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There's no evidence I'm aware of that this is any kind of intentional sabotage. apparently the ship is, what a surprise, poorly maintained:
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/uss-gerald-ford-us-iran-conflict-iran-faces-us-wrath-but-5-000-sailors-on-uss-ford-face-650-failing-toilets-11130048
I absolutely don't understand why they installed a vacuum system.
do you think people are shitting out t shirts and 4 foot long ropes?
If they ate them, perhaps
Have you seen some of the shit people throw in porta-potties at music festivals and shit?
We are talking about a bunch of bored 20 year old guys stuck on a boat here.
I think people fuck around and get bored and do stupid nonsense when they're at sea for long stretches.
Doubly so for the military where it's all 20-somethings who barely graduated high school doing weird hazing shit to one another.
Source: sister's ex-husband barely graduated high school and joined the Navy where they did weird hazing shit to one another.
I once worked with a guy who was on a submarine in the Navy, and apparently the antics they get up to were pretty fucking wild. They love shoving shit up each others asses for some reason
I imagine submarines are more strict about toilet related antics though, but this is a carrier so way bigger with more and less disciplined people.
This didn't happen on any other ship. Mutinies are like on that one destroyer whose captain drove it full speed into a busy shipping lane and got rammed by a cargo ship. The investigation afterwards revealed that they were rarely on the bridge and did not train their sailors properly. The crew tried filing complaints up the chain of command like they were supposed to but got ignored. The captain had been to Annapolis, see? They all stick together. Class consciousness, but in the wrong kind of way.
sometimes my dog would tear apart and eat clothing and then the next day (or maybe two days later if it's bad) you have to pull a long poop-laden thing out of them during their walk
Don't pull it! Never pull it! It could be twisted somewhere in their intestines still, causing severe internal damage. They gotta pass that dookie on their own
I'm going to trust user "stink" on this one. It would be foolish to do otherwise.
My dog will eat grass and if I dont do anything, nuggets will just dangle out of her ass for like an hour
Eh grass is fine, it's really only for long things where it's the issue
yikes! glad I was always gentle about it, but I didn't knwo that
Ah, the devil's ripcord
I don't want to know how you know that.
eat this t-shirt sounds like a haze. 4 foot rope might want to get checked for polyps
Some people are.
That's genuinely kind of pathetic
This floating piece of shit is only a decade old. The Nimitz-class which makes up the remainder of the USN's aircraft carriers are up to 50 years old.
So the American navy is the same as the boats in their parking lots
Is that true, or did you hear it on NPR? If NPR said shit tastes good you'd eat a mouthful?
I'll believe any of this is about Gaza when someone on the ship says so and not before.
Yeah, mil chuds haven't starting grown a conscience
Where does it say otherwise? Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes are the biggest voices for young US right-wingers and they are both anti-Israel. Chuds under 30 don't like the zionist entity either, albeit for mostly antisemitic or other chuddy reasons. A decent portion of the people on that ship probably think Israel killed Charlie Kirk.
The pro-Israel right is absolutely furious at Candace Owens right now.
I wouldn't be surprised if the 2A types show up at her house soon.