of the rest of the world doesn’t give a shit, or swallow up the American propaganda that what Ansar Allah are doing is just random acts of terrorism.