• 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    72·
    15 days ago

    Considering the fire started in the ship’s laundry facility, I’m calling this one “Schrödinger’s floating dormitory full of dudebro manchildren who have never once cleaned a lint trap in their fucking lives.”

    Respect your electric clothes dryer, or it will literally burn you alive.

    Thank you for coming to my a-guy talk.

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      41·
      15 days ago

      This is the same ship where they were flushing clothing down the toilets. It’s pretty likely that the fire is the same people that did that in my opinion.

    • spudnik [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      24·
      15 days ago

      I gotta believe they’re not having each individual sailor do their own laundry unsupervised like a laundromat though right? Surely there are people whose job it is to do the laundry for the whole ship? So maybe these people know their shit well enough to get away with making it look plausibly enough like an accident or something. I have no idea though, I’m just speculating wildly

      • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        14·
        15 days ago

        Or like they toilet system they went with something that only works part of the time or easy to break?

        Although idk how you’d mess up industral size laundry systems but also didn’t think they could mess up plumbing.

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      58·
      15 days ago

      I personally think this one is true. This is the ship that had the toilet sabotage, where sailors were flushing clothing down the toilets.

      They fix that and then fires break out? These sailors want to go home and they’re trying to force the ship into it.

        • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          42·
          15 days ago

          An earlier report by NPR on January 17 already exposed the toilet problem. According to the report, the vacuum sewage system of the Ford means that a problem with one head can cause all of the toilets in that part of the ship to lose suction, making it difficult for the maintenance crews to isolate a problem. The crews find everything from T-shirts to a four-foot piece of rope clogging the system. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202602/1355709.shtml

          If they’re finding t-shirts flushed down the toilets that is 100% sabotage.

          This ship is only supposed to be deployed for 6 months at a time. It has been deployed for 11 months. They have every reason to be engaging in this behaviour. They want to go home.

              • dustcommie [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
                191·
                15 days ago

                I will quote a previous comment of mine on this:

                This sounds like liberal “support the troops, hate the cheeto” wishful thinking/propaganda. Thousands of 18-20 year old, genocidal, dumb ass gross men probably flush all kinds of things all the time (bored, cum rags, ran out of toilet paper so used a shirt, had diarrhea and shit themselves, pranks and bullying etc)

                • glimmer_twin [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  44·
                  15 days ago

                  I’m not trying to “support the troops” lmao. I think they’re a bunch of treatlerites who want to go home and play xbox/abuse their girlfriends because they’ve been at sea for 11 months.

                  Also I would like it to be sabotage because it’ll be funny soviet-chad

                • john_brown [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  7·
                  14 days ago

                  I don’t think it’s very likely that a bunch of 19 year olds who signed up to get free college and a dodge charger are super excited about being targeted by Iranian anti-ship missiles eleven months into their six month deployment

            • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
              10·
              15 days ago

              Exactly, I find my old t-shirts clogging my toilet all the time. Sometimes I’m looking for a favorite shirt, and after I’ve looked everywhere, I take apart the plumbing, and it’s always there. It just happens.

          • pisstoria [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            8·
            15 days ago

            I think sometimes they just do things like that without much of a discernible reason tbh. Not a sign of being particularly dedicated to the mission either way though.

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
          8·
          15 days ago

          Ever see the toilet suction on a ship? That will tear the clothes right off your body, and suck them right down the pipe. I’m sure that’s what must have happened. There’s absolutely no other explanation for how those clothes got into the toilet. Surely it wasn’t done by young sailors who want to go home and get laid.

  • CommCat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    41·
    15 days ago

    they probably scared because they are gonna face a foe that can actually punch back. If it was a typical weak foe, these sailors would not have any problem doing their Imperialist duties. What’s a few dead poor brown kids, as long as you get free med and college eh?

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    39·
    15 days ago

    I wasn’t aware it was on a six month deployment that was extended TWICE and is now on the 11th month

    lmao they’re absolutely revolting against the brass, extended deployments is a mental health killer for troops, there’s definitely sabotage

  • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    35·
    15 days ago

    That behemoth is way over due to return to port and isn’t scheduled to return for months. It should return to port every 9 months (iirc) and its been deployed for over a year.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      18·
      15 days ago

      They do. All US ships AFAIK have an armory for small arms in case of emergency, patrols/lookouts, or they have to go ashore for whatever reason in a war zone. They’re incredibly strict and of course there’s a hall monitor chud who counts every bullet and gun that gets checked out while keeping everything under lock and key.

        • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          10·
          15 days ago

          im pretty sure the small arms on board, regardless of any other theoretical need, are primarily stored and compartmentalized for the purposes of stopping a mutiny from taking control of critical areas and sealing off groups in non-essential areas through strategic control of access hatches/doors/etc. every ship constantly drills “general quarters” (action stations etc) which is a total lockdown in place where movement is tightly controlled, ostensibly an announcement of potential external threats. but it achieves a completely different purpose simultaneously.

          the birth of every professional navy on earth was of kidnapping/pressganging men into servitude under threat of starvation, torture and death at sea for even minor attempts to resist work or authority. they have always been floating work camps run by a tyrant with full authority to maintain control.

          the bullets for amall arms on large naval ships are intended for their own sailors should tensions come to a head.

    • no_pretext [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      15·
      15 days ago

      Definitely, I don’t think it would be too difficult to hold major systems hostage with the sheer amount of matériel and super dangerous shit on board

    • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      15 days ago

      When the American Potemkin Mutiny happens, who do we want to star in the post-revolution movie adaptation?

  • Munrock ☭@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    15·
    15 days ago

    First the put laundry where the poop goes…

    Then they put fire where the laundry goes…

    Where are they gonna put the poop?