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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

US-built Gaza pier, valued at $320 million, swept away by sea waves

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US-built Gaza pier, valued at $320 million, swept away by sea waves

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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US-built Gaza pier, valued at $320 million, swept away by sea waves | Al Bawaba
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ALBAWABA - Recent events have resulted in the US floating pier drifting to the coasts of Ashdod after waves off the coast of Gaza washed away a portion
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  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    This is only a problem if you think the purpose of the pier was to provide aid to Gaza. If you understand that everything the US military does is simply to provide public money to private interests, then this is a completely unremarkable event.

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    So you’re saying the front fell off because a wave hit it?

    • CaptKoala@lemmy.ml
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      Very unusual.

      • krolden@lemmy.ml
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        Not very typical

    • zero_gravitas@aussie.zone
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      Is that unusual?

    • PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksB
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      Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

      the front fell off

      Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

      I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

  • frippa@lemmy.ml
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    The Mediterranean has a right to defend itself! Are you anti-seamitic?

    • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
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      Hah that’s a good one.

  • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    The US once again going through a dozen Suez Canal crises all at once, each one somehow more cartoonishly stupid than the last.

    At this point I feel like if you want to radicalize someone just point them to a picture of that barely-welded-together mess and tell them their tax money went towards that to the tune of $320 million.

    • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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      yeah “valued at” my ass, but nice of them to announce how much the grift garnered some already rich assholes and their closest friends

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    Valued at 320 million

    *Sold to US taxpayers for 320 million ftfy

    Actual value about tree fiddy

  • UltraGreen [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    It’s that typical low quality US manufacturing.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    Who could have seen this coming?!

  • Palacegalleryratio [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Also this is the Med, it’s not the Pacific or the Atlantic or like the Drake Passage. It’s the Mediterranean. It’s not exactly the roughest sea.

    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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      *citation needed

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    Boeing is a defense contractor …

  • The Bard in Green@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz
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    Damn it, idiots both in the US and Israel will see that as a sign from God.

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    Military grade

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
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    That was the cheaper alternative to just not selling bombs to Israel!

  • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Yakkety Sax ass Navy

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
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    Someone banked $320m.

    Mission accomplished.

  • KnightOfOldEmpire@lemmy.ml
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    I see the army is battling against the sea. They’ll have their entry in the history next to Caligula.

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